Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum

Meredith Michaels -Beerbaum ( born December 26, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a German -American show jumper. The four -time German champion won at the World Equestrian Games and the European Championships so far four gold medals.

Family and Education

Meredith Michaels -Beerbaum is the daughter of director Richard Michaels and actress Kristina Hansen. At seven, she learned to ride. She studied political science at Princeton University before she came to the riding training with Paul Schockemoehle to Germany in 1991. On June 5, 1998, she married the show jumper Markus Beerbaum and took four weeks later the German citizenship. February 27, 2010 their daughter Brianne Victoria was born.

Sporting career

Meredith Michaels -Beerbaum had their international breakthrough with the 1.59 meter Stallion Quick Star, who died at the age of 29 years at the end of August 2011. With this, they both won their first Grand Prix (1989 in Wellington (Florida ) ) and later international Grands Prix in Europe. It was 1999, the first woman to be nominated for a German champions team. With her then- top horse Stella she won as best German participant with their team at the European Championships in Hickstead the gold medal. Furthermore, it was also the first woman, who led the world rankings Jumping (December 2004). She came in 2004 in the headlines, as have been found in Athens in her horse Shutterfly at the B- samples during the World Cup final in Milan remains of a sedative just before the Olympics and it has therefore not been nominated for the games. In November 2005, she was acquitted. After their great sporting triumph began: In 2006, she was the first female member of a German Springer team at Team jumping a World Championship, where she won the bronze medal with the team. She managed as a single member of the German team reaching the final of the four best riders with horses change. There they put on all the horses a clear round before, but had then in the jump-off for the medals with her horse Shutterfly a nervous shedding and thus won the bronze medal.

Its largest ever single success they celebrated on 19 August 2007, when she won the gold medal in the individual competition with Shutterfly at the European Championships in Mannheim to silver in the team competition.

In September 2009, Meredith Michaels -Beerbaum interrupted her athletic career because of her pregnancy. In mid-April 2010, the FEI decided a change in the world rankings regulations. Michaels -Beerbaum, which benefited first from this rule, no longer lost while pregnant pause now all world ranking points that are older than a year, but kept this to 50%. Thus, they moved in April 2010 by rank 31 to rank 20 in the world rankings before. Meredith Michaels -Beerbaum decided not to participate in the World Cup finals in mid-April 2010 as they have not yet felt after pregnancy break in the appropriate constitution for an event with a correspondingly strong competition. Instead, they initially launched on a national tournament and celebrated her international comeback by winning the Grand Prix of Hagen: (CSI 3 *) with Checkmate.

In 2010, she was again part of the German team at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington (Kentucky ), where she won the gold medal with Checkmate with the German team. After 2011 her successful horse Shutterfly Sports goodbye, she devoted herself increasingly introducing their young horses in the international equestrian sport.

After a third place in the Grand Prix of Aachen with her nine- year-old mare Bella Donna, she was nominated as a replacement rider for the 2012 Olympic Games. A week before the games fell Philipp Weishaupt's horse Monte Bellini from illness, then moved Michaels- Beerbaum with Belladonna according to the team.

In February 2012, she was ranked in the show jumping world ranking 42nd place.

Achievements

World Championships: Aachen 2006: Bronze medal team, bronze medal individual on Shutterfly
2010 in Lexington: gold medal team at Checkmate

2004 Milan: 2nd place on Shutterfly
2005 Las Vegas: 1st place on Shutterfly
2008 in Gothenburg: 1st place on Shutterfly
2009 Las Vegas: 1st place on Shutterfly

2001 3rd place Goldzack Riders Tour
2002 3rd place Riders Tour Ranking
2004 1st place Riders Tour Ranking
2005 1st Riders Tour Ranking
2006 2nd Place Riders Tour Ranking
2007 1st Place Riders Tour Ranking

Sports Bambi 2005

Horses ( excerpt)

Current

Checkmate (* 1995), dark brown Hanoverian gelding ( Sire: Contender, mother - father: Pik Bube II)
Cantano ( * 2000 ), brown Holsteiner stallion ( Sire: Cascavelle, mother - father: Acord )
Malou (* 2004), gray mare, Swedish Warmblood ( Father: Maloubet de Pleville, mother - father: Carthago )
Unbelievable (* 2001), brown KWPN gelding ( Sire: Manhattan, mother - father: Democraat )

Former sports horses

Quick Star (* 1982, † 2011), Stallion, Selle Français ( Father: Galoubet A, Mother: Stella v. Nithard ) later ridden by Nick Skelton
Stella ( * 1989), dark bay mare, American Warmblood ( father: Quick Star, Mother - Father: Wilson), retired from the sport
Shutterfly (* 1993), dark brown Hanoverian gelding ( Sire: Silvio I, Mother - Father: Forest xx), retired from the sport at the CHIO Aachen 2011 after his victory in the " Prix of Europe "
Le Mans ( * 1995), chestnut gelding, Zweibrücker Warmblood ( Father: Leubus, mother - father: Landadel)
Kismet (* 2001, Original Name: Benedicte ), liver chestnut mare, Belgian Warmblood ( Father: Kannan, mother - father: Furioso II), from 2012, by Raymond Texel ridden
Sold in early 2014 to Qatar Belladonna ( * 2003), dark bay Holsteiner mare ( Calido father: Baldini II, mother - father)

Political commitment

In December 2009, Michaels -Beerbaum was active as a testimonial for the Initiative New Social Market Economy. She was involved as part of a PR campaign for the statement " social market economy makes it better ... because it allows to use fair play and big jumps. "

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