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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