Werner Muff

Werner Muff medal table
Werner Muff with Never Last at the CHI Geneva 2013
Show jumping
Switzerland
Swiss championship
gold	2015	Single (with Pollendr )

Werner Muff (born February 25, 1974 in Sursee , Canton Lucerne ) is a Swiss show jumper .

In May 2011 he was ranked 39th in the FEI's 124th world rankings . By November 2011, he slipped to 84th place. Werner Muff is a member of the Swiss elite show jumping squad in 2012.

Life and athletic career

Werner Muff grew up in an agricultural family, his father Werner Muff senior was a cavalryman alongside his job as a farmer . Werner Muff began riding his father's cavalry horse, and show jumping interested him from an early age. At the request of his parents, Muff did an apprenticeship at the Raiffeisenbank in Beromünster from 1989 to 1992 .

In 1993 he got the chance to work as a rider at Alois Fuchs in Wängi . He worked here for 18 months. From 1994 to 1996 he was employed by Thomas Fuchs in Bietenholz and from 1996 to 2000 by Manfred Birchler in Bilten . Here he also won his first Grand Prix with BB Cardinale . As a result, he also got the opportunity to ride Nations Cups.

After four years of self-employment in Thomas Fuchs' stable, he has been self-employed in Susanne Meier's stable since 2004. In the following years further national and international successes followed, many of them with Plot Blue . Among other things, he won the Swiss Cup final with horse swaps in 2005, 2006 and 2010. In 2006, he was also named “Rookie of the year”.

In 2012 he started his first Olympic Games in London and reached fourth place with the team. For the first time he became Swiss champion of show jumping in September 2015 with Pollendr .

Private

He is married and has a son. His cousin Theo Muff is also active as a show jumper on an international level.

criticism

In 2010 Muff won the Swiss Cup final in Ascona for the third time, a national test with horse change. There was criticism of Muff because he brought a very difficult horse to the test with Escorial V. Pius Schwizer , who also took part in this examination, is quoted as follows:

“ Escorial couldn't be managed. You can't ride such a buck. It was a risk of injury, especially for Annina Züger, who was only 18 years old . "

Muff himself comments on this:

“ Success is not really fun. Escorial is a sensitive horse that my competitors have had difficulties with. That just happens in a final with horse change. Perhaps some are now hurt in their honor. You can't just put everything on the horse. "

One week after the Swiss Cup final, both Pius Schwizer and Werner Muff took part in the Nations Cup in Hickstead as part of the Swiss team . This was considered to be almost the last chance to prevent Switzerland from relegating from the Meydan FEI Nations Cup . However, the Swiss team did not make it into the second round and finished ninth. National coach Rolf Grass blamed the dissatisfaction in the team since the Ascona Cup final. As a result, changing horses at the Swiss Cup final in Ascona was abolished and replaced by a two-round test.

Competition horses

Current

• Quax (* 1998), brown Hessian Warmblood Wallach, father: Quincy Jones, mother's father : Donar
• Rico HTV (* 1998), brown KWPN- Wallach, father: Cilton, mother-father: Amulet

Former

• Campione CH (* 1999), Swiss gray stallion, father: Calido, mother's father: Charmeur, sold to Oleksandr Onishchenko at the end of 2010
• Luminos (* 1998, current name: Portobello), Saxon-Anhalt warmblood, father: land rebel, mother's father: Kolibri, sold to Spain in mid-2009
• Plot Blue (* 1997), bay KWPN stallion, father: Mr. Blue, mother's father: pilot, ridden by Marcus Ehning since mid-2008
• Tamina (* 1996, originally Tidy van het Gelutt), bay Belgian warmblood mare, father: Lux Z, mother's father: Prince Royal, ridden by Werner Muff in 2008, previously ridden by Kristof Cleeren and Christina Liebherr , subsequently by Manfred Marschall and Emiliano Varagnolo ridden

successes

Championships and World Cup

• Olympic games
  • 2012 , London: with Kiamon , 4th place with the team
• World Championship ( World Equestrian Games ):
  • 2006 in Aachen: with Plot Blue 5th place with the Swiss team and 32nd in the individual ranking
• European Championships :
  • 2007 in Mannheim: with Plot Blue 4th place with the Swiss team and 34th in the individual ranking
• Swiss championship:
  • 2005: 4th place
• World Championships for Young Show jumpers:
  • 1998 in Zangersheide : 3rd place among the 6-year-old show jumpers with gazelle

