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Katie
Umback

Para-equestrian

Key Facts

Date of Birth
20 August 1973
Currently resides
Bega, NSW
Start competing
1977
Australian debut
2015
Impairment
Physical Impairment – Multiple sclerosis

Katie's Story

Katie Umback first started competing in equestrian as a five-year-old in pony club, having grown up watching her dad break and train pacers. Dressage followed soon after and she was heavily involved in eventing for several years until breaking one of the vertebrae in her neck on a cross-country course at 18. From then on, Katie’s focus was on dressage and agricultural shows, showing horses professionally at a national level. Around this time she was also breaking, re-educating and training horses, and teaching people to ride. When Katie was 32 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told that she …

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