Alwin Schockemöhle
Alwin Schockemoehle (* May 29, 1937 in Meppen ) is a former German show jumper. He was a successful international show jumper of the 1960s and 1970s, with individual and team successes at the Olympic Games and European Championships. Paul Schockemoehle is his younger brother.
Biography
After initial successes in eventing, where in 1956 he qualified for the Olympic Games, but was not nominated for the squad, Schockemoehle joined the camp of the jumpers. Here he won in Rome in 1960 with the team, on the side of Hans Günter Winkler and Fritz Thiedemann his first Olympic gold medal. 1968 in Mexico City followed a bronze medal, also with the team.
Until his success at the European Championships in 1975 it was called the "Champion untitled", as he had previously won a major singles title. At the Olympic Games in 1976 Alwin Schockemoehle was still single Olympic champion and won a silver medal with the team.
His career as a rider, he finished in 1977 because of recurring back problems. But he continued to work for equestrian sport as coaches and trainers. Many riders later became known -jumpers have been discovered or promoted by him, such as Gerd Wiltfang, Franke Sloothaak, Thomas Frühmann, Ulrich Kirchhoff or Johan Heins from the Netherlands. Schockemoehle laid in 1980 from his position as Chef d'Equipe of the German jumping down after the German team riders had accused him prefer his students.
From now on he devoted himself to the harness racing sport where his horses celebrated great successes. Here he became one of the most successful trotting breeders in Europe. His stallion Abano AS won the 2003 Prix d' Amerique in Paris, the most valuable test in trotting. His stallion Diamond Way is the most successful sires in the European Trotting.
In 1993, he was a shareholder in 17 companies, including a steel mesh factory.
1977 Alwin Schockemoehle received the Golden ring of the Aachen Lauren Rennverein 2004, he was named one of the 100 best German athletes.
Since 1981, stands in the center of Vechta on the Europa place a life-size bronze statue of the showjumper Rex Warwick ( b. 1966 ). The Hanoverian gelding was a former world-class jumping horse by Alwin Schockemoehle and recalls in Vechta, the residence of Alwin Schockemoehle, because the city is a traditional center of German horse breeding and the German equestrian sport. Was made the statue of the Munich artist Heinrich Meier moths. He was inducted into the Gallery of Honor of the Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Institute for the sport of racing history for her services to the sport in Lower Saxony.
Achievements
- Olympic games Rome 1960: Gold medal team, individual ranking 26th on Ferdl
- 1968 in Mexico City: Bronze medal team, individual ranking seventh on Donald Rex
- Montreal 1976: Silver medal team, gold medal single on Warwick Rex
- Four times German Champion (1961, 1963, 1967, 1975)
- Three times winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen ( 1962 Freiherr, 1968 Donald Rex and 1969 pennant )
- Three times winner of the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg (1957, 1969, 1971)