Ian Millar

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Ian Millar Show jumping
Ian Millar head.jpg

Ian Millar (2007)

nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday January 6, 1947
place of birth Halifax , Nova Scotia
Career
discipline Show jumping
Nations Cup debut 1971
Medal table
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 2008 Beijing Team (with in style )
Olympic replacement competitions
gold 1980 Rotterdam Crew (with Brother Sam )
Pan American Games
bronze 1979 San Juan Single (with Brother Sam )
silver 1979 Crew (with Brother Sam )
silver 1983 Caracas Team (with foresight )
gold 1987 Indianapolis Single (with Big Ben )
gold 1987 Crew (with big ben )
silver 1991 Havana Team (with future vision )
gold 1999 Winnipeg Single (with ivar )
bronze 1999 Crew (with ivar )
silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team (with in style )
last change: January 7, 2018

Ian Millar , CM (born January 6, 1947 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian show jumper, world champion and Olympic silver medalist.

Because of his long sports career and his achievements, he was nicknamed "Captain Canada". He has held the record for the most Olympic Games since the 2012 Olympic Games with ten participations.

Career

Ian Millar and Dixson , CSIO Spruce Meadows Masters 2014 Grand Prix winners

Millar grew up in Ottawa as the son of a military man. He became interested in horses early on. When he was ten years old, his father was relocated to Alberta . The family spent one summer at Gull Lake near Lacombe . There Ian Millar hired a horse from a rancher who rented horses here to ride. Over the summer he helped the rancher with his business and in return could ride as much as he wanted. In the fall of that year he began taking riding lessons in Edmonton .

Millar had his first start in a Nations Cup in show jumping in 1971. From 1972 on, with two exceptions (World Equestrian Games 2002, Olympic Games 2016), he was a member of every Canadian show jumping team at the Olympic Games, World Championships and Pan-American Games. Between 1983 and 2014 Ian Millar was Canadian Show Jumping Champion eleven times, from 1986 to 1991 he won the title consistently.

Millar celebrated his greatest successes with the gelding Big Ben : victories in more than 40 grand prizes worldwide, including two wins at the Spruce Meadows Masters and six derby victories in Spruce Meadows . During that time he won the World Cup finals in 1988 and 1989, took part in three Olympic Games and won the individual gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games.

After Ian Millar in 1980 in the boycotting countries aligned Olympic spare competitions won team gold, it took until 2008 until it was first presented to a proper Olympic medal: In the 2008 Olympics he won a team with Jill Henselwood , Eric Lamaze and Mac Cone the silver medal. The same happened at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, where Ian Millar Dixson rode.

For the third time, Millar won the Grand Prix of the Spruce Meadows Masters 2014, now worth 1.5 million Canadian dollars, and rode Dixson here . Dixson had to undergo surgery in the run-up to the 2016 Olympic Games . He and his second horse Teddy du Bosquetiau were on the long list of Canadians, but unlike his daughter Amy, he was not nominated.

He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1986 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports in 1996 .

Millar ended his active career on May 1, 2019.

Private

In March 2008, his wife, Lynn, died of cancer. Millar's children Jonathon and Amy are also international show jumpers for Canada. Together they run a farm in Perth in the Canadian province of Ontario .

Important horses

  • Big Ben (1976–1999), Belgian chestnut gelding, father: Etretat, mother's father : Flevo
  • Ivar (* 1990), brown KWPN Wallach, father: Maykel, mother's father: Pastrocio; Retired from sport in 2001
  • Dorincord (* 1991), brown Hanoverian Wallach, father: Drosselklang II, mother's father: Daimyo
  • Promise me (* 1994), KWPN chestnut gelding, father: Lauriston, father of mother: Ahorn; later ridden by Maja Friberg
  • In Style (1995–2015), bay Holstein gelding, father: Acord II, mother's father: Lord
  • Star Power (* 2001), bay KWPN gelding, father: Quick Star, father of mother: Calvados; last used in sports in 2016
  • Dixson (* 2003), bay Belgian gelding, father: Vigo d'Arsouilles, mother's father: Olisco

