Hawley Bennett-Awad, eventing Olympian from Murrayville

Eventing is the triathlon of riding: a dressage test, a long cross-country gallop over solid fences, then show jumping, all on the same horse. Hawley Bennett-Awad, born in Murrayville in 1977, rode it for Canada for more than a decade.

The Canadian Olympic Committee gives Murrayville as her birthplace and Langley as her hometown; it lists her current residence only as the United States.

The horses and the results

Much of her international career was built on Thoroughbreds.

Livingstone carried her to team silver at the 2003 Pan American Games at Fair Hill, Maryland, and to the Athens Olympics in 2004, where Canada was 12th as a team. In 2005 she was 15th at the eventing World Cup final.

Gin & Juice, a bay mare, won the CCI*** at Bromont in 2009 and was ninth at the Rolex Kentucky four-star in 2010. That autumn, also in Kentucky, the pair helped Canada to team silver at the World Equestrian Games and were 17th individually. They went to the London Olympics together in 2012 (Canada 13th as a team) and to the 2014 World Equestrian Games, where Canada was sixth.

Five O’Clock Somewhere was her partner for a second Pan Am team silver, at Guadalajara in 2011.

The photo at the top shows her on the cross-country course at Badminton, one of the sport’s biggest events, in England.

Horse country

For Langley’s horse scene, see horse country. International show jumping comes to Thunderbird Show Park each season.

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