Alwin Schockemöhle

Alwin Schockemöhle
Alwin Schockemöhle
	Alwin Schockemöhle in 1972
Personal information
Born	29 May 1937 (age 87); Meppen, Province of Hanover, Germany
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Medal record
Equestrian
Olympic Games
Representing Germany
Representing West Germany
European Championships

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

^[8]^[9]^[10]

Olympic Games
- 1960 in Rome: Gold medal team, individual 26th on Ferdl
- 1968 in Mexico City: Bronze medal team, individual 7th on Donald Rex
- 1976 in Montreal: Silver medal team, Gold medal individual on Warwick Rex
European Championships
- 1963 in Rome Bronze medal team, Silver medal individual on Ferdl and Freiherr
- 1965 in Aachen: Bronze medal individual on Freiherr
- 1967 in Rotterdam: Bronze medal individual on Donald Rex and Pesgö
- 1969 in Hickstead: Silver medal individual on Donald Rex and Wimpel
- 1973 in Hickstead: Silver medal individual on Rex the Robber and Weiler
- 1975 in Munich: Gold medal team, Gold medal individual on Warwick Rex
Other
- Four times German champion (1961, 1963, 1967, 1975)
- Thrice champion of the Grand Prix of Aachen (1962 on Freiherr, 1968 on Donald Rex and 1969 on Wimpel)
- Thrice champion of the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg (1957, 1969, 1971)

References

^ Ulrich Kaiser (1977). Alwin Schockemöhle (English translation ed.). Angus and Robertson. p. 21. ISBN 0-207-95774-6.
^ Ulrich Kaiser (1977). Alwin Schockemöhle (English translation ed.). Angus and Robertson. p. 21. ISBN 0-207-95774-6.
^ Ulrich Kaiser (1977). Alwin Schockemöhle (English translation ed.). Angus and Robertson. p. 21. ISBN 0-207-95774-6.
^ Alwin Schockemöhle. sports-reference.com
^ Ulrich Kaiser (1977). Alwin Schockemöhle (English translation ed.). Angus and Robertson. p. 94. ISBN 0-207-95774-6.
^ Karl-Heinz Bergmann (29 July 1995). "Alwin Schockemöhles hoffnungsvoller Derby-Kandidat Scott war gedopt Schatten über dem Paradies". Berliner Zeitung.
^ "Meldung 24 05 2016". www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Archived from the original on 17 July 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ Datenbase on the homepage of the IOC May 2006
^ www.sport-komplett.de May 2006
^ Siegerliste CHIO Aachen Archived 30 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine May 2006

Sources

derStandard.de June 2002
Rheinlands Reiter – Pferde Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine July 2004
Eckhard F. Schröter: Das Glück dieser Erde. Leben and Karriere deutscher Springreiter.. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1980, ISBN 3-596-23019-5