Hohen Wieschendorf with Steve Guerdat, Christian Kukuk, Janne-Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann and André Thieme

Olympic champion Steve Guerdat comes to Hohen Wieschendorf

Show Jumping 26.05.2026

from Editorial office

DKB Horse Weeks Hohen Wieschendorf: Top sport under the sign of the strawberry - last year's winners included David Will. Photo: Thomas Hellmann

Tête a Tête of the Olympic champions in Hohen Wieschendorf. The starting list on the Baltic coast at the DKB Horse Week reads like a who's who of top-class sport. There could be an Olympic rematch of the Paris 2024 decision. Because Steve Guerdat, Olympic champion in London 2012 and runner-up in Paris, is coming to Hohen-Wieschendorf. And Christian Kukuk has also announced his attendance.

Steve Guerdat, 2012 Olympic champion in London, will be competing at the DKB Horse Week at Erdbeerhof Glantz. The Swiss rider is probably the most illustrious figurehead in the starting field alongside the 2024 Olympic champion, Christian Kukuk. From May 27 to 31, there will be a line-up on the Mecklenburg Baltic coast that is not found at every four-star tournament.

17 nations in Hohen-Wieschendorf

60 show-jumpers from 17 nations have registered for the four-star tour of the fourth edition of the DKB Horse Week. Lillie Keenan, who only won the second qualifier for the Grand Prix in Aachen last weekend, is traveling from the USA. From Saudi Arabia comes Ramzy Al Duhami, 54 years old and one of the most experienced riders on the show-jumping circuit worldwide with six Olympic appearances. Eiken Sato will be competing for Japan – a three-time Olympian who has been based at the Paul Schockemöhle stables for many years. Vladimir Tuganov, formerly in the saddle for Russia and now competing for Palestine, completes the top international field, as do Czech World Championship and Olympic rider Ales Opatrny, Estonian European Championship participant Juri Sokolovski, nine-time Hungarian European Championship starter Péter Szuhau, Carlos Eduardo Mota Ribas from Brazil and Alexa Stais from Cyprus are just a few examples. Riders from Colombia, Austria, Norway, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden complete the list.

Strong line-up from Germany

As expected, the German line-up is the strongest individual contingent with 37 riders and 79 horses. Among them are the newly crowned Derby winner Frederic Tillmann, the Nations Cup winner from Mannheim Stefan Engbers, World Cup final winner and Olympic participant Daniel Deußer, team world champion Janne-Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann, Hamburg GP winner André Thieme, European Championship silver medallist David Will and Philipp Weishaupt, who was part of the German Olympic team in Paris in 2024.

Tournament Director Enno Glantz, Sports Directors Holger Wulschner and Christoph Lanske and Course Designer Marco Hesse and his team are responsible for the sporting success of the event.

The DKB Horse Week is not just an elite tournament – it also wants to be open to the region. Admission is free on Wednesday and Thursday, family-friendly prices of five or twelve euros are charged at the box office on Fridays to Sundays (ten euros in advance), and children up to the age of twelve are admitted free of charge on all days.

In addition to the sport, there will be a wine festival and an exhibition from Thursday, and from Friday lunchtime the Glantz Hoffest with an arts and crafts market, hands-on circus, pony rides and a 35-meter-high Ferris wheel.

TV broadcasts from Hohen-Wieschendorf

NDR will be broadcasting live for 90 minutes each on Saturday and Sunday in the Sportclub: on Saturday the BSC Energie GmbH Championships (14.30-16.00) and on Sunday the Grand Prix of Deutsche Kreditbank AG (15.00-16.30).

There will also be another foal auction. 25 selected show jumping foals with world-class pedigrees are waiting for new owners. Click here for the collection.

This announcement is based on a press release.