Bettina Hoy

Bettina Hoy ( born November 7, 1962 in Rheine as Bettina Over Esch) is a German eventing rider.

Life

The trained Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin lived for twelve years in England. Together with her ​​husband, the Australian eventer Andrew Hoy, she managed Gatcombe Park, the private country home of the British Princess Anne. In February 2009, she left the facility and moved to Warendorf.

After Andrew Hoy has already returned to Britain, Bettina Hoy continues to live in Warendorf Hoetmar. End of November 2011 they announced their separation by Andrew Hoy.

Sports career

Hoy won at the Olympic Games in 1984 in what was then still called Military versatility competition and bronze in the 1994 gold at the World Team Championship. Three years later she became European Champion and won at the German Championships in 2002 and 2004 gold medals, and 1983 and 1995 bronze. In 2005 she won with her successful horse Ringwood Cockatoo their first four-star eventing competition, the CCI Luhmühlen.

A tragic figure Hoy was at the Olympic Games 2004. Graduated from competition in eventing, where the rating of the Ritts was counted at the same time for the team competition as for the individual, after initial rating as best. However, they crossed unintentionally during a short Einreitrunde the start line, which earned her 12 penalty points due to timeout. Thus Hoy fell in the individual competition back to ninth place in the team competition was based on the sum of the separate results of a downgrade of the German team to fourth place (→ Olympic Equestrian Games 2004 in eventing ).

At the World Equestrian Games in 2006 Bettina Hoy was again a member of the German team, which was able to this time prevail against the competition. She took gold in the team. With 9.00 points in the final jumping her remained the individual medal, according to the places one ( after the dressage ) and 2 (after the cross country ) denied. She finished the race in sixth.