She lives in Great Britain, with her husband Andrew Hoy, who competes at the Olympic level for Australia. The Hoys are possibly the first married couple competing at the Olympics for different teams, in the same year.
BettinaHoy (born November 7, 1962), born as Bettina Overesch, is an Olympic-level equestrian rider, who competes for Germany in Eventing competitions.
Bettina competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The Hoys are a rare married couple competing in the same Olympic discipline for different teams in the same year (see also Raphael Poiree and Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée).
Hoy had the consolation of seeing his wife Bettina, who is part of the German team, win both team and individual gold in the event.
Hoy, 41, took the individual gold 20 years after being part of the bronze team medal at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles with a score of 41.6 points on her mount Ringwood Cockatoo, an Australian horse formerly ridden by her husband.
German officials explained Hoy had crossed the starting line in her warm-up but that the clock did not start and she would have kept going had it done so.
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