Karsten Huck
Karsten Huck (born November 13, 1945 in Wohltorf ) is a German show jumper . His greatest success in show jumping is the bronze medal in the individual ranking at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . He is riding master at the FN and has been a trainer in Europe , USA and China for over 30 years .
biography
Huck was born as the son of the tournament rider Hans-Jürgen Huck. At the age of ten he started vaulting and then riding at the riding and driving school in Flensburg-Mürwik . After graduating from high school in 1965, he did his military service until 1967, completed an apprenticeship as a banker and began studying business administration in Hamburg , which he graduated in 1974 with a degree in business administration. Until 1977 he worked as managing director of a Hamburg apartment management company. In 1979 he decided to become a riding instructor and became an equestrian master craftsman with a focus on riding. Huck runs a tournament and training company in Schleswig-Holstein .
In April 1988 he married Brigitte Horn, who was also successful as a tournament rider in equestrian sports. They have two children together. The son of his sister Melitta is the German dressage rider Matthias Alexander Rath .
Sporty
Karsten Huck's interest in equestrian sport began at the age of ten. His father, Hans-Jürgen Huck, was an active tournament rider (winner of the 1951 Berlin Grand Prix) and riding instructor. He taught him vaulting and then riding. In 1956 he took part in his first show jumping competition in Bad Segeberg . He did his first S-jumping at the age of 22.
He started for the first time internationally in 1961 at the European Junior Championships in Berlin . In 1976 he took second place in the German Grand Prix. 1984 Huck became German champion in show jumping .
In 1978, Huck was recognized as a professional athlete . This cost him 1984 participation in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . After having been the state trainer for show jumping in Schleswig-Holstein from 1978 to 1986 , he worked in 1986 as the national trainer of the juniors at DOKR in Warendorf . During his tenure, among other things, René Tebbel won the German Junior Championship in 1986.
He was demoted to amateur in 1986 in order to obtain the right to participate in the Olympic Games and he qualified as an individual rider for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . Thanks to the cooperative action of Wolfgang Brinkmann , who won team gold and renounced his starting chance in the individual finals, Karsten Huck was able to start with Nepomuk 8 and take third place.
In 1989, he retired during a riding accident at the World Cup in Gothenburg a comminuted fracture in his right foot to what a longer break moved to it. A year later he took second place at the first World Equestrian Games with the German national team. Since then, Huck has ridden in numerous Nations Cups for Germany.
In 1989 Huck was awarded the Peace Rider Prize in Münster , and in 2005 the German Equestrian Association in Warendorf awarded him the title of "Riding Master".
Web links
- Karsten Huck in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- own web presence on karstenhuck.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karsten Huck on pferdia.de
- ↑ a b curriculum vitae on karstenhuck.de
- ↑ a b Information on karstenhuck.de
- ^ Munzinger archive: Matthias Rath
- ↑ German Championships 1959 to 2013 - Juniors and young riders in dressage and show jumping
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huck, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German show jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wohltorf |