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Yvonne Losos de Muñiz
Dominican Republic equestrian

Yvonne Losos de Muñiz

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Dominican Republic equestrian
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Yvonne Losos de Muniz
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Yvonne Losos de Muñiz (born September 8, 1967 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is an international Grand Prix dressage rider that represents the Dominican Republic. She won the individual bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, riding her approved Hannoverian stallion Bernstein. With that medal she repeated her performance from the 2003 Pan American Games held in her home country, where she also obtained the individual bronze medal riding a different mount, a Dutch mare named Inatana.
Prior to her Pan Am medals, Losos de Muñiz also won double individual gold and a team bronze medal at the 2002 Central American Games in El Salvador. More recently, she added two individual silver medals to her collection at the 2010 Central American Games which took place in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
In 2010 she also qualified for the World Equestrian Games (WEG) with her Austrian Warmblood gelding Optimus Prime.
In addition to her seven championship medals, she has also obtained numerous wins at prestigious international events held in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Sunshine Tour (Spain), France and Germany. She has trained with riding master Jean Bemelmans, who also coaches the Spanish Olympic team, as well as Harry Boldt from Germany, Jeff Ashton Moore from the USA, Carl Hester from England and Diederik Wigmans from the Netherlands.
Losos competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished 59th in the individual dressage competition. She became the first Dominican equestrian to compete at the Olympics.
During the winter show season, she participates in the dressage shows held in Wellington, Florida.
Losos de Muñiz was born in Nigeria to Canadian parents and was raised in Kenya. She began riding as a teenager in Germany before subsequently moving to Canada. She lives in the Dominican Republic since 1990 with her Dominican-born husband; she acquired the Dominican nationality by marriage. She speaks English, German, Spanish, and Swahili.

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