horse 
 
 
Horse and pony - Equiworld site index.Horse chat message boards.Horse breeds, types and breeding gallery.Search for horse information on Equiworld.Horse information and equestrian news archive.horsehorse  
[Dressage]-[Driving]-[Endurance]-[Horse-Trials]-[Polo]-[Show-Jumping]-[Showing]-[Side-Saddle]-[Vaulting]-[Western]


Olympics - Heike Holstein Selected To Represent Ireland

The chairman of the Dressage Ireland International Affairs committee, Mrs Joan Keogh, announced this evening (Wednesday 30th June 2004) that Heike Holstein has been selected to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games. Heike will compete in Athens on the 12 year old hannovarian gelding Welt Adel


RIDER PROFILE:

HEIKE HOLSTEIN

Date of Birth: 10/12/1971

Height: 170cm

Weight: 60kg

Horse: Welt Adel

12 year old Hannovarian gelding.

Career performance:

Heike Holstein was born in Dublin and lives with her husband Andrew at the Sweep Stud, Carbury, Co Kildare.

She has been national dressage champion of Ireland no less than 8 times - a record. She was a member of the first ever international dressage team to represent Ireland (World Equestrian Games, Rome in 1998). The following year she was on the Irish team at the European Dressage Championships in Arnhem and placed 23rd in the individual line up.

Heike was the youngest competitor in the dressage competition at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Four years later she represented Ireland at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

In 2002 Heike was a member of the Irish team at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez with the imposing hannovarian gelding Welt Adel in his debut season on the international circuit. Last year she qualified for the Grand Prix Speciale (Top 25) at the European Championships in Hickstead with Welt Adel and placed 20th thereby securing an individual Olympic qualification place for Ireland.

During her career on the international dressage circuit she has recorded the following notable results:

Grand Prix - Arnhem CDI - 1996 - The Netherlands - 3rd
Grand Prix - Saumur CDI - 1996 - France - 2nd
Grand Prix - Les Aspres CDI - 1996 - France - 2nd
Grand Prix - Addington CDI -1997 - Great Britain - 2nd
Grand Prix - Hickstead CDI -1997 - Great Britain - 2nd
Grand Prix - Monza CDI - 2000 - Italy - 3rd
Grand Prix - Hickstead CDI 2000 - Great Britain - 2nd
Grand Prix Speciale - Lipica CDI -2002 - Slovenia - 1st
Grand Prix - Lipica CDI - 2003 - Slovenia - 3rd
Grand Prix - Frys CDI - 2003 - UK - 5th
Grand Prix Speciale - Frys CDI - 2003 -Great Britain - 2nd
Grand Prix - Lipica CDI - 2004 - Slovenia - 3rd
Grand Prix Speciale - Lipica CDI - 2004 - Slovenia - 2nd

Heike was awarded the Irish Field Dressage Rider of the year award in 1998 & 2003.

.



Find out more, visit the links page or find answers on the message board.

horse


Copyright 1994 to 2024 Equiworld at Hayfield, Aberdeen, Scotland - 30 years on the web. Archived Version.