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ILSBRAND CHARDON
Born. 2nd January 1961
Place of residence: Den Hoorn
Married, four children: Jeanette (1992), Bram (1993) Edith (1995) and Lianne (1998)
Sponsor: The Greenery
Ilsbrand Chardon lives in the Zuid Holland town Den Hoorn,he is the owner of a five star FNRS-riding school and carriage driving centre. He became comfortable with four in hand driving at a very young age because his father Abraham was a good international four in hand carriage driver. When he was just about 20 years old he took over the competition reins of his father and at his first ever World.
Championship, Apeldoorn 1982, he received a gold team medal. This was the beginning of an unique collection of honorary medals, in which especially the gleam of the gold medals strikes the attention: Ilsbrand is 17-times national champion (first title in 1983, ruling champion) and eight times world champion, of which three times (1988, 1992 and 2003 as an individual and together with the equip in 1982, 1986, 1988, 1998 and 2002. With eight victories, he is also the most successful competitor in the prestigious CAIO of Aachen. Most of the warmblood Horses that carry and carried his carriages are from KWPN-origin, first they were chestnuts, like the team of his father. Soon Ilsbrand selectad a team of bays, who were very succesful for a long time with the impressive Paledo as the left front horse. First a marathon fanatic, Ilsbrand became more of a dressage spezialist as time went by, nowadays this first part of the competition proves a solid base for the victory. He is trainer of the Dutch pair driving team. His sponsor is The Greenery.
MARK WEUSTHOF
Born: 22nd February 1973
Place of residence: Rossum
Married, one child Lynn (2003)
Sponsor: Stichting Twents Vierspan with mainsponsors Vodafone, Bandsma and Equiral.
Mark Weuthof lives in the Overijssel town Rossum and is a technical drawer by profession. He was taught four in hand driving by his father Theo, who was part of the Dutch top for 15 years. When Mark was young he was more interested in football than horses, he later combined the football with carriage driving, but after a while driving pairs and four-in-hand teams took up all of his spare time. Mark had just taken over Twents four in hand competition team of his father, when his father passed away because of an accident. In spite of this, Mark soon got a place in the sub-top of the national four in hand competition. From this he breached the gab to the absolute top in 2000: he came second at the National Championships and qualified as an individual competitor for the World Championships, in which he came 28th. After that accomplishment he became part of the A-team. At the 2002 National Championships he came third and in 2004 he became second. To enable Mark to compete at top level, the support of the Foundation of the Twents Four in hand Driving is of the utmost importance. It is a group of friends who operate under the motto of: many small contributions result in a big fund, they also financially helped his father before him. The horses of Mark, which are all greys, are registered at the riding horse section of the KWPN-studbook and also at the NRPS-studbook
TON MONHEMIUS
Born: 18th November 1953
Place of residence: Halfweg
Married, two children Bas (2000) and Lotte 2002
Sponsors: Primeval BV
Subsponsors: Voets 4WD, Ano Alumont and Manege Spaarnwoude
Ton Monhemius is the owner of the Riding Centre Spaarnwoude, located in the Noord Holland town Halfweg. When a driving competition was organised at his riding centre, Ton entered it for fun with a single horse carriage. Soon he had four of his riding school ponies in front of a self-made-carriage. With this four-in-hand team of chestnuts, he was the 1986 und 1987 national champion in the pony section of four-in-hand carriage driving. In 1988, he started competing the team of black Gelders horses of Laurens Kool, resulting in entering the World Championships for four-in-hand driving in Apeldoorn. After that, selected his own four-in-hand team and after a few years joined the national elite in the Netherlands with these white blazed chestnuts. Soon he became a regular in the Dutch equipe, representing the Netherlands at important competitions, such as the CIAO’s of Aachen and Breda and at World Championships. In 1996, he competed at the World Championships in Waregern an came tenth. In 1998, he acquired an individual bronze medal and was part of the gold medal team in Pratoni del Vivaro (this competition was a part of the World Equestrian Games in Rome). In addititon, in 2000 in Wolfsburg, he was a member of the World Championship-equipe, standing at the honorary podium wirh a silver medal. In 2001, Ton became Dutch Champion. In 2002 he was member of the dutch team that won a gold medal at the World Championships.
From 1996 on, he is the trainer of the dutch pony four-in-hand team. And with success: at the three World championchips the dutch team won teamgold, teamsilver, teambronze, individual silver (two Times) and individual bronze (two times).
Thanks to his his sponsor Primeval of mr. D.Kat Ton Monhemius was able to partly renew his team of horses and he is now again a teammember of the dutch team at the World Championships 2004 in Hungary
KOOS DE RONDE
Born: 12th November 1976
Place of residence: Hoogvliet
Married, two children Anna (2001) and Pieter (2003)
Sponsors: SITA Recycling Services and Treurniet Mengvoeders (Berkel & Rodenrijs)
Without a proper basis it is inpossible to be a top athlete, something that applies to Koss de Ronde as well. He definately wants four-in-hand driving to be his profession. Ever since he was a little child it was clear what his goals were: be a four-in-hand driver and reacht the absolute world top level. At the age of seventeen he had his first competitions (the minimum age was eightteen) that he won as well. In 1994 Koos won the national championships with his horses and an 1996 he startet to compete at national level only. Together with his brother Peter (born in 1978) they are youngest four-in-hand drivers in the Netherlands.
For years already Koos is one of the best drivers in the marathon – in 1999 he even was the best of his country – but also dressage is getting more and more important in his carreer. In 2003 he won both the dressage and the whole competition in Deurne, wo the competition in Oldenzaal and was silver medallist at the national championships, right behind triple World Champion Ilsbrand Chardon. His parents support him in every way they can and Koos is getting closer and closer to the world top. In the meantime, Koos has become a member of the A-squad, that consist of five four-in-hand drivers, and he will do his best in 2004. This year is very important, because the World Championships will be held in Kecskemet, Hungary in August. Koss qualified for the Dutch team because of amongst other results, he won the Dutch Championships 2004.
Four-in-hand Driving is a team sport, often a family sport as well and this can also be said about the De Ronde family. Besides Koos, also his brother Peter and father Piet are famous four-in-hand drivers in the national circuit, while mother Wieneke acts on regional level. Koos‘ wife is a driver as well, but also a judge on national level and she is the national coach of the Dutch single and pairs team.
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