Hometown: Gordonsville, Va. Birthday: 5/8/1983 Sport/Disciplines: Eventing Olympic Years: 2012

Will Coleman is a two-time Olympian and one of the country's most accomplished eventing athletes. Coleman began his riding career when he was just six years old, riding his Shetland Pony, TJ, in the Virginia hunt fields with family and dabbling in multiple disciplines. Coleman’s interest in eventing was cultivated when he attended a clinic with eventing greats Karen and David O’Connor and later went to work for them in the summers.

Coleman’s youth career reached a pinnacle in 2001 when he was the individual gold medalist at the North American Youth Championships. With his Irish Sport Horse, Fox In Flight, he became the first U.S. athlete to win the Bramham CCI4*-L in 2003. The pair made their CCI5*-L debut that same year with a completion at Burghley and were subsequently named to the U.S. Eventing Team short list for the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Coleman made history in 2021, riding Off The Record, owned by Off The Record Syndicate LLC, to victory at the CCIO4*-S at CHIO Aachen, becoming the first American to ever win the prestigious event. At the end of the 2022 season, Coleman was recognized as a USEF International Equestrian of Honor and was awarded the William C. Steinkraus Trophy at the USEF Pegasus Awards. In 2023, he and Off The Record helped the Defender U.S. Eventing Team earn team silver at the FEI Eventing Nations Cup in Boekelo. During the 2024 season, Coleman and Off The Record, alongside emerging mount Diabolo, finished first and second in the Lexington CCI4*-S at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event.

Coleman was selected to his second U.S. Olympic Eventing Team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with Diabolo before the horse was withdrawn prior to the start of competition. In 2025, Coleman and Off the Record finished as runners-up in the inaugural US Equestrian Open Eventing Final CCI4*-L at Morven Park in Leesburg, Va.

Coleman and Diabolo reached a career milestone in 2026 by winning the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L, becoming the first horse-and-rider combination to win both the Lexington CCI4*-S and the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L in different years, and just the second U.S. combination to win the CCI5*-L in the past fifteen years.  

Coleman and his wife Katie, a professional eventing and dressage rider, operate Will Coleman Equestrian based in Virginia and Florida.