Matthias Alexander Rath

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Matthias Alexander Rath (born August 2, 1984 in Lübeck ), often just called Matthias Rath , is a German dressage rider.

Life / athletic career

First successes

Matthias Alexander Rath comes from a successful family of equestrians: his father, Klaus-Martin Rath is a master horse manager; his uncle, Karsten Huck , a successful show jumper and bronze medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . He was also influenced by his stepmother, Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff .

At the age of three he was already interested in dressage and watched his father ride for hours. He celebrated his first successes with the horses of his stepmother Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff, first with Red Liner , later (early 2006) he took over Renoir-Unicef . With Renoir-Unicef ​​he gained his first experience at Grand Prix level. At that time, with the help of Renoir-Unicef , who was retired from sport in 2007, he reached number 65 in the world rankings.

International breakthrough

Rath was able to record a significant career leap after his stepmother had decided to leave him her successful horse Sterntaler-Unicef . Already at his first international tournament with Sterntaler-Unicef ​​he was able to attract attention, with a second place in the strong Grand Prix Spécial as part of the Horses & Dreams tournament in Hagen am Teutoburg Forest (April 2008). Six weeks later he became the (last) German dressage champion in the men's class. As a result of this performance, he was appointed to the championship squad, and the line-up for the Nations Cup team at the CHIO Aachen followed.

In 2009 and 2010 he was part of the German dressage team at the international championships with Sterntaler-Unicef .

In addition to his equestrian career, he studied business administration and finished his studies in May 2011. As a result, he took over the management of the breeding station at the family-owned Schafhof stud.

Time with Totilas

After Paul Schockemöhle bought the "wonder horse" Totilas , previously ridden by Edward Gal , in October 2010 , he formed an owner association with Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff. Rath became the new rider of Totilas. At the beginning of June 2011 they played the first joint tournament at the CDI 3 * Munich-Riem. Two weeks later, Totilas won the German championship titles in the Grand Prix Spécial and in the Grand Prix Freestyle. At the CHIO Aachen they won all three individual tests in the CDIO 5 * tour. As a result, Rath and Totilas were nominated for the German European Championship team , where neither could win individual medals.

As a result, several tournament appearances were canceled due to injuries. After the European Championships in 2011 there was an eight-month tournament break, interrupted only by two presentations at stallion shows. Rath and Totilas had their first tournament appearance in 2012 at the CDI 4 * Horses & Dreams in Hagen aTW, where they won the Grand Prix de Dressage (83.809%).

Due to an illness Rath could not take part in the CHIO Aachen 2012, due to a relapse of the illness on July 5, 2012 the end of participation in the 2012 Olympic Games was announced. The rides in Hagen remained the last joint tournament appearances for over two years, only in May 2014 Rath and Totilas started again at the CDI 3 * Kapellen. During this time, Rath was active in sport with young horses. Shortly before the start of the 2014 World Equestrian Games , Totilas kicked himself against an over leg in the training camp, whereupon it was decided to forego participation "for the benefit of the horse". At the 2015 European Championships in Aachen , Rath and Totilas received a rating of only 75.971 percent in the team competition, so that the German team only achieved bronze. After the ride was marked by clear imprecise timing , Totilas was later taken to a veterinary clinic and examined, where bone edema was found on the left hind leg.

After further setbacks, Schockemöhle spoke out in favor of Totilas' final career.

After 2015

In the years 2016 to 2018, Rath devoted himself to training younger horses in particular. International tournament starts up to intermediaire level took place primarily at tournaments in southern Europe. With the Hanoverian stallion Destacado , he finished second at the World Championships for 5-year-old dressage horses in 2018. For the first time since 2015, Rath was part of a German team again in July 2019: at the CDIO 5 * Falsterbo he was with the Stallion Foundation , which will be his Grand -Prix had made his debut at the start.

