Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum
| Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum medal table |
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 Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum at the German Classics 2005 in Hanover |
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| World Equestrian Games | ||
| bronze | 2006 Aachen | Show jumping (team) |
| bronze | 2006 Aachen | Show jumping (individual) |
| gold | 2010 Lexington | Show jumping (team) |
| European championships | ||
| gold | 1999 Hickstead | Show jumping (team) |
| gold | 2005 San Patrignano | Show jumping (team) |
| silver | 2007 Mannheim | Show jumping (team) |
| gold | 2007 Mannheim | Show jumping (individual) |
| silver | 2015 Aachen | Show jumping (team) |
| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Show jumping (team) |
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (born December 26, 1969 in Los Angeles , California ) is a German-American show jumper . The four-time German champion has won four gold medals at the World Equestrian Games and the European Championships and a bronze medal with the team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
Family and education
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum is the daughter of the director Richard Michaels and the actress Kristina Hansen. She learned to ride at the age of seven. She studied political science at Princeton University before coming to Germany in 1991 for riding training with Paul Schockemöhle . On June 5, 1998 she married the show jumper Markus Beerbaum and four weeks later she took on German citizenship. Their daughter Brianne Victoria was born on February 27, 2010.
Athletic career
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum had her international breakthrough with the only 1.59 m tall stallion Quick Star , who died at the age of 29 at the end of August 2011. With this she won both her first Grand Prix (1989 in Wellington (Florida) ) and later international Grand Prix in Europe. In 1999 she was the first woman to be nominated for a German championship team. With her then top horse Stella , she won the gold medal as the best German participant with her team at the European Championships in Hickstead. She was also the first woman to top the world rankings for show jumpers (December 2004). She came in 2004 into the headlines when, shortly before the Olympic Games in Athens with her horse Shutterfly in the B-samples during the World Cup Final in Milan remains of a sedative were found and it was therefore not nominated for the Games. In November 2005 she was acquitted. Then her great sporting triumph began: in 2006 she was the first woman to be a member of a German jumping team in the team jumping of a world championship , where she won the bronze medal with the team. She was the only member of the German team to make it into the finals of the best four riders with horse change. There she presented a faultless lap on all horses, but then had a drop in the jump-off for the medals with her nervous horse Shutterfly and thus won the bronze medal.
She celebrated her greatest individual success to date on August 19, 2007, when she won the gold medal in the individual competition with Shutterfly at the European Championships in Mannheim after silver in the team competition.
In September 2009 Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum interrupted her athletic career due to her pregnancy. In mid-April 2010 the FEI decided to change the world rankings regulations. Michaels-Beerbaum, who was the first to benefit from this regulation, no longer lost all world ranking points that are older than a year during the pregnancy break, but kept them to 50%. In April 2010 she moved from 31st to 20th in the world rankings. Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum decided not to take part in the World Cup finals in mid-April 2010 because, after the pregnancy break, she did not feel in the right shape for an event with correspondingly strong competition. Instead, she started at a national tournament and celebrated her international comeback by winning the Hagen aTW Grand Prix (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 she retired her successful horse Shutterfly from the sport in 2011 , she devoted herself more and more to introducing her young horses to international competition.
After a third place in the Grand Prix of Aachen with her nine-year-old mare Bella Donna , she was nominated as a substitute rider for the 2012 Olympic Games . One week before the games, Philipp Weishaupt's horse Monte Bellini was canceled due to illness, and then Michaels-Beerbaum and Bella Donna joined the team.
While her top horse Bella Donna was sold at the beginning of 2014 , her sponsors bought the 9-year-old gelding Fibonacci , which Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum built as her new champion horse. With Atlanta and Fibonacci , Michaels-Beerbaum was on the longlist for the 2014 World Equestrian Games , but was ultimately not nominated. In the following year, however, she was able to convince the jumping committee with her performance and was nominated with Fibonacci for the European Championships in Aachen , where she won the silver medal with the team. Also in 2015 she was part of the German team at the Nations Cup finals in Barcelona with Fibonacci .
In mid-June 2016, the longlist for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was drawn up, on which Michaels-Beerbaum and Fibonacci belonged to the group of five riders who had the best prospects of participating in the Olympics. At the CHIO Aachen she was part of the victorious Nations Cup team, but with Fibonacci she was only selected as a substitute rider for the Olympic Games. A few weeks after Aachen she was part of the Nations Cup team in Hickstead , where she helped Germany win with two faultless rides. This victory secured the remaining in the Europa League 1.
In July 2016 she was ranked 21st in the show jumping world rankings.
On 17 August 2016 she won her first Olympic medal: After the horse Cornado by Marcus Ehning had represented in training, Michaels-Beerbaum moved, and took along with Daniel Deußer , Christian Ahlmann and her brother Ludger Beerbaum bronze in the jump-off against the Canadian team.
