Ingrid Klimke
Ingrid Klimke ( born April 1, 1968 in Münster ) is a German dressage and eventing rider. She carries the distinction of riding master.
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Ingrid Klimke is the daughter of Reiner Klimke. She has two brothers, one of this is the dressage rider Michael Klimke. Ingrid Klimke is married and has two daughters.
Career
Youth
About her father Klimke had from an early contact with horses and learned early to ride. It indicates, however, never to have been pushed to a career in equestrian sport. Since her youth she rides both dressage, show jumping and eventing. In addition to her father, Fritz Ligges was her coach, she was also a stay abroad as a "working student" Ian Millar possible.
" From all I have experienced a consistent training that is geared to develop an intense relationship of trust between horse and rider and never overwhelm the horses. When Ian Millar I've noticed as a working student all about the care and trail riding, and I am very grateful to my father that he has enabled me to this stay abroad. "
After high school, she was apprenticed as a bank clerk. Subsequently, she began a teaching degree. However, in the clerkship phase, they had to realize that this does not agree with the riding was - the tournaments usually begin already during the week. Then they finally decided to make riding and horse training to their profession.
Sports career
Their first international championship in the age group of the " tab", she contested in 1991 when they won the 1991 bronze medal in individual and team standings with Pinot at the European Championships of rural riders ( versatility ). This was followed by success in the German championships in both the versatility as well as in dressage. Since 2000, she previously denied all Summer Olympic Games.
In particular, with the horses Sleep Late, Robinson's Concord, Windfall and FRH Butts Abraxxas Ingrid Klimke has achieved many successes in national and international eventing.
A low point in her career she had in 1999. After her father's death she tried to distract herself with the preparation for the European Championships, and also took part in the European Championships. Here there were two refusals in the cross-country course. Even before the European Championships she had suffered an ankle tendinitis. This was operated on after the championship, but it was subsequently complications, so Klimke had to remain in the hospital three months.
"Today I know that this was a mistake. I Sleep Late can not help and left him on the ground alone. This is something I would never do more. I was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such an ordeal and so the poor placement was only logical. "
In 2005, Ingrid Klimke achieved its largest ever international solo success in a Championship: At the European Championships in Blenheim, she won with Sleep Late Bronze Single.
12 August 2008 Klimke was in eventing at the Olympic equestrian competitions in Hong Kong along with Hinrich Romeike, Andreas Dibowski, Peter Thomsen and Frank Ostholt Olympic champion with the team. Two years earlier, she was already part of the team gold at the World Equestrian Games 2006.
After the 2008 Olympics, the sale of its success horse Butts Abraxxas threatened. The principal owner ( Klimke even held a stake of 20 per cent) wanted to sell the horse and forbade Klimke to continue using Abraxxas. Your help came to the former show jumping and dressage rider Madeleine Winter -Schulze - they acquired the remaining shares and provides Klimke Butts Abraxxas still available.
At the European Championships 2011 in Luhmühlen she again won a team gold medal with FRH Butts Abraxxas. She herself was also on an individual medal course, but Abraxxas again showed problems in the jumping course. She arrived at the final evaluation in eleventh and commented with the words "Six to - so bad he has never jumped ."
At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London Klimke won with Butts Abraxxas in eventing the team gold medal.
In addition to the " big sports " it is dedicated to the training of young horses, with which it participates successfully at the National Championships and at the Nuremberg Cup. An example of this is Damon Hill NRW, which is now ridden by her former student Helen Langehanenberg.
In addition, she worked for several years base coach for the Westphalian young dressage riders was as an instructor at master courses at the Westphalian Riding and Driving School operates. She is a board member of the German Riders and Drivers Association and the Westphalian Horse Museum. Ingrid Klimke are numerous courses at home and abroad and is speaker at seminars.
She puts much emphasis on training their horses according to the classical riding and establish a good relationship of trust with them.
Awards
Klimke was until 2008 awarded by the Sports Federation of Münster at the Ball des Sports 1999 and in the aftermath of 2004 as Sportswoman of the Year.
Klimke, which is Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin today was awarded in early 2012 at the big horse show in their hometown Münster as the second woman ever the title riding master. This is awarded for outstanding long-term results from frontrunners as trainers and horses as well as imitated commitment to the equestrian sport.
In November 2012, she was awarded along with 163 other athletes the Silver Laurel Leaf.
Best Merits
- 2000, Sydney: 4 with Sleep Late place with the team ( participants in the team standings did not count for the individual classification )
- 2004, Athens: 4 with Sleep Late course with the team, in the individual standings without rating
- 2008 Hong Kong: FRH Butts Abraxxas gold with the team, 5th place in the individual standings
- 2012, London: FRH Butts Abraxxas gold with the team.
- 2006, Aachen: FRH Butts Abraxxas gold with the team and 34th in the individual standings
- 2010 Lexington KY: 5 with FRH Butts Abraxxas place with the team and 13th in the individual standings
- Versatility: Gold: 1999 and 2000 with Sleep Late, 2001 Robinson's Concord, 2009 FRH Butts Abraxxas
- Silver: 2012 with Tabasco, 2013 Hale Bob
- Bronze: 1993 Grand Prix, 2004 Robinson's Concord, 2010 FRH Butts Abraxxas
- 5th Place: 1992 Grand Prix
- 4th place: 2013 ( GP Freestyle) with Dresden man
- 5th Place: 2001 (Women) with Nector van het Carelshof, 2013 ( GP Spécial ) with Dresden man
- 2nd place CCI4 * Badminton 2006 Sleep Late
- 2nd place CCI4 * Luhmühlen 2010 FRH Butts Abraxxas
Horses
- FRH Escada (* 2004), bay Hanoverian mare, father ridden feudal lord until 2011 by Andrew Brandt: Embassy, mother father
- Dresden (b. 2004), brown Westphalian gelding, Sire: Dresemann, Mother Father: Florestan I, Dressage
- Pinot (? * 1977, † ), brown Trakehner Stallion, Sire: Magic Forest, Mother Father: Tornado I
- Grand Prix (* 1981, † 2004), brown Trakehner stallion, father: Swazi xx, Mother Father: Schwalbenflug
- Concord Robinson's (* 1990, † 2014), dark brown Holsteiner gelding, Sire: Chromatic xx, Mother Father: Thuswin
- Sleep Late (* 1991, † 2012), British Sport Horse gelding, Sire: Kuwait beach xx, mother father: Evening Trial xx
- Windfall (* 1992), dark brown Trakehner stallion, father: hawk, Mother Father: Madruzzo, later Olympia Horse by Darren Chiacchia
- Nector van het Carelshof (* 1990, † 2012), brown Belgian Warmblood gelding, Sire: Randel Z, mother father: Lombard, ridden from 2003 by Fiona Bigwood, was adopted from the sport
- FRH Butts Abraxxas (* 1997), black-brown Hanoverian gelding, Father: Adopted Kronenkranich xx is in June 2014 elite sport: Heraldry xx, mother father
Works
- Ingrid and Reiner Klimke, Cavaletti dressage and jumping, Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, 2011, ISBN 978-3-440-12057-6
- Ingrid and Reiner Klimke, Basic Training the young horse, as Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-440-09066-3
- Ingrid Klimke - Basic Training for Riding Horses 1-3 ( DVD Set)
- Ingrid Klimke - Training for Dressage Horses 1
- Ingrid Klimke - Success through Fitness