Anky van Grunsven

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Anky van Grunsven (2008)

Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda van Grunsven (born January 2, 1968 in Erp ), generally known under the name Anky van Grunsven , is a Dutch dressage rider . She is also active as a rider in reining .

Career

Van Grunsven took part in the Olympic Games six times between 1988 and 2008 . In 1992 , 1996 , 2000 , 2004 and 2008 she won the silver medal with the Dutch dressage team. In the individual competition, she was runner-up in 1996 and Olympic champion at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Games. At the Olympic Games in 2012 she is again part of the Dutch team with Salinero .

With the Dutch team she came second in the team competition at the World Equestrian Games in 1994 , 1998 and 2006 and won gold in 1994 (together with Isabell Werth ) and silver in individual medals in 1998, and in 2006 the silver medal at the Grand Prix Spécial.

Her top horse was the gelding Bonfire until the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , which she then retired , as did Isabell Werth with her gigolo . In the 2000s her top horse was Salinero , who won the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens at the age of ten. With him she became World Cup winner in Las Vegas and European Champion 2005 in the singles in Hagen. At the same time, she made a decisive contribution to winning the silver medal behind Germany at the European Championship. For the last time van Grunsven used Salinero in the Olympic Games in 2012.

In mid-October 2009 she played her first international reining tournament. For the World Equestrian Games 2010 she was not nominated in dressage due to the sale of Painted Black and the injury of Salinero . In the reining competitions of the World Equestrian Games she reached eighth place with Whizashiningwalla BB with the Dutch team. She could not qualify for the individual final as 39th of the first qualification test of the individual evaluation.

At the end of 2012, Anky van Grunsven was the first female rider to be awarded the Fanny Blankers-Koen Carrièreprijs des Nederlands Olympisch Comité * Nederlandse Sport Federatie (NOC * NSF) for her life's work.

criticism

After her victory with the Dutch team at the CHIO in Aachen in 2005, van Grunsven was attacked in German specialist media because of her training methods, which were criticized as so-called "Rollkur" (hyperflexion).

At the end of August 2010, she found herself in the press again due to a lawsuit. The equestrian portal eurodressage.com published an article in February 2010 about a meeting of the FEI on the subject of hyperflexion. The article had a picture showing the head and neck of Anky van Grunsvens Salinero in an extremely tight, rolled-up position, the subtitle was Horse in the rollkur, hyperflexed position . Van Grunsven sued for the picture to be removed, as the publication would damage her. The editor-in-chief of the Internet portal described the lawsuit as an attack on freedom of the press. In a press release, she also quoted personally injurious e-mails that were said to have come from van Grunsven's husband, Sjef Janssen. At the beginning of September 2010, van Grunsven withdrew the lawsuit.

Private

Anky van Grunsven is married to the former national trainer of the Dutch dressage riders , Sjef Janssen, the son of the successful Dutch cyclist of the same name .

Sporting successes

Olympic games

  • Gold medal (individual): 2000 with Bonfire, 2004, 2008 with Salinero
  • Silver medal (team): 1992, 1996, 2000 with Bonfire, 2008 with Salinero
  • Silver medal (individual): 1996 with Bonfire
  • Bronze medal (team): 2012 with Salinero
  • 4th place (team): 2004 with Salinero

World championships

  • Gold medal (individual): 1994 (freestyle), 2006 (freestyle)
  • Silver medal (team): 1994, 1998, 2006
  • Silver medal (individual): 1998, 2006 (special)

European championships

  • Gold medal (team): 2007, 2009
  • Gold medal (individual): 1999, 2005
  • Silver medal (team): 1995, 1997, 1999, 2005
  • Silver medal (individual): 1997, 1997
  • Bronze medal (team): 1991

Reining:

  • Bronze medal (team): 2015

Dutch championships

  • Gold medal: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007
  • Silver medal: 2004 and 2012 on Salinero
  • Bronze medal: 2002 and 2006 on Salinero

Web links

Commons : Anky van Grunsven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salinero is officially adopted ( memento of the original from January 12, 2016 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. , Equestrian Sports International, 23 August 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psi-magazin.de
  2. ↑ Tomorrow Anky is riding her first CRI , equi-news.de, October 14, 2009
  3. ↑ Result lists dressage at the World Equestrian Games 2010 in the FEI results database
  4. ↑ Anky van Grunsven receives an award for her life's work . St. Georg, December 19, 2012
  5. ^ "Attack on freedom of the press": Anky van Grunsven sued Internet journalist , St. Georg , August 25, 2010
  6. ↑ Anky van Grunsven Sue's Eurodressage , eurodressage.com, August 24, 2010 (English)
  7. ↑ Anky van Grunsven sued the Eurodressage website ( memento of January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Dressur-Studien , September 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Grunsven, Anky van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grunsven, Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Veghel