Rolf-Göran Bengtsson

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson medal table
Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (January 2013)
Show jumping
Sweden
Olympic Summer Games
silver	2004	Crew (with Mac Kinley )
silver	2008	Single (with ninja )
European championships
silver	2001	Team (with Pialotta )
bronze	2001	Single (with pialotta )
gold	2011	Single (with ninja )

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (born June 2, 1962 in Lund , Skåne län ) is a Swedish show jumper and individual silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

From January to October 2012 he was the first Swede to be world number one in show jumping. In June 2013 it was ranked ninth in the world.

Career

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson grew up as the son of a horse breeder and rural rider. Even when he was still at school, he competed in horse shows in his home country, and in 1977 and 1979 he became the Swedish champion in pony eventing . After completing his school career, Bengtsson trained as a mechanic for agricultural machinery and then worked in this profession for six years. Then Bengtsson went to the stable of the British show jumper David Broome for two months . As a result, Bengtsson converted his parents' business into a training stable and took horses into riding. In 1997 he received an offer from Jan Tops to work as a rider in his stable in Valkenswaard. Bengtsson accepted this offer and leased the parental facility - which is still the case today. Since 2003, Rolf-Göran Bengtsson has been running a show stable together with the former Danish show jumper Bo Kristoffersen on the grounds of Breido Graf zu Rantzau near Itzehoe.

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson celebrated his first successes at international championships between 1994 and 1996 with the horse Paradiso .

From 2006 to 2009 he competed with the horse Ninja at international championships. At the World Equestrian Games in Aachen in 2006 he reached 12th place with the team and 19th place in the individual ranking. At the 2007 European Championships in Mannheim, he achieved 5th place with the team and 32nd place in the individual ranking. He celebrated one of the greatest successes of his career when he won the individual silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games . Here he finished eighth with the team. Rolf-Göran Bengtsson reached 8th place in the team ranking and 7th place in the individual ranking at the 2009 European Championships in Windsor.

At the 2011 European Championships , he won individual gold for the first time with Ninja , and came fifth with the team. In 2012 he was sixth with Casall at the World Cup finals .

At the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics , he was honored to be the flag bearer of the Swedish team .

Private life

Bengtsson lives in Breitenburg in Schleswig-Holstein where he runs the Stall Bengtsson & Kristoffersen GmbH . Stall Bengtsson & Kristoffersen GmbH has leased stables in Schloss Breitenburg . Bengtsson has been married to the German show jumper Evi Penzlin since August 10, 2015 . They have a daughter together. On June 13, 2015, Penzlin became the German women's champion at the Balve Optimum .

Horses (excerpt)

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson with Casall at the Vienna Masters 2013

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson with Quintero Ask at the Whitsun tournament Wiesbaden 2013 (CSI 5 *)

Current

The horses listed belong to the rider himself and / or the association of breeders of the Holsteiner horse. Bengtsson also cooperates with the Danish Ask stud, which was founded by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen . The Mexican entrepreneur Alfonso Romo Bengtsson is sponsoring until the World Cup final in 2013 .

