Nayel Nassar

Nayel Nassar

Born in Chicago, Nayel Nassar rides for Egypt, his parents’ homeland. He first tried equestrian sport at age 5 and began jumping at age 10. Nassar qualified for the FEI World Cup Finals in 2013, 2014 and 2017, and the FEI World Equestrian Games in 2014. More recently, he competed at the Longines FEI World Cup Finals in Paris aboard Lordan, and regularly competes on the international Grand Prix circuit. He is a regular on the Longines Global Champions Tour. Now 29, Nassar graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics in 2013 and is fluent in Arabic, French and English. He had a great season last year in Wellington, where he rode Lucifer V to the win in the $134,000 Equinimity WEF Challenge Cup Round 12 CSI 5* during the final week of the 2019 WEF.

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