Hinrich Romeike

Hinrich Romeike medal table
Hinrich Romeike on Marius at the Badminton Horse Trials 2007
Eventing rider
Germany Germany
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2008 Hong Kong	Eventing (team)
gold	2008 Hong Kong	Eventing (individual)
World Equestrian Games
gold	2006 Aachen	Eventing (team)
European Championship
bronze	2005 Blenheim Palace	Eventing (team)

Hinrich Romeike (born May 26, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German eventing rider .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , Hinrich Romeike became Olympic champion in the individual and won the gold medal in the team competition together with Ingrid Klimke , Andreas Dibowski , Peter Thomsen and Frank Ostholt . Before that, his greatest successes were the team victory at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen and 5th place in the individual and 4th place in the team competition at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He achieved these successes with his horse Marius , a Holsteiner born in 1994Gray gelding (by Condrieu xx). After Marius was unable to take part in tournament sports again between 2009 and 2011 due to injury, Romeike announced the end of Marius' sporting career in March 2012. Therefore, Romeike did not start at the 2012 Olympic Games .

Hinrich Romeike is a practicing dentist and lives with his wife and three children in Nübbel near Rendsburg. In 2005 he was awarded the Schleswig-Holstein sports badge.

literature

Gabriele Pochhammer: It has become a bit stiff. Hinrich Romeike is retiring his gold horse Marius - the last amateur of the Olympic eventing is retiring . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 26, 2012, ISSN 0174-4917 ( modified text at ekdamerow.de).

Web links

Commons : Hinrich Romeike - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Romeike, Hinrich. In: pferd-aktuell.de. German Equestrian Association , archived from the original on July 19, 2011 .; accessed on December 24, 2019
Bernd Schlueter: Hinrich Romeike. In: NDR online . May 6, 2011, archived from the original on August 6, 2012 .; accessed on December 24, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Old heroes: Marius. From Olympic champion to educator. In: pferd-aktuell.de. German Equestrian Association , July 19, 2016, accessed on December 25, 2019 (with film).
^ Double Olympic champion Romeike not to London ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), AFP , March 23, 2012.
↑ Sports badges and sports merit badges presented: Simonis recognizes voluntary work in sports ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: schleswig-holstein.de January 27, 2005.

personal data
SURNAME	Romeike, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Old heroes: Marius. From Olympic champion to educator. In: pferd-aktuell.de. German Equestrian Association , July 19, 2016, accessed on December 25, 2019 (with film).

[2] Double Olympic champion Romeike not to London ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), AFP , March 23, 2012.

[3] Sports badges and sports merit badges presented: Simonis recognizes voluntary work in sports ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: schleswig-holstein.de January 27, 2005.