page_title: Joann Formosa
section_title: Equestrian
hierarchical_section_title: Joann Formosa / Equestrian
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Joann Formosa at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Joann Formosa, OAM is an Australian Para-equestrian, who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics.
context_section_description: Formosa started competing in equestrian in 1980. Before her accident, she competed in dressage and show jumping events. She helped found Kilmore Adult Riding Club, the first adult pony club in her region.
  Formosa is a Grade 1B equestrian dressage competitor.  As a competitor in this class, she is required to perform a "dressage test involving medium to collected walk, a quarter walk pirouette and a long rein walk, as well as working trot and lengthening in the trot."  She competes without stirrups as she does not have enough leg control to justify them.  She has been coached by Manuela McLeans since 2011. She is a member of Riding for the Disabled Victoria, and is based at the Australian Equine Behaviour Centre at Clonbinane.
  As of 2012, she has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.
  At the 2006 Victorian State Dressage Championships, Formosa finished first in the Grade 1B event while riding Greenhill Chromes Reflection. She competed in the 2006 World Equestrian Games, where she made her national team debut and competed in her first competition outside Australia. After returning from this competition, Formosa had an accident while riding her horse. She was a member of Australia's 2009 National High Performance Squad. In 2009, she competed in the Australian Masters Game. She finished first in the 2011 National Championship in the Grade 1B category. At the Victorian-hosted 2011 Oceania Championships, she won two gold medals.  At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Mixed Dressage - Championship grade Ib event.  She qualified on Worldwide PB, a "former Wanganui-owned Hanoverian stallion" that she acquired in December 2011.
caption: Formosa wearing her gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics
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