Lars Petersen

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Lars Petersen Dressage riding
Lars Petersen with Willano - Hamburg 2014.JPG

Lars Petersen with Willano at the German Dressage Derby 2014

nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark (until 2017) United States
United StatesUnited States 
birthday September 3, 1965
place of birth Grief
Career
discipline Dressage riding
Important successes
Second World Cup final in 2002
Medal table
European championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
European championships
bronze 1999 Arnhem Crew (with Cavan )
bronze 2001 Verden Crew (with Cavan )
last change: July 9, 2017

Lars Petersen (born September 3, 1965 in Gram , Region Syddanmark ) is a dressage rider . Since July 2017 he has been competing in sports for the United States of America , before he started for Denmark .

Career

Petersen started riding as a child. He went to the United States for the first time in the 1980s. In 1993 he returned to his home country and worked as a rider at Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen's Blue Hors stud . The following years that he worked there were the most successful of his sports career, he managed to move up to second place in the world rankings.

At his first international championship, the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he finished 12th in the singles saddle of Uffe Korshøjgaard . Two years later he competed at the World Equestrian Games in Rome with Cavan, who was only eight at the time , where he was also part of a Danish one Championship team.

At the 1999 European Championships in Arnhem, he won team bronze with Lone Jörgensen , Anne van Olst and Jon Pedersen . He was able to repeat this success two years later. He achieved his greatest individual success at the 2002 World Cup final , where he took second place with Cavan . In the same year he left Denmark again and first moved to Virginia. Later moved to Florida within the United States. He is based here in Loxahatchee , which is just a few miles from Wellington's equestrian stronghold .

Even after his return to the United States, he was able to continue riding Cavan and introduce him to tournaments. This was followed by joint appearances at the World Equestrian Games in 2002, the Olympic Games in 2004 and the European Championships in 2005. In 2007 Cavan was retired from the sport.

In the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, the Blue Hors stud provided him with the gelding Gredstedgårds Casmir , which Sune Hansen had previously ridden. But there were only a few starts of the two, and there was no Olympic start. Lars Petersen returned to top international sport with the mare Mariett : In June 2013 he was part of the Danish team in the Rotterdam Nations Cup, and he qualified with her for the German Dressage Derby at the beginning of June 2014 in Hamburg. He won this test with horse change, but he rode his second Grand Prix horse Willano here .

After a few weeks later with Mariett he was also part of the Danish team at the Nations Cup at the CHIO Aachen , he was nominated for the 2014 World Equestrian Games , which he then played with Mariett . After more than a decade of abstinence, he took part in the World Cup finals in Las Vegas in April 2015 . He then concentrated again increasingly on tournament sports in the United States. In addition, he has been giving regular training sessions for riders at the Danish Blue Hors stud since 2014 .

Lars Petersen became a US citizen in February 2016. At the beginning of July 2017, the change of nation in sport took place. He is married to the American dressage rider Melissa Taylor.

successes

  • World Equestrian Games :
    • 1998, Rome: with Cavan 5th place with the team and 11th place in the individual
    • 2002, Jerez de la Frontera: 4th place with Cavan with the team and 9th place in the individual
    • 2014, Caen : with Mariett 7th place with the team and 28th place in the individual
  • European Championships :
    • 1999, Arnhem: 3rd place with Cavan with the team and 6th place in the individual
    • 2001, Verden: 3rd place with Cavan with the team and 5th place in the individual
  • World Cup Finals :
    • 2001, Vilhelmsborg near Aarhus: 4th place with Cavan
    • 2002, 's-Hertogenbosch: 2nd place with Cavan
    • 2015, Las Vegas : 2nd place with Mariett

Horses (excerpt)

  • Mariett (* 1998), dark brown Danish mare, father: Come Back II, father of mother : Sidney; last used in international sport in 2016
  • Blue Hors Cavan (1990–2015), bay Hanoverian stallion ( castrated in 2000 after a hernia ), father: Cavalier, mother's father: Damnatz
  • Uffe Korshøjgaard (1985–2009), bay stallion, father: Claudie Damsgård, mother's father: Kalpak xx

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c FEI biography: Lars Petersen
  2. ↑ Lars Petersen , psofsweden.com
  3. ^ Lars Petersen says Adieu to Denmark , horsesdaily.com, October 15, 2001
  4. ^ A b Edward Gal and Lars Petersen to Ride Blue Hors Grand Prix Horses , eurodressage.com, October 25, 2011
  5. ↑ Results World Equestrian Games 2002, Dressage
  6. ^ A b Farewell to Blue Hors Cavan , St. Georg , March 5, 2015
  7. ↑ British win FEI Nations Cup ™ Dressage in Rotterdam, but Dutch stay top of league table , Louise Parkes / fei.org, June 20, 2013
  8. ^ Result Nations Cup, CDIO 5 * Aachen 2014
  9. ↑ Lars Petersen in the FEI success database
  10. ↑ Lars Petersen to Train Blue Hors Stud Riders , October 23, 2014
  11. ↑ Lars Petersen now flying the US flag , globalquestriannews.com, July 9, 2017
  12. ↑ FEI horse database: Mariett
  13. ↑ Danish dressage ace heads for US , Horse & Hound , October 26, 2001
  14. ↑ FEI horse database: Blue Hors Cavan
  15. ↑ Danish Olympic Team Horse Uffe Korshøjgaard died , eurodressage.com, November 10, 2009
  16. ↑ Descent from Uffe Korshøjgaard , sukuposti.net
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-American dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Gram (Haderslev Commune)