Tim Lips

Tim Lips
Tim Lips and Oncarlos competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Personal information
Full nameTim Lips
Born (1985-10-07) 7 October 1985 (age 39)
Made, Netherlands
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Weight123 lb (56 kg)
Horse(s)Oncarlos (1996)
Van Schijndel's Owaola (1996)
Odion B (1996)
Urbain M (2001)
Windjammer (2003)
Vilenzo (2002)
Verado
Ziggy
Medal record
Equestrian sports
Representing the  Netherlands
World Equestrian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Normandy Team eventing

Tim Lips (born 7 October 1985 in Made) is a Dutch eventer.

Biography

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Both his parents were active in equestrian as well and Lips knew he wanted to be successful in the sport from a young age.[1] Already at the age of 8 he was getting decent results in show jumping and he created experienced ponies out of total inexperienced ones.[1] At the age of 19 he and his father decided to check if eventing could be a successful discipline for Lips. After a few tries he decided eventig would become his future sport.[1] Besides his top horse Oncarlos, Lips rides 8 to 10 horses a day in the professional accommodation in his home town of Made. These are his own horses, as well as other horses brought in by other people to prepare them for events.[1] Lips is even in the position to enter the show jumping events himself with those horses from time to time. This gives him a continuous rhythm and he can prepare his horses for a 1.35m height, which makes sure the eventing heights are no problem for his horses.[1] Lips is part of the A-class Seniors Eventing of the KNHS (The Royal Dutch Equestrian Association) as well as the Rabobank Talents Team, which is a project of the Rabobank and the KNHS to discover young talented riders at an early age.[1]

Lips won two eventing races in the M-Class in 2005 both with Oncarlos, in IJsselstein and Barchem, he also reached a second place in Bathmen, also on Oncarlos.[2] In 2006 he placed second in the CCI meeting in Jaroszwoka, Poland and third in Ede. On this last event he also became the Dutch national Young Rider champion.[2] At the European Championships for Young Riders in Pardubice, Czech Republic he placed fifteenth, but managed to get the award for Best Equestrian.[2] He continued his year by winning a CIC event in Varsseveld and placing second in Nichelino.[2] His 10th place finish at the CIC event in Boekelo, 2007, was enough for him to claim the Dutch national title.[2] During his first World Cup appearance in Fontainebleau he finished on the 30th position.[2] In Ede he became 2nd in the CIC competition with Oncarlos and third in the CCI competition with Van Schijndel's Owaola.[2] At the CICO in Aachen he finished in 13th position and with the Dutch team he finished in 5th position.[2]

In April 2008 Lips and Oncarlos finished on the seventh position of the CCI race in Vairano.[2] Later he became third in Outdoor Gelderland with Van Schijndels Owaola and in July he finished second in the CHIO Aachen, the World's largest equestrian meeting.[2] This earned enough points to be among the top 30 at the World Rankings, which gave him the international nomination for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Because he also achieved the Dutch standards (finishing among the top 12 in this tournament) the qualification was a fact.[2]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished in 38th place in the individual and was part of the Dutch team that finished in 11th place.[3]

CCI 5* Results

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Results
Event Kentucky Badminton Luhmühlen Burghley Pau Adelaide
2009 9th (Concrex Oncarlos)
2010 Did not participate
2011 12th (Concrex Oncarlos)
2012 Did not participate
2013 15th (Keyflow)
2014 7th (Keyflow)
2015 21st (Keyflow) 7th (Bayro) 11th (Bayro)

28th (Trademark)

2016 Did not participate
2017 11th (Bayro)
2018 20th (Bayro)
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew

International Championship results

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Results
Year Event Horse Placing Notes
2006 European Young Rider Championships Concrex Oncarlos 6th Team
15th Individual
2008 Olympic Games Concrex Oncarlos 15th Individual
2009 European Championships Concrex Owaloa 7th Team
EL Individual
2010 World Equestrian Games Concrex Oncarlos EL Individual
2011 European Championships Concrex Oncarlos 7th Team
28th Individual
2012 Olympic Games Concrex Oncarlos 11th Team
38th Individual
2013 European Championships Keyflow 9th Team
7th Individual
2014 World Equestrian Games Keyflow 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Team
17th Individual
2015 European Championships Keyflow 4th Team
18th Individual
2016 Olympic Games Bayro 6th Team
21st Individual
2019 European Championships Bayro 9th Team
6th Individual
2019 World Young Horse Championships Herby RET CCI***
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Tim Lips bio, timlips.nl, ret: 6 August 2008
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Tim Lips Resultaten Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, timlips.nl, ret: 6 August 2008
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tim Lips". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
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