Bo Jenå Steps Down as Swedish Dressage Team Captain

Dressage

Sweden

After sixteen years on the post, Bo Jenå has announced that he is stepping down as Swedish dressage team captain.

As of 2008 Jenå captained the Swedish dressage riders at four Olympic Games, four World Championships and eight European Championships.

Family Time

He decided to resign from the job to spend more time with his family and grandchildren, the Swedish NF posted. "I will miss all the colleagues, riders and horses that I have had the privilege of working with," he said.

Jena commented, "I was already thinking after Tokyo about not extending the contract as national team captain. I had promised my children that when I have grandchildren, I will scale back. But the pandemic meant that it was only three years until the next Olympics and the contract was extended beyond Paris."

Bo was nicknamed "Bosse" by his team mates.

Bo Jena at the 2014 World Equestrian Games

"It has been great fun to do this job. I have met many interesting people and seen many amazing places, so it was three more years before I now get to devote myself to family and friends and finish writing a book a friend and I are writing," Bo concluded.

Bronze Streak

"With continuity and calm, he hasn led the Swedish dressage national team at a high and consistent championship level," the Swedish equestrian federation stated. "There have been many top positions for the national team, which has consistently been in the top four-five in Europe and in the top ten at all WC and Olympics."

At a rainy 2019 World Young Horse Championships

In 2011 Swede Patrik Kittel won kur bronze at the Europeans but the highlight came in 2017 when the team won bronze at the Europeans on home turf in Gothenburg. At the 2018 World Equestrian Federation they were just 0.172 percentage points short of bronze, but there was another team bronze at the 2019 Europeans in Rotterdam. Sweden dominated the FEI Nations Cup with victories in 2017-2019 and 2022. At the most recent Olympic Games in Paris, Sweden finished fifth with the team.

The recruitment of a new national dressage captain has begun.