Joke Hall Carp
Johanna (Joke, Jook) Hall (born Carp) (1924-1996) was a GB dressage rider and judge who competed in the 1960, 1964 and the 1968 Olympic Games[1]. She judged at many international competitions including the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.[2]
She was called Joke or in the UK ‘Jook’.
She was born as Johanna Carp on 24 May 1934 in Rotterdam as a daughter of Wilhelm F.T. Carp and Elise van der Hoeven. At the age of 3 she lost her father.
She learnt to ride in the Kralingse Bos in Rotterdam. It is likely that she was introduced to the sport through her Grandfather W.F.T Carp (1860-1954) who was an avid supporter of the riding school in the Kralingse Bos.
Somewhere in the fifties she went on holiday to Austria and received lessons in the famous Vienna riding school. During these lessons she became closely acquainted with a young British man, Robert Hall (1924-2014).[3]
She joined him in England where he ran the Fulmer School of Equitation in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. They married in 1958.
They had a son in 1966 and lived in The White House in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, UK[4]
At some stage they returned to Vienna and bought a Lipizzaner horse: Conversano Caprice, who Robert trained from the beginning in dressage.
Just before the Rome Olympics Johanna competed in Ascot and her win impressed the GB selectors so enormously that they asked her to compete for GB in the Olympics in Rome. Her nationality papers had to be quickly sorted out.[5] In order to gain some international experience she then competed in Aachen, Germany.
She won the GB Championship in 1962,[6] and went on to compete in Tokyo in 1964 and is the first foreigner and British rider to win the prestigious Hamburg Dressage Derby in 1965. [7]
In 1968 she competed in the individual and Team event at the Mexico Olympics. Her horse, Conversano Caprice was 20 at this stage and was retired soon after the event.
She continued as an international dressage judge and taught at many clinics worldwide.
| 1960 | Rome Olympics | Individual dressage 13th[8] |
| 1962 | National Champion | |
| 1964 | Tokyo Olympics | Individual dressage 12th[9] |
| 1965 | Hamburg Dressage Derby | 1st prize |
| 1968 | Mexico Olympics | Individual dressage 14th[10] |
| Team Dressage 5th |
References
- ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Equistration". www.olympics.org. Olympic committee. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Official Report of the LA Olympic Games 1984". https://digital.la84.org. LA Olympic Committee. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Hall, Robert. www.horsemagazine.com. Horse Magazine https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/whos-who/hall-robert/. Retrieved 11 June 2020. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Hall, Robert. "Fulmer School of Equitation, Buckinghamshire". https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Hall, Johanna. "NEDERLANDSE AMAZONE OP OLYMPISCHE SPELEN". www.delpher.nl. Algemeen Handelsblad. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ↑ Hall, Johanna. "National Champion sGB Dressage". www.British Dressage.co.uk. British Dressage. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Hamburg Derby win". https://forum.britishdressage.co.uk/forum. British dressage. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Rome Olympics 1960". https://digital.la84.org. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Tokyo Olympics". https://digital.la84.org. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Hall, Johanna. "Mexico Olympics 1968". https://digital.la84.org. Retrieved 11 June 2020. External link in
|website=(help)
This article "Joke Hall Carp" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Joke Hall Carp. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
