Laura Kraut wins Geneva GP
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US rider Laura Kraut won the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix inward Switzerland on Sat nighttime on the 14-year-old grayness Cedric, beating her partner as well as Olympic gilded medalist Nick Skelton inward the jump off.
Kraut said she was “over the moon” as well as the jump off had a nail-biting twist amongst Australian passenger Edwina Tops-Alexander facing a tough challenge for the No.1 ranking spot from Swedish passenger Rolf-Göran Bengtsson.
The GCT entitle race intensified dramatically afterwards the class, equally at that spot are straightaway exclusively 5 points betwixt Tops-Alexander as well as Bengtsson inward the series.
The smoothen Swede cranked upwardly the delineate per unit of measurement area dramatically past times jumping clear inward 45.37 on his champion Equus caballus Casall La Silla. Tops-Alexander came into the band on Cevo Itot du Château but notched upwardly iv faults putting her inward 3rd place. Kraut was adjacent inward as well as ready off at a dazzling measuring on Cedric, putting inward a vivid plough to the double as well as chasing downwards Bengtsson’s fourth dimension to complete inward 42.53 seconds.
“I’m real happy, real excited – I was non expecting this tonight,” Kraut said. “Cedric only felt actually on shape tonight, similar he was 8 years one-time again. Both rounds were actually large thus I was nervous.
“These events are the best, the best horses as well as riders inward the world. But I was feeling adept this evening as well as my Equus caballus is fast. I took a shot as well as got lucky.”
The GCT straightaway moves to Vienna for its debut lawsuit inward Republic of Austria adjacent week, as well as and then to the in conclusion inward Abu Dhabi inward the United Arab Emirates inward November. Saturday’s Grand Prix lawsuit shifted the overall GCT ranking significantly. Tops-Alexander remains the leader amongst 196 points, amongst Bengtsson second amongst 191 points. It agency the in conclusion 2 events inward Vienna as well as Abu Dhabi are ready to locomote cliffhangers equally 2011 champion Tops-Alexander aims to operate the first-ever passenger to win 2 GCT seasons inward a row. Herthird house inward the Grand Prix has also pushed her overall GCT prize coin net turn a profit closer to the €2m mark.
The climax to GCT’s debut inward Lausanne, Switzerland, was played out on the shores of Lake Geneva against a breathtaking backdrop of the Alps. Thirty of the transcend 35 riders took part, as well as the top-level activity was watched past times an international audience on Eurosport.
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