Former competition horses

• Pialotta (* 1991), bay Westphalian mare, father: pilot , mother of: Akitos xx, first presented in the sport by Lynne Little, ridden by Rolf-Göran Bengtsson until 2002, then ridden by Tatiana Freytag von Loringhoven until the end of 2004 , then Ridden by Steve Guerdat until April 2005, ridden by Edwina Alexander from May 2005 , retired from the sport at the end of 2008
• Mac Kinley (1994–2018), bay KWPN gelding, father: Goodwill, mother of: Nimmerdor, was ridden by Mario Stevens from autumn 2007 onwards
• Cellestial (* 1994), Oldenburg gray stallion , first presented in sport by Heiko Schmidt , ridden by Rolf-Göran Bengtsson until early 2005, then ridden by Jan Peters, ridden by René Tebbel from autumn 2005 to early 2006, ridden by André Thieme in 2008 ridden by Katrin Schmidt
• Ninja la Silla (* 1995), KWPN - chestnut gelding, father: Guidam, mother of: Lys de Darmen, ridden by Giorgio Nuti until 2005, retired from the sport in 2013
• Tepic la Silla (* 1988), bay KWPN gelding, father: actor, mother from: Irak, ridden by Alfonso Romo from 1995, ridden by Steve Guerdat in Jan Top's stable from 2002, ridden by Antonio Chedraui in 2004, ridden by Antonio Chedraui in 2005 and 2006 Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, retired from the sport in 2006
• Grandina (* 1996), Rhine chestnut mare, father ridden Larome, by the end of 2007 by Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, 2008: Gragenit, mother of Philipp Weishaupt , Ludger Beerbaum and Marco Kutscher ridden
• Quintero Ask (* 1998), dark bay Holstein stallion, father: Quantum, mother of: Chamonix, retired from the sport at the beginning of 2014
• Kiara la Silla (* 1999), Swedish gray mare, father: Cardento, mother of: Nurprimus, partly ridden by Alfonso Romo and Simon Nizri
• Carusso LS La Silla (* 2002), bay stallion from the La Silla studbook, father: Montebello La Silla (ex Portofino), mother: Catosca (was winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen under the name Carrera with Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe )
• Casall Ask (* 1999), bay Holstein stallion, father: Caretino, mother of: Lavall I; retired from the sport in May 2017 after winning the Global Champions Tour stage in Hamburg

successes

Championships and World Cup

• Olympic Summer Games
  • 1996, Atlanta , 10th place with the team, 47th place in the individual ranking, with Paradiso
  • 2004, Athens : 2nd place with the team, 4th place in the individual with Mac Kinley
  • 2008, Hong Kong : 2nd place in the individual ranking, 8th place with the team
• World Equestrian Games :
  • 1994, The Hague: 11th place with the team, 17th place in the individual ranking, with Paradiso
  • 2006, Aachen : 12th place with the team, 19th place in the individual ranking, with ninja
• European Championship :
  • 1995, St. Gallen: 7th place with the team, 15th place in the individual ranking, with Paradiso
  • 1999: 6th place with the team, 29th place in the individual ranking, with Roofs
  • 2001, Arnhem: 2nd place with the team, 3rd place in the individual, with Pialotta
  • 2005, San Patrignano: 8th place with the team, 24th place in the individual ranking, with Mac Kinley
  • 2007, Mannheim: 5th place with the team, 32nd place in the individual ranking
  • 2009, Windsor: 8th place in the team ranking, 7th place in the individual ranking
  • 2011, Madrid : 5th place with the team, 1st place in the individual, with Ninja
  • 2013, Herning : 3rd place in the team and 4th place in the individual, with Casall
• World Cup Finals
  • 2002, Leipzig: 7th place with Pialotta
  • 2004, Milan: 9th place with Max Kinley
  • 2012, 's-Hertogenbosch : 6th place with Casall
  • 2013, Gothenburg : 5th place with Casall and Quintero

Further successes (from 2004)

