Lars petern – Wikipedia

Lars Petersen (Born September 3, 1965 in Gram, Syddanmark region) is a dressage rider. He has been in sports for the United States of America since July 2017, previously he started for Denmark.

Petersen started riding as a child. ^[first] Already in the 1980s he went to the United States for the first time. In 1993 he returned to his home country and became a native in Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s stud Blue Hors employed. The following years he worked there were the most successful in his athlete career, and he managed to move up to second place in the world rankings. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

At his first international championship, the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he took in the saddle of Uffe Korshøjgaard In individual 12th place. Two years later he joined the then only eight -year -old Cavan at the world rider games in Rome, here he was also part of a Danish championship sequipe.

At the 1999 European Championships in Arnheim, he won the team with Lone Jörgensen, Anne Van Olst and Jon Pedersen team bronze. He was able to repeat this success two years later. He achieved his greatest individual success at the 2002 World Cup final, where he Cavan Second place won. In the same year he left Denmark again and first moved to Virginia. Later, in the United States, settled to Florida. It is located here in Loxahatchee, which is only a few kilometers away from the Wellington equestrian stronghold. ^[first]

Even after his return to the United States Cavan Continue riding and present at tournaments. This was followed by joint appearances at the 2002 world rider games, ^[5] Olympic Games 2004 and the 2005 European Championships. In 2007 Cavan adopted from sport. ^[6]

In the run -up to the 2012 Olympic Games, the stud Blue Hors the gelding Gredstedgårds Casmir available that Sune Hansen had previously ridden. ^[4] But the two of them stayed with a few starts, and there was no Olympic start. Lars Petersen returned to the top international sport again with the mare Mariett Back: In June 2013 he was part of the Danish team in the Nations Prize of Rotterdam, ^[7] He also qualified with her for the German dressage derby in Hamburg in early June 2014. He won this exam with a change of horse, but he rode his second Grand Prix horse here Willanno .

After he was involved a few weeks later Mariett Also part of the Danish team at the Nations Prize at the Chio Aachen, ^[8] he was nominated for the 2014 world riding games, which he then also Mariett contested. After more than a decade of abstinence, he took part in the World Cup final in Las Vegas in April 2015. He then increasingly focused on tournament sports in the United States. ^[9] In addition, he has been regular training sessions on the Danish stud since 2014 Blue Hors For his rider. ^[ten]

In February 2016, Lars Petersen accepted the American citizenship. At the beginning of July 2017, the change of nation in sports was also carried out. ^[11] He is married to the American dressage rider Melissa Taylor. ^[first]

• World riding games:
  • 1998, Rome: with Cavan 5th place with the team and 11th place in singles
  • 2002, Jerez de la Frontera: mit Cavan 4th place with the team and 9th place in individual
  • 2014, Caen: with Mariett 7th place with the team and 28th place in singles

• European championships:
  • 1999, Arnheim: with Cavan 3rd place with the team and 6th place in singles
  • 2001, Verden: with Cavan 3rd place with the team and 5th place in singles

• World Cup final:
  • 2001, Vilhelmsborg Bei Aarhus: 4. Platz my Cavan
  • 2002, ’S-Hertogenbosch: 2nd place with Cavan
  • 2015, Las Vegas: 2nd place with Mariett

• Mariett (* 1998), dark brown Danish mare, father: Come Back II, mother father: Sidney; most recently used in international sport in 2016 ^[twelfth]
• Blue Hors Cavan (1990–2015), Brauner Hannoverian stallion (castrated in 2000 after a hernia) ^[13] , Father: Cavalier, Motherfather: Damnatz ^{[14] [6]}
• Uffe Korshøjgaard (1985–2009), Brauner Hengst, Father: Claudie Damsgård, Motherfather: Kalpak XX ^{[15] [16]}

1. ↑ ^{a b c} FEI-Biography: Lars Petersen
2. ↑ Lars Petersen , psofsweden.com
3. ↑ Lars Petersen says Adieu to Denmark , horsesdaily.com, 15. October 2001
4. ↑ ^{a b} Edward Gal and Lars Petersen to Ride Blue Hors Grand Prix Horses , Eurodressage.com, 25. October 2011
5. ↑ Results world rider games 2002, dressage
6. ↑ ^{a b} Farewell to Blue Hors Cavan , St. Georg, March 5, 2015
7. ↑ British win FEI Nations Cup™ Dressage in Rotterdam, but Dutch stay top of league table , Louise Parkes / Fei.org, June 20, 2013
8. ↑ Result Nations Prize, CDIO 5* Aachen 2014
9. ↑ Lars Petersen in the FEI success database
10. ↑ Lars Petersen to Train Blue Hors Stud Riders , October 23, 2014
11. ↑ Lars Petersen now under the US flag at the start , globalquestriannews.com, July 9, 2017
12. ↑ FEI Horse Database: Mariett
13. ↑ Danish dressage ace heads for US , Horse & House, 26. October 2001
14. ↑ Fei-Horse database: Blue Hors Cavan
15. ↑ Danish Olympic Team Horse Uffe Korshøjgaard Died , eurodressage.com, 10. November 2009
16. ↑ AbstamMung von Uffe Korshøjgaard , sukuposti.net