Tim Lips (born 7 October 1985 in

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) is a Dutch

eventer Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...

Biography

Both his parents were active in

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as well and Lips knew he wanted to be successful in the sport from a young age.Tim Lips bio
timlips.nl, ret: 6 August 2008 Already at the age of 8 he was getting decent results in show jumping and he created experienced

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out of total inexperienced ones. At the age of 19 he and his father decided to check if eventing could be a successful discipline for Lips. After a few tries he decided eventig would become his future sport. Besides his top horse Oncarlos Lips rides 8 to 10 horses a day in the professional accommodation in his home town of Made. These are his own horses, as well as other horses brought in by other people to prepare them for events. Lips is even in the position to enter the show jumping events himself with those horses from time to time. This gives him a continuous rhythm and he can prepare his horses for a 1.35m height, which makes sure the eventing heights are no problem for his horses. Lips is part of the A-class Seniors Eventing of the KNHS (The Royal Dutch Equestrian Association) as well as the Rabobank Talents Team, which is a project of the

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and the KNHS to discover young talented riders at an early age. Lips won two eventing races in the M-Class in 2005 both with Oncarlos, in

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and

Barchem Barchem is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, located in the municipality Lochem, about 15 km east of the city of Zutphen. It was first mentioned in 1474 as Borchem, and means "settlement on/near a hill". It used to be a little ag ...

, he also reached a second place in

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, also on Oncarlos.Tim Lips Resultaten
, timlips.nl, ret: 6 August 2008 In 2006 he became second, in the CCI meeting in Jaroszwoka,

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and third in Ede. On this last event he also became the Dutch national Young Rider champion. At the European Championships for Young Riders in

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he became fifteenth, but managed to get the award for Best Equestrian. He continued his year by winning a CIC event in

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and becoming second in

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. He became 10th at the CIC event in

Boekelo Boekelo () is a village in the municipality of Enschede in the eastern Netherlands, the population is estimated at approximately 2,500. It is located just west of Usselo. The village is known for the Military Boekelo Enschede, an international eq ...

, 2007, but this was enough to claim the Dutch national title. During his first World Cup appearance in

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he finished on the 30th position. In Ede he became 2nd in the CIC competition with Oncarlos and third in the CCI competition with Van Schijndel's Owaola. At the CICO in

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he finished in 13th position and with the Dutch team he finished in 5th position. In April 2008 Lips and Oncarlos finished on the seventh position of the CCI race in Vairano. Later he became third in Outdoor Gelderland with Van Schijndels Owaola and in July he finished second in the CHIO Aachen, the World's largest equestrian meeting. This earned enough points to be among the top 30 at the World Rankings, which gave him the international nomination for the

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. Because he also achieved the Dutch standards (finishing among the top 12 in this tournament) the qualification was a fact. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, he finished in 38th place in the individual and was part of the Dutch team that finished in 11th place.

CCI 5* Results

International Championship results

References

External links

Official homepage
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lips, Tim 1985 births Living people Dutch dressage riders Dutch show jumping riders Event riders Olympic equestrians for the Netherlands Dutch male equestrians Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 2012 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Drimmelen Sportspeople from North Brabant 21st-century Dutch people