Severo Jurado

Severo Jurado Lopez (born 9 September 1988) is a Spanish Olympic dressage rider. Representing Spain, he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where he finished 5th in the individual and 7th in the team competitions. His Olympic horse was the chestnut gelding Lorenzo. He was also part of the Spanish Olympic team during the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 38th in the Grand Prix and 21st in the Grand Prix Special with his horse Fendi.

In 2015, 2016 and 2017 he won the World Championship for Young Horses with Fiontini. In 2017 he got the bronze medal in the World Championships for Young Horses with Quel Filou. In 2018 he won the World Championships for Young Horses with D'Avie.

Severo has competed in the European Championship on Deep Impact (De Niro x Rubinstein) in 2017 in Gothenburg (Sweden) and also the World Equestrian Games in Tryon (USA) in 2018.

Controversies

In 2024, he was accused of being involved in a money laundering network, headed by Alessandro Bazzoni and Siri Evjemo-Nysveen, dedicated to the purchase of polo horses with money from corruption in the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA through the companies CGC One Planet and Clareville Grove Capital.