Michael Jung. Michael Jung (born 31 July 1982 Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany) is a German equestrian.[1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in both the team and the individual eventing, winning both.
On 31 July 2012, his 30th birthday, he made eventing history becoming the first rider to ever hold the Olympic, World and European championship titles at the same time.[2] Edward Gal. Edward Gal (born 4 March 1970 in Rheden) is a Dutch dressage rider.[1] He and his most recent mount, the stallion Moorlands Totilas (nicknamed "Toto"), were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games,[2][3] becoming the first horse-rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI World Games.[2] Going into the 2010 Games, they had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world".[4] Career[edit] Gal began his equestrian career as a jumper at age 14, beginning with ponies and graduating to larger horses at age 20.
However, when he discovered his horse did not like jumping, he switched to dressage. While enjoying solid success in national and international competition, he did not become a truly dominant rider until he began competing with Totilas in 2008. Anky van Grunsven. Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda ("Anky") van Grunsven (born 2 January 1968) is a Dutch dressage champion who holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete and is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event.
Along with her Olympic successes, she has won numerous medals at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), and is the only rider to have competed at every WEG since they began in 1990. Between 1990 and 2006, she competed at the Games in dressage, but in 2010 she was named as part of the Dutch reining team, marking a major change in discipline. Personal life[edit] Van Grunsven is married to Dutch national equestrian coach Sjef Janssen, with whom she has two children.[3] She was pregnant with her first child, Yannick, when she competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, and gave birth in November of that year. Helen Langehanenberg. Adelinde Cornelissen. Charlotte Dujardin. Charlotte Dujardin OBE (born 13 July 1985) is an elite British dressage rider.
Riding Valegro, she won two gold medals (individual dressage, and team dressage with Laura Bechtolsheimer and Carl Hester) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medals ever won in the discipline by a British rider. Early life[edit] Born in Enfield, Dujardin was brought up in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire where she attended Vandyke Upper School.[1][2] She started riding as a two-year old,[3] returning her elder sisters' horses from the show jumping ring to the horse box.[4] Aged three, she achieved second place at her first Pony Club show jumping competition outing.[4] To finance their hobby, their mother Jane Dujardin bought and sold ponies for her daughters to ride to enable them to continue riding.[5]
Charlotte Dujardin. Nick Skelton. Nicholas David Skelton, OBE (born 30 December 1957 in Bedworth) is an English equestrian who competes in show jumping.
He began riding at age 18 months and in 1974 and 1975 took two team silvers and an individual gold at the Junior European Championships. He has competed numerous times at the European Show Jumping Championships, winning three golds, three silvers and three bronzes both individually and with the British team over a 26-year time period. Beezie Madden. Elizabeth "Beezie" Madden (born Elizabeth Patton; November 20, 1963) is an American show jumping competitor and Olympic winner from Cazenovia, New York.
She won the 2013 World Cup of Show Jumping with Simon in Gothenburg, Sweden. [1] Life and career[edit] Madden was born Elizabeth Patton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Kathleen "Kathy" McGregor/Schlesinger and Joseph "Joe" Patton.[2] Madden has been asked, if she could start her life over again what would she do, and she admitted she would do the same thing. Steve Guerdat. Steve Guerdat (born 10 June 1982 in Bassecourt, Canton of Jura) is a Swiss Olympic-level equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
He is the 2012 Olympic Champion in individual jumping.[1] He also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in team jumping following the disqualification of Norwegian rider Tony André Hansen.[2] In July 2012, Steve Guerdat was ranked third in the world.[3] Career[edit] Steve Guerdat began riding at the age of seven and was trained by his father, Philippe Guerdat, and by Beat Mändli. Between 1997 and 2002 he was part of two junior and three young rider European championships and won two bronze medals with the team.
In 2003 he switched to the Netherlands and worked there for Jan Tops. In 2006 he moved to Belgium and worked for three months for billionaire Oleksandr Onishchenko. Christian Ahlmann. Internationalem PfingstTurnier Wiesbaden 2013 Christian Ahlmann (born December 17, 1974 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Gerco Schröder. Gerco Schröder auf "Seoul" at the Internationalen PfingstTurnier Wiesbaden 2013 Gerco Bernardus ("Gerco") Schröder (born 28 July 1978 in Tubbergen, Overijssel) is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.
He currently ranks third on the FEI Rolex Ranking List.[1] Gerco Schröder represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event alongside Wim Schröder, Leopold van Asten and Gert-Jan Bruggink. As an individual driving on his horse 'Monaco', Schröder was eliminated in the qualification round, ending up on the 48th position. He was 21st after the first qualification round, but 8 penalty points in his second round eliminated him.