Colorful
Colorful | |
Race: | Westphalian |
Father: | Joy dancers |
Mother: | Anuschka |
Mother, father: | Aarstein |
Gender: | gelding |
Year of birth: | 1990 |
Year of death: | 2004 |
Country: | Germany |
Colour: | Fox |
Equestrian: | Nadine Capellmann |
Trainer: | Klaus Balkenhol |
Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
Greatest victories | |
Olympic Games 2000 : gold medal (team), World Championships 2002 : gold medal (team and individual), European Championships 2001 : gold medal (team) and bronze medal (individual) |
Farbenfroh (1990-2004) was an internationally successful dressage horse that caught the eye with its striking chestnut color and numerous white markings.
When she was six years old, colorful came to his rider Nadine Capellmann's stable . He showed outstanding gaits and a great talent for piaffe and passage . The couple were trained by Klaus Balkenhol .
In Sydney , Farbenfroh impressed with his excellent movements and won the gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games with his rider Nadine Capellmann and the German team. In 2001 they won gold with the team at the European Championships in Verden. A year later at the World Equestrian Games in 2002 , the couple became world champions both individually and with the team. In 2003 he was injured and could not find his way back to the old form.
The end of 2004 had colorful euthanized be after after a good performance operation in the Aufwachbox the femoral neck broke.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colorful All Breed pedigree database
- ↑ Successes ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. Capellmann, Nadine, FN
- ↑ Nadine Capellmann
- ↑ Quarante destins dans Cheval magazine, November 2011, n ° 480, p. 34
- ↑ http://www.cavadeos.com/Sport/Dressage/Portait-de-Nadine-Cappellmann-championne-du-monde-de-dressage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.