Alwin Schockemöhle Explained

Alwin Schockemöhle
Birth Date:29 May 1937
Birth Place:Meppen, Province of Hanover, Germany
Height:1.7m (05.6feet)
Weight:72kg (159lb)
Show-Medals:y

Alwin Schockemöhle (born 29 May 1937) is a former German show-jumper. He was a successful international show jumping equestrian in the 1960s and 1970s at individual and team events in Olympic Games and European Championships. He was one of four children, a girl[1] and three boys. His younger brother Paul was also a successful show-jumper. Werner Schockemöhle, his youngest brother, was a well-known horse breeder in Oldenburg.

Biography

Schockemöhle was involved in horses from an early age, and sold his grey mare Anaconda to the American equestrian Mary Mairs for DM100,000.[2] His success in horse-dealing allowed him to fund the debt-ridden family estate when he took it over, aged 20.[3]

Schockemöhle won his first Olympic gold medal in 1960 on the German show jumping team, followed in 1968 by a bronze medal. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he won both gold in the individual and a silver medal with the German team which he was part of with his brother.[4] He has won both the European and German championships several times.

By his first wife, Gaby, who later married Hendrik Snoek, he had a daughter, Alexandra,[5] and two sons, Christoph, who lives in Singapore, and Frank, who is a manager in the German Bundesliga; and two daughters, Vanessa and Christina, by his second wife, Rita Schockemöhle. Rita also had three children by her previous husband, Gerhard Wiltfang. Alwin has been quoted as saying: "She has four children; I have five; altogether, there are seven".[6]

Schockemöhle was inducted into Germany's Sports Hall of Fame in July 2016.[7]

Major achievements

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Gold medal team, individual 26th on Ferdl

Bronze medal team, individual 7th on Donald Rex

Silver medal team, Gold medal individual on Warwick Rex

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Notes and References

  1. Book: 0-207-95774-6. Ulrich Kaiser. 21. Alwin Schockemöhle. 1977. Angus and Robertson . English translation.
  2. Book: 0-207-95774-6. Ulrich Kaiser. 21. Alwin Schockemöhle. 1977. Angus and Robertson . English translation.
  3. Book: 0-207-95774-6. Ulrich Kaiser. 21. Alwin Schockemöhle. 1977. Angus and Robertson . English translation.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221959/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/alwin-schockemohle-1.html Alwin Schockemöhle
  5. Book: 0-207-95774-6. Ulrich Kaiser. 94. Alwin Schockemöhle. 1977. Angus and Robertson . English translation.
  6. Berliner Zeitung. Alwin Schockemöhles hoffnungsvoller Derby-Kandidat Scott war gedopt Schatten über dem Paradies. Karl-Heinz Bergmann. 29 July 1995.
  7. Web site: Meldung 24 05 2016. www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. 17 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160717104041/https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/aktuelles/presse-infos/2016/meldung-24-05-2016/. 17 July 2016. dead.
  8. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp''Datenbase on the homepage of the IOC
  9. http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/reitsport/_historie.htm''www.sport-komplett.de''
  10. http://www.chioaachen.de/OBEN/Archiv/Siegerliste.asp''Siegerliste CHIO Aachen

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