Solid start for Brits at European Champs
European Championships for jumping, dressage together with para-dressage are nether agency inwards Herning, Denmark. Louise Parkes together with Rob Howell study on the showtime competitions.
Jumping
The jumping entitle got off to a cracking get with a thrilling victory for Great Britain’s Ben Maher together with Cella, piece the French quartet of Aymeric de Ponnat, Roger Yves Bost, Patrice Delaveau together with Kevin Staut caput the squad standings.
The British prevarication 2nd going into twenty-four lx minutes catamenia two, which features the showtime circular of the Nations Cup-style squad competition, with Switzerland inwards 3rd ahead of the defending champions from Deutschland inwards quaternary place. A total of xix teams started inwards thes opening Speed course of study inwards which 4 seconds were added for each fighting down, and, with results converted into points, only 2 fences carve upward the transcend 7 nations equally the activity resumes.
Maher, a fellow member of Great Britain’s London 2012 Olympic Games gold-medal-winning team, is followed closely on the private leaderboard past times private Olympic champion Steve Guerdat from Switzerland, piece French passenger Roger Yves Bost is inwards 3rd ahead of Portugal’s Luciana Diniz inwards quaternary place. Kevin Staut’s fifth-place complete helped to anchor the French wages inwards the squad rankings. But despite the fact that Jens Fredricson together with defending European private champion Rolf-Goran Bengtsson filled the adjacent 2 places tonight, the Swedish squad could entirely larn by 7th house equally the course of study designed past times Germany’s Frank Rothenberger took its toll.
Maher said he believed his winning border may get got been achieved past times his gallop downwards the final tricky trouble of fences. “The liverpool to the triple combination…was viii or ix strides. I did viii together with she (Cella) jumped the combination rattling well,” he said.
Jumping – teams
The reigning Olympic champions from Great UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland snatched the atomic number 82 inwards the squad jumping when the French lost their traveling steal on pole position. Lying 2nd overnight, the British produced iii fabulous clear rounds over the super-tough rail designed past times Frank Rothenberger together with Bo Bak Andersen that actually separated the best from the rest. And when the Swiss were the entirely other squad to arrive at a hat-trick of fault-free efforts they were promoted from bronze to silvery medal spot ahead of Thursday’s final circular of the squad competition.
But the British wages is minimal, with only 0.27 points separating them from their Swiss rivals piece the French are 2.69 points farther adrift inwards third. The defending European champions from Deutschland stay inwards quaternary piece the Swedish squad has risen from 7th to 5th next bright performances from Henrik von Eckermann (Gotha) together with defending Individual champion Rolf-Goran Bengtsson (Casall Ask).
As the transcend 10 of the xix competing nations battled it out in that location were roughly bright private performances, together with the character of horsemanship shone through with a peculiarly bright exhibition from the youngest athlete inwards the championships, Jos Verlooy, whose light-footed 10-year-old gelding, Domino, made the formidable rail await similar a walk inwards the park. The 17-year-old boy of Belgian passenger Axel Verlooy trains with The Netherlands’ Harrie Smolders together with oozes talent.
The Belgian squad was lying 10th equally the twenty-four lx minutes catamenia began, but when the Irish Gaelic together with Castilian slipped they improved to 8th place, together with only 0.04 points separating them from Italy inwards 7th together with trailing the sixth-placed Dutch past times only 0.27 points thence in that location is piddling or zippo betwixt these teams. The fifth-placed Swedes larn into Thursday’s decider only over a fighting off the leading British piece Deutschland added only 4 faults to their tally to concord onto quaternary spot.
Para-equestrian
A novel page inwards the history books of equestrian sport was turned, with para-dressage athletes competing for the showtime fourth dimension amongst their jumping together with dressage counterparts at an FEI European Championship. The abide by of existence the showtime passenger to compete inwards an integrated contest on the European phase savage to Ireland’s Rosemary Jean Gaffney, riding Ustero.“My partnership with this Equus caballus is entirely iii months quondam together with it is the horse’s 2nd international gather with showtime large test,” she said. “It’s a cracking abide by to hold upward the showtime passenger at the showtime integrated competition.”
Grade IV together with Grade Ib riders took to the arena for the showtime twenty-four lx minutes catamenia of the squad competition, with Great Britain’s London 2012 Paralympic squad golden together with double silvery medallist Sophie Wells (Grade IV) together with Valerius (74.333%) scoring the event’s showtime win, with Belgium’s double Paralympic golden medallist Michele George claiming 2nd on Saganne (70.500%).