• 2004: 1st place in the Grand Prix of Cannes ( CSI 3 *) with Mac Kinley , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Neuendorf (Switzerland, CSI 4 *) with Mac Kinley , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Jardy (CSI 5 *) ) with Don Diego , 3rd place in the overall Euroclassics ranking in Bremen (CSI 4 *) with Cellestial , 1st place in the Helsinki World Cup with Mac Kinley and 1st place in the Falsterbo Nations Cup with the Swedish team (CSIO 5 *) with Mac Kinley and 2nd place in the Nations Cup of Buenos Aires-Haras el Capricho (CSIO 4 *) with Don Diego
• 2005:
  • Big prizes: 2nd place in Amsterdam (CSI 4 * -W) with Cellestial , 1st place in Gothenburg (CSI-W) with Grandina , 1st place in Neuendorf (CSI 4 *) with Tepic , 2nd place in Gelderland- De Steeg (CSI 3 *) with Tepic , 1st place in Monterrey-Hipico la Silla (CSI 3 *) with Chianti , 1st place in Oldenburg (CSI 3 *) with Tepic
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 2nd place in Copenhagen (CSIO 4 *) with Grandina , 2nd place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Mac Kinley , 1st place in Kecskemét (CSIO 4 * -W) with Grandina
• 2006:
  • World Cup special stages: 2nd place in Vigo with Mac Kinley , 1st place in Monterrey-Hipico la Silla (CSI 4 * -W) with Chianti
  • Big prizes: 1st place in Vilhelmsborg near Århus (CSI 2 *) with Serenata , 1st place in Neumünster (CSI 3 *) with Tepic , 1st place in Braunschweig (CSI 3 *) with Tepic , 2nd place in the Grand Prix von Aselage (CSI 3 *) with Grandina , 2nd place in Tschernjachowsk (CSI 4 *) with Grandina , 1st place in Affalterbach (CSI 3 *) with Ninja , 1st place in Monterrey-Hipico la Silla (CSI 3 *) with Chianti , 2nd place in the German Master at the CSI 5 * -W Stuttgart with Mac Kinley , 2nd place in Munich (CSI 4 *, Riders Tour evaluation test) with Ninja , 2nd place in the World Top Ten final in Geneva with Mac Kinley
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 2nd place in Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *) with Ninja
• 2007:
  • World Cup special tests: 1st place in Monterrey-Hipico la Silla (CSI 4 * -W) with Ninja , 1st place in Helsinki (CSI 4 * -W) with Quintero
  • Big prizes: 2nd place at a CSI 3 * and 3rd place at a CSI 3 * in Arezzo with Ninja , 3rd place in Redefin (CSI 3 *) with Mac Kinley , 2nd place in Hachenburg (CSI 3 *) with Ninja , 3rd place in Barcelona (CSIO 5 *) with Ninja , 1st place in Monterrey-Hipico la Silla (CSI 4 *) with Ninja
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 3rd place in Aachen (CSIO 5 *) with Ninja , 2nd place in Barcelona (CSIO 5 *, SSL final) with Ninja
• 2008:
  • World Cup special tests: 3rd place in Leipzig (CSI 4 * -W) with Ninja , 3rd place in 's-Hertogenbosch (CSI 4 * -W) with Ninja
  • Big prizes: 1st place in Vilhelmsborg near Århus (CSI 2 *) with Casall , 2nd place in Braunschweig (CSI 4 *) with Ninja , 2nd place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Casall , 3rd place in the German Master at the CSI 5 * -W Stuttgart with Casall
• 2009:
  • World Cup special tests: 3rd place in Gothenburg (CSI 5 * -W) with Quintero
  • Big prizes: 2nd place in Bremen (Euroclassics, CSI 4 *) with Quintero , 1st place in a CSI 4 * in Arezzo with Ninja , 2nd place in Valencia (CSI 5 *, GCT evaluation test) with Ninja , 3rd place Place in Paderborn (CSI 4 *, Riders Tour rating test) with Kiara , 3rd place in Donaueschingen (CSI 3 *) with Casall , 1st place in Odense (CSI 3 *) with Casall , 3rd place in Hanover (CSI 4 *, Riders Tour special stage) with Ninja , 1st place in Stockholm (CSI 3 *) with Casall
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 2nd place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Kiara
• 2010:
  • World Cup special tests: 1st place in 's-Hertogenbosch (CSI 5 * -W) with Casall , 3rd place in Verona (CSI 5 * -W) with Casall , 3rd place in Le Grand-Saconnex / Geneva with Quintero
  • Big prizes: 2nd place in Paris- Grand Palais (CSI 5 *) with Casall , 1st place in Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *) with Casall , 1st place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Casall , 2nd place at the CHI Donaueschingen (CSI 3 *) with Quintero
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 1st place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Casall
• 2011:
  • World Cup special tests: 3rd place in Bordeaux (CSI 5 * -W) with Ninja , 1st place in Lyon (CSI 5 * -W) with Casall , 3rd place in Stuttgart (CSI 5 * -W) with Quintero , 2nd place 2nd place in Geneva (CSI 5 * -W) with Casall
  • Big prizes: 3rd place in Zurich (CSI 5 * -W) with Ninja , 1st place in the Euroclassics individual ranking Bremen (CSI 3 *) with Quintero , 3rd place in Braunschweig (CSI 4 *) with Quintero , 2nd place in Redefin (CSI 2 *) with Kiara , 1st place in Hamburg (CSI 5 *, GCT evaluation test) with Casall , 1st place in Monaco (CSI 5 *, GCT evaluation test) with Casall , 1st place in Roggel ( CSI 2 *) with Carusso , 3rd place in Oslo (CSI 5 * -W) with Kiara , 3rd place in Oldenburg (CSI 2 *) with Ninja , 3rd place in Basel (CSI 5 *) with Casall
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 2nd place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Ninja , 1st place in the Promotional League final (CSIO 5 * Barcelona) with Quintero
• 2012:
  • Big prizes: 1st place in Redefin (CSI 2 *) with Carusso , 2nd place in Hamburg (CSI 5 *) with Casall , 2nd place in Cannes (CSI 5 *) with Casall , 2nd place in Lausanne (CSI 5 *) with Casall
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 2nd place in Rotterdam (CSIO 5 *) with Carusso , 1st place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Ninja
• 2013:
  • World Cup evaluation tests: 2nd place in Zurich (CSI 5 * -W) with Casall
  • Big prizes: 3rd place in Bordeaux (CSI 5 * -W) with Quintero , 3rd place in Göteborg (framework test World Cup finals) with Casall , 3rd place in Redefin (CSI 2 *) with Clarimo
  • Nations Cup (with the Swedish team): 3rd place in Falsterbo (CSIO 5 *) with Casall

