Alwin Schockemöhle

Alwin Schockemöhle
Alwin Schockemöhle in 1972
Personal information
Born	29 May 1937 Meppen, Province of Hanover, Germany
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Medal record Equestrian Olympic Games Representing  Germany 1960 Rome Team jumping Representing  West Germany 1976 Montreal Individual jumping 1976 Montreal Team jumping 1968 Mexico City Team jumping European Championships 1975 Munich Individual jumping 1975 Munich Team jumping 1963 Rome Individual jumping 1969 Hickstead Individual jumping 1973 Hickstead Individual jumping 1965 Aachen Individual jumping 1967 Rotterdam Individual jumping

Alwin Schockemöhle (born 29 May 1937) is a former German show-jumper.

He was a successful international show jumping equestrian in the 1960s and 1970s at individual and team events in Olympic Games and European Championships. He was one of four children, a girl and three boys. His younger brother Paul was also a successful show-jumper. Werner Schockemöhle, his youngest brother was a well-known horse breeder in Oldenburg.

Schockemöhle was involved in horses from an early age, and sold his grey mare Anaconda to the American equestrian Mary Mairs for DM100,000. his success in horse-dealing allowed him to fund the debt-ridden family estate when he took it over, aged 20.

Schockemöhle won his first Olympic gold medal in 1960 on the German show jumping team, followed in 1968 by a bronze medal. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he won both gold in the individual and a silver medal with the German team which he was part of with his brother. He has won both the European and German championships several times.

By his first wife Gaby, who later married Hendrik Snoek, he had a daughter, Alexandra,and two sons, Christoph who lives in Singapore, and Frank who is a manager in the German Bundesliga, and two daughters, Vanessa and Christina by his second wife Rita Schockemöhle. Rita also had three children by her previous husband Gerhard Wiltfang - Alwin has been quoted as saying "She has four children, I have five, altogether there are seven".

Schockemöhle was inducted into Germany's Sports Hall of Fame in July 2016.