Khaled Al-Eid
Khalid Abdulaziz al-' Aid (Arabic خالد العيد, DMG Halid al - ʿ Aid, often English- Khaled Al Eid transcribed; born January 2, 1969) is a show jumper from Saudi Arabia.
Career
At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 the hitherto little international appearance came in Eid Al won a complete surprise to cashmere al -A ʿ at the bronze medal in show jumping. He is the first Arab to win a medal at an Olympic equestrian events.
Four years earlier he had already participated in the Olympic show jumping competitions in 1996 for Saudi Arabia, where he was also with al -A ʿ cashmere to 30th in the individual standings and 18th with the team.
He also participated in the World Equestrian Games 2002 ( with cashmere al -A ʿ at 68th in the individual standings and 18th in the team ) and on the Asian Games in 2006 in part. In the latter he won with Alriyadh with the team gold medal and reached the singles competition tenth.
Al-' Aid is primarily as a rider in arabic embossed space active, so he won, among others, the World Cup competition of Alexandria 2005 ( with Alriyadh ), Jeddah 2005 ( with Alriyadh ), Sharjah in 2006 ( Lucky Star ), Riyadh 2006 ( with Alriyadh ), Al - Budayyi ' 2007 ( with Silvano ), Damascus 2007 ( with Alriyadh ), Dubai 2008 ( with Alriyadh ), Abu Dhabi 2009 ( with Alriyadh ) and Damascus in 2009 ( with Alriyadh ). One of his greatest successes outside of championships he celebrated also in September 2010 by winning the Grand Prix of Gijon ( CSIO 5 *) with Presley Boy.
At the World Equestrian Games 2010, he reached with Presley Boy Rank 8 with the team and ranked 12 in singles. After the first round of the team competition, he had still been in the lead in the individual standings. Also with Presley Boy, he took part in the Guangzhou Asian Games 2010. Here he reached the bronze medal in the individual competition and won with the team also gold. In December 2011 he won at the Pan Arab Games in Doha with Vanhoeve team gold and was single - Fourteenth.
Illegal medication
End of May 2012 was al-' Aid, along with his compatriot Abdullah Sharbatly, by the FEI locked retroactive to February 24, 2012 for eight months. The reason was the discovery of banned medications in at a doping sample of al-' AIDS Horse Vanhoeve, here are the substances phenylbutazone and oxyphenbutazone were detected. Both appealed the judgment to the CAS, this shortened the locks on two months for al-' Aid and Sharbatly. As justification lesser severity of the offense was led. The judgment has been variously criticized, including the International Jumping Riders Club represents the interests of jumpers working in international sporting events. This indicates that you have taken the CAS judgment surprise to note, because compared to similar incidents in earlier times would have been very severe penalties. The principle of equality of all riders should be ensured. It is also about the credibility of the CAS, at a moment when the FEI run a time-consuming clean- sport program.