successes
- Olympic games:
- 2008 in Hong Kong : 4th place individual on Shutterfly
- 2012 in London : 10th place team, 23rd place individual on Bella Donna
- 2016 in Rio de Janeiro : bronze medal team on Fibonacci
- World Equestrian Games:
- 2006 in Aachen : bronze medal team, bronze medal individual on Shutterfly
- 2010 Lexington : 30th place singles and gold medal team on Checkmate
- European Championships:
- 1999: in Hickstead : 9th place individual and gold medal team on Stella
- 2005: in San Patrignano : 9th place individual and gold medal team on Checkmate
- 2007: in Mannheim : gold medal individual and silver medal in the team competition on Shutterfly
- 2009: in Mannheim : 9th place individual and bronze medal in the team competition on Checkmate
- 2015 in Aachen : 8th place individual and silver medal in the team classification on Fibonacci
- World Cup Finals:
- 2004: in Milan : 2nd place on Shutterfly
- 2005: in Las Vegas : 1st place on Shutterfly
- 2008: in Gothenburg : 1st place on Shutterfly
- 2009: in Las Vegas : 1st place on Shutterfly
- German championships:
- 1998: Bronze in the women's ranking
- 1999: Gold in the women's ranking
- 2001: Gold in the women’s ranking on Shutterfly
- 2002: Silver in the women's ranking and 5th place in the men's ranking
- 2004: 4th place in the women's ranking and bronze in the men's ranking
- 2005: 4th place in the men's ranking
- 2008: Gold in the men's ranking on Checkmate
- 2010: Gold in the men's classification at Checkmate and silver in the women’s classification at Le Mans
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Riders Tour overall ranking (Rider of the Year)
- 2001: 3rd place Goldzack Riders Tour
- 2002: 3rd place overall Riders Tour ranking
- 2004: 1st place overall Riders Tour ranking
- 2005: 1st place overall Riders Tour ranking
- 2006: 2nd place overall Riders Tour ranking
- 2007: 1st place overall Riders Tour ranking
- 2013 : 4th place overall Riders Tour ranking
- Further:
- 1 × winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen (2005 on Shutterfly )
- 2 × winner in the top ten final, testing of the 10 best riders in the world rankings, in Geneva (2004, 2006 on Shutterfly )
- 1 × winner of the European Prize (2011 on Shutterfly )
- 1 × winner of the Thermal $ 1 Million Grand Prix (2013 on Bella Donna )
- Awards:
Horses (excerpt)
Current
- Malou (* 2004), gray mare, Swedish warmblood (father: Maloubet de Pleville, mother-father : Carthago)
- Unbelievable (* 2001), brown KWPN- Wallach (father: Manhattan, mother-father: Democraat)
Former sport horses
- Quick Star (* 1982; † 2011), stallion, Selle Français (father: Galoubet A, mother: Stella v. Nithard), laterriddenby Nick Skelton
- Stella (* 1989), dark brown mare, American warmblood (father: Quick Star, mother-father : Wilson), retired from the sport
- Shutterfly (* 1993), dark brown Hanoverian gelding (father: Silvio I, mother-father: Forest xx), retired from the sport at the 2011 CHIO Aachen after winning the "European Prize"
- Checkmate (* 1995), dark brown Hanoverian gelding (father: Contender, mother-father: Pik Bube II)
- Le Mans (* 1995), chestnut gelding, Zweibrücker warmblood (father: Leubus, mother-father: Landadel)
- Kismet (* 2001, original name: Benedicte), dark chestnut mare , Belgian warmblood (father: Kannan, mother-father: Furioso II ), ridden by Raymond Texel from 2012
- Bella Donna (* 2003), dark bay Holstein mare (father: Baldini II, mother-father: Calido I), sold to Qatar in early 2014
- Fibonacci (* 2005, original name: Fendi ), Swedish warmblood gray gelding (father: For Feeling, mother-father: Corland); Ridden by Stephanie Holmén and Lisen Fredricson until April 2014, ridden by Lillie Keenan from April 2017
Political commitment
In December 2009 Michaels-Beerbaum became active as a testimonial for the economic liberal initiative New Social Market Economy . She got involved in a PR campaign for the statement "Social market economy makes it better ... because it enables great leaps with commitment and fair play."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait: Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on ndr.de
- ↑ Mercedes Benz Reiterforum 2012 with Meredith Michaels Beerbaum & Christopfh Koschel. April 12, 2010, accessed December 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Editor: Meredith renounces World Cup - St.GEORG. In: st-georg.de. April 7, 2010, accessed November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Final result of the Hagen Grand Prix aTW 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jump: Monte Bellini falls out of London , Press release of the German Equestrian Federation , July 20, 2012 found.
- ↑ World Equestrian Games: Longlist jumping set up , Susanne Hennig / Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, July 22, 2014
- ↑ Rio 2016: Longlist jumping and CHIO team named , Julia Basic / Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, June 17, 2016
- ↑ Olympia: Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum travels as a reservist to Rio , St. Georg , July 19, 2016
- ↑ current FEI world ranking list show jumping
- ↑ http://eventcontent.hippoonline.de/312/docs/reiter.pdf
- ↑ Final ranking of the German Show Jumping Championship 2010
- ↑ German Show Jumping Championship 2010 (PDF; 108 kB)
- ↑ Quick Star is dead , St. Georg, August 29, 2011
- ↑ Bye Bye, Shutterfly! , St. Georg, July 17, 2011
- ↑ Le Mans 8 ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FRA40643 - KISMET 50 (USA) ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), worldofshowjumping.com, January 18, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum sells mare Bella Donna to Qatar ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cavallo, January 13, 2014
- ^ FEI horse database: Fibonacci 17
- ↑ Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum sells Fibonacci , St. Georg, April 5, 2017
Web links
- official homepage
- Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Michaels-Beerbaum, Meredith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German show jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |