Nationality Australia | Name Rosalie Fahey | |
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Rosalie Fahey is a Paralympic Equestrian competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Mixed Dressage - Championship grade I event.
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Personal
Fahey was born in Adelaide, South Australia. From a young age Fahey loved horses and at the age of 11 she began riding and then went on to join the Pony Club in Adelaide. Since the age of twelve Fahey has had Crohn's disease and after multiple surgeries developed muscle myopathy which resulted in her being in a wheelchair for a time. She has been a dancer, teacher and musician playing twelve instruments. Fahey was inspired to represent Australia in equestrian after being told of a relative, John Fahey, who represented Australia in show jumping at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics.
Sporting career
In 2000, at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Fahey won bronze in the mixed dressage championship grade 1 and competed in the mixed dressage freestyle grade 1 and team open. She competed in the 2003 World Para-Dressage Cup in Belgium, placing seventh. In 2008 she sustained severe spinal injuries as a result of a show jumping accident. Fahey went on to win silver in the Canadian FEI 3* in 2010.