Edward Gal
| Edward Gal medal table |
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 Edward Gal with Gribaldi , 2007 World Cup Finals, Las Vegas |
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 Netherlands
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| World championships | ||
| silver | 2006 | Crew (with Lingh ) |
| gold | 2010 | Crew (with totilas ) |
| gold | 2010 |
Singles, GP Spécial (with Totilas ) |
| gold | 2010 |
Individual, GP freestyle (with Totilas ) |
| European championships | ||
| silver | 2005 | Crew (with Lingh ) |
| silver | 2009 | Singles, GP Spécial (with Totilas ) |
| gold | 2009 | Individual, GP freestyle (with Totilas ) |
| gold | 2009 | Crew (with totilas ) |
| silver | 2013 | Team (with undercover ) |
| Dutch championship | ||
| gold | 2004 | Single (with Lingh ) |
| gold | 2009 | Single (with totilas ) |
| gold | 2010 | Single (with totilas ) |
| silver | 2011 | Singles (with Sisther de Jeu ) |
| gold | 2012 | Single (with undercover ) |
| gold | 2013 | Single (with undercover ) |
| gold | 2014 | Single (with undercover ) |
Edward Gal (born March 4, 1970 in Rheden ) is a Dutch dressage rider.
Gal led the FEI world rankings with Totilas in June 2011 , several months after the sale of Totilas. In October 2013 he was fourth in the world rankings with Undercover , with three other horses he was also in this rankings.
Career
Edward Gal was the son of a car dealer in Rheden in Dutch born Gelderland. His family said he had never had anything to do with horses, but he still wanted to ride, which he did at the age of fourteen. At the age of 17 he got his first pony and from then on concentrated on dressage riding.
After graduating from school, he began to study economics , but gave up after a year in favor of riding. In the mid-1990s he achieved fourth place with cappuccino in the “PAVO Cup”, the Dutch championship for young dressage horses. He also won the Dutch championships with cappuccino (medium grade ). In 1999 and 2001 he won four silver medals at the various levels of the Dutch championships. In 1999 he also took his first international exam in Nunspeet, the Netherlands . In 2002 he won the championship title in the easy tour of the Dutch championships with Lingh .
The breakthrough in Gal's career came in 2003. He won several tests with Lingh and was subsequently included in the Dutch championship squad. This year he was part of a Dutch team at an international championship for the first time and reached 4th place with the Dutch team at the European Championships in Hickstead. In the individual ranking he reached 29th place with Lingh . In the following winter he reached the second place with Lingh at the World Cup finals in Düsseldorf 2004. That year he was the first Dutch champion of the seniors (with Lingh ).
In the summer of 2004 he was scheduled for the Dutch Olympic team, but Lingh was injured shortly before. At the World Cup finals in Las Vegas in early 2005, he was able to defend second place with Lingh . At the European Championships in 2005 in Hagen , he was second with Lingh in the team classification as part of the Dutch team, and fourth in the individual classification.
In November 2006 Lingh (previously owned by a Dutch industrialist) was sold to an American dressage rider. As a result, he concentrated next to his horse Gribaldi on his young horses and presented Next One and Sisther de Jeu at Grand Prix level.
In the summer of 2009 he beat Anky van Grunsven , who together with Isabell Werth largely dominated the international dressage competitions until 2008, at the Dutch championships. With the then nine-year-old stallion Totilas , who was described as the new “wonder horse”, he won this with an average of 81.394%. At the European Championships in 2009, Gal and Totilas won the gold medal with the team and the silver medal in the Grand Prix Spécial. In the Grand Prix Freestyle they also achieved the gold medal, with a result of 84.085% in the Grand Prix de Dressage and a result of 90.750% in the Grand Prix Freestyle , they set two world records.
On December 16, 2009, Gal topped his own world record with Totilas when he won the World Cup Freestyle in London-Olympia Hall with 92.300%. In addition, at the end of March 2010 he won the World Cup final for dressage riders and in May 2010 the rider classification of the World Dressage Masters 2009/10. Gal also defended the Dutch championship title in 2010 with Totilas . Gal and Totilas set a third world record at the CHIO Aachen . Here they won the Grand Prix Spécial des CDIO 5 * with 86.458%
At the 2010 World Equestrian Games , Edward Gal and Totilas won gold with the Netherlands in the team competition and gold in the individual competition in the Grand Prix Spécial and in the Grand Prix Freestyle.
Also another medalist dressage competitions at the World Equestrian Games in 2010 comes from the stable of Edward Gal: Ravel, the horse who was born in Wesel and emigrated to the US rider Steffen Peters was before it bought Peters sponsors of Edward Gal to St. George presented and prepared for his first appearances at Grand Prix level.
After the World Equestrian Games in 2010, Totilas was sold by Gal's sponsors. At the 2011 World Cup finals , he finished fourth with Sisther de Jeu . With the same horse he finished second at the 2011 Dutch Championships. In June 2012 Gal became Dutch dressage champion with his new horse Undercover , in March 2013 he became Dutch indoor champion in the difficult tour with Next One . A month later he finished third with Undercover at the World Cup finals in Gothenburg. He repeated this result at the 2014 World Cup final with Undercover .
