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Laura Tomlinson, two -time medalist at the 2012 Olympics

Dressage

United Kingdom United Kingdom
Olympic Summer Games
Gold 2012 team
(with Mistral Hojris )
Bronze 2012 Einzel
(with Mistral Hojris )
World championships
Silver 2010 team
(with Mistral Hojris )
Silver 2010 Einzel (Special Grand Prix)
(with Mistral Hojris )
Silver 2010 Single (Grand Prix freestyle)
(with Mistral Hojris )
European Championships
Silver 1999 Team, pony
Silver 2000 Team, pony
Bronze 2004 Team, young rider
Bronze 2005 Team, young rider
Silver 2009 team
(with Mistral Hojris )
Bronze 2009 Einzel (Special Grand Prix)
(with Mistral Hojris )

Laura Tomlinson , MBE [first] (Born January 31, 1985 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate as Laura Bechtolsheimer ) is a British-Swiss dressage rider.

In December 2012 she was with the FEI’s dressage world rankings Mistral Hojris World ranking fourth. With Andretti H she also occupies 130th place. [2]

Due to her parents (her father, the entrepreneur and equestrian promoter Wilfried Otto Bechtolsheimer, competed for Great Britain at the 1995 dressage championships) [3] [4] , Laura Tomlinson was surrounded by horses in her childhood. In a row, she got her first pony at the age of three.

The dressage rider’s interest was at the beginning of her career of versatility. At the age of 12 she won the national championship of independent schools in Great Britain. Under the influence of her then coach Ian Woodhead, who looked after her up to the juniors, her interest in dressage grew. At the age of 14, she won the team silver medal with her pony at the European Pony Dressage Championship. Since then she has been a member of a British championship team every year.

At the age of 18 she moved to Markus Gribbe, now she is trained by her father and Klaus Balkenhol (whom she indicated as her sporting model). [5] [6] In 2005 she became the youngest British champion at the age of just 20. In 2007 she graduated in philosophy and political science at Bristol University.

Since the 2009 European Championships in Windsor and the CDI5* in Hickstead, Laura Tomlinson has been British record holder in the three most important dressage tests: with 76.638% in the Grand Prix and 80.083% in the Grand Prix Spécial (Windsor) and with 81.800 in the Grand Prix (Hickstead ). [7]

She was able to improve these services at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. So she reached the 15-year-old Danish Fuchs-Wallach Mistral Hojris In the Grand Prix of the team competition 82.511% [8] And was with less than two percentage points behind the Dutch winner Edward Gal with the exceptional Totilas. Afterwards Laura Tomlinson said that it was not only the highest rating she had ever received, but was also the best ride in her life. [9] In the Grand Prix Spécial, the 25-year-old British also secured second place behind Edward Gal with 81.708% and set her own British record. [ten] In the final Grand Prix Kreis, the rider and horse were rewarded for her performance with 85.350% and second place, again behind the outstanding Dutch. [11] Three silver medals crown the achievements of the successful British rider.

At the 2012 Olympic Games, in front of a home crowd in London, she reached Mistral Hojris The bronze medal in the individual ranking, which was determined in the Grand Prix. A few days earlier, the British dressage team had won Olympic team gold for the first time with the participation of Tomlinson.

Laura Tomlinson is one of four children from the marriage of Wilfried Bechtolsheimer and Ursula Bechtolsheimer born Kipp. On the mother’s side, it is the granddaughter of the German entrepreneur Karl-Heinz Kipp. [twelfth] Since her mother acquired civil rights there in Arosa many years ago, Laura Tomlinson also owns Swiss citizenship in addition to British. [13]

Already at the age of one year, Laura Tomlinson and her parents from Frankfurt am Main moved to Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire, Great Britain, where her family runs a horse breeding and training stable. Since then she has had British citizenship. [14]

Since March 2013 she has been married to the polo player Mark Tomlinson, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2009 and has been engaged since August 2012. The church wedding took place on March 2, 2013 in the village church of Arosa. Among the numerous invited wedding guests were Catherine, Princess of Wales, William, Prince of Wales and Harry, Duke of Sussex. [15] [16] With the marriage, she accepted the last name Tomlinson. [17]

  • Mistral Hojris (* 1995), Danish Fuchs-Wallach, Father: Michellino, Motherfather: Ibsen [18]
  • Andretti H (* 1995), Brauner Hanoverian Wallach, Father: Aarking, mother father: Cavalier, ridden by Anna Paprocks-Campanella and Hubertus Schmidt until mid-2008 [19]
  • Douglas Dorsey (* 1991, † 2011), Hanover Darkfuchswallach, Father: Donnerhall, Motherfather: Salem, most recently used in international sport in 2008, in May 2011 put to sleep due to illness [20] [21]

