Claus Erhorn

Claus Erhorn (born January 18, 1959 in Hamburg-Harburg ) is a former German eventing rider .

Erhorn started riding at the age of twelve and quickly specialized in eventing. 1983 Erhorn was German champion with Fair Lady and sixth at the European championship . In 1984 Erhorn qualified fourth in the German championship for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the Olympic competition Erhorn finished 16th with 80 points. In the team classification he won bronze together with Dietmar Hogrefe , Bettina Overesch and Burkhard Tesdorpf , whereby Tesdorpf did not make it into the team classification as 39th of the individual classification. After being bronze at the 1985 European Championship, Erhorn finished sixth in the 1986 World Championship with Fair Lady .

In 1987 Erhorn rode his new horse Justyn Thyme and was third in the European Championship, with the team he won the silver medal. Erhorn celebrated his greatest success at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . There Erhorn finished fourth in the individual ranking after showing a safety ride in the final show jumping. By foregoing the chance of an individual medal, Erhorn avoided any risk to the team ranking. The German team competed in Seoul with Claus Erhorn, Matthias Baumann , Ralf Ehrenbrink and Thies Kaspareit . While Ehrenbrink was disqualified, Erhorn, Baumann and Kaspareit won the gold medal and received the silver laurel leaf for this victory.

After Erhorn had finished third in the German Championship in 1991, he was nominated as a substitute rider for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , but was not used there. The trained equestrian has been working as a trainer since the end of his active career.

Erhorn set a special sign of fairness in 1982 when he made Fair Lady available to the Danish European champion from 1979 Nils Haagensen for the world championship when he was suddenly without a horse.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1988