Background
Köhncke grew up in Radbruch in Northern Germany.
Köhncke grew up in Radbruch in Northern Germany.
At the age of nine she got her first pony. At the age of eleven she rode on her first horse show, three years later she starts in her first Eventing competition. After this victory she was nominated for her first international championship, the European Championship of Junior eventing riders.
Also in this year she was part of the German team at European Eventing Championships in Achselschwang.
In the year 2000, after a second place in the German championship, she was nominated for the Olympic games in Sydney. Together with the team she finish on place four.
From 2002 to 2007 she competes on eventing competitions up to Counter Intelligence Corps**- / CCI**-level Since 2008 she competes with her horse Calma Schelly again on higher level
In 2010 she rode the Burghley Horse Trials, in April 2011 she started at the Badminton Horse Trials.
Marina Köhncke is a master horse farm manager ("Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin"). As her trainer she called Martin Plewa and Horst Karsten. Current:
Calma Schelly (born 1999), dark brown Holsteiner mare, sire: Chambertin
formerly:
Sir Toby (born 1989), gelding, sire: lieutenant"s without doubt
Télégraphie Sans Fil Böttcher"s Longchamps (born 1987), brown Trakehner gelding, sire: Sir Shostakovich xx
Sundance Kid FRH (born 1981), brown Hanoverian gelding, sire: Smaragd
Arapaima (born 1980), mare
Summer Olympic Games:
2000, Sydney:
with Sir Toby fourth in team ranking
with Longchamps not finished the individual competition (in 2000 team and individual ranking was two different competitions)
World Equestrian Games:
1990, Stockholm: with Sundance Kid third in team ranking and seventh in individual ranking
1998, Rome: with Longchamps not finished the competition, also no team ranking for Germany
European Eventing Championship:
1985 (Juniors): with El Extranjero 13th in individual ranking
1989 (Young riders): with Sundance Kid first in team ranking
1993, Achselschwang: with Arapaima fourth in team ranking, 10th in individual ranking
German Eventing Championship:
Individual:
1992: with Sundance Kid third place
1994: with Arapaima fourth place
1995: with Sundance Kid fifth place
1998: with Sir Toby second place
2000: with Longchamps second place
Team championship:.
In 1985, now riding horses, she become Eventing champion of the German region Hanover/Bremen. At the 1989 European eventing championship for young riders she won together with the German team the team gold medal. In 1993 Marina Loheit was the second woman (after Simone Richter-Kals, today Simone Böckmann, in 1988) who won the German eventing championship. 1993: with Sundance Kid German champion 2009: with Calma Schelly German team champion with the team of Schleswig-Holstein.
