Simone Böckmann

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Simone Böckmann (born October 23, 1963 in Düsseldorf , née Richter) is a former German eventing rider . She was the first woman to win the German eventing championship.

Simone Böckmann was born in 1963 as the daughter of a master painter who worked as a rider and course builder in his free time. She gained her first riding experience at a riding facility in Düsseldorf-Eller . After her younger sisters started riding shortly afterwards, the daughters bought their first pony. More ponies followed , Simone Böckmann took part in a European pony championship with Napoleon . In 1986 the family moved to Düsseldorf-Lohausen , where the family still operates a riding facility today. After school, Böckmann did an apprenticeship as an office clerk and continued to work in this profession.

Böckmann celebrated her greatest success, who at that time bore the name Richter-Kals from her first marriage when she became the first woman to win the German eventing championship in 1988. Her horse here was Bantu , an Oldenburg gelding. In 1990 she competed with Bantu as an individual rider in the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm, but was eliminated from the cross-country test. Eight years later, again as a single rider , she was 27th with Chicoletto at the World Equestrian Games in Rome . The German team was not rated (less than three German team riders finished the test). In 2004 she won gold at the German team championship with the team of the Weser-Ems regional association.

Böckmann was active as an eventing rider until 2005. That year she had a bad fall in an eventing test and consequently decided the end of her riding career. She is now the coordinator for the eventing equestrian for the regional association Weser-Ems.

She is in her second marriage to Roger Böckmann , himself a former eventing rider and former managing director of Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke and brother of Gilbert Böckmann , married and lives in Lastrup . Simone Böckmann is the mother of three sons: Liam (* 1999) and the twins Calvin and Jason Böckmann (* 2001). All three compete in versatility tests. Calvin is also successful as a show jumper (including individual European champion of the pony eventing rider 2015 and team European champion of the show jumping rider in the children age group 2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reitschule Bergerhof - With a strong sense of family ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 371 kB), Mareike Roszinsky for Rhineland's riders + horses @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reitanlage-bergerhof.de
  2. ↑ Simone Richter-Kals , Internationales Sportarchiv 23/1990 of May 28, 1990, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ Versatility results at the World Equestrian Games 1990  ( 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. (Part 2)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.fei.org  
  4. ↑ Versatility results at the 1998 World Equestrian Games, single  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.fei.org  
  5. ↑ Medals from the Weser-Ems equestrian athletes (PDF; 34 kB), Equestrian Association Weser-Ems eV
  6. ^ Great moments - the success story of the Rhenish equestrian sport: Simone Böckmann , Rhineland's riders + horses
  7. ↑ "Simply fallen unhappy" , interview by Axel Wolfsgruber with Simone Böckmann on the death of Tina Richter-Vietor , Focus , August 13, 2007
  8. ↑ Contact person for versatility at regional association level  ( 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. , German Equestrian Association , February 10, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.pferd-aktuell.de  
  9. ^ Entrepreneur of the year 2006: Klaus and Roger Böckmann, Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke GmbH
  10. ↑ Das Doppel-Talent , PM-Forum, issue 04/2015
personal data
SURNAME Böckmann, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter-Kals, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf