Alexandra Simons-de Ridder

Alexandra Simons-de Ridder medal table
Dressage riding
Germany
Olympic games
gold	2000	Crew (with Chacomo )
European championships
gold	1999	Crew (with Chacomo )

Alexandra Simons-de Ridder (born October 29, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German dressage rider and team Olympic champion.

Private

Simons-de Ridder is married to the dressage trainer Antonie, called "Ton" de Ridder , with whom she has two daughters. Both Jill de Ridder (* 1992) and Julia de Ridder (* 1996) participated as dressage riders in the European Championships for Juniors and Young Riders: Jill de Ridder won an individual gold medal at the Junior European Championships in 2007, her sister Julia won team gold in 2014 at the European Championships. The family lives near Aachen .

Career

Alexandra Simons-de Ridder celebrated her greatest sporting successes around the year 2000. During this time, she won various Grand Prix level tests with Chacomo . In 1999 Simons-de Ridder and Chacomo came third in the World Cup finals for dressage riders and won the Great Dressage Prize in Aachen . As a result, she got the opportunity to start at the 1999 European Championships in Arnhem. Here she won the team gold medal with Chacomo . A year later she was part of the dressage Nations Cup team at the CHIO Aachen and was subsequently also nominated for the German Olympic team. Here she won the team gold medal with Chacomo in the German team and reached 16th place in the individual ranking.

Her successful horse Chacomo , a brown Holstein gelding (* 1989, † 2001, father: Calypso I, mother's father : Marmor) was withdrawn from the sport in 2001 due to an inoperable lung tumor, a few days later he had to be put down.

From 2004, Wellington , a brown Hanoverian gelding (* 1995, father: Wanderer, mother's father: Garibaldi II), was Alexandra Simons-de Ridder's most successful horse. With this she started mostly at national, but partly also at international dressage tournaments at Grand Prix level. In 2011, daughter Jill Wellington took over , who should enable him to transition to the Grand Prix level.

Best international results (since 2007)

• Grand Prix de Dressage:
  • 2007: 70.626% (2nd place at CDI 3 * La Mandria with Wellington )
  • 2008: 69.042% (3rd place at CDIO 2 * Saumur with Wellington )
  • 2009: 68.430% (1st place at CDI 3 * Máriakálnok with Wellington )
• Grand Prix Spécial:
  • 2007: 71,520% (3rd place at CDI 3 * Hagen with Wellington )
  • 2008: 69.240% (4th place at CDIO 2 * Saumur with Wellington )
  • 2009: 71.880% (1st place at CDI 3 * Máriakálnok with Wellington )

Web links

• Homepage
• Alexandra Simons-de Ridder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Equestrian Association : Star portrait Jill de Ridder ( Memento from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Successes of Alexandra Simons-de Ridder, website of the German Equestrian Association  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
3. ↑ About Alexandra Simons-de Ridder
4. ↑ Addio, Chacomo !, Sabine Becker-Stils in Rhineland's Rider - Horses  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
5. ↑ FEI horse database: Chacomo 3. Accessed April 3, 2020 . 
6. ^ FEI horse database: Wellington 209. Retrieved April 3, 2020 . 
7. ↑ "Riding once in Aachen yourself": Interview with Jill de Ridder , Aachener Zeitung , July 12, 2011
8. ↑ FEI Success Database Dressage. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .  ( english )