Michael Freund (equestrian)

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nation	Germany
birthday	September 16, 1954
Career
discipline	Driving four in hand , combined evaluation
Medal table
World championships 4 × 4 × 4 ×
World championships silver 1978 Team bronze 1986 Ascot Team bronze 1988 Apeldoorn Team gold 1992 Riesenbeck Team gold 1994 The Hague singles gold 1994 The Hague Team silver 1996 Waregem Team silver 1998 Rome singles silver 1998 Rome Team bronze 2002 Jerez de la Frontera Team bronze 2006 Aachen singles gold 2006 Aachen Team
last change: March 5, 2019

Michael Freund (born September 16, 1954 ) is a German driver and trainer who specializes in four-in-hand cars. From 2000 to 2015 he was a judge for the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI).

He is internationally successful and became world champion in the team for the first time in 1992 together with Christoph Sandmann and Hansjörg Hammann. He was not only able to repeat this success with the same team at the World Equestrian Games in The Hague in 1994 , he also became individual world champion.

He won the four-in-hand World Cup in three consecutive seasons (2001/2002, 2002/2003 and 2003/2004) .

In 2004 he became individual world champion and at the 2006 World Equestrian Games he was again world champion with the team. Michael Freund was awarded the title of driving master by the German Equestrian Association (FN) in 2004.

In 2013 he won the combined examination ( CAI -A 2) in Altenfelden, Austria.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FEI Ascot 1986
2. ↑ FEI Apeldoorn 1988
3. ^ FEI 1992 Riesenbeck
4. ↑ FEI 1994 The Hague
5. ^ FEI 1996 Waregem
6. ^ FEI 1998 Rome
7. ^ FEI 2002 Jerez de la Frontera
8. ↑ FEI 2006 Aachen
9. ↑ 10000347 - Michael FREUND (GER) , FEI Database
10. ↑ Les-Sports.info, accessed March 4, 2019
11. ↑ FEI World Cup Driving Champions, accessed March 4, 2019
12. ↑ US Drivers Ready for FEI World Driving Championships in Slovenia, accessed on March 4, 2019