Alwin Schockemöhle

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Alwin Schockemöhle on Wei , 1972
Alwin Schockemöhle looking to the future in a power jump , Wilhelmshaven, around 1965

Alwin Schockemöhle (born May 29, 1937 in Meppen ) is a former German show jumper . He was a successful international show jumper in the 1960s and 1970s with individual and team successes at the Olympic Games and European Championships . Paul Schockemöhle is his youngest brother and Werner Schockemöhle is his younger brother.

biography

After initial success in eventing , in which he qualified for the Olympic Games in 1956 but was not nominated for the squad, Schockemöhle switched to the show jumping camp. Here he won his first Olympic gold medal in Rome in 1960 with the team at the side of Hans Günter Winkler and Fritz Thiedemann . 1968 in Mexico City followed a bronze medal , also with the team.

Until his success at the European Championships in 1975, he was also called the "Champion without a title", as he had not won a significant individual title until then. At the 1976 Olympic Games , Alwin Schockemöhle was still an individual Olympic champion and won a silver medal with the team.

He ended his career as an active rider in 1977 because of persistent back problems. However, he continued to work for equestrian sports as a trainer and instructor. Many riders of the show jumping sport who became famous later were discovered or promoted by him, for example Gerd Wiltfang , Franke Sloothaak , Thomas Frühmann , Ulrich Kirchhoff or Johan Heins from the Netherlands. Schockemöhle resigned from his position as head of the German show jumping team in 1980 after the German riders accused him of preferring his students.

From then on he devoted himself to trotting , where his horses enjoyed great success. Here he became one of the most successful trotter breeders in Europe. His stallion Abano AS won the Prix d'Amerique in Paris in 2003, the most valuable test in harness racing. His stallion Diamond Way is the most successful sire in European trotting.

In 1993 he was a partner in 17 companies, including a welded wire mesh factory.

In 1977 Alwin Schockemöhle received the Golden Ring of the Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein eV In 2004 he was named one of the 100 best German athletes.

A life-size bronze statue of the jumping horse Warwick Rex (* 1966) has stood on Europaplatz in downtown Vechta since 1981. The Hanoverian gelding was a former world class jumping horse owned by Alwin Schockemöhle and reminds in Vechta that the town is a traditional center of German horse breeding and German equestrian sport. The statue was made by the Munich artist Heinrich Faltermeier.

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the gallery of honor of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. In July 2016 he was named a member of the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

successes

  • Olympic games
  • European Championship:
    • 1963 in Rome bronze medal team, silver medal individual on Ferdl and Freiherr
    • 1965 in Aachen : Individual bronze medal for Freiherr
    • 1967 in Rotterdam : bronze medal singles on Donald Rex and Pesgö
    • 1969 in Hickstead : Silver medal singles on Donald Rex and pennants
    • 1973 in Hickstead: Silver medal singles on Rex the Robber and Weiler
    • 1975 in Munich : Gold medal team, gold medal individual on Warwick Rex
  • Further:

Awards

Web links

Commons : Alwin Schockemöhle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from May 26, 1993, p. 55.
  2. message 24 05 2016. In: www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
  3. Database on the homepage of the IOC May 2006
  4. www.sport-komplett.de May 2006
  5. ^ Winner list CHIO Aachen May 2006