Ingrid Klimke

Wednesday 7th - Sunday 11th May 2025

Ingrid Klimke

Germany
  • 91 - SAP Hale Bob OLD

Biography

It will be the sixth visit to Badminton for German five-time Olympian and reigning European Champion Ingrid Klimke (51) who last competed here in 2017. In 2015 with SAP Hale Bob OLD she was second and in 2017 the pair was 9th. Last year they claimed the individual bronze at the World Games in Tryon and in 2017 won the European Championship in Strzegom. Last year she won the seven-year-old World Championship at Le Lions D’Angers with the mare Asha P (Askari-Heraldik) a full sister to the licensed stallion Araldik. Ingrid is currently #9 in the FEI World rider ranking.

Ingrid is a professional rider and trainer based in Munster, Germany. She was a member of the team that won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, gold at the 2015 European Championships, the 2014 WEG, and the 2012 London & 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In 2013 she won individual silver at the European Championships in Malmo. In 2014 with Badminton entry Hale Bob she won her first four-star event at Pau and in 2015 the pair was second at Badminton. In 2016 & 2018 she won the FEI two-star World Young Horse Championship at Le Lions.

Ingrid, the daughter of dressage Olympian and international trainer Reiner Klimke, was born in Münster, Westfalia. She has a Master’s degree in equestrian management and has trained and competes internationally in three Olympic disciplines of dressage, three-day eventing and showjumping (in 2016 she competed in both eventing and dressage at the Aachen CHIO). A former working student of Canadian World show jumping champion Ian Miller, in 1998 she started her own yard following the classical influences of her father. In addition to many national championships in 1991 Ingrid won her first international medal, individual and team bronze, at the European Championships at Flyinge, Sweden. She is a three-time German National eventing champion (1999, 2000 and 2001) and has competed in five consecutive Olympic Games (2000-2016) and was a member of the gold medal team in Hong Kong in 2008 and London 2012 and team silver in Rio 2016. In 2005 she won the individual bronze medal at the European championships in Blenheim and in 2006 with the British-bred Sleep Late was second at her first Badminton and won World team gold at Aachen.

In 2012 she was awarded the “Cavallo Fairness Award” presented at the Equitana and became only the second female to receive the title of ‘Riding Master’, an award given to equestrian individuals who have shown exceptional commitment and achievements in the sport.In dressage she has won the Professional Riders championships five times (1998, 1999, 2003, 2006 and 2007), was seventh in the World Cup final in 2002 and in 2006 won the World six-year-old dressage championship with the 2012 German Olympic team stallion Damon Hill, who she trained to grand prix.  She trains the German young riders, and is a lecturer on equine physiotherapy at the German Institute of Equine Osteopathy.

Ingrid trains with the former German national coach Christopher Bartle and Hans Melszer. She is married to Andreas Busacker and the pair has two children Greta (16) and Philippa (9). Her brother Michael competes in international dressage.

SAP Hale Bob OLD (the OLD suffix is a awarded to successful horses registered with the Oldenburg studbook)  is a 15-year-old Oldenburg gelding. He is by the thoroughbred Helikon, (by the famous German racehorse Konigsstuhl) who is also the sire of Sea Cookie, William Fox-Pitts winner at Pau in 2013. Hale Bob is out of Goldige by the half-bred, Noble Champion. Goldige is also the dam of Dacapo currently ridden at three-star level by Giovanni Ugolotti. Ingrid acquired Bob as a five-year-old. She describes him as ‘the best horse ever and one that most of all loves the cross country’.

 

 

Entries

SAP Hale Bob OLD

OLDBG, Germany, 2004
16.3hh , bay , gelding

Sire Helikon XX

Dam Goldige (Noble Champion)

Breeder Rolf Lueck

Owner(s): Rider

Notable Results

2018 – Tryon WEG 3rd SAP Hale Bob OLD

2018 – Le Lions CH-M-YH-CCI2* 1st Asha P

2018 – Strzegom CIC3* 4th SAP Hale Bob

2018 – Aachen CICO3* 19th SAP Hale Bob

2018 – Luhmuhlen CIC3* 2nd SAP Hale Bob

2018 – Wiesbaden CIC3* ERM 1st SAP Hale Bob

2017 – Strzegom CH-EU-CCI3* 1st SAP Hale Bob OLD

2017 – Aachen CICO3* 1st SAP Hale Bob

2016 – Le Lions CH-M-YH-CCI2* 1st Weisse Duene

2016 – Rio OG 14th Horseware Hale Bob (team silver)

2015 – Blair Castle CH-EU-CCI3* 5th H Hale Bob (team gold)

2015 – Luhmuhlen CCI4* 1st SAP Escada FRH

2014 – Pau CCI4* 1st Horseware Hale Bob

2014 – Caen WEG 14th FRH Escada JS

2013 – Burghley CCI4* 4th Butts Abraxxas

2013 – Malmo CH-EU-3* 2nd FRH Escada

2012 – London OG 25th FRH Butts Abraxxas

2012 – Vairano Vidigulfo CCI3* 1st FRH Butts Abraxxas

2011 – Osberton CCI2* 1st Tabasco TSF

2011 – Luhmuhlen CH-EU-CCI3* 11th Butts Abraxxas

2010 – WEG Lexington 13th FRH Butts Abraxxas

2010 – Luhmuhlen CCI4* 2nd FRH Butts Abraxxas

2008 – Hong Kong OG 5th FRH Butts Abraxxas

2004 – Athens OG Ret Sleep Late

2000 – Sydney OG 4th Sleep Late

Badminton

2017 – 9th SAP Hale Bob

2015 – 2nd Horseware Hale Bob

2013 –16th Butts Abraxxas

2011 – EL Butts Abraxxas

2006 – 2nd Sleep Late