Championate [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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  • European championships:
    • 2004, Aarhus (Junioren-EM): my Douglas Dorsey 5th place in singles and 3rd place with the team
    • 2005, Barzago (Junge Reiter-EM): with Mistral Hojris 6th place in singles and 3rd place with the team
    • 2007, at the pride: myth Mistral Hojris 20th place in singles and 5th place with the team
    • 2009, Windsor: with Mistral Hojris 3rd place in singles (Grand Prix Spécial), 4th place in singles (Grand Prix freestyle) and 2nd place with the team
  • World riding games:
    • 2006, Aachen: with Mistral Hojris 21st place in singles and 6th place with the team
    • 2010, Kentucky: Mistral Hojris 2nd place in singles (Grand Prix Spécial), 2nd place in singles (Grand Prix freestyle) and 2nd place with the team
  • Olympic Summer Games:
    • 2008, Hongkong: Mit Mistral Hojris 17th place in singles and 5th place with the team
    • 2012, London: with Mistral Hojris 3rd place in singles and 1st place with the team
  • British championship:
    • 2005, Stoneleigh Park: British champion with Douglas Dorsey (77.50%) [23]
    • 2008, Stoneleigh Park: Couldn’t take part in the final classification (with Andretti H Victory in the Grand Prix) [24]
    • 2010, Stoneleigh Park: British champion with Andretti H (78.55%) [25]
    • 2011, Stoneleigh Park: British champion with Andretti H (76.80%) [26]

Further successes (in selection) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Siege

  • Grand Prix CDI-W ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2007 MIT Mistral Hojris
  • Special Grand Prix CDI 5* Stuttgart German Masters 2009 MIT Mistral Hojris
  • Grand Prix Kreis CDI 4* Cappeln 2010 with Mistral Hojris

2. Places

  • Grand Prix Special CDI 4* Lingen 2007 and 2009 Mistral Hojris
  • Grand Prix Kreis CDI 4* Lingen 2009 with Andretti H
  • Grand Prix Special CDI 5* Lyon 2008 MIT Andretti H
  • Grand Prix Special CDI 5* Stuttgart German Masters 2008 mit Mistral Hojris
  • Grand Prix Kür Cdi-W London Olympia 2010 with Mistral Hojris

3. Places

  • Grand PRIX SPECIAL CDI 5 * LINGENS 2008 MIT Mistral Hojris
  • Grand Prix Kreis CDI 5* Hickstead (WDM) 2009 with Mistral Hojris
  • Grand Prix Kreis CDI 5* Hickstead (WDM) 2010 with Andretti H
  • Grand PRIX SPECIAL CDII 5 * ACCOUNT 2010 MIT Mistral Hojris

Best international results (since 2007) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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  • Grand Dressage Prix:
    • 2007: 75.333% (2nd place at the CDI-W London Olympia with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2008: 74.875% (2nd place at the CDI-W London Olympia with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2009: 76.638% (3rd place at the 2009 European Championships Mistral Hojris )
    • 2010: 82.936% (1st place at the CDI-W London Olympia Mistral Hojris )
  • Special Grand Prix:
    • 2007: 71.840% (6th place in CDI 5* Stuttgart with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2008: 74.800% (2nd place in CDI 5* Stuttgart with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2009: 80.083% (3rd place at the 2009 European Championships Mistral Hojris )
    • 2010: 81.708% (2nd place in the 2010 world rider games Mistral Hojris )
  • Grand Prix freestyle:
    • 2007: 76.350% (4th place in the CDI-W Neumünster with Douglas Dorsey )
    • 2008: 75.300% (4th place at the CDI-W London Olympia with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2009: 81.800% (3rd place in CDI 5* Hickstead with Mistral Hojris )
    • 2010: 85.350% (2nd place in the 2010 world rider games Mistral Hojris )

(Results by December 25, 2010)

  1. ↑ 2013 New Year’s Honours . Accessed in December 29, 2012. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  2. ↑ Extract from the 115th Fei World Rankings Dressorship (Horse -related world rankings, results from September 1, 2009 to August 8, 2010)
  3. ↑ a b Team GbR: Laura Bechtolsheimer
  4. ↑ www.pferderevue.at
  5. ↑ Portrait Laura Bechtolsheimer , Reiterpost.de
  6. ↑ Laura Bechtolsheimer , horsehero.com
  7. ↑ Result list Grand Prix Kreis at CDI 5* Dressage at Hickstead 2009
  8. ↑ Result Grand Prix Dressage, team competition, Kentucky 2010
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the Originals from November 1, 2010 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/www.reiterpost.de
  10. ↑ Result Grand Prix Spécial, individual competition, Kentucky 2010
  11. ↑ Grand Prix Kreis, individual competition, Kentucky 2010
  12. ↑ [first]
  13. ↑ Stay Zeitung Vom 17. August 2012, S. 5.
  14. ↑ Stuttgart German Masters: Laura Bechtolsheimer wins in the Grand Prix special , Horse & Sports, 22. November 2009
  15. ↑ Laura Bechtolsheimer married (8/2012)
  16. ↑ British royals spend Weekend in Arosa
  17. ↑ Team GB: Laura Tomlinson
  18. ↑ Fei-horse database: Mistral Hojris
  19. ↑ FEI HORSEDDEDEDEBANK: Andretti H
  20. ↑ Fei-horse database: Douglas Dorsey
  21. ↑ Douglas Dorsey died , St. Georg, June 4. 2011
  22. ↑ FEI-riding short biography: Laura Bechtolsheimer
  23. ↑ 2005 British Dressage Championships , Eurodressage, 16. September 2005
  24. ↑ Maria Eilberg, 2008 British Dressage Champion , Euro dressage, September 21, 2008 (English)
  25. ↑ Dressage Deluxe National Dressage Championships 2010: Day four , British dressage, September 13, 2010 (English)
  26. ↑ Overview results British dressage championship 2011
  27. ↑ FEI success database dressage ( Memento of the Originals from June 19, 2010 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: webachiv/iabot/search.fei.org