Bianca Vogel

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Bianca Vogel
medal table

Dressage riding

GermanyGermany Germany
Paralympic Games
silver 2004 Single compulsory grade 3
(with Roquefort )
silver 2004 Crew
(with Roquefort )
World Equestrian Games
gold 1991 Single duty
gold 1991 team
gold 1999 Single duty
(with gala tea )
gold 1999 Individual freestyle
(with gala tea )
gold 1999 Crew
(with gala tea )
German championships
bronze 2003 Single
(with Roquefort )
silver 2004 Single
(with Roquefort )
bronze 2009 Single
(with Roquefort )

Bianca Vogel (born February 24, 1961 ) is a former German dressage rider in equestrian sports for the disabled .

Life

Bianca Vogel was born as a Contergan child - without arms and with hip damage. At the age of ten she discovered her love for equestrian sports. She has been participating in riding tournaments since 1985 - also in normal competitions with non-disabled people. In 1991 she won gold in the individual and with the team at the first dressage world championships in disabled sports. 1994 saw participation in the third World Cup for disabled sports in England.

At the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, she finished with an 8th place in the freestyle. In 1999, at the World Dressage Championships in Denmark, she and her mare Galatee won gold twice in the compulsory and freestyle and silver with the team.

On January 14, 2000 in Trier she was the first disabled competitive athlete to be named Sportswoman of the Year for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate - after Heike Drechsler , the long jumper from Gera, and ahead of Steffi Jones from the women's Bundesliga club SC 07 Bad Neuenahr. Prime Minister Kurt Beck presented her with this award.

At the Summer Paralympics 2000 in Sydney , Bianca Vogel achieved tenth place in the freestyle and sixth place in the team classification.

At the 12th Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004, five riders from the German team for disabled sports dressage took part with their own horses. Day of the test, the horse had Fabiola by Hannelore Brenner a due Huflederhautentzündung out of the competition are taken. It was therefore not possible for her to start on her horse. The regulations still enabled her to ride the freestyle - but only on a horse from the German team. However, this horse could not come from a rider with the same degree of disability. Without further ado, Bianca Vogel made her horse Roquefort 16 available, although the horse then had to start five instead of four tests and be prepared for a different handicap. Hannelore Brenner even managed to win a silver medal in the freestyle with Roquefort 16 in her damage class. Bianca Vogel herself won two silver medals with Roquefort 16 . Bianca Vogel's horse proved its quality in disabled sports once again and was the most successful horse of the German team in the riding competitions of the Paralympics in Athens . Because of her sporty behavior, Bianca Vogel received the Fair Play Prize from the Federal Minister of the Interior at the "Paralympics Night" in Düsseldorf in October 2005 .

A good 20 years after her first success at a world championship, she ended her active sports career in May 2011.

Bianca Vogel has been working as an educator in a day-care center since 1987. She lives in Sinzig on the Middle Rhine .

Sporting successes

  • Paralympics
    • 2004: 1 × silver medal (individual competition (compulsory)), 1 × silver medal (team)
  • World championships
    • 1991: 1 × gold medal (individual competition (compulsory)), 1 × gold medal (team)
    • 1999: 2 × gold medals (individual competition (compulsory and freestyle)), 1 × silver medal (team)
  • German championships
    • 2003: 1 × bronze medal
    • 2004: 1 × silver medal
    • 2009: 1 × bronze medal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World champion Bianca Vogel said goodbye in Mannheim, May 11, 2011 ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Results Paralympics 2004
  3. ↑ a b c d e Successes on Bianca Vogel's website
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Bianca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1961