賴楨敏

English

Jacqueline Lai is a Hong Kong show-jumping rider born in the United States in 1991 and now based in the Netherlands for training. Introduced to horses by her horse-loving mother, she began riding at the age of ten at the Lei Yue Mun Public Riding School. In 2009 she joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club junior equestrian team and, determined to become a professional show jumper, left home to train in Europe, basing herself in Denmark and moving to the Netherlands in 2023. In 2009 she won team jumping bronze at the 11th National Games in Jinan and individual gold at the Beijing national show-jumping championships (1.40m). At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games she and her teammates won team jumping bronze, Hong Kong's first Asian Games equestrian medal, and in 2011 she was selected for the HKJC equestrian team. She took individual jumping silver at the 12th National Games in Shenyang in 2013, and represented Hong Kong at the Olympic jumping qualifiers in 2015 and 2019. In 2019 she won team jumping gold at the inaugural Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. She was the Hong Kong rider with the most appearances at the Longines Hong Kong Masters (CSI5*) for four consecutive years from 2016 to 2019, took second place at CSI3* Lichtenvoorde (1.40m) in 2023, and won team jumping bronze at the FEI Asian Championships in Pattaya in 2025. She has credited the Hong Kong Jockey Club, her family and her coach John Byrialsen for their long-standing support.