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Isabel FREESE

Isabel FREESE, Norwegian Jumping, Dressage athlete.
Name Isabel FREESE
FEI ID 10038798
Gender Female
Date of Birth 19/01/1979
Competing for Norway - NOR
Registration Dressage 2024
Last update 28/07/2024
FEI Database


Dressage 70x70
Sport Specific Information
When and where did you begin this sport? She took up the sport at age six in Oslo, Norway.
Why this sport? "It was clear to me that one day I would work with horses because I have always loved them."
Club / Team Paul Schockemoehle Pferdehaltung [GER] / Ellingsrud Rytterklubb [NOR]:
Name of coach Holga Finken [personal]
Further Personal Information
Family Son Noah
Other names Isabel Bache
Residence Mühlen, GER
Occupation Athlete, Horse Trainer
Languages English, German, Norwegian
General Interest
Most influential person in career Coach Holga Finken. (horsemagazine.com, 01 Apr 2020)
Ambitions To compete at the Olympic Games. (kommunikasjon.ntb.no/, 10 Sep 2023)
Other information FROM NORWAY TO GERMANY She moved to Germany at age 20, and has gone on to work with Roger Seegert, Holga Finken, and Paul Schockemoehle. "I worked at Holga's place for 15 years. I took my education there and now I have been at Schockemoehle's for five-and-a-half years [speaking in 2020]. Without Holga I would not be anywhere. We are like family, and he still comes at least once a week to me to train me with my stallions and the other horses I have." (horsemagazine.com, 01 Apr 2020; eurodressage.com, 24 Apr 2017, 16 Oct 2014; horseweb.de, 19 Feb 2014)
General highlights She was selected by Norway to represent her country as an individual at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Milestones Her 10th place at the 2023 FEI European Championship was the best-ever finish in the competition by a Norwegian athlete.