Ingrid Klimke

Ingrid Klimke and Butts Abraxxas competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Medal record
Equestrian
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team eventing
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team eventing
World Equestrian Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Aachen Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2014 Normandy Team eventing
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Tryon Individual eventing
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Herning Team dressage
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Luhmühlen Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2013 Malmo Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2015 Blair Castle Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2017 Strzegom Individual eventing
Gold medal – first place 2019 Luhmühlen Team eventing
Gold medal – first place 2019 Luhmühlen Individual eventing
Silver medal – second place 2013 Malmo Individual eventing
Silver medal – second place 2021 Avenches Team eventing
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Blenheim Individual eventing

Ingrid Klimke (born 1 April 1968 in Münster, West Germany[1]) is a German eventing rider. She appeared at five Olympics from 2000 to 2016.[2] With her horse Abraxxas, she won two gold medals in team eventing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a team silver with Hale-Bob.

She is the daughter of equestrian Reiner Klimke. Like her father, she rides in both eventing and dressage at international events, for example, she was placed seventh at the 2002 Dressage World Cup Final with Nector van het Carelshof.[3] In 2022, she made her debut on the German dressage team at the World Championships, where she was awarded a team bronze medal.

In January 2012 she was appointed to the position of "Reitmeister" (Riding Master, a special title of the German Equestrian Federation). Klimke is the second woman ever to be appointed as "Reitmeister".[4]

Youth

Through her father, Klimke started to work with horses at a very young age.

She states that she never thought about a career in equestrianism. Since her youth she has been competing in dressage, show jumping and eventing. Her trainers were, besides her father, Fritz Ligges and Ian Millar. About her trainers she says:

I received a consistent training from all of them, which was geared to develop an intensive bonding between horse and rider and to never overburden the horses. Being Ian Millar’s working student I learned everything about care and show jumping and I am really grateful towards my father for making that stay abroad possible.

After her school days, she began an apprenticeship as a bank clerk and afterwards she began to study to become a teacher. Later she realized that it was not possible to this and keep riding at the same time so she decided to dedicate herself to equestrianism and horse training.

CCI5* Results

Results
Event Kentucky Badminton Luhmühlen Burghley Pau Adelaide
2006 2nd place, silver medalist(s) (Sleep Late)
2007 WD (Sleep Late)
2008-2009 Did not participate
2010 2nd place, silver medalist(s) (Butts Abraxxas)
2011 EL (Butts Abraxxas)
2012 Did not participate
2013 16th (Butts Abraxxas) RET (RF Tabasco) 4th (Butts Abraxxas)
2014 28th (Hale Bob) 1st place, gold medalist(s) (Hale Bob)
2015 2nd place, silver medalist(s) (Hale Bob) 1st place, gold medalist(s) (Escada)
2016 Did not participate
2017 9th (Hale Bob)
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew

International Championship Results

Results
Year Event Horse Placing Notes
1999 European Championships Sleep Late 39th Individual
2000 Olympic Games Sleep Late 4th Team
2002 Dressage World Cup Final Nector vh Carelshof 7th
2004 Olympic Games Sleep Late 4th Team
RET Individual
2005 European Championships Sleep Late 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Individual
2006 World Young Horse Championships Seacookie TSF 8th CCI**
2006 World Equestrian Games Sleep Late 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
34th Individual
2007 European Championships FRH Butts Abraxxas 7th Team
10th Individual
2008 Olympic Games FRH Butts Abraxxas 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
5th Individual
2009 European Championships FRH Butts Abraxxas 8th Team
RET Individual
2010 World Equestrian Games FRH Butts Abraxxas 5th Team
13th Individual
2011 World Young Horse Championships Parmenides 4 9th CCI**
SAP Hale Bob OLD WD CCI**
2011 European Championships FRH Butts Abraxxas 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
11th Individual
2012 Olympic Games FRH Butts Abraxxas 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
25th Individual
2013 European Championships SAP Escada FRH 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Individual
2014 World Young Horse Championships Zilia D 12th CCI**
2014 World Equestrian Games SAP Escada FRH 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
13th Individual
2015 World Young Horse Championships Weisse Duene 21st CCI*
2015 European Championships SAP Hale Bob OLD 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
5th Individual
2016 World Young Horse Championships Weisse Duene 1st place, gold medalist(s) CCI**
2016 Olympic Games SAP Hale Bob OLD 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Team
14th Individual
2017 European Championships SAP Hale Bob OLD 10th Team
1st place, gold medalist(s) Individual
2018 World Equestrian Games SAP Hale Bob OLD 5th Team
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Individual
2019 European Championships SAP Hale Bob OLD 1st place, gold medalist(s) Team
1st place, gold medalist(s) Individual
2019 World Young Horse Championships Equistros Siena Just Do It WD CCI***
2020 World Young Horse Championships Cascamara 1st place, gold medalist(s) CCI**
2021 European Championships SAP Hale Bob OLD 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Team
5th Individual
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew

Notable Horses

References

  1. ^ "Athlete - the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games". results.beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ingrid Klimke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010.
  3. ^ Finale FEI Wereldbeker Dressuur 2001/2002[dead link]
  4. ^ Reitmeistertitel für Ingrid Klimke Archived February 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Uta Helkenberg / Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, January 14, 2012

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