The Nursery project, a spin off of the highly successful Swedish dressage promotion project Knytkalaset, has announced the Swedish based junior and young riders which have been selected to participate in its clinics and training sessions for 2013.
In 2009 the privately funded Swedish training project "Knytkalaset" (Est. in 1998) branched off into a "Nursery" project, which stimulates Swedish young riders to climb to the top by receiving professional help from renowned trainers.
The Knytkalaset was established by Åke Björsell (project manager), Jan Brink and Kyra Kyrklund with as main idea to increase the competence of riders, trainers and horses on a national level. Moreover they wanted to increase the number of dressage horses on Grand Prix level. Fourteen years later Knytkalaset has become a wildly successful private project.
The Nursery Project aims to spot, help and develop talented riders at an early age. In Sweden there are at the moment two Nursery schools, one in the very south of Sweden, in Tullstorp/Skåne and one in the northern region close to Stockholm.
For 2013 the following riders have been invited to participate in the Nursery project in Sweden:
Nursery south:
Marina Mattsson
Mathilde Hannell
Elin Aspnäs
Emma Jönsson
Sofie Andersson
Elisabeth Hjelm
Fanny Kokotsaki
Anna Zibrandtsen
Mia Runesson
Hannes Melin
Tove Melin
Nursery north:
Sandra Dahlin
Sanna Nilsson
Mikaela Alderin-Danielsson
Nina Rademaekers
Emelie Nyreröd
Josefine Krönfeldt
Emelie Brolin
Miranda Iderfors-Widell
Josefin Rudolfsson
Charlotte Esping
Daniela Nilsson
Frida Berg
"Systematic training and regularity has paid off," Swedish Grand Prix trainer Liane Wachtmeister, coach of the northern group of Nursery riders, told Ridsport. " The group
in the south is trained by Jan Brink.
Photo © Astrid Appels
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