Daniel Bachmann Andersen (born 1 June 1990) is a Danish Olympic equestrian athlete. He competed at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon 2018 and at the European Dressage Championships in 2015 and 2019. He represented the Danish team at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, winning a silver medal in the team competition and placed 7th in the individual freestyle.
Biography Andersen started riding at an age of 10 and became involved in dressage after he met Morten Thomsen, a Danish Olympian, who is from the same village as Daniel. Later he trained horses in Germany. After his riding career in Germany, he started working for Andreas Helgstrand. In 2014 he started for Blue Hors where he became successful with horses such as Zack, Don Olymbrio, Zepter, Loxana and Hotline. He became Danish national champion in 2019, fourth during the World Cup Finals in Göteborg and seventh in the individual freestyle during the European Championships in Rotterdam that same year. He was also 10th in the World Ranking with Zack. In 2020 he decided to go independent and to leave Blue Hors stud.
Andersen won a team gold medal at the 2022 World Championships, which were held in Herning, Denmark.
Personal life Andersen lives together with his Norwegian wife, Tiril, and their two children.
Dressage results
Olympic Games EventTeamIndividualHorse 2024 Paris 7th Vayron
World Championships EventTeamIndividualFreestyleHorse 2018 Tryon 10th 17th — Blue Hors Zack 2022 Herning 8th 8th Marshall-Bell
European Championships
EventTeamIndividualFreestyleHorse 2015 Aachen 8th 39th — Blue Hors Loxana 2019 Rotterdam 5th 10th 7th Blue Hors Zack 2021 Hagen 10th 7th Marshall-Bell 2023 Riesenbeck 11th 17th Vayron
World Cup Final EventScoreRankHorse 2018 Paris 80.532% 7th Blue Hors Zack 2019 Gothenburg 85.468% 4th Blue Hors Zack
References
External links
Daniel Bachmann Andersen at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics