William Whitaker (show jumper)

William Whitaker (show jumper) medal table
William Whitaker with Glenavadra Brilliant at the 2013 German Jumping Derby
Show jumping
United Kingdom United Kingdom
European championships
silver	2005	Team, Juniors (with Carnaval Path )
gold	2006	Singles, Juniors (with Carnaval Path )
bronze	2006	Team, Juniors (with Carnaval Path )
gold	2007	Team, young riders (with Sarlino )
bronze	2008	Team, young riders (with Sarlino )

William Whitaker (born July 26, 1989 in Huddersfield ) is a British show jumper .

Career

William Whitaker was already successful in sport in his youth: He became European Junior Champion in 2006 with Carneval Path . In December 2007, at the age of 18, he was the youngest rider ever to win the power jumping at the Olympia London International Horse Show . Shortly afterwards he won the World Cup in Mechelen, Belgium . At the British jumping derby in Hickstead , he finished third in 2008 and second in 2009. After finishing second here in 2015, he won this test for the first time in 2016. In addition to this victory, winning the World Cup in Stuttgart 2015 is one of his greatest individual successes. In 2014 William Whitaker was part of the British team with Fandango at the Nations Cup final in Barcelona .

Whitaker has already been voted "Show Jumper of the Year" twice. In July 2010 he was ranked 160th in the world.

After finishing school he was trained by Aaron Vale in the USA for some time , until the summer of 2010 he lived and trained in Nottingham on the farm of his uncle Michael. After a disagreement, he moved to Shaw Stud Farms near Telford . From the beginning of 2011 he worked on the family farm in Huddersfield. In the spring of 2016 he worked for a stable in Belgium. Already in September of the same year he changed again and worked at another Belgian stable as the successor to his compatriot Joe Clee .

Private

William Whitaker comes from one of the largest and most important equestrian families in the world and is the nephew of the famous show jumping riders John Whitaker and Michael Whitaker . William is the son of Ian Whitaker and his wife Alison. He is the cousin of the show jumping riders Robert Whitaker and Ellen Whitaker , who are also highly successful in the sport , as well as the big brother of George Whitaker, who also has his first successes in the jumping saddle.

Whitaker is in a relationship with the Swedish show jumper Elisabeth Fredlund, whom he met in 2009 during the Toscana Tour in Arezzo, Italy. On February 1, 2012, the two parents had a daughter, and their son was born on August 8, 2014.

Horses (excerpt)

current:

Fandango (* 2003), dark brown Swedish gelding, father: Last Liberty 988, father of mother: Krocket 651; Owner: William Whitaker and Elisan AB, previously ridden by Elisabeth Fredlund
Glenavadra Brilliant (* 2003), Irish chestnut gelding , father: Brilliant Lad, mother's father: Powerswood Purple

former show horses of William Whitaker:

Arielle (* 1996), Hanoverian , mare, gray, 2005–2008

Kerball (* 1998), Selle Français , 2007

Leonardo 590 (* 1996), Hesse , 2007-2010; previously ridden by Michael Whitaker (2005-2007)

Carnaval Path (* 1998), Irish sport horse , ridden by Michael Whitaker until 2006 , by William Whitaker from 2006–2010, now ridden by George Whitaker.
Lady des Hayettes (* 1995), Belgian sport horses (sBs), father: Libero H, 2007–2010; previously ridden by James Billington (2005-2006).
Sarlino (* 1999), bay KWPN stallion, father: Carlino, mother's father: Indoctro; was ridden by Marianne Hallundbæk from 2012
Upperclass (* 2001), KWPN , bay gelding, father: Concorde, mother's father: Indoctro; previously ridden by Elisabeth Fredlund, last used in international sport in 2014

successes

European Championships:

2005 (Juniors) with Carnaval Path 2nd place with the team
2006, Athens (Juniors): with Carnaval Path 3rd place with the team and 1st place in the individual ranking
2007, Auvers (Young Riders): with Carnaval Path : 1st place with the team and 75th place in the individual ranking
2008, Prague (Young Riders): with Sarlino : 3rd place with team and 4th place in the individual ranking
2009, Hoofddorp (Young Riders): with Clark : 11th place in the individual ranking
2010, Jardy (Young Riders): with Sarlino : 5th place with team and 15th place in the individual ranking

More Achievements

2005: 2nd place in the Kiel Grand Prix with Arielle , leading junior show jumper of the year at the Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham
2007: 1st place in the Nations Cup in Prague with Leonardo , 4th place in the Leeuwarden Grand Prix (CSI ***) with Kerball , 6th place in the Madrid Grand Prix (CSI *****) with Carnaval Path , 4th place Place in the Grand Prix (CSI ***) of Vestfold with Arielle , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Vigo with Arielle , 1st place in the World Cup show jumping in Mechelen , with Arielle
2008: 3rd place in the World Cup jumping in Syracuse (New York) with Arielle , 3rd place in the British Open Championship, 3rd place in the Hickstead Derby (CSI ****) with Leonardo 590 & Animation II , 3rd place in the big one Prize, British Open in Birmingham with Arielle , 5th place in the Grand Prix of Cervia (CSI ***) with Sarlino , 9th place in the Grand Prix of Vigo (CSI **** - W) with Arielle , 4th place at the euroclassics Team Trophy (CSI ****) in Bremen with Arielle
2009: 9th place at the Wiener Stadthalle (CSI ****) with Tackeray , 3rd place at the World Cup (CSI *** - W) in Tripoli with Sarlino , 6th place at the Grand Prix of Salzburg (CSI ** **) with Tackeray , 7th place in the Speed Classic ( CSIO ***** Hickstead ) with Insul Tech Clark 12 , 2nd place in the Hickstead Derby (CSI ****) with animation II , 1st place in the 2nd Qualification for the 80th German Jumping Derby with Leonardo
2010: 2nd place at the Grand Prix of Comporta (CSI **) with Salinero , 2nd + 4th place at the CSI **** Birmingham with Leonardo and Cyber-Space , 9th place at the German Jumping Derby with Animation II
2011: 2nd place at the Grand Prix of a CSI *** of the Toscana Tour in Arezzo with Sarlino
2012: 2nd place at the Grand Prix of Comporta (CSI ***) with Fandango
2013: 1st place in the Grand Prix final week of Toscana Tour (CSI ***) in Arezzo with Fandango , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Keysoe (CSI **) with upper class as well as the British team's second place in the Nations Cup of Gijón (CSIO *****) with Fandango
2014: 1st place in the Grand Prix of the final week of the Sunshine Tour in Vejer de la Frontera (CSI 3 *) with Fandango , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Béthune (CSI 3 *) with Upper Class , 1st place in the Stuttgart World Cup ( CSI 5 * -W) with Fandango , 3rd place in the Grand Prix of Keysoe (CSI 2 *) with Glenavadra Brilliant
2015: 1st place in the indoor tournament of Treffen bei Villach (CSI 3 *) with Fandango , 2nd place in the derby of Lummen (CSIO 5 *) with Glenavadra Brilliant , 2nd place in the derby of La Baule (CSIO 5 *) with Glenavadra Brilliant , 2nd place in the Hickstead Derby (CSI 4 *) with Glenavadra Brilliant , 1st place in the Grand Prix of Keysoe (CSI 2 *) with Balibu
2016: 1st place in the Hickstead Derby (CSI 4 *) with Glenavadra Brilliant