Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anki" [1] van Grunsven ( Dutch Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda ("Anky") van Grunsven , MFA : [ˈɑŋki vɑn ˈɣrʏnsfə (n)] ; born January 2, 1968 , Earp , North Brabant ) - Dutch female equestrian in dressage . Winner of the largest number of Olympic awards in the history of equestrian sports (9).
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She started dressage at the age of 12 after her horse Prisko (later Anki performed in his saddle at the Olympic Games and the World Cup) showed poor results in show jumping .
Three - time Olympic champion (all awards are in the individual championship) and 5-time vice-champion of the Olympic Games, participant of the 7th consecutive summer Olympic Games 1988-2012, each of which, except the first, won medals. In 1988, at the debut Olympics, Anki performed in the Prisko saddle, at the next 3 Games (1992–2000) in the Bonfire saddle, and at the Games in 2004–2012 in the Salinero saddle.
Two-time world champion (1994 and 2006) and 5-time European champion. Since 1991, at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, she won 32 awards, including 10 gold. 9-time winner of the Dressage World Cup ( 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2000 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and 2008 ).
The best athlete of the Netherlands in 1994 .
Married to own trainer Chef Janssen , two children. At the Olympic Games in Athens in August 2014, where Anki won gold in a personal dressage, she was the first child pregnant, her son Yannick was born in November of that year. Janssen and van Grunswen married in Las Vegas at the end of 2005. In March 2007, Anki gave birth to a daughter, Ava Eden.
Anki van Grunswen at the Olympics
| Discipline | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 |
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| Personal dressage | 36 [2] | four | 6 | ||||
| Team dressage | 5 [3] | four |
See also
- Werth, Isabelle
- Klimke, Rainer
- List of multiple Olympic champions
Notes
- ↑ There is an inaccurate version of the transfer of the name Anke
- ↑ Not qualified in the second round
- ↑ Anka's result is outside the standings of the Netherlands national team - she showed the 4th result among the Dutch, and only the top 3 were counted