Dirk
Demeersman
Dirk and his horses can be taken in one breath. With his years long of experience in the equestrian sport, he can give the perfect customized guidance! Do you need personal guidance with your horse? Do you want to get the maximum out of the sport? Feel free to contact us!
Dirk
Demeersman
Dirk and his horses can be taken in one breath With his years long of experience in the equestrian sport, he can give the perfect customized guidance! Do you need personal guidance with your horse? Do you want to get the maximum out of the sport? Feel free to contact us!
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Roots
from a young farmer’s son to an Olympic rider
Dirk Demeersman, born in Sint-Truiden and raised in Landen. That was the start of a success-story from a farmer’s son to a topper in the equestrian sport.
Dirk is very passionate about horses and he aims high!
Giving up is not in Dirk’s dictionary When Demeersman sees potential in a horse, he makes sure that the full potential will be achieved/utilized.
Dirk also analyses the videos after trainings and shows He analyses those images several times. They say, “Passion squared”.
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Career
— youth
Dirk literally grew up between horses. Because of that, the spark flew very fast to participate in competitions with his horses. At the age of 8 years old he put his first steps in the competitions. When Dirk was 10 years old, he rode his first European Championship ponies. Three years later the team got placed 2nd and when he was 14, he achieved a bronze medal with the team. One year later he put his focus mainly on working with young horses. Until the age of 20, he trained them until they competed at the 1.45m level.
— professional
His international career started when he was halfway his twenties. Like that he was selected for the Olympic Games for the first time in Barcelona in ’92. After these Games he participated twice more, in Athens 2004 and London 2012. In Athens, Dirk achieved his best rating with a 4th place with Clinton. Besides his participations at the Games, he achieved other great performances at other big shows. Like that he became 1st in the GP of Rome in 2000, 2nd in the GP of Aachen in 2005, 3rd with the Belgian team on the WC of Kentucky in 2010 & he won the world cup of Mechelen with Tymoon Caloo Meerchen in 2006.
— national coach
After his active career he first became assistant-national coach and later also national coach of the Belgian team. The team won the Nations Cup final in Barcelona in 2015, the nations cups of Sanct-Gallen and Hickstead under his leadership. Dirk put a step aside in 2017. Now adays you can still find Dirk between the horses of Cavallini.
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Images
from the richly filled career
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Images
Dirk Demeersman
Dirk is already busy with horses for almost his entire life and has ridden a whole lot of horses in his career. He also brought a lot of horses to a high level by training them since a young age. After all these years he has gotten so much experience and from his nature he has the talent to get the best out of every horse. Now he keeps himself busy with the training of our own young horses and showing the sport horses at the competitions.
