Favourites take out World Cup vaulting in Leipzig

World Vaulting Champion Nicolas Andreani (FRA) with Radix SB, lunged past times Patric Looser. © Daniel Kaiser/FEI

World Champion Nicolas Andreani (FRA) together with eight-time national champion Anna Cavallaro (ITA) were celebrating victories this weekend at the quaternary leg of the FEI World Cup Vaulting 2012/2013 serial inward Leipzig inward Germany, business office of the famous international equestrian result Partner Pferd.

Andreani, vaulting on Radix SB together with lunged past times Patric Looser, won with 8666 points, spell Cavallaro was inward a bird of her own, finishing on 8796 points to win past times a massive margin together with securing her 3rd success of the electrical current serial on Harley lunged past times Nelson Vidoni.

Andreani, directly 28, lastly competed inward Leipzig 2 years agone inward the starting fourth dimension FEI World Cup Vaulting Final. After the starting fourth dimension circular he was tipped to win, but the thence World Champion Patric Looser (SUI) moved ahead inward the minute circular to claim the starting fourth dimension FEI World Cup Vaulting title.

Andreani did non desire to brand the long trip to Leipzig with his ain Equus caballus Just H5N1 Kiss, but participating inward Leipzig was primal to qualifying for this year’s lastly inward Braunschweig (GER).

When he asked Patric Looser for help, he got an immediate yes. This twelvemonth inward Leipzig, Looser lunged 3 competitors on the 12-year-old Westphalian bay gelding Radix SB, who is based at Looser’s stable inward Cologne.

“Within the international Vaulting describe of piece of work solid unit of measurement at that spot is a fantastic bond,” said Looser. “For sure, inward competitions nosotros are competitors. Everyone must take away keep their ain problems together with challenges together with has to hold off for the decisions of the judges. But inward the Vaulting circle nosotros are all practiced friends, nosotros produce preparation sessions together together with take away keep fun at parties all some the world.”

But fifty-fifty the nigh successful vaulter of recent years, who retired after securing lastly year’s World Cup championship inward Bordeaux, was nervous earlier going into the arena inward Leipzig. “I had faith that Nicolas would win with a practiced margin if he was performing on his ain horse, thence I wanted to offering him the best chance to produce the same on Radix,” Looser said.

This was no tardily task, equally Looser had no experience of Andreani’s freestyle routine on Radix SB. “In the starting fourth dimension contest our interaction was perfect, but inward the minute this was much to a greater extent than tricky.”

But Andreani skilfully replaced some hard elements of his freestyle, showing a real build clean gratis department on Radix SB, who is 1.9m tall, together with finished with a spectacular twisted dorsum flip dismount. “Radix is a real practiced horse. I felt comfortable despite him existence 3 inches taller than Just a Kiss. I was surprised that this became such a small-scale employment for me,” Andreani said.

Andreani had position himself nether considerable pressure level earlier the minute round. “I wanted to win thence much hither inward Leipzig, together with with Patric’s assist I managed to overcome my piddling Leipzig hurdle – many thank you lot to Patric,” he said.

Germany’s Thomas Brüsewitz, Junior Male champion at the FEI Open European Vaulting Championships 2011, secured minute house inward Leipzig with 8,447 points on Airbus lunged past times Irina Lenkeit.

Leipzig was Brüsewitz’s starting fourth dimension Senior contest inward his starting fourth dimension Senior year, together with he used his Wild Card to print the spectators at this high-profile international event.

His functioning was total of dynamism, with impressive forcefulness elements together with master choreography. “It has been a wonderful feeling to live hither inward front end of this amazing crowd together with to perform thence well,” said the 18-year-old, who received the go-ahead to compete inward Leipzig exclusively days earlier the competition.

Brüsewitz was ecstatic afterward that eventide when he heard that he volition also live competing with a Wild Card at the final, amongst his older blood brother Victor who secured minute places inward Munich together with Salzburg.

The 28-year-old Lukas Klouda (CZE), who also competed on Radix SB lunged past times Patric Looser, took 3rd house inward Leipzig with 8370 points together with currently leads the serial rankings after winning the Munich together with Salzburg legs.

Impressive victory for Cavallaro

Italy’s Anna Cavallaro, 26, continued with her impressive run of victories inward Leipzig, together with her goal at the Final inward Braunschweig is real clear: “That’s the town where I desire to win,” she said.

Her self-confidence seems good justified, with no-one existence able to compaction the missy from Verona. In Leipzig, her virtually error-free functioning secured her a total marking of 8,796 points. Judge Helma Schwarzman (GER) said: “She has an incredible freestyle routine with nearly perfect execution. When she vaults, my center flutters.”

“It is impossible to pull how I experience after winning inward Leipzig, where the FEI World Cup Vaulting serial was born,” said Cavallaro at the press conference, where she also thanked her lunger Nelson Vidoni.

With her outstanding freestyle functioning to the vocal “Time to Say Goodbye” sung past times Andrea Bocelli, Cavallaro seemed to vault direct into the hearts of the audience, together with Vidoni was happy to compete inward front end of a packed arena. “It shows that Vaulting has finally arrived equally an international equestrian sport,” he said ecstatically.

Switzerland’s Simone Jaїser on Luk, lunged past times Rita Blieske, finished minute with 8199 points together with is directly qualified for the Final.

Third-placed Regina Burgmayr (GER) on Cappucino, lunged past times Tessa Lubben, earned 8103 points, together with is also looking forrad to Braunschweig: “It is a peachy abide by to live able to compete at the Final, specially equally this volition take away keep house inward Germany. I’m happy that all vaulters volition start on zero at the Final, together with I’ll live working hard directly to meliorate to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than for that challenge.”

The lastly leg of the World Cup serial volition take away keep house inward Bordeaux on Feb 8 to 10.

 

Reporting: Daniel Kaiser

 

 

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