Career
Whilst at school Dunham worked at a local stable in her spare time and, by the age of 16, she was running a yard of 80 horses at weekends. She has said that she "always wanted to compete" but whilst she was able to ride the horses in the stables their owners competed with them. Dunham was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 27 and has used a wheelchair since the age of 30.
In the individual mixed dressage grade II she finished just outside the medals in fourth position.
In the individual events at the games she finished fifth both in the mixed dressage - championship grade II and mixed dressage - freestyle grade World War II The 2004 Athens Games were Dunham"s third Paralympic appearance. Competing in the grade I freestyle and championship individual events she finished fifth and sixth respectively with fellow Briton Pearson winning gold in both.
Dunham went to her fourth Paralympics in 2008. The dressage events were not held in the host city Beijing but instead took place at the Olympic Equestrian Centre in Hong Kong.