Further successes (from 2005)

• 2005: 1st place in the Grand Prix of Neuendorf (CSI 2 *) with Plot Blue , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of La Bagnaia (CSI 4 *) with Plot Blue , 1st place in the Swiss Cup final
• 2006: 4th place in the Pioltello Grand Prix (CSI 4 *) with Plot Blue , 5th place in the Outdoor Gelderland Grand Prix (CSI 3 *) with Plot Blue and 1st place with the Swiss team in the Rotterdam Nations Cup (CSIO 5 *) with Plot Blue , 1st place in the Swiss Cup final
• 2007: 1st place in the Grand Prix of a CSI 3 * in Lummen with Plot Blue , 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Pioltello (CSI 3 *) with Plot Blue , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Cervia (CSI 3 *) with Rico , 6th place in the World Cup competition in Verona (CSI 5 *) with Plot Blue and 2nd place with the Swiss team in the Nations Cup in Aachen (CSIO 5 *) with Plot Blue
• 2008: 1st place in the Grand Prix of a CSI 3 * in Lummen with Tamina , 1st place in the Grand Prix of La Mandria (CSI 3 *) with Campione , 1st place in the great jumping competition at the CSIO Switzerland (St. Gallen, CSIO 5 *) with Tamina
• 2009: 1st place in the Grand Prix of San Lazzaro di Savena (CSI 2 *) with Campione , 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Pioltello (CSI 3 *) with Campione , 1st place in the World Cup competition in Budapest (CSI 2 * - W) with Quax and 1st place with the Swiss team in the La Baule Nations Cup (CSIO 5 *) with Luminos
• 2010: 2nd place in the Grand Prix of Neustadt / Dosse (CSI 2 *) with Quax , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Aach (CSI 2 *) with Quax , 1st place in the Swiss Cup final (Ascona), 3rd place Place in the Grand Prix of Ranshofen (CSI 2 *) with Quax , 3rd place in the $ 100,000-ENCANA Cup (CSIO 5 * Spruce Meadows ) with Quax

(As of September 10, 2010)

Web links

Commons : Werner Muff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• werner-muff.com - Website by Werner Muff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FEI world ranking list show jumping number 124  ( 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. (50 best international results of every show jumper from May 1st 2010 to April 30th 2011; PDF; 155 kB)  
2. ↑ FEI World Ranking List Show Jumping Number 130 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 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. (50 best international results of every show jumper from November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011; PDF; 163 kB) 
3. ↑ Swiss elite show jumping squad  ( 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.  
4. ↑ In person on Werner Muff's website
5. ↑ Profile / curriculum vitae on Werner Muff's website
6. ^ Werner Muff , St. Galler Tagblatt , June 1, 2011
7. ^ Scandal at the Swiss show jumping cup final in Ascona , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 24, 2010
8. ↑ RIDING: Switzerland practically relegated  ( 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. , news.search.ch, July 30, 2010  
9. ↑ Swiss Cup final with a new formula , July 21, 2011
10. ↑ FEI horse database: Quax 22  ( 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. ↑ ^{a b c} horse list on Werner Muff's website
12. ↑ FEI horse database: Rico HTV  ( 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. ↑ Werner Muff sells Campione CH to Onishenko (2010)
14. ↑ Switzerland: Werner Muffs Campione CH sold , December 1, 2010
15. ↑ FEI horse database: Portobello  ( 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. ↑ FEI horse database: Plot Blue  ( 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.  
17. ↑ FEI success database horses: Plot Blue  ( 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 horse database: Tamina  ( 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. ↑ FEI success database horses: Tamina  ( 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.  
20. ↑ FEI short biography: Werner Muff  ( 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. ↑ FEI success database: Werner Muff  ( 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.  
22. ↑ Riders Tour Database: Werner Muff ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2009 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.