(As of September 7, 2013)

Web links

Commons : Rolf-Göran Bengtsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the stable of Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Bo Kristoffersen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FEI World Ranking List Show Jumping ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Bengtsson first Swede as number one , Focus , January 6, 2012
3. ↑ FEI world rankings show jumping ( memento of the original from August 1, 2012 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.  
4. ↑ reiterzeit.de: Wedding with Rolf and Evi , May 7, 2020, accessed on July 4, 2020
5. ↑ Penzlin is pregnant - the baby is here , reiterzeit.de from August 27, 2014, accessed on June 16, 2015
6. ↑ Homepage Stall Bengtsson & Kristoffersen GmbH ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2017 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. , accessed June 16, 2015. 
7. ^ Gestüt Ask new sponsor of Rolf-Göran Bengstsson , Reiter Revue International , April 28, 2013
8. ↑ Separate ways: Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Alfonso Romo (La Silla) ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 18, 2013  
9. ↑ FEI horse database: Isovlas Pialotta  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ FEI success database horses: Isovlas Pialotta  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Article "Comeback of the month: Pialotta" in the WestfalenInfo 04/2005 on www.westfalenpferde.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ FEI horse database: Mac Kinley  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ FEI Success Database Horses: Mac Kinley  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ FEI horse database: Cellestial  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ FEI Success Database Horses: Cellestial  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Information about the Cellestial on the website of the Stallion Station Schmidt
17. ↑ FEI horse database: Ninja la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ FEI success database horses: Ninja la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ Ninja La Silla: The European champion says goodbye , St. Georg, February 28, 2013
20. ↑ FEI horse database: Tepic la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Article about Tepic la Silla (PDF; 766 kB)
22. ↑ FEI horse database: Grandina  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ FEI success database horses: Grandina  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ FEI horse database: Quintero la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ FEI horse database: Kiara la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ FEI success database horses: Kiara la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
27. ↑ Message "From Donaueschingen to Mexico - Kiara La Silla returns home as the winner of the Donaueschingen Championships" on www.clipmyhorse.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ FEI horse database: Carusso LS La Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
29. ↑ Descent Carusso LS La Silla
30. ↑ FEI horse database: Casall la Silla  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
31. ↑ FEI short biography: Rolf-Göran Bengtsson  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
32. ↑ FEI success database: Rolf-Göran Bengtsson  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.