Hugo Simon (show jumper)

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Hugo Simon, 1978

Hugo Simon (born August 3, 1942 in Krummwasser , Mährisch Schönberg district ) is a former Austrian show jumper. In Austria in particular he is also known under the name Hugo Nationale due to the large number of his successes for Austria .

Life

Hugo Simon's parents were expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and came to Hesse with their son . His father was a horse dealer, Hugo began to ride at the age of eight at the request of his father. At the age of about ten he became Hessian Junior Champion (eventing with a subsequent horse change). Later he rode, trained by Josef Neckermann , dressage tests up to advanced level and eventing tests, but then decided to concentrate on show jumping. As a result, he worked his way up in the German show jumping camp in order to start at the Summer Olympics in Munich. For Germany he was only set up as a substitute, so that he accepted Austrian citizenship and started for Austria.

In 1979 Simon won the first World Cup final with Gladstone . A year later he won the individual gold medal at the Internationaal Springruiterfestival , the Olympic substitute competition of the boycotting states .

When the sponsorship partnership with the Liechtenstein lawyer Batliner broke down at the end of the 1980s, Simon thought of quitting and wanted to work more in his construction company. However, the cavalry did not let go, so he reached on the Hanover - chestnut gelding E.T. his greatest successes. With him he was able to win the World Cup finals again in 1996 and 1997, after he was victorious with Gladstone in 1979 .

His last great success at a championship, winning the silver medal at the European Championships in 1997, was overshadowed by investigations against Simon: According to the chief steward of the European Championships, there was a charge that Hugo Simon's employees had used a syringe in the ET box and tries to make them go away. The chief steward found the syringe, it was sent to a doping laboratory and doping proceedings were initiated against Simon. However, the proceedings remained inconclusive and were discontinued.

Hugo Simon's achievement lies not only in the individual successes, but also in the fact that he has consistently been among the world's best for almost thirty years. He is considered the oldest winner of Grand Prix in show jumping, most recently at the age of 73 he won the Grand Prix of a CSI 2 * tournament in Wiener Neustadt with Freddy . He already held this record at the age of 67 when he won the Grand Prix of the CSI 2 * in Offenburg at the beginning of February 2010 with Ukinda and repeated it several times with victories in the Grand Prix of international tournaments.

In 2015 and 2016, in addition to his now significantly reduced tournament starts, he held the position of advisor to the show jumping department in the Austrian Equestrian Federation for 16 months , from which he resigned in May 2016.

In October 2016, he finished his last start at an international tournament, a CSI 2 * in Wiener Neustadt - Arena Nova , with second place in the Grand Prix. He rode CT here . In the first quarter of 2017 he gave his two remaining competition horses, Freddy and CT , to other show jumpers.

Simon runs his own tournament and sales stable in Weisenheim am Sand . In addition to tournament sport, he worked as a real estate dealer.

Horses (selection)

  • Gladstone (* 1969; †?), Hanoverian stallion, father: Götz, mother's father: Weingau
  • The Freak (* 1976; †?), KWPN -Wallach, father: Lucky Boy xx, mother's father: Banko
  • Amaretto D (* 1982; †?), Bay Zweibrücken stallion, father: Alexis Z, mother's father: Gotthard
  • Apricot D (* 1984; † January 4, 2013), Zweibrücker gray gelding, father: Alexis
  • ET FRH (* 1987 - 4 January 2013), Hanoverian chestnut gelding, father: Espri, mother's father: Garibaldi II
  • Ukinda (* 1997), bay Belgian mare, father: Emilion, mother's father: Satanas de Vaux
  • CT (* 2004), original name: Catch me , Holstein chestnut stallion, father: Casall, mother's father: Claudio

