Ludo Philippaerts

Ludo Philippaerts
Ludo Philippaerts riding Darco at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games
Personal information
Nationality	Belgium
Discipline	Show jumping
Born	(1963-06-22) 22 June 1963 Genk, Belgium
Height	5.9 ft 7.8 in (2.00 m)
Weight	176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)

Ludo Philippaerts (born 22 June 1963) is a Belgian show jumping rider. He is a native of Genk, Limburg, Belgium.

Career

Philippaerts is a four-time Olympian. As an individual, he ranked 4th at both the 2000 Olympic Games and the 2004 Olympic Games. In Athens, the Belgian team, of which he was a part, ranked 6th.^[1] At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Philippaerts and his late champion horse, Darco, ranked 7th.^[2]

Philippaerts won the 2008 FEI World Cup final in Mechelen, 26–30 December 2008.^[3] At the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, he had an individual rank of 9 and a team rank of 7. He competed at the World Equestrian Games twice before, in 1998 and 1990.^[1]

He was the BP Cup Champion in Spruce Meadows in 2006^[4] and the 2006 winner of the Global Champions Tour. In 2005, his fourth consecutive year of competition in the Show Jumping World Cup, Philippaerts ranked 9th.^[1]^[5] He ranked 15th at the 1989 European Championships in Rotterdam.^[6]

Philippaerts was born into an equestrian family. His brother, Johan Philippaerts, and his two older children are also show jumping riders.^[7]

He and his wife Veronique have four children:^[8]

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