Kristina Bröring-Sprehe

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Winner Kristina Sprehe (center) at the award ceremony of the German Championship Grand Prix Special 2015 in Balve with Isabell Werth (left) and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (right).

Kristina Bröring-Sprehe (birth name Kristina Sprehe ; born October 28, 1986 in Lohne ) is a German dressage rider from Dinklage .

Career

When Kristina Sprehe was four years old, her father bought the first pony for her and her twin sister Tanja. Sprehe already specialized in dressage in her youth and took part in German championships for the first time when she was twelve. Her twin sister began to concentrate on show jumping. In 2002, Nathan took part in the European Pony Dressage Championships. A year later she started with the juniors for the first time and won an individual medal at an international championship for the first time. Also in 2003 she was the first German champion in her age group. Until the end of her young rider days, she took part in further international championships.

At the end of 2010 she took over the stallion Desperados, who was born in the Hanover breeding area . He was trained by Falk Rosenbauer and was instrumental in his winning the German Dressage Derby 2010.

After successful appearances by Sprehe and Desperados in the second half of 2011 (results of over 75 percent each at the CDI 4 * tournaments in Donaueschingen and Oldenburg), Kristina Sprehe was appointed to the A-squad of German dressage riders. At the Stuttgart German Masters she won the final of the Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation Prize - the final of the Piaff Prize - in her final year as a U25 rider .

She had her breakthrough in top international sport at the CDI 4 * Dortmund in March 2012: Here she and Desperados won the final of the Meggle Champions ( Grand Prix Spécial , 81.978%) against Laura Bechtolsheimer / Mistral Hojris and Ulla Salzgeber / Herzruf's Erbe, among others .

After she had always ridden the Grand Prix Spécial-Tour at international tournaments, at the beginning of the "green season" 2012 at the CDI 4 * Hagen aTW she competed in a Grand Prix Freestyle for the first time with Desperados and achieved a result of 83.775 percent.

Through their performances between August 2011 and March 2012, they rose in less than eight months in the top 20 in the FEI world ranking on the world ranking of the end of March 2012, she climbed from 125 at No. 17. Because of these successes, she took with Desperados on participated in the Olympic Games in London . With Dorothee Schneider and Helen Langehanenberg , she won the silver medal in the dressage team competition.

In addition to the Grand Prix sport, she also had a great success with a young horse in 2012: the Oldenburg stallion, Fürst Fugger , ridden by her, won the Bundeschampionat for six-year-old dressage horses. For Sprehe this was her first start at a Bundeschampionat. In November 2012, she was fifth in the world rankings with Desperados . At the European Championships in Herning in August 2013, she won the team competition with Isabell Werth , Helen Langehanenberg and Fabienne Lütkemeier .

Until autumn 2013, Sprehe trained with the dressage instructor Jürgen Koschel , Christoph Koschel's father , at the Beckerode farm in Hagen am Teutoburg Forest . Since then she has increasingly taken care of the training and care of the dressage stallions at the Sprehe stud.

She started the German championships in 2014 with a new individual best result of 84.720 percent in the Grand Prix with Desperados . A day later they both won their first German championship title in the Grand Prix Special. In the Grand Prix Freestyle, too, Sprehe and Desperados won the gold medal, with the result being over 90 percent for the first time. At the World Equestrian Games in Normandy , she won the world title with the German team, which had the same line-up as at the European Championships a year earlier. In the Grand Prix Spécial she won the bronze medal with 79.762 percent, in the Grand Prix Freestyle she was fourth.

At the European Championships in 2015 , she won the silver medal in both individual ratings. In February 2016 she was world number one for the first time together with Desperados . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she won the gold medal with the German dressage team, and in the individual competition she also won the bronze medal with Desperados .

In February 2020 Desperados FRH died unexpectedly from an aortic rupture.

Private

Kristina Bröring-Sprehe is the daughter of the entrepreneur Paul Sprehe, who, together with his brother Albert Sprehe, runs the Sprehe delicatessen group and the Sprehe stud in Löningen . Kristina and her twin sister Tanja attended high school in Lohne, Lower Saxony, until the summer of 2006 . After completing her school career, she studied business administration with a focus on law at the University of Oldenburg . She has been in a relationship with Christian Bröring, whom she married in 2015, since her youth. On August 29, 2019, they became parents to a daughter.

Her cousin Jörne Sprehe and her cousin Jan Sprehe are also successful in dressage and show jumping and have already won medals at international championships.

Kristina lives with her husband and child in Dinklage, Lower Saxony, and dedicates herself to dressage and her career.

Horses

current:
former successful horses:
  • Desperados FRH (* 2001; † 2020), Hanoverian black stallion, father: De Niro, mother's father: Wolkenstein II, ridden by Falk Rosenbauer until the end of 2010
  • Diddi Keeps Cool NRW (* 1993), German riding pony , chestnut stallion, father: Derano Gold, mother's father: Derbino
  • Wyoming 93 (* 1990), Hanoverian chestnut gelding, father: Wendehals, mother's father: Gulf Stream II
  • Rose Noir 2 (* 1997), Oldenburg black mare, father: Royal Angelo I, mother's father: Welt As, sold to the United States
  • Royal Flash 85 (* 1996; † 2012), bay Saxon riding horse wallach, father: Royal de Saxe, mother's father: Duralin I; Ridden by Anastasia Nikolaewa from 2011, put to sleep in 2012 due to a broken leg
  • Donnerball (* 2000; † 2015) Oldenburg dark chestnut stallion, father: Donnerhall, mother's father: Alabaster
  • Fürst Fugger (* 2006), Oldenburg black stallion, father: Fürst Heinrich, mother's father: Weltmeyer ; sold to the Colombian Marco Bernal

