Marcus Ehning
Marcus Ehning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Marcus Ehning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Show jumping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Südlohn, West Germany | 19 April 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 137 lb (62 kg; 9 st 11 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Marcus Ehning (born 19 April 1974 in Südlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German show jumping champion, Olympic champion from 2000. He is married to Nadia Ehning (née Zülow).[1] He won the Longines Global Champions Tour of Vienna Grand Prix on Plot Blue in September 2014.[2]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Hessischen_Ministerpr%C3%A4sidenten_Marcus_Ehning_auf_Noltes_K%C3%BCchengirl_3_mk.jpg/220px-Hessischen_Ministerpr%C3%A4sidenten_Marcus_Ehning_auf_Noltes_K%C3%BCchengirl_3_mk.jpg)
Horses
![]() | This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (July 2024) |
Marcus Ehning joined the equestrian world when he was 7 years old. His firsts horses, which let him learn and take confidence in low and medium level shows, were Lord, Metal, Starlight, Queen and Bright Ruby. Then he started obtaining great results in higher level competitions mostly thanks to Orchidee, Opium and Talan. He reached the top level with For Pleasure and from that point he constantly grew with his horses, achieving victories in competitions worldwide. His top horses are Plot Blue, Cornado, Comme Il Faut, Singular LS La Silla, Gaudi and Sabrina. Beyond high level competitions, he also takes care of his young horses, training them day by day. [3]
Olympic Record
Ehning participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping, together with Lars Nieberg, Otto Becker and Ludger Beerbaum.[4]
International Championship Results
Results | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Event | Horse | Placing | Notes | ||||||
1993 | European Young Rider Championships | Talan | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
5th | Individual | |||||||||
1994 | European Young Rider Championships | Opium 002 | ![]() |
Team | kjnlm | 6th | Individual | |||
1995 | European Young Rider Championships | Opium 002 | 6th | Individual | ||||||
1999 | European Championships | For Pleasure | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
5th | Individual | |||||||||
2000 | Olympic Games | For Pleasure | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
4th | Individual | |||||||||
2001 | World Cup Final | For Pleasure | 31st | |||||||
2002 | World Cup Final | For Pleasure | 25th | |||||||
2002 | World Equestrian Games | For Pleasure | 4th | Team | ||||||
15th | Individual | |||||||||
2003 | World Cup Final | Anka 191 | ![]() |
|||||||
2003 | European Championships | For Pleasure | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
![]() |
Individual | |||||||||
2004 | World Cup Final | Anka 191 | 13th | |||||||
2005 | World Cup Final | Gitania 8 | ![]() |
|||||||
2005 | European Championships | Gitania 8 | 20th | Individual | ||||||
2006 | World Cup Final | Sandro Boy | ![]() |
|||||||
2006 | World Equestrian Games | Noltes Kuchengirl | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
82nd | Individual | |||||||||
2007 | World Cup Final | Gitania 8 | 5th | |||||||
2007 | European Championships | Noltes Kuchengirl | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
51st | Individual | |||||||||
2008 | World Cup Final | Sandro Boy | 39th | |||||||
2009 | World Cup Final | LeConte | 10th | |||||||
2009 | European Championships | Plot Blue | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
23rd | Individual | |||||||||
2010 | World Cup Final | Noltes Kuchengirl / Plot Blue | ![]() |
|||||||
2010 | World Equestrian Games | Plot Blue | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
16th | Individual | |||||||||
2011 | World Cup Final | Sabrina 327 | 20th | |||||||
2012 | World Cup Final | HH Copin van de Broy / Sabrina 327 | 7th | |||||||
2012 | Olympic Games | Plot Blue | 10th | Team | ||||||
12th | Individual | |||||||||
2013 | World Cup Final | HH Copin van de Broy / Plot Blue | 23rd | |||||||
2014 | World Cup Final | Cornado NRW | 4th | |||||||
2014 | World Equestrian Games | Cornado NRW | 4th | Team | ||||||
10th | Individual | |||||||||
2015 | World Cup Final | Singular ls la Silla | RET | |||||||
2016 | World Cup Final | Cornado NRW | 4th | |||||||
2017 | World Cup Final | Pret a Tout | 12th | |||||||
2017 | European Championships | Pret a Tout | 5th | Team | ||||||
6th | Individual | |||||||||
2018 | World Cup Final | Cornado NRW | 12th | |||||||
2018 | World Equestrian Games | Pret a Tout | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
15th | Individual | |||||||||
2019 | European Championships | Comme il Faut 5 | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
5th | Individual | |||||||||
2021 | European Championships | Stargold | ![]() |
Team | ||||||
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew |
References
- ^ "Sportpferde- Ehning". Archived from the original on 2014-11-02.
- ^ "Equestrian - Ehning wins in Vienna as Beerbaum maintains GCT lead". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ "Life and Career". Sportpferde Ehning Gbr. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Equestrian" Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 5, 2008)
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Official website
- Marcus Ehning at FEI
- Marcus Ehning at FEI (alternative link)
- Marcus Ehning at Olympedia
- Marcus Ehning at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Borken (district)
- Sportspeople from Münster (region)
- Equestrians at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic equestrians for Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- German male equestrians
- German show jumping riders
- Olympic medalists in equestrian
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- German Olympic medalist stubs
- German equestrian biography stubs