sport aid - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1992 - 100 Pfennig

Power, beauty and elegance characterize dressage as a harmonious connection between rider and horse. The aim of the dressage is to bring the existing movements of the horse through gymnastics to perfection. Her high points are the dressage in the lessons of classical equitation, the high school, whose elements piaffe, passage and pirouette are components of the Olympic dressage. In these lessons, the horse is required to have the highest level of gymnastics and obedience. In Olympia one knew already since 680 v. Chr. Chariot races with horses, of dressage and show jumping in classical Greece, however, is not yet mentioned. In the Olympic Games of modern times, for the first time in Stockholm in 1912 equestrian sport was raised to the Olympic discipline. The International Olympic Committee honors the riders to this day particularly by the fact that the Olympic team competition, the price of the nations, as final competition before the respective final celebration of the Olympic Games is carried out. More than 600,000 equestrian friends have joined forces in riding clubs in Germany, whereby dressage enjoys a special tradition and popularity. Since 1912 - at 13 Olympic Games with German participation - the German dressage teams can look back on seven team gold medals and two silver medals. Since 1956, the German dressage riders brought home an Olympic medal in the individual standings without interruption, among them the gold medalist Frhr. Carl Friedrich von Langen (1928 with "daredevil"), Lieutenant Heinz Pollay (1936 with "Kronos"), Liselott Linsenhoff (1972 with "Piaff"), dr. Reiner Klimke (1984 with "Ahlerich") and Nicole Uphoff (1988 with "Rembrandt"). Thus, the German dressage riders are among the most successful Olympians in Germany.