Mathilda Karlsson

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The rider and her fox-colored horse overcome a steep jump coming from the left. They are still in the air shortly before the front hooves reach the ground of the grass field again. In the background there is a fully occupied grandstand, a judge's house and a scoreboard.
Mathilda Karlsson with Candy (2011)

Mathilda Thanuja Karlsson (born September 27, 1984 in Kandy , Sri Lanka ) is a Swedish- Sri Lankan show jumper . Since 2018 she starts in sport for Sri Lanka.

Career

Mathilda Karlsson was born in Sri Lanka. At the age of three months she was adopted by a family from Kristianstad and from then on lived in Sweden. In addition to the Swedish passport that she received through adoption, Karlsson continued to retain Sri Lankan citizenship.

First work with horses

Karlsson started riding lessons in a riding school when he was six. At first she mainly enjoyed looking after and handling the horses, it was only later that she became interested in the sporting competition. After graduating from school, Mathilda Karlsson made equestrian sport her profession, she trained as a rider . As part of a ten-week internship abroad, she came to Breitenburg (Germany) in the stable, where Rolf-Göran Bengtsson , whom she names as one of her role models, also worked.

Here she met the bakery entrepreneur and breeder of Holstein show jumpers Manfred von Allwörden, who at the beginning of 2012 had taken over the Grönwohldhof in Grönwohld near Trittau, where the dressage rider Karin Rehbein had previously been based. There Mathilda Karlsson took over the training of the show jumpers.

Participation in tournaments

Mathilda Karlsson only got to know Sri Lanka, the country of her birth, in 2017 during a vacation trip. As a result, she decided to no longer start in sport for Sweden, but for Sri Lanka. Through the sponsorship of her partner, a Hamburg real estate entrepreneur, Karlsson was part of the Global Champions League team "Hamburg Giants" in 2019 . This gave her the opportunity to compete in the highly endowed CSI 5 * tournaments of the Global Champions Tour . In previous years she had already competed in tournaments on the Global Champions Tour several times. However, Karlsson has not yet been able to record any major individual successes in major international grand prizes. In August 2017 she came in 2nd place in the Grand Prix of a CSI 2 * with the mare Quantina in the framework program of the Global Champions Tour tournament in London .

In May 2020 there was a fire on Grönwohldhof. A living and stable building burned down and two horses died in the flames. 26 horses, including Mathilda Karlsson's competition horses, were saved.

Qualification for the Summer Olympics

As of December 31, 2019, it was clear that Sri Lanka had won a single starting place at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo thanks to the results of Mathilda Karlsson . Protest against this was loud, as Karlsson had achieved the necessary successes mainly at three tournaments in Villeneuve-Loubet in December 2019. Due to the announcement, there were only very few riders at the start at these tournaments. The World Equestrian Federation FEI then checked the tournaments and found that two tests had been added to each of these tournaments after the entry deadline , which counted for the Olympic ranking list. Although the changed timing was originally approved by the FEI, the FEI declared the additional tests in accordance with the FEI rules to be inadmissible and therefore canceled. With that, Karlsson lost ranking points; Kenneth Cheng , who is now better placed, initially got her starting position for Hong Kong.

Mathilda Karlsson appealed against the FEI's decision to the International Court of Justice for Sports . This overturned the FEI's decision. Since the changed schedules were accepted by the FEI, it was a human error for the FEI. The deletion of the results is therefore not permissible. Karlsson got her ranking points back and the Olympic starting place of group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania) went back to Sri Lanka. Since Sri Lanka has no other internationally active show jumper, Karlsson and her stallion Chopin were nominated for the Olympic Games. There she was eliminated from the qualifying test for the individual finals due to two refusals from her horse.

Horses (in selection)

  • Chopin VA (* 2009), dark bay Holstein stallion, father: Casall, mother's father : Coriano, breeder: Manfred von Allwörden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sri Lanka Embassy in Germany felicitates Equestrian Mathilda Karlsson ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics , Embassy of Sri Lanka, June 18, 2021
  2. ^ Mathilda Karlsson , olympic.lk
  3. ↑ FEI person detail: Mathilda Karlsson
  4. ↑ a b c d Olympia for Sri Lanka - because the heart wants it , Björn Jensen / Hamburger Abendblatt, February 8, 2020
  5. ↑ a b Riding for Sri Lanka, Mathilda Karlsson Is Breaking Down Barriers on Her Way to Achieving the Olympic Dream , Lizzy Youngling / noellefloyd.com, May 8, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Show jumping rider Mathilda Karlsson: With the child ID to Tokyo , Gabriele Pochhammer / Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 6, 2020
  7. ^ FEI Biographies: Mathilda Karlsson
  8. ↑ Bakery owner buys Grönwohldhof , January 3, 2012
  9. ^ FEI results database: Mathilda Karlsson
  10. ↑ Result CSI 2 * Final, supporting program of the Longines Global Champions Tour of London 2017
  11. ↑ Fire at Grönwohldhof - two horses dead , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, May 21, 2020
  12. ↑ THW demolishes traditional stable in Grönwohldhof after fire , Lübecker Nachrichten, May 22, 2020
  13. ↑ FEI admits: There were mistakes in the Olympic qualifying tournaments for show jumpers , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, February 17, 2020
  14. ↑ Qualification System - Games of the XXXII Olympiad - Tokyo 2020: Equestrian - Jumping , Published 24 June 2021, fei.org (PDF)
  15. ↑ CAS cancels FEI decision: Mathilda Karlsson is allowed to go to the Olympics! , spring-reiter.de, April 20, 2021
  16. ↑ World ranking list show jumping
  17. ↑ Definite Entries - Jumping , Games of the XXXII Olympiad, fei.org (PDF)
  18. ^ FEI horse database: Chopin VA
personal data
SURNAME Karlsson, Mathilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karlsson, Mathilda Thanuja
SHORT DESCRIPTION Swedish-Sri Lankan show jumper
BIRTH DATE September 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Kandy