van BAALEN Marlies

Netherlands
Equestrian
30 Aug 1980
40
Female
BRAKEL
 
Netherlands
BRAKEL
 
Netherlands

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
EQU Equestrian Dressage Team
NED
Netherlands
 5
Dressage Individual 20

Schedule

Change
Start
Time		 Location Event Status
Equestrian Park
Dressage Team Grand Prix Special
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocationDressage IndividualDressage Team
2004Athens, GRE434

World Cup Western European League
RankEventYearLocation
11Grand Prix Freestyle2016/2017Odense, DEN


Legend
GP - Grand Prix, NS - Not Started, RT - Retired, WD - Withdrawn, EL - Eliminated
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Athlete, Breeder, Business Owner, Coach, Horse Trainer
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Daughter Feline [2017]
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Dutch, English, German
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Dressuurstal Van Baalen [DVB] [Brakel, NED]
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Alex van Silfhout [national], NED
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Her mother Coby has represented the Netherlands in dressage and won team silver at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Her cousin Marrigje van Baalen has also competed in dressage for the Netherlands. She was part of the Dutch squad that won team gold at the 2006 European Junior Championships in Stadl Paura, Austria. (SportsDeskOnline, 26 Aug 2015; dressuurstalvanbaalen.nl, 26 Aug 2015)
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She began riding at age five. (junior-riders.com, 29 Apr 2003)
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Her mother has competed in dressage at international level. Van Baalen was also born on a farm, so she has always spent time around animals. She thinks her upbringing allows her to understand and work with animals better, which made equestrian the perfect sport for her. (FEI, 05 Dec 2007)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (knhs.nl, 19 Jun 2020)
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"Train with pleasure and achieve success." (Instagram profile, 13 Dec 2017)
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She was named the 2014 Equestrian Entrepreneur of the Year in the Netherlands. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2018)

In 1999 she was named Rabobank Talent of the Year in the Netherlands. In 2003 and 2004 she won the Rabobank Award, a prize for the most successful rider under age 25. (stalvansilfhout.nl, 06 Aug 2008)

General Interest

General
STABLES
She co-owns Dressuurstal Van Baalen [DVB] with her mother Coby. The facility is located in Brakel, Netherlands. "My mother and I run the company together, which is very nice because you know each other so well and you are sure that you both go for it 100%. We are both responsible, but also have our own tasks. That's why I do the administration, which my mother doesn't like very much, but she does more on the business side. In principle, we always train together in the morning hours. Then we monitor the horses, including the young horses that our employees ride. We breed on a small scale, around six foals per year." (dressuurstalvanbaalen.nl, 14 Dec 2020; Instagram team profile, 14 Dec 2020; eurodressage.com, 03 Oct 2020; knhs.nl, 19 Jun 2020; fnrs.nl, 07 Apr 2021)

AUTHOR
She has written a book called 'Dressage with Marlies', in which she tells her own story and discusses finding and training young horses for dressage. In November 2020 she and her mother Coby released a book called 'Dressuur voor Iedereen' [Dressage for Everyone]. (capmagazine.eu, 13 Nov 2020; dressuurstalvanbaalen.nl, 02 Apr 2014)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She set up the DVB Foundation in 2004. The organisation helps riders with an impairment realise their ambitions in sport. She has also served as ambassador of Het Paardrijk stables in Blericum, Netherlands, and worked as chair of the athletes' commission of the Royal Dutch Equestrian Federation [KNHS]. (dvbfoundation.nl, 01 Jan 2020; LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2018)

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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