Jan Sprehe

Jan Sprehe medal table
Show jumping
Germany
European championships
silver	2002	Team, juniors
bronze	2003	Team, juniors
silver	2005	Singles, young riders (with Paganini )
German championships
gold	2006	Singles, young riders

Jan Sprehe (born April 22, 1985 ) is a German show jumper .

Career

Jan Sprehe played tennis as a child and only began to take an interest in equestrian sport after visiting his cousin Jörne Sprehe . He lives with his family in Löningen, Lower Saxony .

In 2002 he achieved his first major national success with a win at the Preis der Beste in Warendorf . He also competed in the European Junior Championships in 2002 and 2003. The team won silver in 2002 and bronze in 2003. In 2005 he was again on the squad at a European Young Rider Championships and won the silver medal on Paganini in San Patrignano . In 2006 he became the German Young Rider Champion and started at the European Young Rider Championships in Athens .

Sprehe and Areno finished the Grand Prix of the CSI 3 * Hachenburg 2008 in third place. At the beginning of May 2009 he and Areno came third in the Grand Prix of the CSI 2 * Redefin.

Also in May 2009 Jan Sprehe and Areno were part of the third-placed German Nations Cup team at the CSIO 3 * Linz. Also in the following two years later he was there for Germany, in 2011 in the German victory he rode here Paolini . A few weeks later, Sprehe and Paolini were nominated for a German team at a Nations Cup of the FEI Nations Cup, and he was allowed to compete in St. Gallen .

In February 2011, he was seventh in the German Grand Prix at the Signal Iduna Cup in Dortmund as the best German.

Throughout the 2013 season, Stakki , ridden by Jan Sprehe, was the most successful horse in the Poresta Youngster Cup, a tournament series for 7- and 8-year-old show jumpers at eight international tournaments in Germany. In November 2016, Jan Sprehe and Cevin Costner came second in the Grand Prix of a CSI 2 * in Damme-Neuenwalde, after having finished third in the Grand Prix of a CSI 1 * two months earlier.

Together with Christian Ahlmann and René Tebbel , he rode for the Sprehe delicatessen team. Sprehe trained with Rene Tebbel for several years, from 2011 he was trained by Tjark Nagel . In 2011 Sprehe belonged to the B2 squad of German show jumpers.

Jan Sprehe last competed in an international jumping competition in November 2017, and has not been registered as an active rider with the FEI since 2018. From spring 2018 Tobias Meyer took over the training and presentation of the horses from Sprehe. Jan Sprehe also actively supports Tobias Meyer at the tournaments.

Sprehe studied business administration in Osnabrück .

family

Sprehe comes from a family of equestrians and entrepreneurs. His grandfather was already active as a horse breeder, and his family owns a riding facility with a stud in Cloppenburg . His parents also own the Sprehe Feinkost company . His cousins Kristina Sprehe and Jörne Sprehe are active in international tournament sport .

Horses (selection)

• Areno (* 1999), Oldenburg dark chestnut mare, father: Argentinius, mother's father: Grannus, retired from the sport
• Cevin Costner (* 2004), dark bay Oldenburg stallion, father: Chico's Boy, mother's father: Calvin; Ridden by Karina Rotenberg since 2017
• Stakki , (* 2005), dark bay Hanoverian mare, father: Stakkato Gold, mother's father: Silvio I; Ridden by Reed Kessler since 2014
• Samurai (* 2008, breed name: Skelton), dark bay Westphalia stallion, father: Stalypso, mother's father: For Keeps, ridden by Gaj Riossa, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Tobias Meyer from 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Meyer and Jan Sprehe in Athens  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Equestrian Sports Association Weser-Ems eV, July 5, 2006
2. ^ Result of the Grand rhenag Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate , CSI 3 * Hachenburg 2008
3. ^ Result of the Lübzer Grand Prix , CSI 2 * Redefin 2009
4. ↑ CSIO *** Linz 2009, result FEI Nations Cup of Austria
5. ↑ CSIO *** Linz 2010, result FEI Nations Cup of Austria
6. ↑ CSIO **** Linz: Germany wins Nations Cup in Austria , St. Georg, May 15, 2011
7. ↑ Jan Sprehe - best German in the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic (2011)
8. ↑ Stakki wins the Poresta Youngster Cup - the new generation series will be continued in 2014 , press release, November 7, 2013, accessed on pferdenews.eu
9. ↑ Westphalian victory in Lower Saxony - DKB-Riders Tour qualification sees three German riders ahead, May 9, 2011 ( Memento from May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Current German squad show jumping 2011 ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ FEI results database: Jan Sprehe
12. ↑ Tobias Meyer again at Sprehe , Reiter Revue International, March 16, 2018
13. ^ Braunschweig: Tobias Meyer Successful , Michael Czok / reitsport-nachrichten.eu, March 23, 2019
14. ↑ Press reports from Löningen: "Title in Freudenberg is the culmination of the season", Interview of the Nordwest-Zeitung , August 18, 2006 Title in Freudenberg is the culmination of the season ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
15. ↑ Stud Sprehe
16. ↑ FEI horse database: Areno 5
17. ↑ FEI horse database: Cevin Costner
18. ↑ FEI horse database: Stakki
19. ^ FEI horse database: Samurai 501