Christopher Bartle
Christopher Bartle (usually shortened Chris Bartle called; born February 19, 1952 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire ) is a well known English dressage and eventing riders and coaches. He was several times successful Olympian and since 2001, together with Hans Melzer national coach of the German eventing team. Today, he heads the Yorkshire Riding Centre in Harrogate. Chris is the younger brother of Jane Bartle -Wilson, the Los Angeles Olympic participant was also 1984.
- 3.1 British national
- 3.2 German national
Training
Chris attended Ampleforth College and the University of Bristol, where he earned the degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics with distinction. After graduation, he initially began as an amateur jockey. However, since he had some problems with its size of 1.80 m, to keep his weight down, he took a turn to eventing. He was trained by two- times gold medalist in Helsinki in 1952, Hans junior Blixen - Finecke.
Services
Dressage
In 1976, he was forced to withdraw from the versatility competition because it had been injured during training his horse Wily Trout. But a year later, he took part in the Dressage World Cup in the individual with Wily Trout. From 1981 to 1987, Chris Bartle with Wily Trout member of the British dressage team. In the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the British team finished in eighth place, and Chris Bartle was sixth in dressage single best-placed Briton.
In 1986, Bartle again with Wily Trout second place in the first dressage World Cup Final in 's- Hertogenbosch. In the same year he was the Honorary Medal of the British Equestrian Federation was awarded.
Versatility
Finally, Christopher Bartle turned back to the eventing and won the 1997 team gold at the European Championships. A year later, he was winner of the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials with his horse WordPerfect WordPerfect II II he was also as a reserve in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Coach
British national
After his dressage successes Christopher Bartle became coach of the British eventing team, and took with him at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. He was awarded the British Horse Society 's Trainers Award and in 2001 was an honorary member of the British Horse Society.
German national
Since 2001, Chris Bartle, together with Hans Melzer national coach of the German Eventing Olympic Team. His tenure covered some of the biggest successes of the German eventing, so the gold medals for the German team and German individual riders at the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012.
In addition, Chris Bartle successful single coach of several British and German eventing rider. His rich experience led him, along with Gilliam Newsum as co -author of the book Training the Sport Horse to publish.