Austria’s London 2012 private golden together with silvery medallist Pepo Puch claimed the transcend spot inwards Grade Ib with Fine Feeling south on a score of 75.400%, piece Great Britain’s Ricky Balshaw on LJT Enggaards Solitaire scored a corporation 2nd house with 73.240%.
Host field Kingdom of Denmark also got off to a proficient start, with its riders taking 3rd house inwards both grades. Line Kongensgaard slotted inwards behind the leading couplet inwards Grade IV, steering Loponio to 70.405%, together with Stinna Tange Kaastrup together with her novel ride Steffi Graf finished on 71.240% inwards Grade Ib.
The iii best combined scores from the squad together with private examination (in the 5 classifications) volition create upward one's heed the squad medallists on Saturday, August 24.
The squad contest continues on Th with riders inwards Grades Ia, II, together with III competing. Among them volition hold upward Great Britain’s triple Paralympic golden medallist Sophie Christiansen (Grade Ia) together with double Paralympic golden medallist Natasha Baker (Grade II). Natasha, who has been unbeaten for the past times 2 years, makes her squad debut inwards Herning.
Dressage
Two cracking tests from multi-medalled veteran, 44-year-old Isabell Werth, together with squad rookie, 23-year-old Fabienne Lutkemeier, get got given Deutschland the wages after the showtime business office of the Dressage Championship. Going belatedly into the evening, Werth stamped her authorization on the leaderboard when posting the highest first-day score of 75.213 with a cracking functioning from Don Johnson. Lutkemeier’s 73.237 with D’Agostino had previously been the ane to beat, thence the terra firma that has claimed the European squad entitle on 21 previous occasions is well-positioned equally the 2nd tranche of riders get got their plough on Th morning.
Denmark’s Andreas Helgstrand together with Akeem Foldager earned private 3rd house with a score of 72.720 which, along with the 68.875 registered past times team-mate Lone Bang Larsen together with Fitou L leaves the host field inwards silvery medal spot, but with entirely a fractional wages of 0.014 per centum over The Netherlands, piece Sweden together with Great UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland create total the adjacent 2 spots on the leaderboard.
The twenty-four lx minutes catamenia didn’t get good for the defending champions from Great UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland when, 2nd into the arena, Gareth Hughes’ 15-year-old mare DV Stenkjers Nadonna produced a nightmare ride that began with her going into contrary at the showtime halt. The couplet who got a belatedly call-up when Laura Tomlinson had to take her London 2012 Olympic golden medal winning ride Mistral Hojris, were awarded the lowest score of the day, 60.866, together with that actually piled the push clitoris per unit of measurement area on second-line British squad fellow member Michael Eilberg. Hughes said afterwards, “it was the worst examination I did for several years. She is a beautiful mare who tries her hardest, but today the tension got to her”.
Eilberg rose to the challenge of keeping British hopes hold upward with a lovely examination from his handsome grey mare Half Luna Delphi, known at domicile equally Maggie. They set things correct dorsum on rail with a score of 72.264 to function out them inwards quaternary house to date. Son of well-known dressage trainer Ferdi Eilberg, the 26-year-old entirely turned his attending to the sport 4 years agone having previously been a jumping competitor.
The interrogation straight off is whether London 2012 double-gold medallists Charlotte Dujardin together with Valegro together with her trainer together with mentor Carl Hester together with Uthopia who were also on that historic golden squad inwards Greenwich Park 12 months agone tin give the axe construct on Eilberg’s crusade inwards an crusade to repeat the British squad triumph enjoyed at the final FEI European Dressage Championships inwards Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2 years agone and, of course, Olympic glory.
There is much to a greater extent than activity to get got house on Thursday, together with although Deutschland is inwards the driving spot in that location are thence many sparkling partnerships yet to get got their plough including defending private double-champions Adelinde Cornelissen together with Jerich Parzival together with Edward Gal together with Glock’s Undercover from Kingdom of the Netherlands that it withal looks broad open. Werth together with Lutkemeier volition hold upward hoping that Kristina Sprehe (Desperados FRH) together with reigning World Cup champions Helen Langehanenberg together with Damon Hill tin give the axe construct on their achievements.
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