Horst Karsten

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Horst Karsten (born January 1, 1936 in Elsfleth ) is a former German eventing rider who won two medals in three Olympic starts.

Horst Karsten started eventing in 1956. In 1964 he was able to qualify together with Fritz Ligges and Gerhard Schulz for the all-German team at the 1964 Olympic Games . This team was one of the few teams within the Olympic contingent that was really all-German, Horst Karsten from Lower Saxony and Fritz Ligges from Westphalia were farmers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Gerhard Schulz belonged to the mounted border police of the German Democratic Republic. In Tokyo, Horst Karsten took sixth place in the individual ranking on a Condora . Together, the three riders won the bronze medal in the team competition behind the teams from Italy and the United States.

After the end of the all-German team, Horst Karsten represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City on Adagio, together with Jochen Mehrdorf and Klaus Wagner . As the best-placed German rider, Horst Karsten came in 11th, the team came in fifth. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Karsten and Sioux were nominated for the German team. He took the lead in the dressage standings, but had to give up on the cross-country ride. Together with Karl Schultz , Harry Klugmann and Lutz Goessing , Horst Karsten received the bronze medal behind the teams from the United Kingdom and the United States in the team competition. In 1974 Horst Karsten won bronze at the World Cup with the German team. In 1965, 1973 and 1977 Horst Karsten received the bronze medal in the individual ranking at the European Championships . In the team championship he won gold in 1973, silver in 1977 and bronze in 1969 and 1975.

Horst Karsten belonged to the Ganderkesee equestrian club . He won the German championship title in 1963, 1965, 1973, 1977 and 1981. In 1963 he won on Condora , followed by second place on Hanko . After being a member of the German team at 14 international championships, Horst Karsten took over the office of national coach in 1986. During his tenure, the German eventing equipe won gold at the 1988 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1990 and 1994 World Championships.

In March 1989 he was awarded the title of "Riding Master". In 2007 Horst Karsten was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international association of eventing riders as the first German.

He was also awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 11, 1964.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich Kiel 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to sports-reference and also according to Sport-Bild dated December 23, 1997, p. 88 , Horst Karsten was born on January 1, 1936, in the 2007 press release from the Equestrian Association listed under the web links, his age is 71 years. In the 1972 Olympics brochure and in the older books, the year of his birth is noted as 1937.
  2. ↑ The history of our association , Reiterverein Ganderkesee eV
  3. ↑ German championships in eventing
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: list of previous riding and driving masters, German Equestrian Association, as of November 2006 )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.pferd-aktuell.de  
  5. ^ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040. Page 71
personal data
SURNAME Karsten, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsfleth