Kristina Sprehe

Career

At the age of four years, her father bought the first pony for Kristina Sprehe and her twin sister Tanya. Sprehe specialized already in their youth dressage and took twelve years for the first time participated in the German championships. Her twin sister began to focus on jumping. In 2002 followed with Nathan to participate in the Pony Dressage European Championships. A year later, she started for the first time in the junior and won for the first time an individual medal at an international championship. Also in 2003, she became the first German champion in her age group. By the end of their Young Riders - time followed by other successful participations in international championships.

The end of 2010 they took over the farm, in Hanover -born stallion Desperados. This was trained by Falk Rosenbauer and was instrumental in its winning the German Dressage Derby in 2010.

After successful performances of Sprehe and Desperados in the second half of 2011 (in each case results in excess of 75 percent for the CDI 4 * tournaments in Donaueschingen and Oldenburg) Kristina Sprehe was appointed to the A-team of the German dressage riders. The Stuttgart German Masters, she won in her last year as a U25 rider the final at the price of Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation - the final of the piaffe Sponsorship.

Her breakthrough in the international sport it had at CDI 4 * Dortmund in March 2012: Here they won with Desperados, among other things against Laura Bechtolsheimer / Mistral Hojris and Ulla Salzgeber / Herzruf 's heritage the final of the Meggle Champions ( Grand Prix Spécial, 81.978 %).

After initially always ridden the Grand Prix Spécial Tour in international tournaments, they played at the beginning of the "green season " in 2012 at the CDI 4 * Hagen: first time with Desperados Grand Prix Freestyle and achieved a score of 83.775 percent here.

Through its services between August 2011 and March 2012, it rose in less than eight months in the Top 20 of the FEI World Ranking on: in the world rankings by the end of March 2012, she climbed from 125 in 17th Due to this success, she accepted with Desperados the Olympic Games in London in part. With Dorothee Schneider and Helen Langehanenberg she won the silver medal in the team competition dressage.

In addition to the Grand Prix level they had in 2012 with a young horse a great success: the ridden by her Oldenburg stallion Fürst Fugger won the National Championships of the six -year old dressage horses. For Sprehe this was her first start in a National Championships.

In November 2012, she is with Desperados finished fifth in the world rankings.

By the fall of 2013 Sprehe trained at dressage trainer Jürgen Koshel, the father of Christopher Koshel, on the farm Beckerode in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald. Since then, she takes care increased by the training and mentoring of dressage stallions at the stud Sprehe.

Private

Kristina Sprehe comes from a family that is closely connected with horses and riding: her grandfather was a horse breeder, her father is the managing director of his family's stud farm and together with his brother, the managing director of Sprehe delicatessen. In addition, several of her cousins ​​are successfully active in equestrian sports, such as January Sprehe and Jörne Sprehe. With her ​​family and her boyfriend she lives in Lower Saxony Dinklage.

My high school, she put in 2006 from the Gymnasium wages. Kristina Sprehe studied business administration at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and has taken for riding in the summer semester 2012 on a break. In addition to the daily training she writes her Bachlor work for studying in Oldenburg.

Horses

  • Desperados 11 (* 2001), Hanoverian stallion, Father: De Niro, mother father, Wolkenstein II, ridden by the end of 2010 by Falk Rosenbauer
  • Thunder Ball ( * 2000 ) Oldenburg liver chestnut stallion, sire Donnerhall, Mother Father: Alabaster
  • Fürst Fugger (* 2006), Oldenburg stallion, father: Prince Henry, won in 2012 the National Championships for six year old horses
  • Diddi Keeps Cool NRW (* 1993), chestnut stallion, father: Derano gold, mother father: Derbino
  • Wyoming 93 (* 1990), Hanoverian chestnut gelding, Sire: Wryneck, Mother Father: Gulf Stream II
  • Rose Noir 2 (* 1997), black mare, Sire: Royal Angelo I, mother father, Welt As, sold in the United States
  • Royal Flash 85 (* 1996, † 2012), brown Saxon riding horse gelding, Sire: Royal de Saxe, mother father: Duralin I; from 2011 ridden by Anastasia Nikolaeva, 2012 euthanized due to a broken leg

Achievements

Championships and World Cup

  • Olympic Games: 2012, London: Desperados with 2nd place with the team and eighth place in the individual standings.
  • European Championships: 2002 Hagen: ( Pony Rider ): with Diddi Keeps Cool NRW 1st place with the team and fourth place in the individual standings
  • 2003 Saumur ( Junior ): with Wyoming 2nd place with the team and 3rd place in the individual standings
  • 2004, Aarhus ( Juniors): 1st place with Wyoming with the team and 3rd place in the individual standings
  • 2006 barn Paura ( Young Riders ): with Rose Noir 1st place with the team and 3rd place in the individual standings
  • 2007, Nussloch ( Young Riders ): Royal Flash 2nd place with the team, 2nd place in the individual competition and 4th place in the individual competition / freestyle
  • 2013, Herning: Desperados with 1st place with the team, fifth place in the individual standings ( Grand Prix Spécial ) and 5th place in the individual competition ( Grand Prix Freestyle )
  • German Championships: 2000 Exter ( Pony Rider ): 8th place with Nathan
  • 2001 Elmlohe ( Pony Rider ): 9th place with Nathan
  • 2002 Kreuth: 4th place of the Pony Riders with Diddi Keeps Cool NRW, 9th place in the junior category with Wyoming
  • 2003, Aachen ( Juniors): 1st place with Wyoming
  • 2004 Steinfeld ( Junior ): 3rd place with Rose Noir
  • 2005 Zeiskam ( Young Riders ): 7th place with Rose Noir
  • 2006 Freudenberg ( Young Riders ): 4th place with Rose Noir
  • 2007 Steinfeld ( Young Riders ): 2nd place with Royal Flash
  • 2012 Balve: 3rd place in the Grand Prix Spécial ( 82.311 %) and 3rd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle ( 86.500 %) with Desperados

Awards

In November 2012, she was awarded along with 163 other athletes the Silver Laurel Leaf. In addition, she has been honored several times in the district of Vechta in Oldenburg People's Daily as Sportswoman of the Year in 2012 and 2013 by all their successes. In 2013 she was nominated for the Lower Saxony election Sportsman of the Year.

October 28 1986 Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics Hanoverian horse Summer Olympic Games European Dressage Championship Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund
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