Martin Schaudt

Martin Schaudt medal table
Dressage riding
Germany
Olympic games
gold	1996	Team (with Durgo )
gold	2004	Team (with space VA )
European championships
gold	1995	Team (with Durgo )
German championships
gold	1994	Men's ranking (with Durgo )
gold	1997	Men's ranking (with Durgo )
silver	2001	Men's ranking
gold	2004	Men's ranking (with Weltall VA )

Martin Schaudt (born December 7, 1958 in Balingen ) is a German dressage rider .

Career

Martin Schaudt was brought to ride by his father, who owned horses himself and was active as an eventing rider . After initially riding ponies, he later also took large horses under the saddle and at the age of 16 was Baden-Württemberg's junior champion in eventing. From 1979 to 1980 he was at the Bundeswehr sports school in Warendorf. There his Hanoverian chestnut gelding Egbert brought him to dressage because it turned out that his talents lay more in dressage than in eventing. Schaudt received support from his trainer at the time, Siegfried Peilicke, the former national trainer for young riders and juniors. With Egbert he achieved his first victories in advanced level dressage, received the Golden Rider Badge in 1985 and finally won his first Grand Prix.

Schaudt had started to study law , but then made equestrian sport his profession. At the father's request, however, he first completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . He then built his own dressage and training stable in Albstadt , which his father had acquired in 1973. The pastures are used all year round, as Schaudt prefers keeping horses with plenty of exercise and free contact with fellow dogs. In professional circles he is considered exotic because he puts expensive horses like Weltall VA (later under Dieter Laugks ), Elvis VA (later under Nadine Capellmann ) or Aramis (later under Sonja Bolz ) in a paddock with other horses .

successes

In 1995, Schaudt became European dressage rider champion with the team on his horse Durgo , a brown Westphalian gelding, and placed 4th in the individual ranking. Also with Durgo , he reached 9th place in the individual ranking at the 1996 Olympic Games and won gold with the team. With Weltall VA , a bay Hanoverian gelding by Weltmeyer x Picard (1994-2018), he was able to repeat this success at the 2004 Olympic Games , and again he won gold with the German dressage team. In 1994, 1997 and 2004 he became German Champion and, together with Weltall VA, still holds the world record with 2064 points in the most difficult dressage test in the world, the Grand Prix Spécial .

After the sale of Weltall in 2007, Schaudt no longer took part in international competition and concentrated on training young dressage horses. Together with his wife, he trained the mare Girasol , which he sold to Nadine Capellmann in May 2010 . With the Hanoverian gelding Despino , born in 2003 , he became Baden-Württemberg's state champion of dressage riders in 2011 and 2012. In September 2012 Schaudt sold Despino to the dressage rider Ute Kröger-Rück.

On March 16, 2005, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf for his sporting success .

Web links

• Official website
• Martin Schaudt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Press release on Martin Schaudt on stuttgart-german-masters.de (2004)
• Portrait on riderstour.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weltall VA is no longer alive, dressuraktuell.de, April 10, 2018
2. ↑ Girasol Sold to Nadine Capellmann , www.eurodressage.com (English)
3. ↑ Result of the Baden-Württemberg state championship dressage 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 52 kB) 
4. ↑ Result of the Baden-Württemberg state championship dressage 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 45 kB) 
5. ↑ Schaudt's Despino is sold , September 25, 2012
6. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 30, 2005 ... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...