Jos Lansink

Jos Lansink with Aganix du Seigneur at the Maimarkt tournament Mannheim 2015

Jozeph Johannes Gerhardus Marinus "Jos" Lansink (born March 19, 1961 in Rossum ) is a native Dutch show jumper who has been riding with a Belgian passport for Belgium since 2001 .

Life

His greatest sporting successes are the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with the Dutch team and winning the world championship title at the 2006 World Equestrian Games for Belgium.

Jos Lansink achieved his ultimate sporting breakthrough in 1988 when he won the Twente Grand Prix and the CHIO in Rotterdam . In addition, he became Dutch runner-up that year and thus secured a place in the Dutch national team for the Summer Olympics in Seoul . With his horse Felix he achieved an excellent seventh place in the individual standings and a good fifth place with the team. He also won the bronze medal with Felix at the 1989 European Championships in Rotterdam.

With his subsequent horse Egano , Lansink again achieved third place at the European Championships in La Baule, France in 1991. In the nation ranking, he even took first place with the Dutch team. He confirmed his good shape at the beginning of the 1990s when he and his teammates Piet Raijmakers and Jan Tops won the Nations Cup at the 1992 Summer Olympics .

Jos Lansink made his last appearance for the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . Together with Jeroen Dubbeldam , Jan Tops and Albert Voorn , he finished fifth in the national ranking.

After a rule change was made in international equestrian sport that both the rider and the horse had to prove an identical nationality and Lansink had ridden Belgian horses since 1996 due to the lack of good Dutch horses, he consequently adopted Belgian nationality. Regardless of this, he won the open Dutch championship in 2002 with Paul Schockemöhle's horse High Valley Z , which he won eight times.

In 2005, Lansink slowly returned to his old form with various horses (including Ta Belle van Sombeke , Cumano ): In addition to a second place in the Nations Cup at the CSIO Rotterdam, he achieved third places in the Grand Prix of Aachen and Valkenswaard and a third place in the Nations Cup in Dublin . The sporting highlight was the fourth place in the individual ranking at the European Championships in San Patrignano , before he fell during training in September 2005 and broke his arm.

Since December 2005 (Internationales Festhallen Reitturnier, Frankfurt am Main ) he has been working his way up to the top of the world again. He benefited from the fact that he has been training his horses in his own stable in Ellikem since 2005 .

With the very large-framed Holstein - mold Cumano he secured with two clear rounds in the qualifying jumping also take part in the final of the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen . Even then, Lansink, like his opponents Beezie Madden and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, remained flawless. For the Amazons, the huge 13-year-old stallion was first seen as a handicap when it came to the obligatory horse swap. However, this went calmly and confidently over all hurdles. In the final jump-off, Lansink managed a zero-error ride with Cumano as well as a very good time that had to be beaten. Both women scored four points so that Lansink could celebrate his greatest sporting success to date and won the first major individual title for his adopted home Belgium. Cumano also became the most successful horse at the World Equestrian Games, at the award ceremony the Holstein horse showed strong nerves and impressed with his character.

In February 2011 he was ranked 46th in the show jumping world rankings.

successes

Jos Lansink and Cumano at the 2008 Olympic Equestrian Competitions in Hong Kong

• Olympic games:
  • 1988 in Seoul : 5th place with Felix with the team and 7th place in the individual
  • 1992 in Barcelona : with Egano gold medal team and 42nd place in individual
  • 1996 in Atlanta : with Carthago Z 7th place with the team and 11th place in the individual
  • 2000 in Sydney : with Carthago Z 5th place with the team and 20th place in the individual
  • 2004 in Athens : with Cumano 6th place with the team and 28th place in the individual
  • 2008 in Hong Kong : with Cumano 9th place in the individual
  • 2012 in London : with Valentina van´t Heike 13th place with the team and 23rd place in the individual
• World Equestrian Games :
  • 1990 in Stockholm: with Libero H 5th place with the team and 11th place in the individual
  • 1994 in The Hague: 8th place with the team and 12th place in the individual with Easy Jumper
  • 2002 in Jerez de la Frontera: with Caridor Z bronze medal with the team and 6th place in the individual
  • 2006 in Aachen : with Cumano 7th place with the team and gold medal in the individual
  • 2010 in Lexington : with Valentina van´t Heike 17th place in the individual and bronze medal with the team
• European Championships:
  • 1989 in Rotterdam: individual bronze medal with Felix
  • 1991 in La Baule: with Egano gold medal team and bronze medal individual
  • 1993 in Gijón: with Easy Jumper 5th place with the team and 10th place in the individual
  • 1995 in St. Gallen: with Easy Jumper 6th place with the team and 18th place in the individual
  • 1997 in Mannheim: with Calvaro Z silver medal with the team and 8th place in the individual
  • 1999 in Hickstead: with the Carthago Z bronze medal with the team and 8th place in the individual
  • 2001 in Arnhem: with Caridor Z 5th place with the team and 5th place in the individual
  • 2003 in Donaueschingen: with Caridor Z 4th place with the team and 20th place in the individual
  • 2007 in Mannheim: with Cumano 10th place with the team and silver medal in the individual
  • 2011 in Madrid : with Valentina van´t Heike 7th place with the team and 23rd place in the individual
• Further:
  • 1 × World Cup winner ( 1994 on Libero H )
  • 8 × Dutch champion
  • 1 × winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen (1992 on Egano )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ successful horses ( Memento of 11 January 2006 at the Internet Archive ), schockemoehle.com
2. ↑ A visit to ex-world champion Jos Lansink. ludwigs-pferdewelten.de, accessed on July 7, 2013 . 
3. ^ Lansink as the star guest at the Baltic Horse Show welt.de on September 19, 2006
4. ↑ horseweb.de ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 
5. ↑ sport.ard.de ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ FEI world rankings show jumping number 121 (50 best international results of every show jumper from February 1, 2010 to January 31, 2011; PDF; 154 kB)
7. ↑ FEI Biography: Jos Lansink

Web links

Commons : Jos Lansink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Jos Lansink (Dutch, English)
• Jos Lansink in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )