Ulrich Kirchhoff

This article describes the show jumper Ulrich Kirchhoff. For the lawyer of the same name, see: Ulrich Kirchhoff (lawyer) .

Ulrich Kirchhoff medal table
Ulrich Kirchhoff with Prince de la Mare at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games
Show jumping
Germany (until April 2013); Ukraine
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1996	Single (with Jus de Pommes )
gold	1996	Team (with Jus de Pommes )
German championship
gold	1996	Single (with Jus de Pommes )

Ulrich "Uli" Kirchhoff (born August 9, 1967 in Lohne ; full name: Ulrich Günter Hermann Kirchhoff ) is a show jumper .

He celebrated his greatest successes for Germany at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , when he was Olympic champion with Jus de Pommes both individually and with the team.

Career

Kirchhoff first sat on a horse at the age of three and received his first riding lesson at the age of five. A year later he rode his first tournament on his first own pony. In 1983 he won the silver medal at the German Pony Rider Championships. Immediately after graduating from school, at the age of 16, he began training as a horse manager - with a focus on riding - with Alwin Schockemöhle . At the age of 19 he moved to the Damhus stable, where he was responsible for 12 show jumpers. At the German Young Rider Championships he won bronze in 1986 and gold in 1988, and in 1986 he also won the individual silver medal at the European Young Rider Championships. Also in the 1980s, Kirchhoff worked temporarily at Franke Sloothaak as a groom.

In 1994 he got the opportunity to ride the eight-year-old horse Jus de Pommes . A year later, both were nominated as substitute riders for the German team at the European Championships in St. Gallen. In 1996, Kirchhoff and Jus de Pommes were nominated for the Olympic Games in the same year by the then national show jumping trainer, Herbert Meyer . Here Kirchhoff won the Olympic gold medal both individually and with the team. Before that, Kirchhoff was also 13th in the World Cup final and won the German Show Jumping Championship , both with Jus de Pommes .

Just two weeks after winning the Olympics, Jus de Pommes died at the age of ten from an acute shock event with simultaneous failure of several vital organ systems (Kirchhoff: "It was so bad. I thought part of me would die too").

As in the spring of 1996 with Jus de Pommes , Kirchhoff was able to take part in the World Cup finals with You Can Do It in the spring of 1998 . In both participations, however, he could not achieve a front placement.

In 2003 Kirchhoff moved to Boostedt near Neumünster to the facilities of the former organizer of the Neumünster international horse show , August-Christian Horn. He then ran a tournament and training stable in Rosendahl in the Münsterland with his family until 2007 . In 2007 he left the facility in Rosendahl and took on a job as a trainer on the facility of his students, the Italian show jumping couple Jonella Ligresti and Omar Bonomelli , in northern Italy.

After his contract in Italy expired, Kirchhoff agreed with Oleksandr Onishchenko that he would start for Ukraine in the future. In return, Onishchenko provided him with horses. The change of nationality took place at the end of April 2013. Kirchhoff's horses are now stationed in Aselage , Lower Saxony . At the end of May 2013 he played his first Nations Cup for Ukraine at the CSIO Rome .

In the following years Ulrich Kirchhoff was part of the Ukrainian Nations Cup teams several times. Twenty years after his first participation in the Olympics, he competed with Prince de la Mare at the 2016 Summer Olympics , but it was not enough for a top placement.

successes

Championships

• Summer Olympics :
  • 1996, Atlanta : with Jus de Pomme 1st place with the team and 1st place in the individual ranking
  • 2016, Rio de Janeiro : 13th place with the team and 43rd place in the individual ranking with Prince de la Mare

• European Championships:
  • 1986, Reims (Young Riders): with Piquet 6th place with the team and 2nd place in the individual ranking
  • 1987, Donaueschingen (Young Riders): 3rd place with the team with Piquet

Further successes from 2004

• 2004: 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Copenhagen ( CSIO 4 *), 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Munich-Riem (CSI 3 *), 7th place in the Grand Prix of Aachen (CSIO 5 *), 2nd place in the Affalterbach Grand Prix (CSI 3 *), 1st place in the Stuttgart Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) as well as 1st place with the German team in the Nations Cup in Barcelona ( Samsung Super League Final 2004) - all with Carino
• 2005: 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Dublin (CSIO 5 *), as well as 1st place with the German team in the Nations Cup (Super League) in Hickstead and Dublin - all with Carino
• 2006: 5th place in the Grand Prix of Leipzig ( World Cup valuation test, CSI 4 * -W), 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Rome (CSIO 5 *) and 1st place with the German team in the Nations Cup in Dublin - both with Carino
• 2007: 4th place in the Leipzig Grand Prix (World Cup special test, CSI 4 * -W) with Carino , 4th place in the Bordeaux World Cup special with Carino , 2nd place in the Rastede Grand Prix with O'Celine
• 2008: 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo (CSI 5 *, GCT evaluation test), 7th place in the Grand Prix of Estoril (CSI 5 *, GCT evaluation test) - both with Carino
• 2009: 4th place in the final of the Global Champions Tour in Doha (CSI 5 *) with Carino
• 2010: 1st place in the Augusta Grand Prix (CSI 3 *) with Caruso
• 2013: 1st place with the Ukrainian team in the Nations Cup in Rome (CSIO 5 *) with Verdi , 3rd place in the King Georges V Gold Cup in Hickstead (CSIO 5 *) with Carlina , 2nd place in the Dublin Grand Prix (CSIO 5 *) with Carlina
• 2014: 1st place in the Nations Cup of Al-Ain (CSIO 5 *) with Chaccland , 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Chengdu (CSI 2 *) with a rental horse
• 2015: 2nd place in a Grand Prix of San Giovanni in Marignano (CSI 3 *) with Gabbiano , 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Guangzhou (CSI 3 *) with a rental horse
• 2016: 1st place in the Nations Cup of Celje (CSIO 3 *) with Gabbiano , 1st place in the Nations Cup of Odense (CSIO 3 *) with Gabbiano , 1st place in the Nations Cup of Sopot (CSIO 5 *) with Prince de la Mare

Horses

The most important horse for Kirchhoff's career was Jus de Pommes (* 1986; † 1996), a chestnut- colored Belgian warmblood stallion. His father was Primo des Bruyeres, the mother was descended from Opaline des Pins.

For a long time Carino (* 1995), a brown Holstein gelding (father: Cassini I , mother's father : Caretino), was his horse for grand prizes. He last used it in international sport in 2012.

Horses since 2013:

• Carlina (* 2001), bay Holstein mare, father: Carvallo, mother's father: Landgraf I; ridden by Pius Schwizer and Trevor Coyle until early 2013 ; ridden by Oleksandr Onishchenko since the beginning of 2014
• Chaccland (* 2005), gray gelding of the Oldenburg jumper breed, father: Chacco-Blue, mother's father: Carthago; ridden by the end of 2013 by Harm Wiebusch, Oleksandr Onishchenko and from summer 2014 Ferenc Szentirmai ridden
• Gabbiano 11 (* 2005), chestnut gelding of the Oldenburg jumper breed, father: Grandino, mother's father: Cento; ridden by Florian Meyer zu Hartum, Oleksandr Onishchenko and Cassio Rivetti until 2014
• Prince de la Mare (* 2003), brown Selle Français- Wallach, father: Beguin de Moens, mother's father: Socrate de Chivre; ridden by Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo until the end of 2015

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Kirchhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Kirchhoff's website (outdated)

Individual evidence

• http://www.pferd-aktuell.de/Doc-..16142/d.htm?backNode=4538 (link not available)

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait of Ulrich Kirchhoff on pizzahut.de ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ulrich Kirchhoff in the FEI's success database
3. ↑ Article “Cool like Ludger, combative like Hugo” from November 23, 1996, accessed on November 5, 2009
4. ↑ Article "Sloothaak's horse groom is now a competitor" from November 21, 1995, accessed on November 5, 2009
5. ↑ Ulrich Kirchhoff, Germany ( Memento from September 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Article "Olympic Champion Ulrich Kirchhoff is now a Holsteiner" from November 18, 2003, accessed on November 5, 2009
7. ↑ Article "Equestrian sport: Beerbaum, Ahlmann, Ehning - the stars are coming" from March 16, 2008, accessed on November 5, 2009
8. ^ The new life of Ulrich Kirchhoff , Dieter Ludwig, August 20, 2010
9. ↑ ^{a b} Olympic champion Kirchhoff is now riding for the Ukraine , St. Georg, April 13, 2013
10. ^ Former Olympic champion Kirchhoff: New beginning in Ukraine , nordbayern.de / German press agency, April 15, 2013
11. ↑ New national coach: René Tebbel trains Ukraine , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 20, 2013
12. ^ Important successes of Ulrich Kirchhoff on the FEI website
13. ↑ 10000527 - Ulrich KIRCHHOFF (UKR). Retrieved November 22, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Family tree of Jus de Pommes on paardenfokken.nl
15. ↑ article about Jus de Pommes including pedigree (English) ( Memento of 25 September 2009 at the Internet Archive )
16. ^ FEI horse database: Carino 188
17. ^ FEI horse database: Carlina
18. ↑ FEI horse database: Chaccland
19. ^ FEI horse database: Gabbiano 11
20. ^ FEI horse database: Gabbiano 11