Alberto Michán Halbinger

Alberto Michán Halbinger
Alberto Michán Halbinger with Camilo la Silla , CSI 5 * Wiesbaden 2013
nation	Mexico
birthday	2nd December 1978
place of birth	Mexico city
size	1.72 m
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Show jumping
Medal table
Pan American Games bronze 2011 Guadalajara Team with Rosalia Central America and Caribbean Games gold 2006 Cartagena Team with Risque Tout silver 2010 Mayagüez Single with Rosalia silver 2010 Mayagüez Team with Rosalia
last change: January 2nd, 2018

Alberto Michán Halbinger (born December 2, 1978 in Mexico City ) is a show jumper. He competed for Mexico until the end of 2017, and has been for Israel since then .

In May 2013 he was number 128 in the world rankings.

Career

Alberto Michán Halbinger studied International Management at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey . After graduating, he worked in the textile industry.

Alberto Michán had contact with horses early on through his parents: his mother was a show jumper, his father competed as a charro at Charrerías. He himself started riding at the age of five. He started competition three years later - at his mother's request, not as a charro, but in the less dangerous show jumping. His younger brother Daniel Michán Halbinger is also active as a show jumper.

Alberto Michán was already the Mexican champion of his age group at the age of nine, and in 1996 he won the gold medal at the North American championships for young riders in show jumping.

In 2006 he took part in a World Cup final and the World Equestrian Games for the first time . In 2008 Michán began a long-term collaboration with Alfonso Romo , and he also rode his first Olympic Games.

Since 2011, Alberto Michán has no longer been doing the sport as a hobby, but as a professional rider. For this he first moved his residence to Europe. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he jumped to fifth place in the individual ranking in the saddle of Rosalia La Silla . With the Mexican team, he finished ninth. Shortly after the Olympic Games, the mare moved to Bassem Hassan Mohammed's stable .

Meanwhile in Wellington (Florida) in the stable of the US-Israeli rider Ilan Ferder, Michán changed his nationality in the sport at the turn of the year 2017/2018. He has been running for Israel since January 1, 2018. After Daniel Bluman, he is the second internationally successful Latin American show jumper to compete for Israel with a view to the 2020 Olympic Games.

Horses (excerpt)

• Rosalia La Silla (* 2001), Holsteiner , bay mare, father: Cassini I, mother's father: Contender, until September 2012, is now ridden by Bassem Hassan Mohammed .
• Lavita (* 1996), Holsteiner , brown mare, father: Coriano, mother's father: Cassini

successes

• Olympic Games :
  • 2008, Beijing : with Lavita 28th place in the individual and 9th place with the team
  • 2012, London : 5th place in the singles with Rosalia La Silla and 9th place with the team

• World Equestrian Games :
  • 2006, Aachen : with Lavita 67th place in the individual and 19th place with the team
  • 2014, Caen : with Carusso LS La Silla 63rd place in the individual and 22nd place with the team

• Pan American Games :
  • 2011, Guadalajara : 5th place in the singles with Rosalia La Silla and 3rd place with the team

• Central America and Caribbean Games :
  • 2006, Bogotá: with Risque Tout 15th place in the individual and 1st place with the team
  • 2010, Mayagüez : 2nd place in the singles with Rosalia La Silla and 2nd place with the team

Web links

Commons : Alberto Michán Halbinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alberto Michán. Sports Reference LLC, accessed June 6, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Alberto Michán Halbinger , globalchampionstour.com, accessed on January 2, 2018
2. ↑ FEI short biography: Alberto Michán Halbinger , accessed on January 2, 2018