Yvonne Losos de Muñiz

Career She won the individual bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, riding her approved Hannoverian stallion Bernstein. With that medal she repeated her performance from the 2003 Pan American Games held in her home country, where she also obtained the individual bronze medal riding a different mount, a Dutch mare named Inatana. During the spring and summer she competes regularly in the European circuit.

She is consistently ranked in the top 100 in the FEI World Dressage Rankings, the only Latin American rider to achieve this, and has ranked as high as 27th.

In September 2020, she received the prestigious Gold Medal Badge of Honor from the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), as a recognition of her multiple participations at Olympic Games, Continental Championships, World Cup Finals and Nations Cups, becoming the first dressage athlete from Latin America to receive this distinction.

In April 2022, she took part in her third FEI Dressage World Cup Finals in Leipzig, Germany, where she placed tenth overall, the best historic result for any Latin American rider.

As a trainer, she has coached numerous riders from Latin America and Europe to top performances at international events and continental championships, and two of her students, Virginia Yarur from Chile and Patricia Ferrando from Venezuela, were in the qualified short list for the 2021 Olympic Games. Yarur went on to qualify as an individual for the Tokyo Games, where she successfully represented Chile and became the first Olympic dressage rider from that nation in over fifty years.

Yvonne is the dressage athletes' representative at the FEI Dressage Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Dressage Riders Club (IDRC), as well as a USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist.

Personal life

Losos de Muñiz was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, to Dr. George Losos, a Polish pathologist, and his wife Gudrun, originally from Germany.

She was raised in Uganda and Kenya. She began riding as a teenager in Germany before subsequently moving to Canada. In Canada, the family acquired Canadian citizenship.

She lives in the Dominican Republic since 1990 with her Dominican-born husband; she acquired the Dominican nationality by marriage. She speaks English, German, Spanish, and Swahili.