Germany takes back team dressage gold
The competitor for squad dressage honours at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games went correct to the wire alongside the color of the medals decided alone inwards the like shooting fish in a barrel stages of the competition.
But inwards the end, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany claimed theis 6th globe entitle alongside 241,7 points, leaving argent for Great U.K. (231.343) as well as bronze for the Netherlands (227.4).
Germany won on a prophylactic margin, but Great U.K. needed the double Olympic aureate pair Valegro as well as Charlotte Dujardin, 29, to secure the argent alongside a faultless ride of 85.271 per cent. The crowd gave them a standing ovation when they left d’Ornano Stadium alongside the top private consequence of the competition. “I wanted to demo the judges that nosotros tin attain it,” said a relieved Dujardin.
The crowd went wild alongside please when they entered the Stade D’Ornano as well as Valegro as well as his passenger responded alongside a functioning that ensured the Dutch were pinned dorsum into bronze medal spot. Apart from a hesitation coming downward the centre trouble for the lastly time, the 12-year-old gelding as well as his passenger were inwards perfect harmony.
The 29-year-old passenger admits that what was, past times her standards as well as that of her extraordinarily talented horse, a pitiful functioning at the premier fixture inwards Aachen, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany lastly calendar month acted equally “a wake-up call”. Today she showed that all the difficult operate she has seat inwards over the interim menstruum was worth every minute.
The High German squad delivered a convincing functioning to acquire dorsum the title, with national coach Monica Theodorescu saying: “Three horses simply about lxxx per cent. That is non hence bad.” And she outlined the innovation for the evening: “We volition belike drinkable non alone water.”
This was the 11th High German Dressage aureate medal success since the squad competitor was introduced into the globe entitle programme inwards 1966.
After Kristina Sprehe had led the ranking of the start day, Isabell Werth as well as her ten-year old chestnut mare Bella Rose seat inwards a stunning test, vivid peculiarly inwards piaffe as well as passage. The “grande dame” of WEG showed it to globe entitle start timer Helen Langehanenberg, besting the favourite past times 0.2 points after Damon Hill stopped early on at the lastly halt as well as jumped forward, leaving the stallion on at 81.357 points as well as tertiary place. “He is clever as well as has done this exam hence often. He knows the routine as well as tin read, write as well as count,” the reserve European champion excused her partner of 4 large championships.
Dutch Adelinde Cornelissen had skipped the World Cup tour inwards favour for the globe championship. “You can’t live inwards top shape over 365 days of the year.” That restriction paid off, giving Kingdom of the Netherlands a bronze medal. The lastly passenger out for the defending champions, she delivered a prophylactic exam without mistakes. “It could cause got had a flake to a greater extent than sparkle, but I’m happy.” The alone combination left from the winning squad of 2010, her score saved the Dutch squad that had to overcome several exchanges of injured horses.
Steffen Peters could non choke on a medal rank for the United States, ending on 222.714 points as well as what was “one of the best US squad results ever.” Peters as well as Legolas had a fault inwards the flight changes, leaving them at 74.871 per cent. “We went for the all,” the team’s senior passenger said after he had overcome a severe disease that has kept him away from Aachen.
In winning silver, Great U.K. secured qualification for the 2016 Olympic Games inwards Rio. After Gareth Hughes as well as Carl Hester’s performances on the start day, which left the squad inwards the bronze medal seat overnight, the push clit per unit of measurement area was on for Michael Eilberg as well as Charlotte Dujardin to deliver on the spectacular d’Ornano stage.
Entering the arena for his globe entitle debut, Eilberg produced a vital exam for the team, marred alone past times a distich of expensive mistakes aboard a slightly unsettled Half Moon Delphi to post 71.886%, which sees him through to the Grand Prix Special.
The Dutch battled bravely inwards their attempt to compensate for the loss of ii of their best horses inwards the lead-up to this event, as well as it paid off. “We are really happy alongside the bronze” said Chef d’Equipe Wim Ernes. “We had to substitute, but nosotros showed existent squad spirit as well as managed to acquire it together.”
Edward Gal’s replacement ride, Glock’s Voice, produced a score of 72.414. The 44-year-old passenger who claimed double-gold at the lastly Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Kentucky, USA 4 years agone said his 12-year-old stallion was “a flake stressed as well as inconsistent, hence I tried to rest relaxed”.
