David Will (show jumper)
David Will (born March 21, 1988 in Bavaria ) is a German show jumper .
Career
Will comes from a horse-loving family, his parents run the Gut Ising riding stable in Chiemgau . At the age of nine he began to ride regularly and left high school after the 10th grade to complete an apprenticeship as a rider . He started this in Munich and later moved to Dietmar Gugler's stable in Pfungstadt. After completing his apprenticeship, he went to the Bundeswehr sports school in Warendorf for a year . Then he returned to Gugler's stable.
He won his first advanced level jumping test in Mannheim in 2010. In 2011 he was the most successful rider of the tournament at the CHIO Rotterdam . In 2012 he won the Nations Cup in Wellington (Florida) in the saddle of Don CeSar with the German team . In November 2012, Will won the Grand Prix of the CSI 4 * tournament Munich Indoors with Colorit . He also achieved third place in the overall ratings of the Riders Tour 2012 and the Riders Tour 2015 .
In October 2017, Will left Dietmar Gugler's stable. At first he ran a training and tournament stable in Herford together with Andreas Kreuzer . He has been working independently in Marburg- Dagobertshausen since the beginning of 2019 . Will achieved his greatest single success in July 2019 when he won the King Georges V Gold Cup at the CSIO 5 * Hickstead .
In 2012 Will was a member of the German B2 squad for show jumping. In 2013 he was accepted into the B-squad, which he was a member until 2016. In the world rankings, he was 69th in January 2015.
Horses (excerpt)
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current:
- Spring Dark (* 2006), bay Selle Français mare, father: Jazz Band Courcelle, father of mother : Palestro II; before u. a. ridden by Markus Hauri, James Shore and Rolf-Göran Bengtsson
- Never Walk Alone (* 2010), bay Holstein gelding, father: Numero Uno, father of mother: Mytens xx; Ridden by Gerald Nothdurft until the beginning of June 2019
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former competition horses:
- Don CeSar (* 1997), Westphalian chestnut gelding, father: Drossan, father of mother: spring ball; last used in international sport in 2012
- Aperol (* 2000), Holstein chestnut stallion, father: Aloube Z, father of mother: Landgraf I; previously ridden by Angelica Augustsson and Lars Nieberg , later ridden by Sönke Rothenberger and Yves Houtackers
- Mic Mac du Tillard (* 2000), Selle Français chestnut mare, father: Cruising, father of mother : Galoubet A; was ridden by Angelica Augustsson until the end of 2013 , retired from the sport in summer 2017
- Colorit (* 2003), Württemberger gray stallion, father: Coriano, mother's father: Capitol; by the end of 2011 by Franz-Josef Dahlmann rode from beginning July 2015 Christian Ahlmann riding
- Chillert Blue (* 2008), bay Westphalian gelding, father: Chacco-Blue, father of mother: Polydor; Ridden by Matthis Westendarp since June 2018
successes
- 2012: 6th place in the Grand Prix of Hagen aTW (CSI 4 *) with Colorit , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Mannheim (CSI 3 *) with Colorit , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Munich
- 2013: 1st place in the World Cup competition in 's-Hertogenbosch (CSI 5 * -W) with Colorit , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Kakegawa Tsumagoi (CSI 3 *) with Bolleke van het Heike , 1st place in the Badenia (CSI 3 * Mannheim) with Colorit
- 2014: 4th place in the Grand Prix of Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Boll (CSI 2 *) with High Voltage
- 2015: 1st place in the Hagen aTW Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Colorit , 1st place in the Šamorín Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 2nd place in the Odense Grand Prix (CSI 3 *) ) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 1st place in the Munich Indoors Grand Prix (CSI 3 *) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 3rd place in the Salzburg Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Mic Mac du Tillard
- 2016: 1st place in the World Cup competition in al-Ain (CSI 3 * -W) with Mic Mac du Tillard
- 2017: 1st place in the World Cup competition in Abu Dhabi (CSI 3 * -W) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 4th place in the World Cup competition in al-Ain (CSI 3 * -W) with Mic Mac du Tillard , 2nd place in the large Prize of Sharjah (CSI 2 *) with Cento du Rouet , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Damme (CSI 2 *) with Chillert Blue and 4th place with the German team in the Nations Cup of al-Ain (CSIO 5 *) with Monodie H
- 2018: 3rd place in the Grand Prix of a CSI 3 * in Vilamoura with Chillert Blue , 1st place in the Grand Prix of a CSI 2 * in Oliva with Forest Gump
- 2019: 1st place in the Grand Prix of Redefin (CSI 3 *) with Spring Dark , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Dettighofen-Albführung (CSI 3 *) with Spring Dark , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Jakubowice (CSI 3 * ) with Never Walk Alone , 1st place in the King Georges V Gold Cup ( CSIO 5 * Hickstead ) with Never Walk Alone , two victories in CSI 2 * Grand Prix in Grimaud with Perry
(As of October 13, 2019)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The riding school team , Gut Ising riding school
- ↑ David Will's strength from Pfungstadt is calm ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Andrea Stütz / echo-online.de, May 9, 2012
- ^ German national team rides to victory in Florida , Rhein-Zeitung , March 3, 2012
- ↑ a b Pfungstädter David Will takes over a show jumping stables in Lower Saxony , Katja Sturm / Darmstädter Echo , December 22, 2017
- ↑ Groß-Viegen: David Will and Spring Dark put an exclamation mark , Stephanie Sieckmann / grandprix-replay.com, May 11, 2019
- ^ The squad of show jumpers in the 2016 Olympic year , St. Georg, January 26, 2016
- ↑ FEI world rankings show jumping
- ↑ FEI horse database: Spring Dark
- ↑ FEI horse database: Never Walk Alone
- ^ FEI horse database: Don CeSar
- ↑ FEI horse database: Aperol 4
- ^ FEI horse database: Mic Mac du Tillard
- ↑ FEI horse database: Colorit
- ↑ FEI horse database: Chillert Blue
- ^ David Will in the FEI results database
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Will, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German show jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bavaria |