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Isabell Werth (born 21 July 1969 in Issum) is a German equestrian who has competed in dressage at seven Olympic Games —1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024— winning the gold medal in the team event in all seven, and one gold and six silver medals in the individual event. She stands alone in having medals from seven Olympics, or across a span of 32 years; her 14 medals are the most for any German or equestrian.[1] She also has numerous titles in the World and European Championships and World Cups.
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Werth rode Gigolo, owned by Uwe Schulten-Baumer, her coach from 1986 until 2001.[2] On Gigolo, she won all her championships between 1992 and 2000, save for the 1999 European Championships in Arnheim, where she rode Anthony FRH. In 2006, she started riding Warum Nicht FRH at the international level and with him won the 2007 World Cup in Las Vegas. Warum Nicht retired in 2012.[3] Werth competed at the Olympic Games with Satchmo, who subsequently retired in November 2011. In 2010, Werth started riding El Santo at the international level until the horse was transferred in 2016 to Spanish rider José Antonio Garcia Mena.[4]
In 2016, Werth secured the ride on Weihegold Old, with whom she won the team gold medal and a silver medal in the Individual Dressage at the Rio Olympics.[citation needed]
In July 2024, she was named to the German dressage team for the Paris Olympic games with Wendy. It will be her seventh Olympic games.[5]
On 24 June 2009, the forbidden substance fluphenazine was found in the A-sample from Werth's horse Whisper at a Whitsun tournament at Wiesbaden.[6] She was suspended from all tournaments by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). On 2 September 2009, the suspension was set by the FEI to six months from 23 June.[7][8]
Werth subsequently stated that the drug was given to the horse to treat equine shivers—mainly for the safety of the horse's handlers—and that she does not believe the drug influences a horse's ability to compete.[9] She apologized for the positive result.[10] The German Federation requested doubling Werth's suspension to one year as they considered the positive result to be intentional.[11] Fluphenazine is not a medication approved for animal use in Germany.[12][13]
In 2013, Werth was banned from competing once again after her mount El Santo was found to test positive for a prohibited medication, cimetidine at a competition in 2012.[14][15]
In 2022, Werth was eliminated from the CHIO Aachen after blood appeared on her horse during the competition.[16]
In 2007, a PC Game was released called "Isabell Werth – Reitsport".[17] Made by French company Dancing Dots / German publisher Frogster Interactive,[18] it is an Equestrian Simulation with 3-day Eventing, Show Jumping and Cross-Country Riding. Isabell Werth takes a part as an on-screen trainer, giving advice and pointers on how to ride and handle horses during training and eventing. Now out of print, the original websites can be seen at the Internet Archive Wayback machine, and the game itself is now available at Big Fish Games retitled – "Ride! Equestrian Simulation",[19] with a French-man replacing Isabell as the trainer. Isabell's game character file is still in the data structure of the game, and using a patch still available,[20] the game executable can be overwritten, converting it to the original German version, except for the German instructional audio which is missing.
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1989 | European Championships | Weingart | 13th | Individual | |||||||
1991 | European Championships | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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1992 | Olympic Games | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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1993 | European Championships | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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1996 | Olympic Games | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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1998 | World Equestrian Games | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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1999 | European Championships | Antony FRH | ![]() |
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16th | Individual | ||||||||||
2000 | World Cup Final | Antony FRH | 4th | ||||||||
2000 | Olympic Games | Gigolo FRH | ![]() |
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2001 | World Cup Final | Antony FRH | ![]() |
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2001 | European Championships | Antony FRH | ![]() |
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16th | Individual | ||||||||||
2002 | World Cup Final | Antony FRH | 5th | ||||||||
2003 | World Cup Final | Antony FRH | 4th | ||||||||
2003 | European Championships | Satchmo 78 | 17th | Individual | |||||||
2004 | World Cup Final | Apache OLD | 9th | ||||||||
2006 | World Cup Final | Warum Nicht FRH | ![]() |
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2006 | World Equestrian Games | Satchmo 78 | ![]() |
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2007 | World Cup Final | Warum Nicht FRH | 84.250% | ![]() |
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2007 | European Championships | Satchmo 78 | 76.750% | ![]() |
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78.360% | ![]() |
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83.200% | ![]() |
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2008 | World Cup Final | Warum Nicht FRH | 82.600% | ![]() |
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2008 | Olympic Games | Satchmo 78 | 76.417% | ![]() |
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78.100% | ![]() |
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2009 | World Cup Final | Satchmo 78 | 84.500% | ![]() |
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2010 | World Cup Final | Warum Nicht FRH | 79.750% | 4th | |||||||
2010 | World Equestrian Games | Warum Nicht FRH | 75.404% | ![]() |
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72.000% | 10th | Individual Special | |||||||||
80.000% | 6th | Individual Freestyle | |||||||||
2011 | World Cup Final | Satchmo 78 | 77.143% | 5th | |||||||
2011 | European Championships | El Santo NRW | 75.213% | ![]() |
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76.533% | 7th | Individual Special | |||||||||
80.536% | 7th | Individual Freestyle | |||||||||
2012 | World Cup Final | El Santo NRW | 79.964% | 4th | |||||||
2013 | World Cup Final | Don Johnson FRH | 80.429% | 5th | |||||||
2013 | European Championships | Don Johnson FRH | 75.213% | ![]() |
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71.890% | 20th | Individual Special | |||||||||
2014 | World Cup Final | El Santo NRW | 79.089% | 5th | |||||||
2014 | World Equestrian Games | Bella Rose 2 | 81.529% | ![]() |
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31st | Individual Special | ||||||||||
2015 | World Cup Final | El Santo NRW | 77.875% | 6th | |||||||
2015 | European Championships | Don Johnson FRH | 74.900% | ![]() |
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75.924% | 7th | Individual Special | |||||||||
82.483% | 4th | Individual Freestyle | |||||||||
2016 | Olympic Games | Weihegold OLD | 80.463% | ![]() |
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89.071% | ![]() |
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2017 | World Cup Final | Weihegold OLD | 90.704% | ![]() |
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2017 | European Championships | Weihegold OLD | 83.743% | ![]() |
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83.613% | ![]() |
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90.982% | ![]() |
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2018 | World Cup Final | Weihegold OLD | 90.658% | ![]() |
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2018 | World Equestrian Games | Bella Rose 2 | 84.824% | ![]() |
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86.246% | ![]() |
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2019 | World Cup Final | Weihegold OLD | 88.872% | ![]() |
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2019 | European Championships | Bella Rose 2 | 85.652% | ![]() |
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86.520% | ![]() |
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90.875% | ![]() |
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2021 | Olympic Games | Bella Rose 2 | 83.298% | ![]() |
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89.657% | ![]() |
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