Series "For Sports" - Legendary Olympic Moments - "And Halla laughs, as if she'd know what it's all about" - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2019 - 70 Euro Cent

Separated from the summer games in Melbourne took place from 10 to 17 June 1956 in the Swedish capital Stockholm the olympic horse plays instead of. On the final day of the competitions, the team and individual medals in show jumping were awarded in the Olympic Stadium. After the first round was the German team with Hans Günter Winkler on Halla, Fritz Thiedemann on Meteor and Alfons Lütke-Westhues on Ala on gold course. But Hans Günter Winkler retired in the morning at the thirteenth obstacle, a muscle tear in the left groin. The ambitious 30-year-old bit his teeth - because without him, the team would also fall out of the standings. From the second round in the afternoon reported the journalist and designated horse expert Hans-Heinrich Isenbart. The sports reporter on the television of Norddeutscher Rundfunk suspected what was going on in the heavily injured rider, who could barely keep himself in the saddle. Now he was hoping for the skill of the experienced mare. "Halla knows exactly what it's all about, Halla has gone through so many courses, both are in tune, Halla, the great Amati, Winkler the great violinist, the great artist who lives from intuition and yet brings so much rationality that he can arrange a tactic. " Isenbart was convinced of Ross and Reiter, who for years formed a committed and extremely successful team. "Halla is a horse that can fly all over the world, and she walks so that we think she laughs sometimes, she says something about the Oxer, so I laugh, now wall, now watch out, a problem, and Now he's got the triple combination, go in, wipe the steep jump, cross the Oxer, but Halla is still laughing, you can tell it up to us, she has an idea what this is about, and now we want see, the last jump and ... "Under the frenetic cheers of the knowledgeable audience Hans Günter Winkler secured the gold in the individual and for the German team.