Beezie Madden

Beezie Madden at the Hong Kong Olympic Awards Ceremony, 2008

Beezie Madden with Onlight

Elizabeth "Beezie" Madden , born in Elizabeth Patton, (born November 20, 1963 in Milwaukee ) is an American show jumper .

Career

Beezie Madden's parents owned horses and she had her first pony at the age of six.

In 2002 she first took part in an international championship, the World Equestrian Games , for the United States. Since then, Madden has been part of the US team at almost every international championship, including several World Cup finals . Madden was the first rider to make it into the top three of the world rankings in 2004.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , she played a key role in ensuring that the US team won the gold medal.

At the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen she was one of the top favorites with Authentic and was flawless until the qualifying competition of the best 25 riders, which continued in the final of the best four riders with swapped horses. Only in the jump-off did she make a mistake on the last obstacle when she wanted to beat the time of the Belgian rider Jos Lansink . A year later she took first place at the CHIO Aachen 2007, the world equestrian festival, at the Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics , she won the team gold medal with Authentic as part of the US team and the bronze medal in the individual standings. At the Pan American Games in 2011 she won team gold and narrowly missed the individual gold medal due to a time penalty in the last round.

In April 2013 Madden secured another great individual success when she and Simon won the World Cup finals in Gothenburg . Madden was able to repeat this success in 2018 with the gelding Simon .

The 2014 World Equestrian Games were just as successful as those eight years before: In Caen, she won the bronze medal in individual and team competitions with Cortes'C ' . At her fourth Olympic Games in 2016, she won the silver medal with the team. Beezie Madden also won bronze medals in both ratings at the 2019 Pan American Games .

In August 2015 she was in second place in the show jumping world rankings.

In 1998 she married John Madden, who is also her trainer. Both live in Cazenovia in New York State .

Awards

In 1989, it was the United States Olympic Committee as the Rider of the Year ( Female Equestrian of the Year Award).

She received the cross-gender title USA's Equestrian of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2013 .

Horses

Current

Breitling LS (* 2006, original name: Quebracho LS), dark bay stallion from Studbook La Silla, father: Quintero, mother's father : Acord II
Darry Lou (* 2008), KWPN chestnut stallion, father: Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve, mother's father: Nabab de Reve

Former sport horses

Judgment (* 1991), KWPN black stallion, father: Consul, mother's father: actor, retired from sport
Conquest II (* 1991), KWPN chestnut stallion, father: Concorde, mother's father: Ulft
Authentic (* 1995, original name: Nimrod), bay KWPN gelding, father: Guidam, mother's father: Katell, retired from the sport in 2013
Coral Reef Via Volo (* 1998, original name: Via Volo van de Molendreef), bay Belgian warmblood mare, father: Clinton, mother's father: Heartbreaker
Simon (* 1999), bay KWPN gelding, father: Mr. Blue, mother's father: Polydox, ridden by Jeroen Dubbeldam until autumn 2011
Danny Boy (* 2000), bay Belgian warmblood gelding, father: Clinton, mother's father: Alexis Z

successes

Beezie Madden with Authentic , 2008 Summer Olympics

Summer Olympics :
- 2004, Athens : with Authentic 1st place with the team and 28th place in the individual ranking
- 2008, Hong Kong : with Authentic 1st place with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
- 2012, London : 6th place with the team with Via Volo
- 2016, Rio de Janeiro : with Cortes'C ' 2nd place with the team and 46th place in the individual ranking
World Equestrian Games :
- 2002 Jerez de la Frontera with Judgment 6th place with the team and 29th place in the individual standings
- 2006, Aachen : with Authentic 2nd place with the team and 2nd place in the individual ranking
- 2014, Caen : with Cortes'C ' 3rd place with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
Pan American Games :
- 2003, Santo Domingo : with Conquest II 1st place with the team and 34th place in the individual ranking
- 2011, Guadalajara : with Via Volo 1st place with the team and 2nd place in the individual ranking
- 2019, Lima : 3rd place with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking with Breitling
World Cup Finals :
- 1993, Gothenburg: 5th place
- 2003, Las Vegas: 30th place with judgment
- 2006, Kuala Lumpur: 13th place with judgment
- 2007, Las Vegas: with Authentic 39th place
- 2009, Las Vegas: 12th place with Danny Boy
- 2013, Gothenburg : 1st place with Simon
- 2014, Lyon : 7th place with Simon
- 2018, Paris: 1st place with Breitling