{"id":15792,"date":"2014-11-12T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?page_id=15792"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:04:45","slug":"balkenhol-klaus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/whos-who\/balkenhol-klaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkenhol, Klaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus grew up on the family farm. He chose to join the Dusseldorf Police Force rather than doing national service, and became a mounted policeman. During this time he developed an interest in the dressage. When the horse he was riding was retired, he was allowed to select a replacement and he chose Goldstern, who he educated, and on whom he won a bronze medal \u2013 and team gold \u2013 at the 1992 Games. He was also a member of the gold medal winning team at the Atlanta Games.<\/p>\n<p>As coach, he took the German team to team gold at the Sydney Games. He resigned as German team coach in 2001, and took up the role of coach of the American dressage team. He resigned this position in 2008 but remains highly in demand by many of the world\u2019s top dressage competitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Klaus Balkenhol \u2013 The Man and his Methods (2007)<\/em> by Britta Schoffmann<\/p>\n<p><em>Klaus Balkenhol \u2013 Success with Sympathic Hands<\/em> (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balkenhol.org\">http:\/\/www.balkenhol.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus grew up on the family farm. He chose to join the Dusseldorf Police Force rather than doing national service, and became a mounted policeman. During this time he developed an interest in the dressage. When the horse he was riding was retired, he was allowed to select a replacement and he chose Goldstern, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15793,"parent":14165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15792","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15794,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15792\/revisions\/15794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}