Ludger Beerbaum

Ludger Beerbaum medal table
Ludger Beerbaum on Zinedine during the International Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden 2013
Show jumping
Germany
Olympic games
gold	1988	Team with The Freak
gold	1992	Single with a classic touch
gold	1996	Team with Ratina Z
gold	2000	Team with Goldfever
bronze	2016	Team with Casello
World Equestrian Games
silver	1990	Crew with gazelle
gold	1994	Team with Ratina Z
gold	1998	Team with PS Priam
bronze	2006	Team with L'Espoir
European championships
gold	1997	Team with Ratina Z
gold	1997	Single with Ratina Z
gold	1999	Team with Champion du Lys
bronze	2001	Team with Gladdys S
gold	2001	Single with Gladdys S
gold	2003	Team with Goldfever
silver	2003	Single with Goldfever
silver	2007	Team with Goldfever
bronze	2007	Single with Goldfever
gold	2011	Team with Gotha
silver	2013	Team with Chiara

Ludger Beerbaum (born August 26, 1963 in Detmold ) is a German show jumper .

He is one of the most successful international show jumpers of the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and during this time he achieved many individual and team successes, including at the Olympic Games , World and European Championships .

He is the brother of Markus Beerbaum and the brother-in-law of Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum , both of whom are also active as show jumpers.

biography

Private

Ludger Beerbaum was born the son of Horst and Mathilde Beerbaum and has three siblings. In 1953 his father left the GDR, where the family's farm was located in Wotenick near Demmin, and lived in the Federal Republic near Detmold. Ludger Beerbaum attended high school and graduated from high school in 1983. Beerbaum broke off a degree in business administration prematurely in favor of show jumping. Beerbaum is a second marriage and has three children.

Sporty

Ludger Beerbaum on Enorm on the warm-up area of ​​the Hamburg Derby in Klein Flottbek 2005

Ludger Beerbaum on A-Corrada at the CSIYH * of the 7-year-olds in Wiesbaden 2015

When Beerbaum was eight years old, his parents gave him his first pony , a Highland pony , although he had previously found little liking in horses . After the pony bit him badly on the arm, his interest in horses and equestrian sports died out for two years.

Later, Ludger Beerbaum was introduced to equestrian sport again by the father of a school friend , and he celebrated successes at the German Championships for Juniors and Young Riders at a young age , where he was runner-up in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He finished the European Young Rider Championships in 1984 with a bronze medal in both team and individual competitions.

In 1985 he gained a foothold in international tournament sport: at Hermann Schridde's request, he was given permission to start at the Maimarkt tournament in Mannheim , was also given the opportunity to compete at the CHIO Aachen and was part of a German national team in Dublin for the first time this year . From 1985 Beerbaum worked as a rider at the Paul Schockemöhles stable , who supported him in the following years. During this time he celebrated his first major successes, especially with the team Olympic victory at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and winning the German championship .

After private differences with Schockemöhle, he moved to the stable of the entrepreneur Alexander Moksel in Buchloe in 1989 , who provided Beerbaum with a large number of excellent top horses . During this time, the successes accumulated, the greatest of which was winning the individual Olympic gold medal in 1992 in Barcelona . Silver and gold medals with the team at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm in 1990 and in The Hague in 1994, as well as winning the German championships again in 1992 and 1993 , followed suit. The first World Cup victory by a German also stood out in 1993. Since that time, Beerbaum has definitely belonged to the top of the world of show jumping .

In 1995 he went into business for himself on a riding facility in Riesenbeck and with the help of new patrons , above all the entrepreneurial couple Dietrich Schulze and Madeleine Winter-Schulze , was able to keep many of his previous top horses. Further great successes followed, including a. Olympic team victories in 1996 and 2000 , another team world championship in 1998, several team and individual medals at European championships, five other German championships and three victories in the Riders Tour (see also under successes ). In 2001 Beerbaum judged himself:

"I have reached the zenith of my athletic career."

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Ludger Beerbaum was given the honor of leading the German athletes as the flag bearers during the opening ceremony . At the 2004 Olympic Games itself, Beerbaum made negative headlines when the German team was subsequently deprived of the team gold medal due to evidence of unauthorized medication from Beerbaum's horse Goldfever .

At the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, which took place in August and September 2006, he started with the ten-year-old gelding L'Espoir , with whom he won the bronze medal with the team and just barely missed the finals in the individual competition. He took 5th place in the overall ranking and refuted critics who had discussed the performance of his very young and inexperienced horse as insufficient before the start of the games and questioned the nomination.