Competition horses

Current

  • Foundation (* 2008), bay Hanoverian stallion, father: Fidertanz, mother's father : De Vito
  • Destacado FRH (* 2013), Hanoverian chestnut stallion, father: Desperados FRH, mother's father: Londonderry

Former

  • Totilas (* 2000), KWPN black stallion, father: Gribaldi, mother's father: Glendale; ridden by Edward Gal until the World Equestrian Games 2010 , retired from the sport in 2015 due to bone edema
  • Renoir-Unicef ​​(* 1991, originally Renoir R), bay Oldenburg gelding, father: Rubinstein I, mother's father: Winston, owner: Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff, retired from sport in 2007
  • Triviant-Unicef ​​(* 2000), bay KWPN gelding, father: Olivi, mother: Diant, mother's father: Saluut, sold to Charlotte Haid-Bondergaard in March 2011 , later ridden by Ellesse Tzinberg
  • Sterntaler-Unicef ​​(* 1995, originally Sterntaler 26), dark brown Oldenburg gelding, father: Sion, mother's father: Manstein, owner: Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff, retired from sport in 2011

successes

In July 2011 he is in the 126th world ranking with Sterntaler-Unicef on rank 28. With Totilas he appeared in the world rankings for the first time this month, still on rank 166. From September to December 2011 Rath and Totilas reached rank three in the world rankings , in May and June 2012 the couple even reached second place. In the second phase of their joint career, in May 2015 they once again made it to third place in the FEI world rankings.

Championships

  • European Championship :
  • German Championship :
    • 2008: (last) men's champion with Sterntaler-Unicef ( Ø 75.229%)
    • 2009: (first) champion in the Grand Prix Freestyle with Sterntaler-Unicef (81.450%), 2nd place in the Grand Prix Spécial with Sterntaler-Unicef (76.208%)
    • 2010: 3rd place in the Grand Prix Spécial with Sterntaler-Unicef (73.750%), 2nd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle with Sterntaler-Unicef (79.150%)
    • 2011: Champion in the Grand Prix Spécial (83.417%) and in the Grand Prix Freestyle (85.650%) with Totilas
    • 2012: 2nd place in the Grand Prix Spécial (83.156%) and 2nd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle (86.750%) with Totilas

Further successes (in selection)


2006:

  • 2nd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle at the Central European League final in Warsaw (CDI 3 *) with Renoir-Unicef - 75.575%
  • 3rd place in the Grand Prix Freestyle at Horses & Dreams, Hagen aTW (CDI 3 *) with Renoir-Unicef - 71.800%

2008:

  • 2nd place in the Grand Prix Spécial at Horses & Dreams, Hagen aTW (CDI 3 *) with Sterntaler-Unicef - 73.600%
  • 3rd place in the Grand Prix at the Dressage Festival Lingen (CDI 5 *) with Sterntaler-Unicef - 71.708%
  • 3rd place in the Grand Prix at the Luxembourg CDIO 3 * Mondorf les Bains with Sterntaler-Unicef - 68.750%

2009:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at CDI 4 * Dortmund ( Meggle Champions Final 2008/2009) with Sterntaler-Unicef - 75.662%, 75.752%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix, in the Grand Prix Spécial and in the Grand Prix Freestyle at the French CDIO 3 * in Saumur with Sterntaler-Unicef - 70.255%, 73.292%, 76.400%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix at the Whitsun tournament Wiesbaden (CDI 4 *) with Sterntaler-Unicef - 73.148%

2010:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Dortmund ( Meggle Champions Final 2009/2010) with Sterntaler-Unicef - 75.541%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix at the CDI 4 * 's-Hertogenbosch with Sterntaler-Unicef - 73.659%

2011:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Wiesbaden with Totilas - 81.479%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Spécial and in the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas - 82.149%, 83.083%, 82.825%

2012:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and in the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas - 83.809%, 88.025%

2014:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Kapellen with Totilas - 78.680%, 82.271%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Wiesbaden with Totilas - 82.800%, 83.196%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Perl with Totilas - 85.180%, 82.196%
  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at the CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas - 82.300%, 84.529%

2015:

  • 1st place in the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial at the CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas - 80.360%, 80.039%

2018:

  • 2nd place at the World Championships for 5 year old dressage horses in Ermelo with Destacado

Best international results (since 2008)

Grand Prix de Dressage :

