Peter Thomsen (rider)

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Peter Thomsen (rider)
medal table
Peter Thomsen with Barny, European Championships 2011
Peter Thomsen with Barny , European Championships 2011

Eventing riding

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic Summer Games
gold 2008 Crew
(with The Ghost of Hamish )
gold 2012 Team
(with Barny )
World Equestrian Games
bronze 1994 Team
(with white girl )
European championships
silver 1999 Crew
(with Warren Gorse )
German championships
bronze 2003 Single (with Bordou )
silver 2005 team

Peter Thomsen (born April 4, 1961 in Flensburg ) is a German eventing rider .

Career

Peter Thomsen grew up on a farm and came into contact with horses and equestrian sports at an early age. He gained his first riding experience on a Shetland pony mare. When Thomsen was thrown from this mare on a ride at the age of about 10 and suffered multiple fractures of the arm, he initially gave up riding. When he was 14 he got a pony , with which he began to ride in tournaments, initially with little success. A year later he got the horse with the mare Tessa , which brought him his first successes in the sport; with Tessa he also rode his first cross-country test. In 1985 he rode his first M-level eventing with Bassil (a son of Tessa ) in Langenhagen and came second behind Hinrich Romeike .

This was followed by years of apprenticeship with Thomas Rüder , eventing rider and father of Kai and Hans-Thorben Rüder , on the island of Fehmarn. He then learned from Dieter Baumann in Luhmühlen . In 1987 he took part in a German championship for the first time in Siekrug and was 15th.

His breakthrough came with the gray mare White Girl . With this he started in 1993 at his first European championship and was the best German rider in the individual ranking. In Achselschwang he finished fourth with the team and fifth in the individual. That year White Girl was voted "Horse of the Year 1993".

With his wife Kirsten Thomsen he became German Vice Team Champion in 2005. In 2007 he and the team won the eventing competition at the CHIO Aachen .

Thomsen lives in Lindewitt . He and his wife have two children. He is a trained business administrator (FH) . In addition to riding, he worked as a civil servant at Deutsche Post AG until 2019 in the sales and logistics area.

Participation in international championships

In total, Peter Thomsen competed in five world and European championships. 1996 was the year of his first participation in the Olympics for Thomsen, but White Girl injured herself in the dressage test. In 2000 and 2004 he was a reserve rider and therefore did not take part in the games.

In August 2008 Thomsen became Olympic champion in eventing at the Olympic Games in Hong Kong together with Ingrid Klimke , Hinrich Romeike, Andreas Dibowski and Frank Ostholt and celebrated his greatest success. Since his horse The Ghost of Hamish shied away from cross-country riding , he could not achieve a top placement in the individual competition. Four years later he took part in the Olympic Games again in London , this time with Barny . With the team he won the gold medal again. At the European Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015 Thomsen competed as an individual rider.

successes

Peter Thomsen with Barny on the cross-country course at the 2012 Olympic Games
Olympic Summer Games
  • 1996, Atlanta : with White Girl , given up due to an injury to his horse
  • 2008, Hong Kong : with The Ghost of Hamish 1st place with the team and 37th place in the individual ranking
  • 2012, London : with Barny 1st place with the team and 31st place in the individual ranking
World Equestrian Games
  • 1994, The Hague: 3rd place with the team with White Girl , abandoned in the individual competition in the field
  • 1998, Rome: Warren Gorse 43rd place in the individual ranking
European championships
  • 1994, armpit swing: with White Girl 4th place with the team and 5th place in the individual ranking
  • 1999, Luhmühlen: Warren Gorse 2nd place with the team
  • 2007, Pratoni del Vivaro: with The Ghost of Hamish 7th place with the team and 15th place in the individual ranking
  • 2011, Luhmühlen : with Barny 15th place in the individual ranking
  • 2013, Malmö : 5th place in the individual ranking with Cayenne
  • 2015, Blair Castle : 10th place in the individual ranking with Barny
German championships
  • 1996, Luhmühlen: 5th place with Copernicus
  • 1998, Luhmühlen: 9th place with Warren Gorse
  • 2001, Luhmühlen: 6th place with Vilano
  • 2003, Luhmühlen: 3rd place with Bordou
  • 2004, Bonn-Rodderberg: 8th place with The Ghost of Hamish
  • 2006, Schenefeld: 6th place with The Ghost of Hamish
  • 2009, Schenefeld: 4th place with Parko
  • 2013, Schenefeld: 3rd place with Barny
  • 2019, Luhmühlen: with casino 13th place

Horses

Former successful horses

  • Horseware's Barny (* 2002), bay Holstein gelding, father: Barnaul xx , father of mother : Cornetto; ridden by Kaya Thomsen after 2016
  • Horseware's Parko (* 2000), dark brown Holstein gelding, father: Parco xx, mother's father: Alcatraz, ridden by Mattia Luciani since the beginning of 2012
  • The Ghost of Hamish (* 1996, † 2010), nicknamed Mickey , thoroughbreds from New Zealand, on a February 2010 Darmverschlingung died
  • Warren Gorse (* 1988), bay British gelding, father: Skippy, mother's father: Quiet Fling
  • White Girl 3 (* 1983; † 2010), Trakehner gray mare, father: Bajar, mother's father: Marengo

Awards

In 2009 Peter Thomsen received the sports badge of the state of Schleswig-Holstein . In November 2012, he and 163 other athletes were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Web links

Commons : Peter Thomsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Peter ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Peter Thomsen's website
  2. ↑ a b The breakthrough came with White Girl ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Merrit Hinrichs / buschreiter.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e Star portrait of the German Equestrian Association: Peter Thomsen ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Portrait: Peter Thomsen , reitwelten.de, August 16, 2008
  5. ↑ Peter Thomsen supports the DOKR as a committed early retiree , buschreiter.de, February 6, 2020
  6. ↑ Peter Thomsen: In the broom of age for versatility , Wedel-Schulauer Tageblatt , July 25, 2012
  7. ↑ World Equestrian Games 1994, result of the individual evaluation of eventing ( memento of August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 193 kB)
  8. ↑ FEI horse database: Horseware's Barny
  9. ↑ FEI horse database: Horseware's Parko
  10. ^ FEI horse database: The Ghost of Hamish
  11. ↑ The Ghost of Hamish is Dead , St. George , February 8, 2010
  12. ^ FEI horse database: Warren Gorse
  13. ↑ FEI horse database: White Girl
  14. ↑ Descent from White Girl
  15. ↑ schleswig-holstein.de: Landessportehrungen awarded: Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior honor top athletes and volunteer work in the association ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) from March 10, 2009, accessed on May 18, 2013
  16. ↑ Olympic rider honored by the Federal President , St. Georg, November 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Thomsen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg