Nicola Philippaerts

Nicola Philippaert's medal table
Nicola Philippaerts at the Gothenburg Horse show 2016
Show jumping
Belgium
Youth Olympic Games
gold	2010	Team ( European team)
European championships
gold	2011	Singles, Young Riders (with Carlos VHPZ )
gold	2011	Team, Young Riders (with Carlos VHPZ )
Belgian championship
silver	2011	Singles (with Carlos VHPZ )

Nicola Philippaerts (born July 30, 1993 in Genk , Limburg ) is a Belgian show jumper. In March 2019 he was at number 13 in the world rankings.

Career

At the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore , he won gold in the saddle of Gippsland Girl with the European team ( Martin Fuchs , Wojciech Dahlke, Valentina Isoardi, Carian Scudamore). The riders started with rental horses that were drawn to them.

At the 2011 European Young Rider Championships in Comporta , Nicola Philippaerts became double European champion.

In the same year Philippaerts was for the first time a member of a Belgian team in the age group of "riders". In the FEI Nations Cup he was used in the Nations Cup in Rotterdam, where Belgium took fourth place. He was also used twice in 2011 in the subordinate Nations Cup series, the Promotional League (in Lummen, 4th place and in Lisbon, 5th place). At the Belgian Equestrian Championships 2011 in Lanaken- Zangersheide , he was runner- up with Carlos .

Private

Philippaerts comes from a horse-loving family. He is the son of show jumper Ludo Philippaerts . His uncle Johan Philippaerts and his twin brother Olivier are also active as show jumpers.

Nicola Philippaerts lives with his parents and three brothers on the family's own riding facility in Meeuwen-Gruitrode .

He was in a relationship with the Spanish dressage rider Morgan Barbançon Mestre .

Horses

current:

• H&M Forever d'Arco ter Linden (* 2005), dark bay Anglo European stallion, lineage: Darco x Tenor Manciais x Avontuur x Grand Bonheur
• H&M Quenzo de la Roque (* 2004), Selle Français chestnut gelding, descent: Kannan x Jasmin x Varoulo x Laurier Rose

former competition horses:

• Carlos VHPZ (* 2002), bay Belgian gelding, father: Chellano Z, mother's father: Voltaire; Ridden by Annelies Vorsselmans until autumn 2009, ridden by Emilie Martinsen from late summer to the end of 2012, ridden by Nicholas Dello Joio since then
• Cortez (* 2002), bay Belgian gelding, pedigree: Quick Star x Quito de Baussy x Jeny de la Cense x Tanael; ridden by Mariel Victoria Aguirre from 2015
• Violet B (* 2002), bay KWPN mare, father: Nassau, mother's father: Memory, owner: Horse Trading BVBA
• Utopie van de Heffinck (* 2004), brown mare, father: Diamant De Semilly, mother's father: Le Tot De Semilly
• Dream D'Hedge (* 2003), Brauner, BWP, father: Parco, father of mother: Hedjaz
• Walestro van het Bloemenhof (* 1999), BWP, chestnut gelding, father: Palestro VD Beginakker, mother's father: Jazz, owner: Ludo Philippaerts & Horse Trading BVBA
• Narval de la Roque (* 2001), Selle Français , gray gelding, father: Adelfos, mother's father: Grand Veneur, owner: Ludo Philippaerts & Horse Trading BVBA
• Nobel de Virton (* 2001), brown Selle Français- Wallach, father: Chatman, mother's father: Jalienny, owner: Dorperheide Stoeterij

successes

Championships and World Cup

• Youth Olympic Games :
  • 2010, Singapore: with Gippsland Girl 1st place with the European team
• European Championships :
  • 2007, Freudenberg (pony rider): 4th place with the team and 5th place in the individual with Top Chiaro di Luna
  • 2008, Prague (Juniors): with Quincy de Rosseignies 39th place in the individual
  • 2009, Hoofddorp (Juniors): with Nobel de Virton 2nd place in the individual
  • 2010, Jardy (Juniors): 3rd place with Carlos with the team and 14th place in the individual
  • 2011, Comporta (Young Riders): with Carlos 1st place with the team and 1st place in the individual
  • 2013, Herning : 8th place with the team and 36th place in the individual with Cortez
• Belgian Championship:
  • 2011: 2nd place in the individual with Carlos

Further successes (selection)

• 2011: 5th place in the Grand Prix of Dublin ( CSIO 5 *) with Carlos
• 2012: 1st place in the Falsterbo Grand Prix (CSIO 5 *) with Carlos
• 2013: 1st place in the Lummen Grand Prix (CSIO 4 *) with Cortez , 2nd place in the Donaueschingen Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Quenzo de la Roque , 2nd place in the Lexington KY World Cup (CSI 5 * - W) with Cortez
• 2014: 1st place in the World Cup competition in Gothenburg (CSI 5 * -W) with Donatella-N , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of the March CSI 5 * from Doha with Cortez , 2nd place in the main test of the Stallion CSI from Lanaken -Zangersheide with Forever D'Arco ter Linden
• 2015: 2nd place in the Grand Prix of the final week of the Toscana Tour (CSI 3 * Arezzo) with Quenzo de la Roque , 3rd place in the World Cup competition in Washington DC (CSI 4 * -W) with Forever D'Arco ter Linden , 2nd place. Place in the Grand Prix of Opglabbeek (CSI 2 *) with Ustina Sitte
• 2016: 3rd place in the Ghent Grand Prix (CSI 2 *) with Bisquet Balou C , 3rd place in the CSI 2 * Grand Prix in Valkenswaard with Harley van de Bisschop , 3rd place in the Bourg en Bresse Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Zilverstar T
• Participation in Nations Cups since 2011
• Participation in the World Cup finals 2014 and 2016

(As of June 26, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FEI world rankings show jumping
2. ↑ Belgium! Nicola Philippaerts wins the EM Young Rider title and is double European champion (2011)
3. ↑ Junior EM Comporta: Team gold for Belgium's young show jumpers (2011)
4. ↑ Results database of the FEI ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Belgian Show Jumping Championship (rider) 2011
6. ^ FEI biography: Nicola Philippaerts
7. ^ FEI horse database: H&M Forever d'Arco ter Linden
8. ↑ FEI horse database: H&M Quenzo de la Roque
9. ^ FEI horse database: Carlos VHPZ
10. ^ FEI horse database: Cortez

Web links

• Website from Nicola Philippaerts