Laura Fry
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 January 1967 Totnes, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 September 2012 (aged 45) Cottingham, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Equestrian | ||||||||||||||
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Laura Fry (13 January 1967 – 26 September 2012) was a British equestrian. She competed in two events at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] She died from breast cancer, aged 45.[2]
Early life
[edit]Her parents married on May 17, 1958 at St George's church in Dittisham.[3] Her father, Antony, was in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), the son of a Lt-Col from Ipplepen in Devon, originally from Soberton in Hampshire.[4] Her mother was from Dittisham in Devon. A brother was born on October 22, 1959.[5] Her grandfather Douglas died on September 28, 1982, aged 91.[6]
Laura Shewen, attended Taunton School, with father Lt-Col Tony Shewen, and grew up in Bickenhall in Somerset.[7] Her father was manager of Taunton Racecourse from 1986 to 1997, and died aged 77 in February 2005. Her mother died in March 2023, aged 88.
Personal life
[edit]She married Simon Fry of Otford in Surrey, in 1990, and moved there.[8]
Her daughter, Charlotte Fry, is also an equestrian, and won Bronze in the Team Dressage at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laura Fry Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ↑ "Dressage rider and trainer Laura Fry loses battle with cancer". Horse and Hound. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ↑ Times Tuesday May 20, 1958, page 1
- ↑ Times Friday June 18, 1926, page 1
- ↑ Times Saturday October 24, 1959, page 1
- ↑ Times Thursday September 30, 1982, page 26
- ↑ Western Daily Press Wednesday 1 July 1992
- ↑ Times January 1990
- ↑ "Meet the young British rider everyone's talking about…". Horse & Hound. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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