Private
Edward Gal lives in Harskamp , where he runs a training and tournament stable together with his trainer and ex-wife Nicole Werner. His partner is the Dutch dressage rider Hans Peter Minderhoud .
At the beginning of February 2012 it was announced that Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud had signed a sponsorship agreement with the Austrian entrepreneur Gaston Glock for a period of ten years. Gal, Minderhoud and Werner will be based in the Glock Horse Performance Center in Treffen am Ossiacher See for four months a year , and a tournament stable of the same name will be set up in the Netherlands.
Competition horses
Current
- Interfloor Next One (* 1995, originally Nutopia), bay KWPN gelding, father: Jazz, mother's father: Le Mexico
- Glock's Undercover (* 2001), KWPN black wallach, father: Ferro, mother's father: Donnerhall
Former
- IPS Gribaldi (* 1993; † 2010), black Trakehner stallion, father: Kostolany, mother's father: Ibikus, retired from sport on February 5, 2010, died on February 14, 2010 of an aortic rupture
- Lingh (* 1993), bay KWPN stallion, father: Flemmingh, mother's father: Columbus, sold to Karin Reid Offield in November 2006
- Sisther de Jeu (* 1999), bay KWPN mare, father: Gribaldi, mother's father: Amor; Retired from sport in 2013
- Moorlands Totilas (* 2000), KWPN - Rapphengst, father: Gribaldi, mother's father : Glendale, ridden by Matthias Alexander Rath after a change of owner from the end of 2010
Best international results (since 2007)
- Grand Prix de Dressage:
- 2007: 71.084% (2nd place at CDI-W Amsterdam with Gribaldi )
- 2008: 72.084% (2nd place at CDI 4 * Maastricht with Sisther de Jeu )
- 2009: 84.085% (1st place at the European Championships 2009 with Totilas )
- 2010: 84.043% (1st place at the 2010 World Equestrian Games with Totilas )
- 2011: 71.574% (6th place at the CDI-W 's-Hertogenbosch with Sisther de Jeu )
- 2012: 78.511% (2nd place at CDI-W Lyon with Undercover )
- 2013: 79.660% (2nd place at CDIO 5 * Rotterdam with Undercover )
- Grand Prix de Spécial:
- 2007: -
- 2008: 68.040% (6th place at CDI 3 * Aachen with Sisther de Jeu )
- 2009: 83.042% (2nd place at the European Championships 2009 with Totilas )
- 2010: 85.708% (1st place at the 2010 World Equestrian Games with Totilas )
- 2011: 72.021% (10th place at CDIO 5 * Aachen with Sisther de Jeu )
- 2012: 75.556% (10th place at the Summer Olympics with Undercover )
- 2013: 79.479% (4th place at the European Championships with Undercover )
- Grand Prix Freestyle:
- 2007: 77.750% (3rd place at CDI-W Amsterdam with Gribaldi )
- 2008: 71.050% (3rd place at the CDI 5 * Cannes with Next One )
- 2009: 92.300% (1st place at the CDI-W London Olympia with Totilas )
- 2010: 91.800% (1st place at the 2010 World Equestrian Games with Totilas )
- 2011: 79.250% (1st place at CDI 3 * Oslo with Sisther de Jeu )
- 2012: 80.650% (2nd place at CDI-W Odense with Romanov )
- 2013: 86.075% (2nd place at CDIO 5 * Rotterdam with Undercover )
(Results by October 2013)
Web links
- Edward Gal's website (Dutch, English)
- Video of the world record Grand Prix Freestyle in London on youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ FEI World Ranking List Dressage ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2012 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. (horse-related world rankings)
- ↑ a b ATHLETE PERFORMANCE Edward Gal. Retrieved October 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Short biography on fei.org
- ↑ a b www.ludwigs-pferdewelten.de: Edward Gal now holds all "world records" with the black horse Totilas , July 17th 2010
- ↑ Result lists World Equestrian Games 2010
- ^ Article on the website of the Konrad-Duden-Gymnasium Wesel on the former student Steffen Peters
- ^ Result of the Dutch Championships 2011
- ↑ NK Dressuur Seniors 2012 - entry level na 3 onderdelen
- Jump up to gold with ease and routine - Edward Gal and Interflor Next One are Dutch Indoor Champions Heavy Tour , reitsportnews.at, March 4, 2013
- ↑ see e.g. B. St. Georg-E-Mag: Totilas , page 8
- ↑ Glock signed world champion Gal for his riding stable , Kleine Zeitung , February 2, 2012
- ↑ Austrian Gaston Glock Signs Minderhoud, Gal and Werner for Ten Years , Eurodressage, February 2, 2012 (English)
- ↑ FEI horse database: Interfloor Next One ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FEI horse database: Glock's Undercover ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FEI horse database: IPS Gribaldi ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Announcement "Elite stallion Gribaldi dies after aortic rupture" from February 14, 2010, accessed on February 28, 2010 ( memento of the original from February 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FEI horse database: Lingh ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FEI horse database: Sisther de Jeu ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Edward Gal's Sisther de Jeu retires , St. Georg, February 18, 2013
- ↑ FEI horse database: Moorlands Totilas ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FEI Success Database Dressage ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gal, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch dressage rider |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4th 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheden |