CURRICULUM VITAE
Jan Brink – most important results
• European Championship bronze, team 1997
• World Championship bronze, team 1998
• Swedish Championship gold 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
• European Championship silver, individual 2003.
• European Championship bronze, individual and in team 2005.
• Winner individual in the Aachen Championship 2005.
• Ranked nbr 1 in the world during 2005.
• Individual bronze in the World Cup-finals in Amsterdam 2006.
• Ranked nbr 3 in the world in January 2006.
• Ranked nbr 5 in the world 2007.
• 5:th in the WC in Las Vegas 2007.
• 4:th in the team in Olympic Games in Hong Kong 2008.
• Jan ends his international career 2009.
Jan Brink, chronology
1960 Born in Hörby, Sweden.
1967 Jan starts school. The same year he joins the ice hockey team in
Tyringe.
1970 Jan starts riding at the local riding club – Tyringe Riding Club.
1973 Jan gets his first horse, the two-year old cross breed mare, Nepita.
He also has great success in the ice hockey team Tyringe.
1975 The first competition is a LB show jumping class with Nepita.
After that, they continue to compete in show jumping and eventing.
1976 Graduates from elementary school. Deselects ice hockey to invest
wholeheartedly in the riding. The same year he gets accepted into
Flyinge’s winter equestrian short term training program.
1977 Medverkar på Flyinges uppvisningar och blir samma år anställd.
1977 Participates on the horseshows at Flyinge gets the same year
employed by Flyinge. The same year Jan begins to train dressage
horses in the evening in rental yards. Begins selling horses for
export.
80-81 Military service at P2 in Hässleholm, Sweden.
Jan get to know Britt and Bruno Albinsson and starts, what will become
a very successful collaboration with them.
1981 Jan ceases his employment at Flyinge. Starts Tullstorp Dressage
Stable in Hässleholm with Bruno Albinsson. Moves to Ballingslöv.
81-82 Trains horses for export sales in collaboration with Bruno Albinsson.
Deciding whether to continue to develop Tullstorp together.
82-83 Jan begins his trainer education at Georg Theodorescu, Warendorf.
He brings two of his own horses.
Tullstorp is at this time rebuilt to have room for 20 horses.
1984 Returns back home to Sweden.
Starts to train young stallions for stallion shows and performance tests.
84-
86
Competing successfully on self educated horses.
Sales horses and export increases.
Tullstorp developed step by step, more and more victorious stallions
come from the dressage yard.
1986 Magini 695 (later the father of Briar) wins the performance test.
1987 Martini 744 becomes a two-time winner of the stallion and performance
test with the highest index ever.
88-90 Competing frequently up to S-classes with the stallions
Algeretto 693 and Martini 744 with great success.
1991 Wins his first Grand Prix with “Another Senator” in Belgium.
1993 Martini 744 debuts in Grand Prix.
Jan is chosen to join the Swedish National Team for the first time.
New business contacts is made in Brazil, Jan start training clients in
San Paulo.
94-96 Jan trains regulary in Hamburg at his role model Herbert Rehbein.
He starts to train for Kyra Kyrklund, who will come to mean a lot for his
future development and success.
1995 Three important stallions from Tullstorp is at the top during the
performance test. Sack 907 wins the performance test. Briar 899 is
on the second place. The show jumping stallion So What becomes
the best show jumping stallion of them all.
1996 Jan take over and buy the business at Tullstorp to run and develop
the business on his own. He rent land and stables of Albinssons.
Sack 907 wins Breeders Throphy, Briar 899 is on a third place.
1997 Jan participates in the European Championship and win a bronze
medal together with the Swedish team on Martini 744 in Germany,
Verden. Sack 907 wins Breeders Throphy for 6-year-olds, Briar 899 is
on a second place.
1998 World Championship bronze with the Swedish Team with Fontana 849
(e Martini 744) in Rome. Jan buy and take over Tullstorp.The new
indoor arena and the octagonal barn plotted and planned.
1999 The new indoor arena and stallion stables is officially opened.
Tullstorp becomes a limitecd company.
2000 Jan participates in his first Olympic Games in Sidney, Australia on
nine year old Briar 899.
2001 Jan becomes the Swedish Champion when winning the National
Championships together with Briar 899. They take a 10th
individual place at the European Championships in Verden, Germany.
2002 Swedish Championship gold with Briar 899. Jan scores a 12:th place
individually at the World Championships in Jerez, Spain. Briar takes
his first World Cup victory.