On February 6, 2007 Ludger sold L'Espoir to Norway, where the gelding is now successfully ridden by Geir Gulliksen . Ludger Beerbaum explained about this controversial decision that it is quite normal for horses to be bought and sold. In July 2007, after being replaced by Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum at the beginning of September, he was back in first place in the world rankings after a long time. In August he made a significant contribution to winning the team silver medal during the European Championship in Mannheim. He was also able to assert himself in the individual competition there and won the bronze medal behind his sister-in-law Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and the current world champion (from Aachen 2006) Jos Lansink .

In June 2010, when he took part in the St. Gallen Nations Cup, he set the record for most starts in German show jumping competitions. Up to this point in time, Hans Günter Winkler had held this record with the 105th Nations Cup starts.

After he was not very successful in the second half of 2010, he slipped to 27th place in the world jumping rider rankings by May 2011. A bad position for his standards. In March 2012, Beerbaum was again third in the world rankings.

In September 2011 he won team gold with Gotha FRH at the European Championships in Madrid . In 2012 Beerbaum and his mare Gotha were among the Olympic aspirants. After a fall in Balve at the German championships, Beerbaum found that his mare was not in shape to take part in the Olympic Games . Thus, for the first time since 1988, he was not represented at the Games.

Also in 2013 and 2014, Beerbaum was part of the German championship team , both with Chiara . In June 2015 he contested his 125th Nations Cup for Germany at the CSIO in St. Gallen . He has already participated in 20 more Nations Cups than Hans Günter Winkler and 45 more Nations Cups than Franke Sloothaak (places two and three of the most popular Nations Cup riders for Germany) as a rider.

At the 2015 European Championships , Beerbaum was part of the German team with Chiara . In order to have a second top horse with a view to the Olympic Games, Madeleine Winter-Schulze bought the chestnut gelding Casello for Ludger Beerbaum . With Casello , Beerbaum was part of the victorious German team in the Nations Cup in Aachen and was nominated for the 2016 Summer Olympics with it .

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Beerbaum and Casello won bronze with the German team. This was his 24 participation in an international championship. He then stated that the Nations Cup final in Barcelona would be his last start for the German national team. At this 134th Nations Cup for Germany, he was once again the final rider of the German team, which won the Nations Cup final here.

Shortly before the turn of the year 2017/2018, Beerbaum fell and suffered a multiple fracture of the upper arm. This kept him from starting tournaments for three months.

Ludger Beerbaum has been part of a team in the Global Champions League since 2017 (2017: Cannes Stars, since 2018: Berlin Eagles). At the Global Champions Tour Super Grand Prix 2018 in Prague he came second with Casello .

further activities

In addition to his active sports career, Ludger Beerbaum runs a stallion station as well as a tournament and trading stable in Riesenbeck . Several trainers support Beerbaum with the training and presentation of the horses up to international championships. The Beerbaums team includes Henrik von Eckermann and Philipp Weishaupt , among others , Marco Kutscher worked for Beerbaum for many years .

In cooperation with Constantin Freiherr Heereman von Zuydtwyck , he had the equestrian center "Riesenbeck International", which opened in early 2015, built in Riesenbeck, which complements the tournament area of ​​the Riesenbeck equestrian club. Seminars and courses are held here, as well as national and international tournaments.

Ludger Beerbaum has been helping children with cancer in Perm, Russia, for several years . Beerbaum is Vice President of the International Jumping Rider Club (IJRC), the advocacy group for show jumpers who are among the top 100 in the world rankings.

Successful competition horses

Beerbaum and Zinedine at the International Whitsun tournament Wiesbaden 2013

Beerbaum and Chaman at the Vienna Masters 2013

Current

• Casello von Casall, mother's father: Carolus, Holstein chestnut gelding, born 2003, breeder: Herbert Blöcker , owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, ridden by Douglas Lindelöw until the end of 2015
• Chacon by Chacco-Blue, father of mother: Aventyno, Brown Oldenburg Wallach , born 2006, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze
• Cool feeling from Cornado NRW, father of mother: Lancer II, brown Rhenish sport horse, gelding, born 2008, breeder: Ulrich Pütz, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze

Formerly (sold)

• All Inclusive NRW by Arpeggio, mother's father: Phantom, dark brown Westphalian gelding , born in 1999, owner: Flaminia Straumann, was sold on March 11, 2009 to the sponsor of Denis Lynch
• L´Espoir von Landwind, mother's father: Feinschnitt, Zangersheider chestnut gelding , born in 1996, was sold to Geir Gulliksen at the beginning of 2007
• Lavillon by Diamant de Semilly, dam's father: Laudanum xx, bay Selle Français stallion, born in 1999, was sold to Olavi Pentti & Noora Forsten in Finland at the end of March 2010

