| Jos Lansink won the gold
medal in the jumping team event at the 1992 Summer Olympics
in Barcelona, Spain.
He did so alongside Piet Raymakers, Jan Tops and Bert Romp.
He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native
country, starting in 1988. In 2001 Jos became a citizen
of Belgium, for which he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
in Athens, Greece. Jos won the gold medal in the 2006 FEI
World Equestrian Games riding Cavalor Cumano. He finished 2009
in excellent form with a creditable second place in the Global
Champions Tour finals in Doha Qatar and winning the Gucci Masters
Grand Prix in Paris.
Shortly after his World Championship
success in 2006 Cumano sustained a lower limb injury putting
doubt on his ability
to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Ellen Whitaker,
who herself uses equine hydrotherapy treatment in her daily
training programme, introduced the idea to Jos in an attempt
to aid Cumano’s recovery from injury. Jos and his veterinary
team had reservations but to enable him to have a chance
of reaching the Beijing Olympics decided to ‘give it
a go’.
Jos Lansink purchased an equine hydrotherapy spa and over
the following few months Cumano received intensive treatment.
The Lansink stables veterinary team, along with Jos himself
were amazed by the results and Cumano returned to the highest
level of competition and competed at the Olympic Games in
Beijing.
In early 2009, the Jos Lansink showjumping
team moved into their new purpose built stables. “One of my
first considerations
was to purchase and install an equine hydrotherapy spa from
the Horse Spas UK team
and they designed a treatment system
to fit the the designated area I had chosen within my stables”. |
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