  • 2008: 71.708% (3rd place at CDI 5 * Lingen with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2009: 75.662% (1st place at CDI 4 * Dortmund with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2010: 74.340% (2nd place at CDI 4 * Dortmund with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2011: 82.149% (1st place at CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas )
  • 2012: 83.809% (1st place at CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas )
  • 2014: 85.180% (1st place at the CDI 4 * Perl with Totilas )
  • 2015: 80.360% (1st place at CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas )
  • 2016: -
  • 2017: -
  • 2018: 69.043% (2nd place at CDI 3 * Nice with Foundation )
  • 2019: 71.978% (6th place at CDIO 5 * with Foundation )
  • 2020: 72.304% (3rd place at CDI 5 * Doha with Foundation )

Grand Prix Spécial :

  • 2008: 73.600% (2nd place at CDI 3 * Hagen aTW with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2009: 75.752% (1st place at CDI 4 * Dortmund with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2010: 75.541% (1st place at CDI 4 * Dortmund with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2011: 83.083% (1st place at CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas )
  • 2012: -
  • 2014: 84.529% (1st place at CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas )
  • 2015: 80.039% (1st place at CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas )
  • 2016: -
  • 2017: -
  • 2018: 67.383% (3rd place at CDI 3 * Nice with Foundation )
  • 2019: 71,000% (4th place at CDI 4 * Salzburg with Foundation )
  • 2020: -

Grand Prix Freestyle :

  • 2008: -
  • 2009: 77.850% (6th place at the European Championships in Windsor with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2010: 77.390% (5th place at CDIO 5 * Rotterdam with Sterntaler-Unicef )
  • 2011: 82.825% (1st place at CDIO 5 * Aachen with Totilas )
  • 2012: 88.025% (1st place at CDI 4 * Hagen aTW with Totilas )
  • 2014: -
  • 2015: -
  • 2016: -
  • 2017: -
  • 2018: -
  • 2019: 71.785% (12th place at CDI-W Budapest with Foundation )
  • 2020: 76.075% (4th place at CDI 5 * Doha with Foundation )

(Results as of June 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milestones : "August 2, 1984, Matthias was born in Lübeck, Germany". Own information on matthias-rath.de.
  2. ^ Horses by Matthias Alexander Rath ( Memento from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results overview Horses & Dreams 2008
  4. ↑ Portrait on the website of the German Equestrian Association ( Memento from April 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Matthias Alexander Rath in conversation: "Totilas would also give good interviews" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 27, 2011
  6. ↑ Thursday tournament premiere with Totilas: Rath travels to Munich with a clear head ( memento from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), March 2011
  7. ^ The lessons of Totilas , Katja Sturm / Frankfurter Rundschau, November 22, 2018
  8. ↑ Stallion Totilas - wonder horse in the Taunus Frankfurter Rundschau, May 9, 2011.
  9. ^ Munich: First start and first victory for Totilas and Matthias Alexander Rath , St. Georg, June 2, 2011
  10. ↑ Reiter Rath celebrates second title with Totilas ( memento from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung / DPA , June 19, 2011
  11. ↑ Dressage team named for Rotterdam: Rath, Werth, Koschel and Langehanenberg are to get EM gold , St. Georg, July 17th, 2011
  12. ↑ Result Grand Prix de Dressage, CDI 4 * Hagen aTW, GP Freestyle Tour
  13. ↑ Totilas-Reiter Rath in London not there , dpa press release from July 5, 2012
  14. ↑ Dressage team without totilas for the World Championships spox.com, August 20, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2014.
  15. ↑ Totilas threatens retirement due to lame hindquarters Der Tagesspiegel, August 14, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2015.
  16. ^ After the Totilas diagnosis: waiting for the end of his career . Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 16, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b FEI results database: Matthias Alexander Rath
  18. ↑ In second place after round one: Dressage Nations Cup in Falsterbo , dressursport-deutschland.de, July 13, 2019
  19. ↑ FEI horse database: Foundation 2
  20. ↑ Destacado FRH: Stallion, Hanoverian, born 2013. Accessed June 29, 2020 .
  21. ^ FEI horse database: Renoir-Unicef
  22. ↑ FEI horse database: Triviant 2
  23. ↑ FEI horse database: Sterntaler-Unicef
  24. ↑ current and previous FEI world rankings dressage (horse-related world rankings)
  25. ↑ old FEI results database: Matthias Alexander Rath  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.fei.org
personal data
SURNAME Rath, Matthias Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck