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Today we pay tribute to one of the greatest of Swedish equestrian sports.
Peder Fredricson has won EC gold, WC gold and Olympic gold.
Now he reveals the most unexpected thing on his 52nd birthday.
He started jumping with horses at a young age, but it would take a long time before the big successes started to come. Peter Frederickson must have already reaped medals during his junior years with JEM gold in 1989.
Fredricson’s career
But it was in the later years of the 2000s that he began to establish himself as a world star in show jumping and reached the top with the horse All In. The Swede is also one of the few riders in the world who has competed in the Olympics and World Championships in both show jumping and eventing.
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The first major success came in the 2016 Summer Olympics when Fredricson took home an individual Olympic silver in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, the medals have flowed in with EC gold and EC silver in 2017, WC silver in 2018, Olympic gold and Olympic silver in 2020 and then WC gold in 2022.
Unexpected about Peder
Peder has also been awarded the Jerring Prize in both 2016 and 2017 and was awarded the Bragdguldet in 2021, together with the national show jumping team. But there is something extremely special and a most surprising quality about Peder Fredricson.
– What I find most exciting about Peder is that he is not a competitive person. We have hung out a lot, we have “kick offs” and stuff and then there is always a competition. He can’t understand how you go in to try to win something like that, says the teammate Malin Baryard Johnsonwho has known him since the 90s, to the news agency TT.
– He is the world’s easiest to beat in everything. He doesn’t get the point. How then can you become the best in the world? Is it because he is not a competitive person, but decided to become one and gets rid of his nerves? It’s clear he’s made up his mind or he wouldn’t be where he is, but fundamentally he’s not a competitive person.
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Fredricson bursts into laughter when he hears Baryard’s words about him.
– No, I’m not really a real competitive person in the sense that I want to win at all costs and in everything. I see my competition a little more and what I’m doing as a project that I obviously want to go well, he tells TT.
– I guess I have become more of a competitive person and developed that part from not being a competitive person at all. I have reached my “peak” late in my career and I think that is probably mostly due to the fact that I am fundamentally not a competitive person.
Today we celebrate the wonderful Peder Fredricson on his 52nd birthday. One of Swedish equestrian sport’s greatest heroes of all time.
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