Janika Sprunger

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Janika Sprunger medal table
Janika Sprunger praises Electra van't Roosakker (April 2013)
Janika Sprunger praises Electra van't Roosakker (April 2013)

Show jumping

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
European championships
bronze 2015 Team
(with Bonne Chance )
Swiss championship
gold 2008 Singles, young riders
(with Salvador )
gold 2012 Single
(with Graciella II )

Janika Sprunger (born May 29, 1987 ) is a Swiss show jumper .

Private

As the daughter of the show jumper Hansueli Sprunger and the riding instructor Dominique Sprunger-Torsi, she grew up with horses. Her brother is the football player Michel Sprunger and her uncle Christian Sprunger also played football.

From mid-2010, Sprunger was in a relationship with the Spanish show jumper Manuel Añón . In the meantime, the Italian show jumper Piergiorgio Bucci was her life partner, at the end of 2015 she moved to live with him in Budel (Netherlands), she had her horses in the Belgian neighboring town of Hamont-Achel . In 2017 she separated from Bucci and has been in a relationship with the Swedish show jumper Henrik von Eckermann since then , and in 2018 she moved to his facility in Wachtberg- Niederbachem near Bonn.

Career

Janika Sprunger achieved her first championship successes early on and took part in the Junior and Young Rider European Championships from 2005 to 2008.

Until 2009, Janika Sprunger was successful in jumping competitions for young riders (juniors, young riders) and won the European Youngster Cup evaluation test in Neuendorf in 2009 . However, in 2008 she was given the opportunity to start at the CSI 5 * tournaments in Zurich and Mechelen.

In July 2009 she qualified for the Swiss Cup Final of the best four in Ascona. In November 2009 she achieved her first international success in the age group of riders by winning the Grand Prix of the CSI 2 * Herstal (Belgium).

Janika Sprunger was nominated for a Nations Cup team for the first time in 2010 and competed in the CSIO 5 * National Awards in Rome and Falsterbo. In 2011 she competed in the Global Champions Tour for the first time and several times . In the same year she started at the CSIO Switzerland in St. Gallen and took second place in the Nations Cup with the Swiss team . At the CSI5 * in San Patrignano she finished 2nd in July at the Stuttgart Grand Prix she was 5th.

In July 2012 she became the Swiss elite champion for the first time with Graciella II in Schaffhausen . She succeeded her father, who had won the championship a year earlier. A year later, she came second in the lavishly endowed Grand Prix of Aachen . At the European Championships in 2013 she was the best Swiss woman with Palloubet d'Halong and finished seventh in the individual standings, while Switzerland came fifth in the team standings.

At the European Championships in Aachen 2015 , she and the team won the bronze medal.

Horses (excerpt)

Janika Sprunger with Electra van't Roosakker , Horses & Dreams 2013 (CSI 4 *), Hagen am Teutoburger Wald
Janika Sprunger with Aris at CSI 5 * Lausanne 2013
Janika Sprunger with JL's extra at the CHI Geneva , 2013
  • Uptown Boy (* 2001), KWPN , brown, Wallach, father: Odermus R, mother father: Joost, owner: M. Kähny "Previously Ulisinus R breeder (AL Regeling)"
  • JL's Komparse (* 2001), gray, gelding, father: Kolibri , mother's father: Kronenkranich xx, owner: M. Kähny
  • Salvador (* 1999)
  • Electra van't Roosakker (* 2004), Belgian warmblood mare ; previously in Jos Lansink's stable , ridden by Jos Lansink again from February 2014
  • Palloubet d'Halong (* 2003), Selle Français -Fuchswallach, Father: Baloubet du Rouet , Mother Father: Muguet du Manoir, from November 2013 to the summer of 2014 by Ali Al Rumaihi ridden, followed by Bassem Hassan Mohammed ridden

Web links

Commons : Janika Sprunger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Born into the world of horses. In: Kavallo - The Swiss Horse Magazine , August 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Sprungers stand on "Tiqui-taca". In: fussball.ch. June 14, 2012, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ With the friend on the pedestal. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , January 15, 2011
  4. ↑ Janika Sprunger moves to Belgium. In: news.ch , November 17, 2015
  5. ↑ Sabine Gregg: Henrik von Eckermann and Janika Sprunger are a couple. In: Reiter Revue International , April 26, 2018
  6. ↑ FEI short biography
  7. ↑ Final exam CSIU25-A Neuendorf 2009 (PDF; 52 kB)
  8. ↑ Result Swiss Cup Final 2009 (PDF; 56 kB)
  9. ↑ Result CSI 2 * Grand Prix of Herstal (Saturday) 2009
  10. ↑ 2nd place for Janika Sprunger (7/2011)
  11. ^ Result of the 2011 Grand Prix of Stuttgart
  12. ↑ FEI horse database: Palloubet d'Halong
  13. ↑ Palloubet d'Halong goes to Edwina Tops-Alexander - for a record sum. In: St. Georg , September 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Sprunger, Janika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1987