Marcus Ehning (born 19 April 1974 in

Südlohn Südlohn is a municipality in the district of Borken in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located right at the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km east of Winterswijk Winterswijk (; also known as ''Wint ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

) is a German

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champion, Olympic champion from 2000. He is married to Nadia Ehning (née Zülow). He won the Longines Global Champions Tour of Vienna Grand Prix on Plot Blue in September 2014.

Horses

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.

Olympic Record

Ehning participated at the

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, where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping, together with

Lars Nieberg Lars Nieberg (born 24 July 1963 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German equestrian. He participated in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in show jumping competition. Olympic record Nigberg participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlant ...

, Otto Becker and

Ludger Beerbaum Ludger Beerbaum (, ; born 26 August 1963 in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an internationally successful German equestrian who competes in show jumping and has been ranked the No. 1 Show Jumper in the world by the FEI on multiple occasion ...

."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Equestrian"
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International Championship Results

References

External links

Official website
* 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 of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany German male equestrians German show jumping riders Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Germany-equestrian-bio-stub