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Full name | Steve Guerdat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Show jumping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bassecourt, Switzerland | 10 June 1982|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steve Guerdat (born 10 June 1982) is a Swiss equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
He is the 2012 Olympic Champion in individual jumping. [1] He also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in team jumping following the disqualification of Norwegian rider Tony André Hansen. [2]
In July 2012, Guerdat was ranked third in the world. [3] In 2019 he was the first in the FEI ranking for the whole year. In January 2020 he was second in the FEI ranking, just behind the other swiss rider Martin Fuchs. He has been back at the top since February 2020. [4]
He is a three-time World Cup champion, winning in 2015, 2016 and 2019. [5]
Guerdat began riding at the age of seven. He was trained by his father, Philippe Guerdat, and by Beat Mändli. Between 1997 and 2002 he was part of two junior and three young rider European championships and won two bronze medals with the team. In 2003 he switched to the Netherlands and worked there for Jan Tops. He was selected for the jumping events at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he rode "Olympic". In 2006 he moved to Belgium and worked for three months for billionaire Oleksandr Onishchenko. After that Yves Piaget bought him the mare Jalisca Solier, with which he won the World Cup in Geneva. He was selected for the 2008 Summer Olympics where he rode Jalisca Solier and won the bronze medal in team jumping following the disqualification of Norwegian rider Tony André Hansen. In 2009 and 2011 he was named "Swiss rider of the year".
In 2012, Steve reached for the first time to top place of the world rankings. [6] That same year he competed in London with the French Selle-Francais Nino de Buissonnets at his third Olympic Games. He was the only rider who jumped cleanly in the two final rounds of the competition and won the individual jumping gold medal. [7] [8] He was the first Swiss rider to win a gold medal in the jumping event since 1924 where Alphonse Gemuseus won in individual jumping. [9]
He won back to back FEI World Cup Jumping competitions in 2015 and 2016, with the more recent competition taking place in Göteborg, Sweden.
Guerdat is the youngest son of Olympic show jumper Philippe Guerdat.
From April 2007 till 2017 Guerdat has lived in Herrliberg in the stables of Urs Schwarzenbach. Since 2017 he lives in his owns stables near Zürich in Elgg. The stables were in the past propriety of the swiss rider Paul Weier. [10]
In the summer 2019, French equestrian Fanny Skalli announced on her Instagram account that she was engaged with Steve Guerdat. The couple married in the early of 2021 and on 4 April 2021, their daughter Ella was born. [11]
Results | ||||||||||
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Year | Event | Horse | Placing | Notes | ||||||
1997 | European Junior Championships | Cayetano | Team | |||||||
12th | Individual | |||||||||
1999 | European Junior Championships | Mecano | 6th | Team | ||||||
4th | Individual | |||||||||
2000 | European Young Rider Championships | Mecano | 4th | Team | ||||||
13th | Individual | |||||||||
2001 | European Young Rider Championships | Enzzo | 7th | Team | ||||||
5th | Individual | |||||||||
2002 | European Young Rider Championships | Lord Farei | Team | |||||||
34th | Individual | |||||||||
2003 | European Championships | Tepic La Silla | Team | |||||||
6th | Individual | |||||||||
2004 | Olympic Games | Olympic | 5th | Team | ||||||
50th | Individual | |||||||||
2005 | World Cup Final | Pialotta | 6th | |||||||
2005 | European Championships | Pialotta | Team | |||||||
7th | Individual | |||||||||
2007 | World Cup Final | Tresor | ||||||||
2008 | World Cup Final | Tresor | 7th | |||||||
2008 | Olympic Games | Jalisca Solier | Team | |||||||
9th | Individual | |||||||||
2009 | World Cup Final | Tresor | 8th | |||||||
2009 | European Championships | Jalisca Solier | Team | |||||||
16th | Individual | |||||||||
2010 | World Cup Final | Tresor / Jalisca Solier | 15th | |||||||
2010 | World Equestrian Games | Tresor | 13th | Team | ||||||
96th | Individual | |||||||||
2011 | European Championships | Jalisca Solier | 6th | Team | ||||||
29th | Individual | |||||||||
2012 | World Cup Final | Nino des Buissonnets | ||||||||
2012 | Olympic Games | Nino des Buissonnets | 4th | Team | ||||||
Individual | ||||||||||
2013 | World Cup Final | Nino des Buissonnets | ||||||||
2013 | European Championships | Nino des Buissonnets | 5th | Team | ||||||
8th | Individual | |||||||||
2014 | World Cup Final | Nino des Buissonnets | 5th | |||||||
2014 | World Equestrian Games | Nino des Buissonnets | 11th | Team | ||||||
11th | Individual | |||||||||
2015 | World Cup Final | Paille | ||||||||
2016 | World Cup Final | Corbinian | ||||||||
2016 | Olympic Games | Nino des Buissonnets | 6th | Team | ||||||
4th | Individual | |||||||||
2017 | World Cup Final | Bianca | 8th | |||||||
2017 | European Championships | Bianca | Team | |||||||
15th | Individual | |||||||||
2018 | World Cup Final | Bianca | 10th | |||||||
2018 | World Equestrian Games | Bianca | 4th | Team | ||||||
Individual | ||||||||||
2019 | World Cup Final | Alamo | ||||||||
2019 | European Championships | Bianca | 6th | Team | ||||||
12th | Individual | |||||||||
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew |
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