Formerly (among other riders)

• Caresse von Cento, mother's father : Sandro, Hanoverian gray mare, born 2004, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, is currently ridden by Eva Bitter
• Gotha FRH by Goldfever I, mother's father: Prestige Pilot, Hanoverian chestnut mare, born 2001, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, is currently under Henrik von Eckermann
• Coupe de Coeur by Calido, father of mother: Lincoln, Holstein gray stallion, born 1997, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, ridden by Philipp Weißhaupt since summer 2013

Formerly (no longer active in sports)

• Chaman by Baloubet du Rouet, mother's father: I Love You, bay KWPN stallion, born 1999, retired from the sport in autumn 2017, died in 2019
• Champion du Lys von Laeken, dam's father: Largny, Selle Francais gray stallion, born in 1990, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, was taken out of the sport in Hamburg in 2006 after an 8th place in the derby, and was then used for breeding at the Schockemöhle station , returned to Riesenbeck after the breeding season in 2009 and was a stallion there until 2012 .
• Chiara von Contender, mother's father: Coronado, Holstein gray mare, born in 2003, died in 2019
• Classic Touch by Caletto II , dam's father: Landgraf, bay Holstein mare, born in 1984, became an individual Olympic champion in Barcelona in 1992 at the age of 8 under Beerbaum, after which Beerbaum gave the mare to her owner Ralf Schneider under contract. Classic Touch was used for breeding via embryo transfer after her jumping career in Belgium. In late 2008, she had on the farm of Ludger Beerbaum euthanized where they her last months with Ratina Z and Gladdys S had spent.
• Couleur Rubin by Cordalme Z, dam's father: Grannus, Oldenburg chestnut stallion , born 1996, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze, from 2013 active again as a sire in Switzerland
• Enormous by Escudo I, father of mother: Calypso II, dark brown Hanoverian gelding, born 1997, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze
• Gladdys S by Grandeur, father of mother: Apart, Westphalia chestnut mare, born 1992, owner: the Winter-Schulze couple
• Goldfever by Grosso Z, father of mother: Galvano, Hanoverian chestnut stallion, born 1991, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze
• Priamos von Pilot , mother's father: Direx, Westphalia chestnut gelding, born 1982, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze
• Ratina Z by Ramiro Z, mother's father: Alme, bay Hanoverian mare, born 1982, died 2010
• Rush On by Report, father of mother: Rivale, dark brown Westphalian gelding, born 1982, died 2007
• Zinedine von Guidam, mother's father: Heartbreaker, KWPN chestnut stallion, born 2004, owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze

doping

During the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Beerbaum's horse tested positive for the substance betamethasone . The substance is not used to improve performance, but in therapy, but according to the competition regulations - like many drugs - it is forbidden. Beerbaum claimed to have treated Goldfever's skin irritation with an ointment containing betamethasone , whereupon the substance got into the horse's bloodstream ; he did not manipulate performance. The list of substances prohibited in competition by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) divides the prohibited substances into doping substances, i.e. performance-enhancing agents, and substances used therapeutically. This classification plays a role in the assessment of the lock; As a result, Beerbaum was allowed to participate in the next Summer Olympics again. In September 2005, the Beerbaum / Goldfever couple was disqualified from the 2004 Olympic Games by the International Court of Justice (CAS). As a result, the deleted results were included in the evaluation and the German team fell back to 3rd place. Germany had to return the gold medals and the team subsequently received the bronze medal.

In May 2009, Beerbaum made negative headlines again when he confessed to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung : “Over the years I have established myself to make the most of what is possible. ... In the past I had the attitude: What is not found is allowed. ”He was then suspended from membership of any Nations Cup team by the German Equestrian Association until the DOSB Commission issued a statement on himself. At the end of July, the commission presented its interim report, which recommended that the German Equestrian Association regarding Ludger Beerbaum include him in a squad with certain conditions.

successes

Ludger Beerbaum on Champion du Lys on the warm-up area of ​​the CHIO in Aachen 2004

• Olympic games
  • 1988 in Seoul : Gold medal team on The Freak
  • 1992 in Barcelona : Gold medal singles on Classic Touch
  • 1996 in Atlanta : Gold medal team on Ratina Z
  • 2000 in Sydney : Gold medal team on Goldfever
  • 2008 in Hong Kong : 5th place team and 7th place individual on All Inclusive NRW
  • 2016 in Rio de Janeiro : 3rd place team on Casello

The team gold medal won with Goldfever at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was subsequently revoked, see doping .

