When he was 13, he still wanted to be a professional soccer player, then he decided on horses. At the Aachen Grand Prix, Gerrit Nieberg left everyone behind.
Perhaps the decisive tip came from a really big one. “I asked Steve Guerdat on the warm-up arena if you could take the shortcut,” said Gerrit Nieberg after his sensational victory in the Aachen Grand Prix: “Steve said you can do it. So I did it and it was good.”
The short turn before the last line, a risk that was worth it in more ways than one. Nieberg and his Westphalian gelding Ben tackled the last two obstacles – at that time they were clearly behind the Brit Scott Brash. Then the penultimate jump, the last long gallop and finally the leap into happiness.
Sports show commentator loses his composure
Sports show commentator Carsten Sostmeier completely lost his composure on the microphone. “Nieberg or Brash, Nieberg or Brash, Niiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all:
Well, Gerrit Nieberg hasn’t needed a stroller for a long time. His career in the saddle was by no means predetermined from the start. At 13 he still wanted to be a professional soccer player “because I was quite good”, but then he finally devoted himself to horses. His father, the two-time team Olympic champion Lars Nieberg, gently encouraged and challenged his son. “Without him none of this would have been possible here,” said Nieberg junior on that memorable Sunday in the Soers: “I’m infinitely grateful to him for everything.”
Father Nieberg and sons – a well-established team
Father and the two sons Gerrit and Max are a well-established team. They have been running a breeding and training company at Gut Berl in the Münsterland since 2013. Lars and Gerrit are responsible for the sporting development of the young horses, Max for sales. “Here people talk plainly,” said Lars Nieberg of the Reiterrevue: “Anyone can deal with it. Nobody holds grudges here.”
You don’t like big words in Münsterland, and so Gerrit also presented himself as a quiet winner in Aachen. “I just can’t find the words,” he said again and again: “I have to let it all sink in first.” In the ideal world of Gut Berl, he should find the necessary peace and quiet.
