- Born
- September 12, 1977, Langley
- From
- Hometown and residence Aldergrove, per the Canadian Paralympic Committee
- Sport
- Para dressage
- Paralympics
- Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 (gold and silver), London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020
- Honours
- Canadian Disability Hall of Fame, 2015
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026
How many people can say they’ve ridden at five Paralympic Games? Lauren Barwick, born in Langley in 1977 and listed by the Canadian Paralympic Committee as living in Aldergrove, is one of them.
How she came to the sport
Wikipedia describes a working life around horses before her injury, including a job with a business that supplied horses to film shoots. A barn accident in 2000 left her paralysed from the waist down. She went back to the horses, this time in para dressage, where she competed in Grade II and later Grade III.
Five Games
| Games | Best result |
|---|---|
| Athens 2004 | Sixth, Grade II freestyle |
| Beijing 2008 | Gold, Grade II freestyle; silver, Grade II individual |
| London 2012 | Sixth, Grade II freestyle |
| Rio 2016 | Sixth, Grade II freestyle |
| Tokyo 2020 (held 2021) | Sixth, Grade III freestyle, riding Sandrino |
Results from the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s athlete page.
Between Games she won freestyle silver and individual bronze in Grade II at the 2014 World Equestrian Games, and the FEI had her ranked first in the world in para dressage in May 2014. The CPC also lists team gold at the 2017 World Para-Reining International Championships, a different discipline altogether.
Honours and odd jobs
She has been named Equine Canada’s equestrian of the year and was a torchbearer before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. She was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame in 2015. Fans of CBC’s Heartland may have seen her without knowing it: Wikipedia says she appeared on the show as a stunt double.
Horse country
Langley’s horse community is on our horse country page.
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Last checked October 22, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
