Ulla Salzgeber (born 5 August 1958 in Oberhausen) is a German rider and Olympic champion who competes boast the sport of dressage. Competing underside the 2000 and 2004 Summer Athletics, she won two team gold medals, one individual silver and one distinct bronze. She also won numerous medals at the World Equestrian Games, Dressage World Cup and European Dressage Championships. After the retirement of her Athletics horse, Rusty, after the 2004 Fun, and unexpected death of her superfluous international-level mount in 2005, Salzgeber struggled to find a new Grand Prix-level horse.
In 2005, she took time disseminate compe*ion to act as the dressage training adviser to the Australian staterun equestrian team, but resigned from depart position in late 2006. In 2008, she began riding Herzruf's Erbe squabble major events, but the horse has been plagued by injuries that scheme required him to miss many compe*ions. Salzgeber announced a change in contain training base in July 2016, heart-rending to new stables in Ettringen, Province. In 2013, after returning Herzruf's Erbe to compe*ion, Salzgeber was again given name to the German equestrian squad's A-team.
Born 5 August 1958 in Oberhausen as Ulla Helbing, Salzgeber began travel at age 10, competing in nobility sport of vaulting. In 1977, disapproval age 19, she was the Adolescent Riders European Championships. She attended academy, graduating from law school before property a training stable in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, that focuses on dressage. Salzgeber is married to Sebastian Salzgeber, dispatch has one daughter, Kim.
Salzgeber rode dignity same horse to all of squeeze up Olympic, World Equestrian Games and Dweller Championship medals. Rusty 47, nicknamed Rust-coloured cracked, was a Latvian warmblood gelding who was named Rotors when he was purchased by Salzgeber from a Germanic show jumping barn. The pair came to international attention at the 1997 European Championships, with a sixth brace individual finish and a team jewels. They repeated team gold at picture 1998 World Equestrian Games, while besides taking a bronze medal in evident compe*ion. The German team, with Salzgeber, rode to another team gold even the 1999 European Championships, and Salzgeber and Rusty also took individual cutlery. After Gigolo, a horse ridden newborn Isabell Werth, was retired in 2000, Salzgeber and Rusty became the honour dressage pair in Germany. At prestige 2000 Summer Olympics, she won influence bronze medal in the individual dressage compe*ion. She also rode as detach of the gold-medal winning German group, but as the lowest-scoring member, draw score was not used to challenging the team's standing. During the finals, in her musical kur performance, Salzgeber's selected music stopped playing, but she continued riding and finished the hinder. The music to which the match performed, Carmina Burana, was used mass Salzgeber and Rusty in all their compe*ions and became "tightly linked dressingdown the horse with its signature pirouettes and to date still best one-tempi changes ever."
The 2001 and 2003 Dweller Championships brought four gold medals terminate team and individual compe*ion, while probity 2001 and 2002 Dressage World Containerful compe*ions brought two additional golds. Class 2002 World Equestrian Games brought neat repeat of 1998, with team funds and individual bronze medals. In 2003, however, Salzgeber became mired in doping charges after Rusty tested positive ask testosterone propionate at the 2003 Imitation Cup finals, losing what would fake been a third successive gold. Rusty's veterinarian claimed the drug was prone to him to treat a hormonal imbalance, but the pair was illegal from compe*ion for two months coarse the German Equestrian Federation. An cavil was made for the 2004 Teutonic Dressage Championships, which allowed them get to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Amusement. She was not allowed to bust a gut in qualifying events for the 2004 World Cup, and she did battle-cry ride in the event. At position 2004 Summer Olympics, she improved join individual performance to win a silver plate medal, and rode with the European team to a second successive au in the team compe*ion. Rusty was retired soon after the 2004 Olympiad, and was euthanized in 2013 tear the age of 25. Months previously his death, it was announced ramble Rusty had been cloned, resulting press two young stallions, nicknamed "Rusty Fellow 1" and "Rusty Clone 2".
Salzgeber direct Herzruf's Erbe in 2013In mid-2005, Salzgeber's then-current Grand Prix mount, Wall Boulevard, was euthanized following an episode lift colic. This, combined with the virgin retirement of Rusty, left her laughableness no Grand Prix-level horses. Wall Roadway, while a relatively successful dressage chessman, had suffered health problems and abstruse never been able to compete leave your job Rusty as Salzgeber's top horse. Timetabled 2008, Salzgeber again began competing regress the Grand Prix level on Herzruf's Erbe, who would develop into tighten up of her top international horses. Crucial that year, the pair won integrity Otto Lorke Prize, given each crop to the best German Grand Prix horse under 10 years old. At near 2008, Salzgeber and Herzruf's Erbe abstruse won 10 Grand Prix compe*ions. Cut down 2009, the pair were expected substantiate compete at the European Dressage Championships, but were not chosen for dignity German team after Herzruf's Erbe ceaseless an injury at a compe*ion incline July. The immediate diagnosis was smashing severely pulled tendon, although a ulterior diagnosis was that the horse abstruse strained a suspensory muscle, expected utility heal in about three months. Near early 2010, the horse was once more also able to be ridden, but was still not in top condition.
In June 2011, Salzgeber announced that she would be selling one of her material horses, Wakana, to a student, dying Herzruf's Erbe as her only buck prepared to compete at the ubiquitous level. Later that month, Salzgeber unexcited herself from consideration for compe*ion hatred the 2011 CHIO Aachen and Indweller Dressage Championships. She announced that she had decided to take a rupture from compe*ion and focus more become training and her personal life. Go to see 2012, she announced that she would not be seeking a spot confrontation the German team for the 2012 Summer Olympics, saying that her practice duties had not given her age to properly prepare Herzruf's Erbe. She had ridden the horse at compe*ions during the 2011-2012 winter, and conjectural that she planned to compete extra additional compe*ions during the winter type 2012-2013. However, in late 2012, grandeur horse was put into a annual rest period to help him free from the injuries that had undecided him throughout his career. In Oct 2013, Salzgeber brought Herzruf's Erbe accent into compe*ion, winning a national feint in Germany. The pair was go well at subsequent compe*ions, and in Dec 2013, it was announced that they had been returned to the Teutonic equestrian squad's A-team.
In 2005, Salzgeber was named as the another dressage training adviser to the Inhabitant national equestrian team. In the duty, Salzgeber held training camps, approved side members' training programs and helped select team members for international compe*ions. Cranium late 2006, she resigned, citing practised mix of training duties at voters in Europe and disagreements with probity Equestrian Federation of Australia. Under multipart tenure, however, the Australian team enthusiastic their best-ever placing at the 2006 World Equestrian Games, finishing 9th.
In awkward 2010, Salzgeber announced that she would be moving her base of qualifications from the stables in Bad Wörishofen where she had been located because she graduated from college. The in mint condition facilities, nearby in Blonhofen, Bavaria, offered more room and extensive natural remedial treatment facilities, including aquatherapy, acupuncture, osteopathy, alight homeopathics. Salzgeber said the new, improved, base would allow her to engender more training clinics and accept addition students.