successes

  • Summer Olympics :
    • 1972, Munich : 6th place with the team with The Shoeman
    • 1976, Montreal / Bromont : with countdown 5th place with the team
    • 1984, Los Angeles : with Big Ben 14th place in the individual and 4th place with the team
    • 1988, Seoul : with Big Ben 15th place in the singles and 4th place with the team
    • 1992, Barcelona : with Big Ben 54th place in the individual and 9th place with the team
    • 1996, Atlanta : with Play it Again 47th place in the individual and 16th place with the team
    • 2000, Sydney : with Dorincord 13th place in the individual and 9th place with the team
    • 2004, Athens : with Promise me 22nd place in individual
    • 2008, Hong Kong : with In Style 22nd place in the individual and 2nd place with the team
    • 2012, London : with Star Power 9th place in the individual and 5th place with the team
  • World Championships / World Equestrian Games :
    • 1978, Aachen : with Brother Sam 9th place in the individual and 4th place with the team
    • 1982, Dublin : with Wunderbar 49th place in the individual and 5th place with the team
    • 1986, Aachen : with Big Ben 10th place in the individual and 4th place with the team
    • 1994, The Hague: with Future Vision 27th place in the individual and 7th place with the team
    • 1998, Rome: with Mont Cenis 38th place in the individual and 10th place with the team
    • 2006, Aachen : with In Style 90th place in the individual and 13th place with the team
    • 2014, Caen : 36th place in the singles with Dixson and 8th place with the team
  • Pan American Games :
    • 1979, San Juan : 3rd place in the singles with Brother Sam and 2nd place with the team
    • 1983, Caracas : 5th place in the individual and 2nd place with the team with Foresight
    • 1987, Indianapolis : with Big Ben 1st place in the individual and 1st place with the team
    • 1991, Havana : with Future Vision 22nd place in the individual and 2nd place with the team
    • 1995, Mar del Plata : with Mistral 26th place in the individual and 7th place with the team
    • 1999, Winnipeg : 1st place with Ivar in the individual and 3rd place with the team
    • 2003, Santo Domingo : with Promise me 7th place in the individual and 5th place with the team
    • 2007, Rio de Janeiro : with In Style 4th place in the individual and 2nd place with the team
    • 2011, Guadalajara : with Star Power 24th place in the individual and 4th place with the team
    • 2015, Toronto : with Dixson 16th place in the individual and 1st place with the team
  • World Cup Finals :
    • 1980, Baltimore: 14th place with Year of the Cat
    • 1984, Gothenburg: 18th place with Wotan
    • 1985, West Berlin: 8th place with Big Ben
    • 1986, Gothenburg: 2nd place with Big Ben
    • 1987, Paris: 5th place with Big Ben
    • 1988, Gothenburg: 1st place with Big Ben
    • 1989, Tampa: 1st place with Big Ben
    • 1990, Dortmund: 12th place with Czar
    • 1991, Gothenburg: 15th place with Czar
    • 1992, Del Mar: 40th place with Big Ben
    • 1993, Gothenburg: 37th place with Future Vision
    • 1997, Gothenburg: 28th place
    • 2000, Las Vegas: 30th place with Ivar
    • 2007, Las Vegas: 15th place with In Style

Web links

Commons : Ian Millar  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b In Conversation with Ian Millar , Jeremy Freeborn / The Canadian Encyclopedia , September 9, 2014
  2. ^ The Millars pack a punch , Kristina Rutherford / CBC Sports, July 4, 2008
  3. ^ Rider Biographies: Ian Millar , horse-canada.com
  4. ↑ Canadian Show Jumping Championships - 1976 to present , Equestrian Canada, accessed January 7, 2018
  5. ↑ Big, Big Ben , Leslie Threlkeld / eventingnation.com, June 23, 2010
  6. ↑ Schedule and results of equestrian sport at the Pan American Games 2015 (English)
  7. ↑ CSIO5 * - Calgary, Spruce Meadows AB (CAN) (10/09/2014 - 14/09/2014), Grand Prix Two Rounds
  8. ↑ Olympia without Canada's record Olympian Millar , sport.de, July 15, 2016
  9. ↑ Honored Member: Ian Millar ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2018 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. , Canada's Sports Hall of Fame @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportshall.ca
  10. ↑ Record Olympian Millar resigns. sport.orf.at, May 1, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ CSIO **** Wellington (USA): Lauren Hough wins $ 150,000 jump , St. George , March 8, 2011.
  12. ^ FEI horse database: Ivar
  13. ↑ FEI horse database: Dorincord
  14. ↑ FEI horse database: Promise me
  15. ↑ FEI horse database: In Style
  16. ↑ In Memoriam - In Style - 1995-2015 , horsejournals.com, October 5, 2015
  17. ↑ FEI horse database: Star Power
  18. ^ FEI horse database: Dixson
  19. ^ The Show Jumping Team won a silver medal at the 1991 Pan Am Games , horse-canada.com
  20. ↑ a b Team Millar: Ian Millar , millarbrookefarm.com
  21. ^ The Show Jumping Team won a silver medal at the 1991 Pan Am Games , horse-canada.com
  22. ^ Equestrian - Athlete Profile: Millar Ian , toronto2015.org
  23. ↑ Major achievements by Ian Millar , fei.org
personal data
SURNAME Millar, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Captain Canada (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Nova Scotia