Kevin Staut (born 15 November 1980) is a French equestrian. His specialty is
show jumping, either individually or as part of a team. He has received medals at the Show Jumping French Junior Championships, the Show Jumping European Championship for Young Riders, the Show Jumping European Championships, and the Show Jumping World Championships. He placed 34th at the
2012 Summer Olympics and is currently ranked sixth on the FEI Rolex Ranking List.
Staut is recognized as
JustWorld InternationalRider Ambassador, and frequently donates his time and talent to helping the organization fracture the
cycle of poverty
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for children around the world.
Life
Biography
Kevin Staut was born 15 November 1980 in
Le Chesnay
Le Chesnay () is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, fr ...
,
France
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.
When his mother's horse, Apollon, retired in Normandy, he became immediately fascinated in horseback riding.
When Staut was in his fifth year of secondary school, he left the school system to follow correspondence courses.
In 1996, he left to stay with Michael Hécart and received an opportunity to ride "some top-quality horses".
In 2000, Staut won the gold medal at the Show Jumping European Championship for Young Riders on the horse Crocodile Man and then went on to work with Hubert Bourdy for a year and a half.
In July 2007, Staut, the newest member of the French national equestrian team, went to
Aachen, Germany
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...
, where his team placed tenth.
Soon after, he was selected again for the team to be a part for the European Championships in
Mannheim, Germany
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.
On 30 August 2009, Staut won the gold prize at the Show Jumping European Championships for individual jumping.
The next year he was part of the Show Jumping World Championships, where his team ranked second. When he went back to the European Championships, his team ranked second again. At the
2012 Summer Olympics, Staut advanced to Round A of the final round for
individual jumping, where he ended in thirty-fourth place on Silvana. Staut was also part of the French team for
team jumping, where the team ranked twelfth and Staut personally received four faults. He was later named the President of the
International Jumping Riders Club.
Personal life
Staut enjoys reading
Dan Brown
Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels ''Angels & Demons'' (2000), '' The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), ''The Lost Symbol'' (2009), '' Inferno'' (2013), ...
and
Guillaume Musso
Guillaume Musso (; born 6 June 1974) is a French novelist. He is one of the most popular contemporary French authors.
Career
Musso was born in 1974 in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), France. After finishing high school, he left for the United Stat ...
.
He also watches DVDs, as he has little time for going to a cinema, and particularly enjoys
horror films and
Clint Eastwood movies.
Team
Kevin Staut's equestrian team includes Laurence Gazel, Frédéric Bouvard, Clémence Jourlin (Riders International Management Company), Vincent Goudin (veterinarian), Dimitri Vandormael (smith), Pierre-Henri Renault (smith), and Kevin Blanco (cavalier).
Horses
References
External links
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French male equestrians
Olympic equestrians for France
1980 births
Living people
Equestrians at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 2016 Summer Olympics
People from Le Chesnay
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Yvelines