Marina Köhncke

Marina Köhncke, born Marina Loheit on 8 March 1968 in Hamburg, is a German eventing rider. She grew up in Radbruch in northern Germany, was given her first pony at nine and rode her first eventing competition at fourteen. She won team gold at the 1989 European championship for young riders and the German eventing championship in 1993, the second woman to take that title. She was nominated for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where the German team finished fourth with Sir Toby and she did not finish the individual event on Longchamps. She trained as a master horse farm manager and returned to higher level competition with Calma Schelly, riding the Burghley Horse Trials in 2010 and the Badminton Horse Trials in 2011.