Kate Shoemaker
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| Born | August 25, 1987 Eagle, Idaho, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Para-equestrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kate Shoemaker (born August 25, 1987) is an American Paralympic equestrian. She represented the United States at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Shoemaker made her World Equestrian Games debut in 2018 and won a bronze medal in the individual para-dressage freestyle grade IV event.[2][3] She again competed at the World Championships in 2022 where she won a silver medal in the individual para-dressage freestyle grade IV event, and a bronze medal in the team para-dressage event.[4][5]
Shoemaker represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, alongside Rebecca Hart and Roxanne Trunnell.[6] She again represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the individual freestyle test grade IV event.[7]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Shoemaker suffers from white matter lesions from periventricular ischemia causing motor control dysfunction, muscle weakness, and spasms on the right side of her body.[8]
She is also an equine veterinarian and runs her own practice, Velocity Equine Sports Medicine, in Wellington, Florida.[9]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Kate Shoemaker at Team USA (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Kate Shoemaker at the International Paralympic Committee Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1987 births
- Living people
- American female equestrians
- American dressage riders
- Equestrians at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Equestrians at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic equestrians for the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in equestrian
- People from Eagle, Idaho
- 21st-century American sportswomen