• World Championships :
  • 1990 in Stockholm : Silver medal team on Gazelle
  • 1994 in The Hague : Gold medal team on Ratina Z
  • 1998 in Rome : Gold medal team on PS Priamos
  • 2006 in Aachen : bronze medal team on L'Espoir
• European Championships :
  • 1997 in Mannheim : Gold medal team, gold medal individual on Ratina Z
  • 1999 in Hickstead : Gold medal team on Champion du Lys
  • 2001 in Arnhem : bronze medal team, gold medal individual on Gladdys S.
  • 2003 in Donaueschingen : Gold medal team, silver medal individual on Goldfever
  • 2007 in Mannheim : silver medal team, bronze medal individual on Goldfever
  • 2011 in Madrid : Gold medal team on Gotha
  • 2013 in Herning : Silver medal team on Chiara
  • 2015 in Aachen : Silver medal team on Chiara
• Further:
  • World Cup winner 1993 on Ratina Z , 3 × World Cup runner-up (2002 on Gladdys S , 2010 on Gotha , 2014 with Chaman and Chiara )
  • 9 × German champion (1988, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2011)
  • 5 × winner of the Riders Tour ("Rider of the Year"; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2011)
  • 3 × winner in the Grand Prix of Aachen (1996 on Ratina Z ; 2002 and 2003 each on Goldfever ) and 2nd place with All Inclusive NRW in 2008
  • 2 × winner of the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg (1998 and 2003 each on Champion du Lys )
  • Victories 2007: Championship of Hamburg (CSI 4 *) with Couleur Rubin , Schlosspark Prize at the Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden (CSI 4 *) with All Inclusive NRW , Grand Prix of Donaueschingen (CSI 3 *) with Goldfever , Grand Prix of Brussels (CSI 5 *) with Enorm , Grand Prix of Geneva (CSI 5 * -W) with All Inclusive NRW and with the team in the Nations Cup of La Baule (CSIO 5 *, with Couleur Rubin ) and Aachen (CSIO 5 *, with Goldfever )
  • Victories 2008: Grand Prix at the Rolinck Cup Münster with Enorm and in the Nations Cups in Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *, with Coupe de Coeur ) and Aachen (CSIO 5 *, with All Inclusive NRW )
  • Victories 2009: Championship at the K + K Cup in Münster with Goldfever , Rolex Grand Prix in Zurich (CSI 5 * -W) with All Inclusive NRW , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic in Dortmund (CSI 3 *) with Coupe de Coeur , Grand Prix of Helsinki (CSI 5 * -W) with Lavillon , Grand Prix of Stuttgart ( World Cup test , CSI 5 * -W) with Gotha
  • Victories 2010: Championship of the City of Basel (CSI 4 *) with Couleur Rubin
  • Victories 2011: Grand Prix of Wiesbaden (CSI 4 *) with Chaman , Grand Prix of Stuttgart (World Cup competition, CSI 5 * -W) with Gotha and in the Nations Cup of Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *, with Gotha FRH )
  • Victories 2012: Grand Prix of the Federal Republic (CSI 3 * Dortmund) with Chaman , Grand Prix of Rome (CSIO 5 *) with Gotha , 1st place in the Le Saut Hermès pair jumping of Paris with Chiara , Grand Prix of Valkenswaard (CSI 5 *) with Chaman , Grand Prix of Münster (CSI 4 *) with Chaman , Nations Challenge at the CSI 5 * Rio de Janeiro with Chaman (team with Marco Kutscher with Cornet's Cristallo ), 1st place in the Grand Prix of Hanover with Chaman and in the Nations Cup from Rome (CSIO 5 *, with Gotha FRH ) and Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *, with Gotha FRH )
  • Victories 2013: Grand Prix at Saut Hermès (CSI 5 * Paris) with Chaman , Göteborg Trophy (framework tournament of the World Cup finals ) with Chaman , Grand Prix of Donetsk (CSI 5 *) with Chiara and in the Nations Cups of Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *, with Chiara ) and Hickstead (CSIO 5 *, with Chiara )
  • Wins 2014: Grand Prix of Doha (CSI 5 *) with Chiara , Grand Prix of Lyon (CSI 3 *, framework tournament of the World Cup finals) with Chaman , Grand Prix of Lausanne (CSI 5 *) with Chaman , German Master at the Stuttgart German Masters ( CSI 5 * -W) with Chaman
  • Victories 2015: Grand Prix of the CSIO 5 * Mannheim with Chiara , Grand Prix of Münster (CSI 4 *) with Chaman , Grand Prix of the Beijing Masters (CSI 3 * Beijing National Stadium) with Leonidas
  • Victories 2016: Grand Prix of the March CSI 5 * tournament in Doha with Chiara , Grand Prix of Hamburg (CSI 5 *) with Casallo , Grand Prix of Chantilly (CSI 5 *) with Chiara as well as in the Nations Cups of Aachen (CSIO 5 *, with Casello ), Hickstead (CSIO 5 *, with Chiara ) and in the Nations Cup final in Barcelona (CSIO 5 *, with Casello )
  • Victories 2017: Global Champions League of Madrid with Chiara (CSI 5 * / together with Marco Kutscher), Grand Prix of the Riesenbeck International Indoors (CSI 2 *) with Cool Down
  • Wins 2019: Global Champions League from Chantilly with Cool Feeling (CSI 5 * / together with Christian Kukuk)
• Awards:
  • Silver bay leaf
  • 1992 Bambi
  • 2006 Sportsman of the Year - Sparkasse Prize for role models in sport
  • 2008 Most successful rider in the Samsung Super League and at the GCT final tournament in Sao Paulo