2003
Swedish Championship gold with Briar 899. Jan takes a
historically, individual European Championship silver medal with Briar
899 in Hickstead, England.
2004 Jan and Briar scores a 7th place even at the Olympic Games in
Athens. Briar is ranked as the world’s best stallion.
2005 Swedish Chmapionship gold with Briar 899. Jan and Briar win the
Championship in Aachen as the first Swedish rider with the record
score 82.7%. Ranked as the second best rider and horse in the world.
Takes two-times European Championship bronze, as a team and
individual on Briar 899. Briar is ranked number 1 on the world ranking.
2006 Swedish Cmahpionship gold with Briar 899. Bronze at World Cup finals
in Amsterdam. The new training stables at Tullstorp is officially opened.
2007 Gold at the National Championships with Briar 899. A fifth place at the
World Cup finals in Las Vegas, USA. First Wish 1103 becomes the
champion of the stallion performance test and 3-year old
championship. Jan takes a bronze medal with the Swedish team in
Turin. Jan marries Catharina Svensson from Copenhagen.
2008 Jan and the Swedish team takes a 4th place at the Olympics,
Hong Kong. Takes his 7th Swedish Championship gold with Briar 899.
Jan scores a 5th place in World Cup finals with Briar 899. Shared
Grand Prix victory with the Briar son Biggles 1015.
The riding student Sara-Henrietta B. Kallstrom becomes double Nordic
Champion for Juniors and win the Power Cup.
2009 Double victory at the World Cup in Scandinavium with Briar 899.
Jan ends his international career in Las Vegas at the World Cup final
with a farewell for Briar 899 and his extra ordinary career.
4 Grand Prix victories with the Briar son Biggles 1015.
JJ Rayban 1173 is only approved 3-year-old stallion on the
performance test.
The student Sara-Henrietta B. Kallstrom makes a hat trick on the
Swedish Championships and become the Swedish Champion for
Young Riders and wins the Young Rider Kraft Cup.
2010 JJ Rayban 1173 becomes the Champion of the performance test
2010. Briar brother Okeanos 1097 debuts in Grand Prix and scores a
second place.
The daughter Angelina is born.
The student Sara-Henrietta B. Kallstrom does it again and win the
Swedish Championships for Young Riders as well as the Nordic
Championships. The student Marina Mattsson makes a second hat
trick on the national championships and becomes a Swedish
Champion for juniors.
Eleven Elin Aspnäs takes silver in championship for juniors.
2011 JJ RayBan wins Scandinavian Open in Falsterbo and the
breeding championship, Flyinge.
Hohenstaufen II wins the 7- year old championship in Flyinge.
Okeanos is successfully competing with many victories up to
and in Grand Prix. Jan is very active as a trainer and coach of
Swedish
and international riders which results in gold and silver
medals for the
students in the Swedish and Danish Championships.
Tullstorp stuent Anna Ziebrantsen takes three medals at the
European
Championships.
Hannell Dressage AB is founded and the collaboration with Tullstorp
increases.
Jan and Catharina’s son Oliver is born.
2012 Zaladin MI 1240 wins the Swedish Stallion Performance Test.
The stallion JJ RayBan wins the Swedish Breeding and Sports
Championship at Flyinge for 6-year-olds.
Jan is very active as a trainer for both Swedish and foreign young
riders who won two Swedish Championship gold medals, juniorand Young Riders as well as a gold medal at the Danish
Championship for junior rider Anna Zibrandtsen.
European Championship bronze medal for Danish Anna Zibrandtsen.
Jan is very active as a trainer for the riders at Hannell Dressage.
2013
Jan Brink collects the prize as Trainer of the Year 2012.
Sankt Erik II 1265 wins the Swedish Stallion Performance Test.
Tullstorps Stallion Program expanded within both jumping and
dressage with 24 stallions in the program and several semen import
stallions, expanded cooperation with Schou Absolute Horses and
Royne Zetterman.
Tullstorp’s stallions in the lead in Sweden both with regards to the
number of mares covered and with the results of the offspring with
Ampère in the lead.
Tullstorp students at the top both nationally and internationally with
gold medals at the Swedish and Nordic Championships and with 3
students at the European Championship Finals.
Jan Brink wins several competitions on the talented 7-year-old JJ
RayBan and wins Grand Prix debut with the 8-year-old Rentino.
New office and pool house inaugurated.