Jessica Rae Springsteen (born December 30, 1991) is an American equestrian. The daughter of musicians
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American Rock music, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most of his albums feature th ...
and
Patti Scialfa, she is a
show jumping
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champion rider who has represented the
United States Equestrian Team in international competition
and won a silver medal in the
Team jumping at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
held in 2021 in Tokyo.
Early life
Jessica Rae Springsteen was born on December 30, 1991, the second child and only daughter of musicians
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American Rock music, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most of his albums feature th ...
and
Patti Scialfa. She has one older brother, Evan James Springsteen (born July 25, 1990), and one younger brother, Samuel Ryan Springsteen (born January 5, 1994). When she and her brothers reached school age in the early 1990s, their parents left Los Angeles with them specifically to raise a family in a non-
paparazzi
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environment. The family owned and lived on a horse farm in
Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
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. They also owned homes in Los Angeles, as well as in
Wellington, Florida, and
Rumson, New Jersey.
Springsteen attended the
Rumson Country Day School and
Ranney School in New Jersey. She earned an undergraduate degree from
Duke University
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on May 11, 2014. After embarking on a career as a show jumping rider, she also did some modeling and was named the equestrian ambassador for
Gucci
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.
Career
Springsteen has been riding since she was four years old,
with horses kept on the Springsteen family's 300-acre Stone Hill Farm in
Colts Neck, New Jersey.
She got her first pony when she was six years old. As a youth
equitation rider, she first won classes in the pony division, including the Washington International Pony Equitation Classic Final, and as a teen won the 2008 ASPCA Maclay National Championship in a ride-off where her particularly bold riding stood out.
She also won the 2009
George H. Morris Excellence in Equitation Championship.
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As an adult competitor, in 2011 she competed in the Royal Windsor Horse Show competing on her horse Vordnado Van Den Hoendrik. In September 2012, Peter Charles, who had represented ]Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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in the Equestrian events, sold his team gold medal-winning horse, Vindicat W, to Springsteen. Springsteen herself was an alternate rider for the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2014, she won the American Gold Cup. In 2016, she won her first five-star Grand Prix jumping competition with her horse Cynar VA, but did not make the short list for the U.S. Equestrian team for the 2016 Summer Olympics
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. In May 2017, she won the Falcon Stakes CSI 5* at the Royal Windsor Horse Show riding Davendy S.
She formerly trained with Frank and Stacia Klein Madden[ and then trained with Laura Kraut from 2010 to 2015.] Since May 2015 she trains with Edwina Tops-Alexander.[
In 2021, Springsteen was selected in the US team to compete in equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which had been postponed due to the ]COVID-19 pandemic
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. She finished equal 31st in the qualifying round of the individual jumping, but only the top 30 advanced to the medals round. On August 7, 2021 she was part of the U.S. team that won the silver medal in the Team jumping.
Personal life
As of 2021, Springsteen is in a relationship with fellow equestrian Lorenzo De Luca.
Gallery
Pfingstturnier-2013-Jessica-Springsteen.jpg, Springsteen on Zero at Wiesbaden
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, 2013
Hessischen Ministerpräsidenten Jessica Springsteen auf Vindicat W 2 mk.jpg, Springsteen on Vindicat W at Wiesbaden, 2013
References
External links
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Jessica Springsteen
at US Equestrian
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1991 births
American show jumping riders
Duke University alumni
Sportspeople from Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ranney School alumni
Living people
American female equestrians
Equestrians from Los Angeles
Equestrians at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in equestrian
American people of Italian descent
American people of Dutch descent
American people of Irish descent
21st-century American sportswomen
Jessica
Gucci people