Ashlee Bond (born April 15, 1985) is an American- Israeli show jumping rider who competes for Israel. She has qualified to represent

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in Tokyo.

Early life

Her father is

Steve Bond Steve Bond (born April 22, 1953) is an Israeli American television actor and model. Biography Shlomo Goldberg (later Steve Bond) was born in Haifa, Israel to a Romania-born mother and a Hungary-born father who immigrated to Israel. He married ...

(né Shlomo Goldberg). He was born and raised in

Haifa, Israel Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropoli ...

, and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old. Her mother, Cindy, is a filmmaker, and she has one younger sibling, her brother Dylan.

Riding career

Bond began competing at the age of six, won her first grand prix at age 16, and in 2001 was named Grand Prix Rookie Rider of the Year by both the

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(USEF) and the Pacific Coast Horse Association. In 2009, at 24, she was in the top 40 in the FEI World Rankings, was No. 2 on the

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/USEF Show Jumping Rankings, and was named "Chronicle of the Horse" Show Jumping Horseman of the Year. Between 2009 and 2014, Bond won the 2009 CHIO Aachen, 2014 HITS $1 Million Grand Prix, and an FEI Nations Cup. She won the $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping title at Thermal, California, in 2016, and the $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup Qualifier at the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit in 2017. She has qualified to represent

in Tokyo. In July 2019 Team Israel's Bond, Daniel Bluman, Elad Yaniv, and

Danielle Goldstein Danielle "Dani" Goldstein-Waldman (born February 6, 1985) is an American-Israeli show jumper. In July 2019 Goldstein, as part of Israel's four-rider squad, qualified to represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Early and personal li ...

won the Olympic Jumping Qualifier at Maxima Park in Moscow, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first time that Israel has earned a place in the Olympics in equestrian. In July 2019 she announced the retirement of her top horse, Chela LS. Bond has considered riding her horse Donnie in the Olympics.

Personal life

Bond married

Roy Meeus Roy Meeus (born 24 May 1989) is a Belgian professional footballer. Career Born in Lommel, Belgium, Meeus has played for KVSK United, Club Brugge, Dender, and Lommel United. Personal life Meeus married Ashlee Bond, an American-Israeli , nat ...

, now a Belgian former professional football player, in 2015 and they have a daughter named Scottie, born in 2016. Bond is a

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, although her father is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

. She became an

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in 2018, and now rides and competes for

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

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