Publications as editor (selection)

• Gerrit Wöckener: Lexicon for horse lovers . Bassermann, 2002, ISBN 3-8094-1090-X .
• Sibylle Luise Binder, Gefion Wolf: Learning to ride . Bassermann, 2002, ISBN 3-8094-1234-1 .

See also

• List of the most successful summer Olympians

literature

• Susanne Strübel: Ludger Beerbaum. Success is not a coincidence . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07797-7 .

Web links

Commons : Ludger Beerbaum  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ludger Beerbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludger Beerbaum in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• own web presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Father" Horst Beerbaum died at the age of 72 ( memento from November 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Association information of the state association MV for riding, driving and vaulting e. V. of January 6, 2009
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ludger Beerbaum: After 158 starts for Germany it's over , Julia Basic / Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, September 25, 2016
3. ↑ Last instance: German riders lose Olympic gold. faz.net , September 5, 2005, accessed April 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Ludger Beerbaum now the sole record Nations Cup rider ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the German Equestrian Association
5. ↑ FEI world rankings show jumping from the 114th world rankings ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ current FEI world rankings show jumping ( Memento from August 1st, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Pferdplus: Ludger Beerbaum from the Olympic race , accessed on July 20, 2012
8. ↑ The German Nations Cup kings , table in the article "Mannheim hosts international show jumping match from July 16 to 19 - The 100th Nations Cup" (PM Forum Digital, issue 04/2015)
9. ↑ Four out of five: Tricky Olympic elimination , July 11, 2016
10. ↑ Equestrian Worldwide: “You should stop with a success” - Ludger Beerbaum announces resignation from the national team. Retrieved August 18, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Ludger Beerbaum: Back in the saddle next week , spring-reiter.de, March 2, 2018
12. ↑ see the headings "Show Stables" and "Stallion Station" on Ludger Beerbaum's website
13. ^ Riesenbeck International is open , Reiter Revue International , March 29, 2015
14. ↑ About us , LBBH GbR
15. ↑ Committee of the IJRC (English)
16. ↑ FEI horse database: Casello
17. ↑ Cool Feeling - LONGINES GLOBAL CHAMPIONS TOUR. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
18. ↑ BEL08715 - L'ESPOIR (NOR) ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
19. ↑ Chaman is retiring from sport , zuechterforum.com, September 28, 2017
20. ↑ Chaman dies in his box , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, July 1, 2019
21. ↑ Beerbaums Chiara received , Sylvia Sánchez / Reiter Revue International, April 24, 2019
22. ↑ Ingo Wolff / Der Tagesspiegel : "Dumb, but honest" ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 11, 2004
23. ↑ Annex II, Equine prohibited list, substances and methods prohibited in-competition ( Memento of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
24. ↑ Reiterverband suspends Ludger Beerbaum , May 28, 2009
25. ↑ Interim report of the Steiner Commission: There is no such thing as a “ wildfire ” , equi-news.de, October 28, 2015
26. ↑ Database on the homepage of the IOC May 2006
27. ↑ Portraits of athletes: Ludger Beerbaum ( memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), website of the German Equestrian Association
28. ↑ Successes ( memento of March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of Ludger Beerbaum
29. ↑ Rider portraits on Riderstour.de - Ludger Beerbaum ( Memento from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )