Thies Kaspareit

Thies Kaspareit ( born 1 February 1964 in Oldenburg in Holstein ) is a former German eventing rider.

After 1983 proved to be a third party and in 1984 second in the German Championship at the young riders his talent, he was fifth in 1987 and sixth in 1988 the German championship in the seniors. For the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Kaspareit was nominated as a replacement rider. He moved then for Wolfgang Mengers into the team after the horse of Mengers had died.

The German team came into Seoul with Claus Erhorn, Matthias Baumann, Ralf honor Brink and Thies Kaspareit to. While marriage Brink was disqualified occupied Kaspareit on Sherry with 94.80 penalty points in ninth place in the individual competition and won with Erhorn Baumann and the Olympic gold medal in the team competition.

During his career Kaspareit was at the Bundeswehr Sports School in Warendorf. Kaspareit is Pferdewirtschaftsmeister. From its founding in 1998 on, he is the head of the German Academy of the horse, whose job it was to provide scientific knowledge about horses and equestrian sport. At the beginning of 2012, the Academy is dissolved and goes on in the department " Education and Science" (formerly Division "training" ) of the German Equestrian Federation. Their line will hold Kaspareit, which replaces so in education Christoph Hess.