successes

Championships and World Cup

  • Olympic Games :
    • 2012 , London: with Desperados 2nd place with the team and 8th place in the individual ranking
    • 2016 , Rio de Janeiro: with Desperados 1st place with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
  • World Championships:
    • 2014 , Normandy: with Desperados 1st place with the team, 3rd place in the Grand Prix Spécial, 4th place in the Grand Prix Freestyle
  • European Championships :
    • 2002, Hagen aTW (pony rider): with Diddi Keeps Cool NRW 1st place with the team and 4th place in the individual ranking
    • 2003, Saumur (Juniors): 2nd place with Wyoming with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
    • 2004, Aarhus (Juniors): 1st place with Wyoming with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
    • 2006, Stadl-Paura (Young Riders): 1st place with Rose Noir with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
    • 2007, Nußloch (Young Riders): with Royal Flash 2nd place with the team, 2nd place in the individual evaluation and 4th place in the individual evaluation / freestyle
    • 2013, Herning : with Desperados 1st place with the team, 5th place in the individual ranking (Grand Prix Spécial) and 5th place in the individual ranking (Grand Prix Freestyle)
    • 2015, Aachen : with Desperados 3rd place with the team and 2nd place in the individual ranking (Grand Prix Spécial) and 2nd place in the individual ranking (Grand Prix Freestyle)
  • German championships :
    • 2000, Exter (pony rider): 8th place with Nathan
    • 2001, Elmlohe (pony rider): 9th place with Nathan
    • 2002, Kreuth: 4th place in the pony riders with Diddi Keeps Cool NRW , 9th place in the juniors with Wyoming
    • 2003, Aachen (Juniors): 1st place with Wyoming
    • 2004, Steinfeld (Juniors): 3rd place with Rose Noir
    • 2005, Zeiskam (Young Riders): 7th place with Rose Noir
    • 2006, Freudenberg (Young Riders): 4th place with Rose Noir
    • 2007, Steinfeld (Young Riders): 2nd place with Royal Flash
    • 2012, Balve: 3rd place in the Grand Prix Spécial (82.311%) and 3rd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle (86.500%) with Desperados
    • 2014, Balve: 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial (83.784%) and 1st place in the Grand Prix Freestyle (90.150%) with Desperados
    • 2015, Balve: 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial (82.490%) and 1st place in the Grand Prix Freestyle (87.275%) with Desperados
    • 2016, Balve: 3rd place in the Grand Prix Spécial (81.922%) and 2nd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle (86.075%) with Desperados

Awards

In November 2012, she and 163 other athletes were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf . In addition, she has already been twice, in 2012 and 2013, by the Oldenburgische Volkszeitung, based in the district of Vechta, as sportswoman of the year for her successes. In 2013 she was also nominated for the Lower Saxony athlete of the year election.

literature

  • Franz-Josef Schlömer: A dream duo enchants the dressage world - Kristina Bröring-Sprehe and Desperados . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2017 (Ed .: Heimatbund für das Oldenburger Münsterland). 2016, pp. 336–346

Web links

Commons : Kristina Bröring-Sprehe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athlete profile ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Portrait: Kristina Sprehe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dressursport-deutschland.de  
  3. ↑ a b Star portraits of the German Equestrian Association : Kristina Sprehe ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Press reports from Löningen: Reiter genes are successfully inherited ( memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Nordwest-Zeitung , November 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Dressage rider Sprehe new in the A-team , December 2nd, 2011
  6. ↑ Final Piaff Award: Victory for Kristina Sprehe and Desperados , Susanne Hennig / German Equestrian Association, November 18, 2011
  7. ↑ result final of the MEGGLE CHAMPIONS, Grand Prix Special
  8. ^ Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle, Horses & Dreams 2012
  9. ↑ Germany's Kristina Sprehe Vaults Into Top 20 in World Rankings , dressage-news.com, April 2012.
  10. ↑ current and previous dressage world rankings ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Sprehe and Fürst Fugger on the championship title , dressursport-deutschland.de, September 1, 2012
  12. ↑ Kristina Sprehe no longer trains with Koschel , dressursport-deutschland.de, October 26, 2013
  13. ↑ World rankings dressage
  14. ↑ Dressage: German team rides to the gold medal - Olympics 2016 | STERN.de. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Horse News. Accessed June 14, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ FEI horse database: Desperados FRH
  17. ↑ DIDDI KEEPS COOL. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  18. ↑ HorseTelex. In: horsetelex.nl. August 1, 2016, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  19. ^ Performance Pedigree of Rose Noir 2 - Hippomundo. In: hippomundo.com. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  20. ↑ FEI horse database: Royal Flash 85 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Anastasia did it! ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), July 7, 2011
  22. ^ Danny Wilde and Royal Flash died , Horse Review, April 27, 2012
  23. ↑ FEI horse database: Donnerball
  24. ^ FEI horse database: Fuerst Fugger
  25. ↑ Olympic rider honored by the Federal President , St. Georg, November 9, 2012
  26. ↑ Top athletes in 2007 come from dressage, sprint and volleyball (PDF; 390 kB), Oldenburgische Volkszeitung, February 12, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Bröring-Sprehe, Kristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sprehe, Kristina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Rewards