Kristen Vanderveen

About Kristen Vanderveen

Kristen VanderVeen, FEI athlete 10039572, is an active American showjumper based in Wellington, Florida, where she founded and runs Bull Run Jumpers, a training and sales stable. Sources vary between 'VanderVeen' and 'Vanderveen'; both refer to the same FEI record.

Her championship-level record is built on the FEI Jumping World Cup Finals, where she has three verified competitive starts: 22nd in Paris in 2018 with Bull Run's Faustino de Tili, 27th in Leipzig in 2022 with Bull Run's Prince of Peace, and 19th in Basel in 2025 with Bull Run's Jireh, completing on a combined score of 31 after a clear first round and 12 faults in the second. She reached her first Final by winning the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping North American League qualifier at Live Oak International on 18 March 2018 with Faustino — a qualifying leg, kept separate from the Final itself.

Her Grand Prix record includes the 2018 Tryon CSI4* $204,000 Coca-Cola Grand Prix for the Governor's Cup with Faustino, the 2021 World Equestrian Center Ocala $75,000 Grand Prix with Bull Run's Risen, two $120,000 Tryon CSI3* Grands Prix with Bull Run's Jireh in 2025, and in 2026 a Doha CSI5* 1.55m and the CSI5* 1.60m Qatar Equestrian Federation Cup Grand Prix with Jireh, plus a Monaco CSI5* 1.50m with Starbucks 27. On the June 2026 Longines list she stood 32nd with 2,236 points, and the VanderVeen-Jireh combination headed the FEI Combination in Jumping Ranking snapshot taken on 6 August 2026.

Bull Run's Faustino de Tili, a 2005 BWP stallion by Berlin, was her career-defining early partner over ten years — their wins together included the $37,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate 1.45m CSI5* at the Winter Equestrian Festival on 26 February 2020 — and he retired from sport in 2026 to breeding duties in Europe.

The verified record supports describing her as a three-time FEI Jumping World Cup Finalist and a CSI5* Grand Prix winner. It does not support calling her an Olympian, a World Championship competitor or a Rolex Grand Slam Major winner: no competitive Olympic or FEI World Championship start is verified, and she has no win at Geneva, Aachen, the Spruce Meadows 'Masters' or 's-Hertogenbosch.