Frank Ostholt

Frank Ostholt ( born September 23, 1975 in Warendorf, North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a German eventing rider.

Career

Osthold grew up on a farm yard, where he came in contact with the small horse farm with horses.

His career started in 1996 when he participated in the German Championships for Young Riders with 20 years for the first time. At this time Osthold celebrated his greatest successes with the mare Eos and Basilisk. In 2003, he secured himself with his horse Air Jordan victory at the German Championships in eventing. This triumph was Osthold 2005 repeat. In the meantime he had lost at the 2004 Olympics by a controversial decision team gold and dropped back to fourth place. Then together with the German team, he celebrated in the next four years more times successes, among other things they took bronze at the European Championships in 2005 and 2006 gold at the world championships. In addition, he celebrated with his horses, among other Air Jordan, Mr. medicott and Little Paint numerous successes at CCI tests and in 2008 was again German champions for the third time.

Frank Ostholt took the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for the second time to participate, but this time with Mr. medicott. 12 August 2008 Osthold was in eventing at the Olympics in Beijing together with Ingrid Klimke, Hinrich Romeike, Andreas Dibowski and Peter Thomsen Olympic gold medalist with the team. Due to the fact that, although the best 25 riders qualified for the finals in singles, but a maximum of three from a team that Frank could Osthold, although lying at this point in the individual standings to eighth, do not start in the final show jumping.

At the World Equestrian Games 2010, he was with Mr. medicott than 21 individual riders in individual. His biggest single success at an international championship he ferierte 2011: At the European Championships in Luhmühlen he won with Little Paint individual bronze. At the German Championships 2012, he won with Little Paint also bronze.

Private

He is married to the Swedish eventer Sara Algotsson - Ostholt. The couple has a daughter ( Wilma -Sophie, * 2010 )

Osthold is agricultural engineer, Pferdewirtschaftsmeister and head of the Federal DOKR performance center riding in Warendorf. In 2005 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf through the then Federal President Horst Köhler.

Horses ( excerpt)

  • Air Jordan 2 (* 1995), Hanoverian chestnut gelding Owner: German Olympic Committee & Robert Vietor
  • Little Paint ( * 1998), brown gelding, mother father: I'm a Star xx, owner: German Olympic Committee & spouses Vietor
  • Mr. medicott (* 1999), fox -colored Irish Sport Horse gelding, Sire: Cruising; ridden from early 2012 by Karen O'Connor
  • Basilisk
Summer Olympic Games Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Show Jumping Championships 2011 European Eventing Championship Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics European Eventing Championship 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Hanoverian horse Trakehner Reiner Klimke Fritz Ligges Claus Erhorn Matthias Baumann Bettina Hoy Michael Jung (equestrian)
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