Isabell Werth is a German equestrian and world champion dressage rider. She has competed in the Olympics five times (1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016), winning ten medals, six of them gold. She holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete, and has earned dozens of European Championship, World Championship, and World Cup medals. The number of different horses Werth has successfully trained to the top and her career's impressive longevity make her one of the greatest to ever ride in international equestrian competition.

Evi Simeoni has been the sports reporter at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungfor more than 30 years and has been writing about the international equestrian scene and riding for just as long. She has received numerous prizes for journalism.