Heike Kemmer

Heike Kemmer medal table
Interview with Heike Kemmer (2013)
Dressage riding
Germany
Olympic Summer Games
gold	Athens 2004	Dressage (team)
gold	Beijing 2008	Dressage (team)
bronze	Beijing 2008	Dressage (individual)

Heike Kemmer with Bonaparte (center) as part of the dressage team at the 2008 Olympic Games

Heike Kemmer (born April 24, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German dressage rider .

Heike Kemmer holds a degree in business administration. In 1983 she won the runner-up title at the German junior championships with "Gottberg". In the same year she won the individual title at the European Junior Championships in Munich-Riem on “Lotus” and won with the German team. In 1985 she was able to win an elite Grand Prix for the first time with her horse "Lotus" and was appointed to the A-squad of the German national team. In 1984 she won the silver medal at the German championships. Due to her studies in business administration and her family founding, riding faded into the background in the next few years. In the early 1990s she moved from Berlin to Walle . She missed the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona due to strong German competition.

At the end of the 1990s it advanced to the top of the world. With "Albano" she won a silver medal at the German championships in 2000. So she moved back to the German A-squad and was nominated as a substitute rider for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . In 2001 a bronze medal in national championships was added. With Isabell Werth , Nadine Capellmann and Ulla Salzgeber , Kemmer won the team gold in Verden on “Albano 7” at the European Championships . Also in 2003 in Hickstead and in 2005 in Hagen she was, now with “Bonaparte”, a member of the victorious German European Championship team. In 2005 and 2006 Heike Kemmer became German champion in dressage.

At the 2004 Olympic Games she was on “Bonaparte” Olympic champion with the team. She repeated this success in 2008 together with Nadine Capellmann and Isabell Werth , at the same time she won her first individual Olympic medal with third place in the individual ranking. For winning the gold medal, she received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Köhler - together with the team .

Horses

• Feleciano (* 1995), bay Westphalia stallion, father: Florestan I, father of mother : Barbados
• Bonaparte 67 (* 1993), Hanoverian chestnut gelding, father: Bon Bonaparte, mother's father: Consul, retired from sport in 2011
• Albano 7 (* 1987), bay Oldenburg gelding, father: Argentinus, mother's father: Grundstein I, retired from sport
• Lotus (* 1973), Hanoverian chestnut, father: pilot, retired from sport

Web links

Commons : Heike Kemmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 Sports honor: Federal President Koehler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the Silver Laurel Leaf.
2. ↑ FEI horse database: Feleciano  ( 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.  
3. ↑ FEI horse database: Bonaparte 67  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Hanover: Bonaparte's Farewell , October 23, 2011
5. ↑ Albano ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2011 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. 
6. ↑ FEI horse database: Albano 7  ( 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.  
7. ↑ Lotus ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2011 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.