Simone Blum

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Simone Blum and Flying Boy at the Pferd International München-Riem 2011

Simone Blum (born March 22, 1989 in Freising ) is a German show jumper . In 2018 she became world champion.

Private

Simone Blum is the daughter of eventing rider Jürgen Blum (* 1956), who took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics and won a team bronze medal at European championships.

Simone Blum lives in Zolling near Munich. Your Magisterium -Masterstudium in chemistry and biology concluded Blum in 2016 at the Technical University of Munich from. Then she concentrated completely on the sport. In October 2018 Simone Blum married her partner, the show jumper Hans-Günter Blum (born Goskowitz). Their daughter was born in mid-February 2020.

Both of them train around 16 horses on the shared Eichenhof estate with Simone Blum's parents.

Athletic career

Like her father, Simone Blum started out as an eventing rider, but quickly switched to show jumping. At the age of 15, she was fourth at the European Pony Championships. In 2009 she was appointed to the national squad of young riders. In 2015 she won silver and in 2016 gold at the German women's championships. In 2017 she took part in the men's (gender-open) ranking and immediately became German champion with the mare DSP Alice . She was then appointed to the senior squad.

At the 2017 European Championships in Gothenburg , Blum was not used as a reserve rider, but dominated the general tests with Alice and won the Grand Prix there. Three weeks later he won the CSI 5 * Grand Prix of Lausanne .

In July 2018, Blum and Alice were part of the victorious German team in the Aachen Nations Cup . Simone Blum was nominated for the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina in the United States , where she won the bronze medal with the German team. After the team competition, she was in the individual standings with Alice in first place, which she defended in the two finals. In all five competitions she was the only one not to make a jumping fault. That made her surprisingly world champion.

Simone Blum had to end the 2018/2019 indoor season prematurely after she pinched a nerve in her neck and dislocated her shoulder several times. After a three-month tournament break as a result of shoulder surgery, the 2019 season got off to a successful start for Blum and Alice : After failing to make mistakes in both rounds in the Gorla Minore Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) in April, they won the championship within two weeks in May and the Grand Prix at the Maimarkt tournament (CSI 3 *) and the Grand Prix of the Nations Cup tournament in La Baule (CSIO 5 *). Second places in the Grand Prix of the CSIO 5 * Twente-Geesteren and the CSI 5 * Knokke followed in June. Due to the double clear round in the Nations Cup and fourth place in the Grand Prix of Aachen , Blum's mare Alice was recognized as the most successful horse of the CHIO Aachen 2019.

The 2019 European Championships once again confirmed that Blum and Alice were among the best couples in show jumping at the time. After team silver, both of them just missed an individual medal in fourth place.

In the show jumping world rankings, Simone Blum achieved her best world rankings to date in September 2019 with rank 18. In August 2020 she was ranked 27th in the world rankings for show jumpers.

Sporting successes

  • European championships
    • 2004, Jaskowo (pony rider): 5th place with Rivo with the team and 4th place in the individual
    • 2019, Rotterdam : with Alice Silber with the team and 4th place in the individual
  • German championship
    • 2015, Balve: Silver with Flying Boy (women's ranking)
    • 2016, Balve: Gold with Alice (women's ranking)
    • 2017, Balve: Gold with Alice (open men's ranking)

Horses

Current horses

  • DSP Alice (* 2007), German sport horse , chestnut mare, father: Askari, mother's father : Landrebell
  • DSP Cool Hill (* 2010), German sport horse gray gelding, father: Corlensky G, mother's father: Al Cantino
  • Con Touch S (* 2006), bay Westphalian mare, father: Con Cento, mother's father: Capitol I
  • Qualibro (* 2013), bay Hanoverian gelding, father: FRH Quaid, mother's father: Salito
  • Lebouche (* 2011), bay German sport horse gelding, father: Levistano, mother's father: Baloubino B

Former horses

  • Flying Boy 20 (* 2001), bay Hanoverian gelding, father: Fly High I, mother's father: Sao Paulo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Show jumper Simone Blum wins World Cup gold , sportschau.de , September 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Portrait of Simone Blum , press kit for the consumenta tournament 2016 on faszination-pferd.de
  3. ↑ Simone and Hansi Blum got married , Jana Herrmann / St. Georg, October 18, 2018
  4. ↑ Simone Blum is mom! , Jana Herrmann / St. Georg, February 17, 2020
  5. ↑ a b FEI Athlete Performance: Simone Blum
  6. ↑ Show jumper Simone Blum: Alice im Badner Land , Evi Simeoni / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 9, 2019
  7. ↑ Halla challenge award for the most successful show jumping horse, CHIO Aachen 2019 (PDF)
  8. ↑ current and previous world rankings show jumping
  9. ↑ Medaillenspiegel , www.fnverlag.de, accessed on August 25, 2019
  10. ^ FEI horse database: DSP Alice
  11. ↑ DSP Cool Hill: Wallach, German riding horse, born 2010. Accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Con Touch S: Mare, Westphalian, born 2006. Accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Qualibro: Wallach, Hanoverian, born 2013. Accessed on August 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Lebouche: Wallach, German riding horse, born 2011. Accessed on August 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Flying Boy 20: Wallach, Hanoverian, born 2001. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising