Andreas Dibowski

Andreas Dibowski with FRH Butts Leon , German Champion 2013

Andreas Dibowski (born March 29, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German eventing rider .

Career and successes

Winner of the CCI 4 * Luhmühlen 2011: Andreas Dibowski and Butts Leon

In October 1975 Dibowski's family moved from Hamburg to Wohlesbostel . His parents wanted to give him and his sister the opportunity to live out their love of animals and nature in the appropriate environment. Dibowski received his first pony in the spring of 1976. With this he competed in the first rural tournaments in the area. Three years later he received his equestrian training in jumping and dressage from Uwe Wichmann in Harburg .

In 1982 he received his first large horse, and a year later he decided to go into eventing. From 1984 to 1987 he trained as a horse manager at the Lower Saxony state riding school in Hoya . In 1988/89 in Sacramento , further training in show jumping with Rudy Leone followed. For the first time he became Lower Saxony State Champion and started at a CCI.

Dibowski has been a master horse manager since 1990 . In 1993 he achieved his first international success as runner-up at the CCI in Falsterbo . In 1995 Dibowski became vice European champion of rural riders on Goldika and European champion with the team in Holziken . Since 1997 he has been running his own all-round riding stable at the Irenenhof stud farm in Döhle . In the same year he was at the European Championships in Burghley House with Andora eleventh.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Dibowski finished fourth with the team with Leonas Dancer . He also reached second place in the FEI world rankings in 2000. A year later he reached fifth place with Ginger at the European Championships in Pau . Outstanding result in 2002 was second place in the World Cup ranking. He also started with Leonas Dancer at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez .

In 2004 Dibowski was able to take part in the Olympic Games for the second time with Little Lemon in Athens . Due to the entanglements around Bettina Hoy , he did not win the gold medal achieved in the team competition, but missed a medal again in fourth place. In the individual competition he was thirteenth. Despite the revoked gold medal, the team including Dibowski was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Horst Köhler the following year . In 2005 he reached seventh place with Serve Well at the European Championships in Blenheim and finished sixth in the FEI world rankings.

In 2008 Dibowski started with Butts Leon for the third time at the Olympic Games . He was a replacement for Bettina Hoy , whose horse was injured. On August 12, 2008 Dibowski was in eventing at the Olympic Games in Beijing together with Ingrid Klimke , Hinrich Romeike , Peter Thomsen and Frank Ostholt Olympic champion with the team.

In 2009 he won the CICO *** of the CHIO Aachen with the Hanoverian mare FRH Serve Well .

At the World Equestrian Games in 2010 he was fifth with the team and 46th in the individual with Butts Leon . At the end of 2010 he won the FRH Fantasia CCI 4 * test in Pau, followed in June 2011 with Butts Leon, his first victory in the CCI 4 * in Luhmühlen . At the European Championships in 2011 he was part of the German team that won the team gold medal, he himself was eliminated with FRH Fantasia in the field due to a fall.

Dibowski did not take part in the 2012 Summer Olympics after his pointed horse Butts Leon was sold to Nina Ligon , who started for Thailand, at the end of 2011 . After the horse was up for sale again a year later, the DOKR event chairman , Holger Heigel, bought Butts Leon and made it available to Dibowski again. In 2013 Andreas Dibowski was again part of the German gold team at the European Championships with Butts Avedon , in the individual ranking he came in 16th place. A few weeks later he became German champion for the first time with Butts Leon .

In 2014 Dibowski was a member of the victorious Nations Cup teams in Malmö and Waregem , and a year later the German team won with his participation in Waregem . In June 2016 he won the CCI 4 * Luhmühlen with It's Me xx , for the thoroughbred this was only the third start in a 4 * event.

For the first time since 2013, Dibowski was part of the German championship team at the 2018 World Equestrian Games . The German professional equestrian championship eventing, held as part of the CCI4 * -S Marbach, was won by Andreas Dibowski for the first time in May 2019. There he rode the mare FRH Corrida .

From June to August 2010 he held first place in the world rankings.

Horses

Andreas Dibowski and FRH Fantasia , dressage test at the CIC 3 * Wiesbaden 2013

Current

• FRH Butts Avedon (* 2003), Hanoverian Rapp-Wallach, father: Heraldik xx, mother's father: Kronenkranich xx, breeder: Friedrich Butt
• It's Me xx (* 2004), brown English thoroughbred gelding, father: Kahyasi xx, mother's father: Local Suitor xx
• FRH Corrida (* 2009), dark bay Hanoverian mare, father: Contendro I, mother's father: Espri

Former

• FRH Butts Leon (* 1997), bay Hanoverian gelding, father: Heraldik xx, mother's father : Star Regent xx, breeder: Friedrich Butt; Owners: Susanne and Holger Heigel, ridden by Nina Ligon from the end of 2011 to 2012 , last used in international sport in 2013
• FRH Fantasia (* 2000), dark bay Hanoverian mare, father: Federweisser, mother's father: Quasi Roi; Sold to South Korea in 2014 and ridden by Sangwuk Song
• FRH Serve Well (* 1994), bay Hanoverian mare, father: Sherlock Holmes, mother's father: Warkant, last used in international sport in 2009
• FRH Little Lemon (* 1991), bay Hanoverian gelding, father: Lemon xx, mother's father: Pokal, last used in international sport in 2008
• FRH Leonas Dancer (* 1991), bay Hanoverian gelding, father: Solo Dancer xx, mother's father: Basalt xx, was ridden by Nico Sitzer from 2007

Web links

Commons : Andreas Dibowski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Andreas Dibowski

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Old photos and their story: "Dibo" on a cow! ( Memento of July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Harburger Ads and News , July 5, 2011
2. ↑ Minister of Sport Dr. Schäuble honors 154 athletes with the “Silver Laurel Leaf”. Federal Ministry of the Interior, December 7, 2005, accessed on February 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ http://results.chioaachen.de/result09/EVE-R.pdf
4. ↑ Andreas Dibowski - not Michael Jung German champion of professionals , Michaela Weber-Herrmann / ludwigs-pferdewelten.de, May 12, 2019
5. ↑ current and previous world rankings for versatility
6. ↑ FEI horse database: FRH Butts Avedon
7. ↑ FEI horse database: It's Me xx
8. ^ FEI horse database: FRH Corrida
9. ^ FEI horse database: FRH Butts Leon
10. ^ FEI horse database: FRH Fantasia
11. ↑ FEI horse database: FRH Serve Well
12. ↑ FEI horse database: FRH Little Lemon
13. ^ FEI horse database: FRH Leonas Dancer