Alwin Schockemöhle (born 29 May 1937) is a former

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show-jumper. He was a successful international show jumping

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in the 1960s and 1970s at individual and team events in

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and

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. He was one of four children, a girl and three boys. His younger brother

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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. His success in horse-dealing allowed him to fund the debt-ridden family estate when he took it over, aged 20. 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. 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, and two sons, Christoph, who lives in Singapore, and Frank, who is a manager in the German

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; 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". Schockemöhle was inducted into

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in July 2016.

Major achievements

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May 2006 *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

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Bronze medal team, Silver medal individual on ''Ferdl'' and ''Freiherr'' **1965 in

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: Bronze medal individual on ''Freiherr'' **1967 in

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: 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

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: 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

Sources

derStandard.de
June 2002
Rheinlands Reiter – Pferde
July 2004 * Eckhard F. Schröter: ''Das Glück dieser Erde. Leben and Karriere deutscher Springreiter.''. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1980,

External links

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Alwin Schockemöhle official website
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