Carmen has been included in the A-squad endurance Seniors. Carmen Römer from Limburg is a very experienced endurance rider. She rode her first competition at the age of 10 and has completed more than 250 well-completed competitions, more than 25,000 competition kilometers and a total of more than 35 completed 160 km competitions with fourteen different horses. In addition, Römer has had a finishing percentage of around 80% since she started using the Equilin products.
Career and career
Carmen rode her first World Championship in 2003 with the Young Riders, to start a year later in the World Championship for Seniors. She became Dutch champion eight times with the Seniors. As a 10-year-old, Carmen rode her first endurance competition in 1995. Stimulated by her father Lei, who himself started for the Netherlands in 1994 at the WEG in The Hague.
Carmen, who went to work for Defence after her Gymnasium diploma, followed a Master in Accounting & Control and through postgraduate education Carmen is now a Registered Accountant. She climbed to Officer in the Royal Navy at Defence, trains at least 20 hours a week and believes she has the following positive qualities: perseverance, positive thinking and the ability to focus on things that make the difference in a match.
In addition to highlights, there was a low point at the WEG in Aachen 2006. She had managed to qualify with two horses, but unfortunately could not start. One of Carmen's dreams is that endurance will become an Olympic sport and that she will win a medal there. According to her, becoming World Champion falls under that category, dreams. However, that year she did become European Champion in the Juniors with Fadilah R.
In 2015 she was part of the team that won bronze at the European Championships in Samorin with Siglavy Bagdady Zeusz. Individually she became 16th and came in as the second Dutchman. She replaced the Dutch Champion Joyce van den Berg as reserve.
In 2016 at the World Championships, Samorin also won team bronze again.
In 2017 at the European Individual Championships 8th.
Recently in 2021 in Ermelo individually 19th and team 5th at the European Championships.
