Hubertus Schmidt

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Hubertus Schmidt (2017)

Hubertus Schmidt (born October 8, 1959 in Haaren (Bad Wünnenberg) ) is a German dressage rider and trainer.

Life

Hubertus Schmidt rides the chestnut gelding Donnelly in front of the backdrop of the Biebrich Castle. Track point C of the dressage arena can be seen behind the horse's legs.
Hubertus Schmidt with Donnelly, Grand Prix at the Whitsun tournament Wiesbaden 2013

Hubertus Schmidt comes from a family that is traditionally connected to horse breeding and riding. His father, Hubert Schmidt senior, was trained as a soldier to be a rider. The Fleyenhof near Etteln in Westphalia , which Hubertus Schmidt runs as a training and breeding stable, has been run by the family since the 17th century. There has been a stud there since the 1920s . In the 1960s there was a change from cold blood to warm blood breeding . Hubertus Schmidt began riding the family's brood mares , and at the age of nine he received his first riding lesson in the Hamborn Castle Riding School . In the course of the relocation of the Fleyenhof due to a flood disaster, a riding facility was built in 1972. As a result, Hubertus Schmidt's riding lessons intensified, first he was taught by his father, later by the riders employed in the company.

In 1976 Hubertus Schmidt began his apprenticeship as a rider , first at the Fleyenhof and from 1977 in the Bielefeld riding and driving club with Hans Gerlach, where he passed the exam in 1978. In 1983 he passed the master's examination with the special award of the Stensbeck badge . In 1984 he won his first advanced level dressage on the horse Pacifik, three years later he was placed in a Grand Prix de Dressage for the first time , this time with Playboy. He also had successes in jumping up to S level . Hubertus Schmidt repeatedly took part in courses, before his master's examination at the German Riding School in Warendorf , and later with Reiner Klimke and Harry Boldt , among others . In 1985 he took over the Fleyenhof together with his wife Doris, today there are around 60 horses there. Hubertus Schmidt has trained over thirty horses to the Grand Prix level and trains several foreign riders, including the Finnish dressage team.

The breakthrough in top dressage came at the end of the 1990s. From 1997 to 2004 Hubertus Schmidt was champion of professional riders five times. After several silver medals and a bronze medal, he became German dressage champion in 2005, which he was able to repeat in 2007. His coach was Klaus Balkenhol in 1999 . His greatest success so far is the nomination for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he achieved 5th place in the individual ranking and was thus the second best of the German riders. With the team he won the gold medal. Another highlight was the individual silver medal at the 2005 European Championships and the gold medal with the team. He also won team gold at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen . He achieved these successes together with his Hanoverian chestnut mare Wansuela Suerte (by Warkant), who was born in 1993 . In 2008 she was retired from dressage at the international dressage and jumping festival in Verden.

Due to an illness of his wife, Schmidt sold his then top young horse Donnelly at the beginning of 2011 and also gave the national coaching position for Swedish dressage riders, which he was doing at the time, to Kyra Kyrklund .

In 2016 Schmidt took on the Westphalian stallion Escolar, with whom he was successful for the first time at Grand Prix level in 2018 and with whom he will be part of the German Olympic team in 2020. In April 2020 the two were 33rd in the world dressage rankings.

Hubertus Schmidt is married and has a daughter and a son.

Awards

Sporting successes

Hubertus Schmidt is sitting on a dark brown dressage horse. She wears a green wreath around her neck. Schmidt has taken his cylinder off his head and is pointing it in the direction of the audience. He is wearing a light blue winner's sash.
Hubertus Schmidt, winner of the Blue Ribbon for winning the 54th German Dressage Derby (May 2012)

Olympic games

  • 2004, Athens: with Wansuela Suerte gold medal with the team and 5th place in the individual ranking

World championships

  • 2006, Aachen: Gold medal with the team with Wansuela Suerte and 13th place in the individual ranking, Grand Prix Spécial

European championships

  • 2005, Hagen aTW: gold medal with the team and silver medal in the individual ranking with Wansuela Suerte

World Cup Finals

  • 2000, s'-Hertogenbosch: 6th place with My Fair Lady
  • 2004, Düsseldorf: 3rd place with Wansuela Suerte
  • 2005, Las Vegas: 8th place with Aramis


More Achievements:

Horses

Current competition horses

  • Escolar (* 2009), bay Westphalian stallion, father: Estobar NRW, mother's father: Fürst Piccolo
  • Bonamour (* 2010), Westphalian chestnut stallion , father: Bonifatius, mother's father: Rousseau
  • Goldberg (* 2011), KWPN black stallion, father: Amazing Star, mother's father: Whoopy Goldberg
  • Denoix PCH (* 2012), Oldenburg chestnut stallion, father: Destano, mother's father: Pik Noir

Former horses

  • Wansuela Suerte (* 1993; † 2015), Hanoverian chestnut mare, father: Warkant, mother's father: Wachmann I.
  • Imperio (* 2003), bay Trakehner stallion, father: Connery, mother's father: Balfour xx; Ridden by Annabelle Steffens from 2019

Web links

Commons : Hubertus Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Schmidts Donnelly in the USA , St. Georg , January 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Escolar: Stallion, Westphalian, born 2009. Retrieved on August 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bonamour: Stallion, Westphalian, born 2010. Retrieved on August 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Goldberg 15: Stallion, Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland (KWPN), born 2011. Accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Denoix Pch: Hengst, Oldenburger, born 2012. Accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Wansuela Suerte: Mare, Hanoverian, born 1993. Accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Imperio 3: Stallion, Trakehner, born 2003. Retrieved on August 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Hubertus Schmidts Imperio has a second career as a teacher. March 15, 2019, accessed August 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hair (Bad Wünnenberg)