Pepo’s WEG hat-trick: rider shines in third Games discipline

Para-equestrian passenger Pepo Puch.

Up to 2008, Austrian Pepo Puch was a leading international eventer, competing inwards the 2004 Olympic Games inwards Athens for Croatia. Before that, he was a top endurance rider, together with was European champion over 160km inwards 1990 amongst Flip Flop & Fly.

Pepo Puch amongst his gilt medal later the Grade 1b Freestyle Test at London 2012.

But inwards 2008, a bad autumn left him amongst no feeling inwards his legs. As expected, Equus caballus riding was an integral purpose of his rehabilitation together with it brought him into the footing of para-equestrian sport.

At his kickoff major event, at the 2012 Paralympics inwards London, he was champion inwards 1b, together with he is straightaway inwards Caen for this 4th World Equestrian Games, but his first equally a para-equestrian.

Puch, 48, volition ride his London 2012 mount, Fine Feeling, a 17-year-old hanoverian mare past times Fabriano. “She’s doing peachy together with is inwards overstep form. I’ve been letting her remainder upward for the Games. Obviously, we’re going to create everything nosotros tin to locomote the best, fifty-fifty if at the squad degree I mean value it’s going to locomote tough for Republic of Austria to house inwards the overstep five. Individually, anything could happen,” he said.

In June at Magna Racino, he set a novel footing record, besting his previous footing tape of 80.917% laid upward final twelvemonth inwards Mannheim. Competing inwards the musical freestyle to Bryan Adams’ cinema soundtrack Spirit, Puch earned a tape breaking marker of 82.583% from the jury together with caput estimate doctor Eva Maria Bachinger.

Puch is impressed amongst the Games so far. “Everything is excellent. The schedules, peculiarly the schooling arenas, are jam packed, but I’m incredibly happy to locomote inwards Caen, correct inwards the centre of the event. The course of didactics is simply fabulous,” he said.

“I’m going to create everything possible to brand the nearly of my Games, including supporting my Eventing teammates.”

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