HOLSTEIN Heike

Ireland
Equestrian
10 Dec 1971
49
Female
DUBLIN
 
Ireland
CARBURY
 
Ireland

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
EQU Equestrian Dressage Individual 37

Schedule

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Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocationDressage Individual
2004Athens, GRE50
2000Sydney, NSW, AUS42
1996Atlanta, GA, USA26

World Equestrian Games
YearLocationDressage IndividualDressage Team
2002Jerez de la Frontera, ESP5213
1998Rome, ITA29-

European Championships
YearLocationDressage Team
2019Rotterdam, NED7


Legend
GP - Grand Prix, NS - Not Started, RT - Retired, WD - Withdrawn, EL - Eliminated
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Spending time with her children. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2021)
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Athlete, Coach, Horse Trainer
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Business - Portobello College Dublin, Ireland
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Partner William, sons Jake and Archie
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English, German
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Heike Holstein Dressage [Ireland]
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Gisela Holstein [mother]
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Her brother Erik won the 1998 Hickstead CSIO Grand Prix in England. He also competed in motor racing at elite level. Her mother Gisela is a former elite rider and has worked as an international dressage judge. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2021; horseandhound.co.uk, 19 Aug 2004; FEI 25 Aug 2000)
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She began riding at age three in Ireland. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2021; horseandhound.co.uk, 19 Aug 2004)
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Her mother Gisela was involved in elite equestrian sport. (horseandhound.co.uk, 19 Aug 2004)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (punditarena.com, 22 Jan 2021)
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Competing at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2021)
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German equestrian Reiner Klimke. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2021)
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In November 2019 she received a special recognition award from Horse Sport Ireland [HSI]. The honour was in recognition of her contribution to dressage after she helped Ireland qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the team event at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (eurodressage.com, 29 Nov 2019)

In 1998, 2003, and 2005 she was named Dressage Rider of the Year in Ireland. (horsetalk.co.nz, 27 Feb 2007)

General Interest

General
LONG INTERNATIONAL BREAK
Prior to her selection to represent Ireland at the 2019 Nations Cup event in Aachen, Germany, her last appearance for the Irish national team had come 14 years earlier at the 2005 European Championships in Hagen, Germany. She became a mother to her sons Jake and Archie during her break from the sport, and also bred her own horse called Sambuca. "I always knew Sambuca was a special horse so I've been waiting for her. After Archie was born I was back in the saddle three weeks later. There is time pressure [on starting a family], which I'm sure other women in sport and women in general feel, and so there came a point where I had to choose what was more important. Horses mean a lot to me, but they are not everything and of course I was scared, as I'm sure every new mother is, but it changes your life and it changes your life for the better." (horseandhound.co.uk, 17 Jul 2019; horsesportireland.ie, 10 Jul 2019; eurodressage.com, 23 Mar 2019)

COACH
She has served as high performance dressage coach of Ireland's U25 dressage team, starting her role in 2011. (Connolly's Red Mills YouTube channel, 08 Jun 2017)

MENTOR
Early in her career she spent time training with Reiner Klimke in Germany. (redmills.co.uk, 04 Jun 2004)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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