Two new riders for team Auðsholtahjáleiga/Strandarhöfuð

Introducing the eight and last team, team Auðsholtshjáleiga/Horse export/Strandarhöfuð. Team Auðsholtshjáleiga/Horse export has been a part of the Champions league since 2010 but now they have teamed up with Strandarhöfuð. The first two years the team members where only women but now this is a mixed team. Riders are, Ásmundur Ernir Snorrason, the team leader, Edda Rún Guðmundsdóttir Sylvía Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Þórdís Erla Gunnarsdóttir and Jóhann Magnússon 

Ásmundur Ernir Snorrason, team leader, works as a horse trainer at Strandarhöfuð in Landeyjar. He was the most promising rider of the year 2012 and has been really successful on the competition track since he was a young boy. He has been in finals at Landsmót and Íslandsmót and he has gotten several Icelandic championships title. In the past he has been competing on Reyr frá Melabergi, Spölur frá Njarðvík and Frægur frá Strandarhöfði. He and Spölur where a part of the Icelandic national team at WC2017 in Oirschot, but they where in finals both in tölt and four gait. Ásmundur also competed on the WC in Berlin and was in a finals in four gait riding Frægur.

Edda Rún Guðmundsdóttir graduated as a riding teacher and a trainer from the University at Hólar. She traines her horses in Fákur but in the summer time she relocates to Strandarhöfuð. Edda started young competing and has done it diligently ever since with good results. She was a.o. a triple Reykjavíkur champion in tölt, four gait and four gait combination in 2017 and 2019 riding her mare Spyrna frá Strandarhöfði.

Jóhann Birgir Magnússon studied at Hólar University. He lives at Bessastaðir in Húnaþing vestra where he traines horses and has his own breeding. He uses every opportunity he gets to introduce the horses from his breeding in competitions and breeding shows.

Sylvía Sigurbjörnsdóttir graduated at the top of her class at Hólar as a riding instructor and trainer. Sylvía is really professional and has wowed the audience with her harmonious riding.

Þórdís Erla Gunnarsdóttir graduated as a riding instructor and trainer from Hólar university. She works at Auðsholtshjáleiga/Grænhóll but Þórdís has been around horses since she was a child. She has done really well on the competition and breeding track.