successes

  • Olympic games
    • 1972 : 4th place individual with lavender
    • 1976 : 5th place individual and 11th place team with Lavender
    • 1984 : 22nd place individual with The Freak
    • 1988 : 37th place individual with Gipsy Lady
    • 1992 : 24th place individual and 2nd place team with Apricot D.
    • 1996 : 4th place individual and 11th place team with ET
    • At the replacement festival in Rotterdam 1980 : 1st place individual and 3rd place team with Gladstone
  • World championships
    • 1974, Hickstead: 3rd place single with lavender
    • 1978, Aachen: 17th place individual and 10th place team with Gladstone
    • 1982, Dublin: 18th place singles and 11th place team with Gladstone
    • 1986, Aachen: 6th place individual and 10th place team with The Freak
  • World Cup Finals
    • 1979: 1st place with Gladstone
    • 1980: 4th place
    • 1983: 2nd place with Gladstone
    • 1985: 5th place with The Freak
    • 1986: 6th place with The Freak
    • 1996: 1st place with ET
    • 1997: 1st place with ET
    • 1998: 8th place with ET
  • European championships
    • 1973, Hickstead: 4th place with Lavender
    • 1975, Munich: 4th place with lavender
    • 1977, Vienna: 10th place with Little One
    • 1979, Rotterdam: 3rd place with Gladstone
    • 1981, Munich: 12th place individual and 7th place team with Gladstone
    • 1983, Hickstead: 5th place singles and 6th place team with Gladstone
    • 1985, Dinard: 5th place individual and 6th place team with The Freak
    • 1987, St. Gallen: 34th place individual and 6th place team with winemaker
    • 1989, Rotterdam: 22nd place individual and 7th place team with winemaker
    • 1991, La Baule: 10th place team with Amaretto D.
    • 1993, Gijón: 5th place individual and 4th place team with Apricot D.
    • 1997, Mannheim: 2nd place individual and 7th place team with ET
  • CHIO Aachen : Grand Prize
    • 1996: 2nd place
    • 1998: 1st place (and thus victory in the Pulsar Crown, the most highly endowed trophy of international show jumping with 800,000 US dollars)
  • Austrian state championships
    • Champion in the years: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992
    • further placements (incomplete):
      • Third place: 2011 (with Ukinda )

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Hugo Simon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Visiting Hugo Simon, Interview, Equestrian Sports Association Rhineland-Palatinate eV (www.psvrp.de) ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Hugo Simon celebrated like a pop star , Dieter Ludwig on www.ludwigs-pferdewelten.de, December 20, 2009
  3. ^ The syringe in the stable of Hugo Simon , Cornelia Wumkes / Die Welt , September 2, 1997, accessed on March 11, 2017
  4. ^ "Hugo, Hugo" - 157 centimeters of flying energy , Cornelia Wumkes / Die Welt, March 11, 2001, accessed on March 11, 2017
  5. ↑ Hugo Simon has started in Dortmund for over 40 years , Wolfgang Bergs on www.ruhrnachrichten.de, March 19, 2010, accessed on April 1, 2010
  6. ↑ Hugo Simon Superstar with record victory in the Arena Nova , pferderevue.at, October 5, 2015
  7. ↑ World record for Hugo Simon ( memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), courier
  8. ↑ Hugo Simon resigns , Pferderevue, May 11, 2016, accessed on March 11, 2017
  9. ↑ Spectacular new addition to the Deuerer stable , Reiterjournal, February 14, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2017
  10. ↑ At the age of 74 now “retired”: Hugo Simon , globalquestriannews.com, March 6, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2017
  11. ↑ Hugo Simon in an interview: "If you let go, you've lost" , Der Standard , May 6, 2011
  12. ^ Descent from Gladstone
  13. ↑ Descent from The Freak
  14. ↑ FEI horse database: Amaretto D
  15. ↑ Descent from Amaretto DI
  16. ↑ FEI horse database: Apricot D
  17. ^ A b Say goodbye quietly: Hugo and Margit Simons horse stars ET FRH and Apricot D were put to sleep today ( memento from January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), reitsportnews.at, January 4, 2013
  18. ↑ FEI horse database: ET FRH
  19. ↑ FEI horse database: Ukinda
  20. ↑ FEI horse database: CT
  21. ↑ a b c d FEI athlete performance: Hugo Simon
  22. ↑ Hugo Simon received Gold Medal of Honor , Vorarlberger Nachrichten , September 19, 2016, accessed on March 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Krummwasser