The Equus caballus struggled alongside piaffe as well as had a fault inwards the one-time changes, but delivered another spectacular operate including fabulous extended trot.
Gal, whose start pick Equus caballus for the Games, Glock’s Undercover, was withdrawn through injury, said subsequently that he “felt sick almost Glock’s Undercover non going. But as well as hence I simply had to focus on this horse.”
“I scream back he volition live really good. I was hoping it would acquire better, I know he tin attain better.”
“Some parts were expert as well as hence of a precipitous he was gone, as well as hence he was back. It was his start large competitor as well as he was a piddling overwhelmed inwards here. He really didn’t acquire into it. I knew I wasn’t going to win here, but I did await better. He was sometimes distracted. He was constantly busy alongside all the things simply about him,” Gal said.
And fifty-fifty though Adelinde Cornelissen as well as the 17-year-old Jerich Parzival would trouble upward quaternary individually at the halt of the twenty-four hours after scoring 79.629, the Dutch total of 227.400 would alone live expert plenty for tertiary house on the lastly leaderboard.
Britain’s Chef de Mission Will Connell said the goal was Rio qualification, equally in that location were alone ii chances to attain this. “This is absolutely what nosotros wanted as well as agency that they cause got a two-year run inwards to the Olympics, during which fourth dimension they tin convey on immature horses as well as don’t cause got to worry almost qualification. What Charlotte did today was genuinely outstanding, as well as along alongside her squad mates, they cause got made the paving stones for the route to Rio.”
Dujardin said that after valegro had struggled at Aachen, she was “really, really happy. After Aachen, everyone was proverb ‘what’s happened to Valegro?’
“In Aachen, nosotros struggled alongside the heat. It was expert that it happened there, non here. I simply wanted to boom it here. We wanted him at total fitness for here. It did really knock my confidence a bit. Aachen made me come upward dorsum stronger. I wanted to demo those Germans I could attain it. I learned what happened when it goes wrong. It made me scream back that I had to acquire riding equally in that location is hence much to a greater extent than inwards there.”
The adjacent placed 3 teams, Spain, Sweden as well as Kingdom of Denmark were separated alone past times 3,772 points.
The Castilian had challenged inwards the early on stages when Morgan Barbancon rode Painted Black, the old ride of Dutch superstar Anky van Grunsven, to a score of 75.143, but they were overtaken past times the USA when Steffen Peters as well as Legolas finished 8th individually, as well as Laura Graves as well as Verdades slotted into 10th.
Graves has real definitely announced her presence at the top halt of the sport. The 27-year-old from Florida competed inwards her start Grand Prix alone inwards Feb of this twelvemonth alongside the Equus caballus she bought equally a yearling from a Dutch sales video 12 years ago.
Team Grand Prix Final Result:
GOLD – Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany 241.700: Desperados FRH (Kristina Sprehe) 78.814, D’Agostino (Fabienne Lutkemeier) 73.586, Bella Rose (Isabell Werth) 81.529, Damon Hill NRW (Helen Langehanenberg) 81.357.
SILVER – Great U.K. 231.343: Nip Tuck (Carl Hester) 74.196, DV Stenkjers Nadonna (Gareth Hughes) 69.714, Half Moon Delphi (Michael Eilberg) 71.886, Valegro (Charlotte Dujardin) 85.271.
BRONZE: Netherlands 227.400: Glock’s Johnson TN (Hans Peter Minderhoud) 74.357, Arlando NH N.O.P. (Diederick van Silfhout) 73.414, Glock’s Voice (Edward Gal) 72.414, Jerich Parzival (Adelinde Cornelissen) 79.629.
Individual Qualifier Result:
1, Valegro (Charlotte Dujardin) GBR 85.271;
2, Bella Rose (Isabell Werth) GER 81.529;
3, Damon Hill NRW (Helen Langehanenberg) GER 81.357;
4, Jerich Parzival (Adelinde Cornelissen) NED 76.629;
5, Desperados FRH (Kristina Sprehe) GER 78.814;
6, Augustin (Victoria Max-Theurer) AUT 77.114;
7, Don Auriello (Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven) 76.186;
8, Legolas (Steffen Peters) USA 75.843;
9, Painted Black (Morgan Barbancon) ESP 75.143;
10, Verdades (Laura Graves) USA 74.871.
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