Jessica Springsteen, the daughter of music icons Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, became an icon in her own right when she won a silver medal in the equestrian team jumping final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
It wasn’t just her first medal, but her first Olympics after she was named an alternate for the 2012 London Olympics. And luck seemed to be on the 29-year-old’s side when she rode atop Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, her 12-year-old stallion, in Tokyo.
Springsteen started riding horses from the age of four and got her first pony at six. She spent time at Stone Hill Farm, the Springsteens’ 121-hectare (300-acre) estate in Colts Neck, New Jersey, according to CNN. She was inspired by her mum, Patti, who always wanted to ride horses. “She was like my first riding idol,” Springsteen has been widely quoted as saying.
How tall is Jessica Springsteen?
Jessica Springsteen is 5 ft 6 in (1.68m) tall.