UAE wins WEG endurance gold; 136 in field eliminated
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum led all the means to win the 160km endurance contest at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inward France, riding the Australian-bred mare Yamamah inward a race where solely 22% of starters completed the race.
Just 38 horses from the 174 starters finished. Only 3 countries had the minimum of 3 riders inward argument yesteryear the cease of the race.
Twenty horses failed to consummate the outset loop, which was marred yesteryear the death of Costa Rican Equus caballus Dorada, who hitting a tree inward an accident 13.6km into the outset loop together with close 400m from the outset depository fiscal establishment check point.
Dorada’s rider, Claudia Romero Chacon, has undergone operation for fractures together with internal injuries. She is inward a serious but stable condition.
Three other riders likewise sustained injuries, alongside Uruguay’s Isha Judd suffering a fractured correct femur inward a fall, Costa Rica’s Alberto Morales Morales, who was taken to infirmary for observation afterward complaining of cervix hurting having completed the outset loop, together with New Zealand’s Andrea Smith fell from Glenmore Tariq together with broke 3 ribs on the 3rd loop.
The United Arab Emirate’s Sheikh Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai, and European Champion Yamamah (formerly Kurrajong Concorde) completed the v loops only about Sartilly inward a total riding fourth dimension of 8 hours, 8 minutes together with 28 seconds. He achieved an average speed of 19.678, means over the minimum average that had been lowered to 14km/h.
He had the destination job all to himself, alongside 2nd placed Dutch passenger Marijke Visser, 21, together with Laiza de Jalima inward 8:19.07. It is the outset endurance medal for The Netherlands. In 3rd was Qatar’s Abdulrahman Saad A.S Al Sulaiteen riding Koheilan Kincso, who came inward on 8:56.23.
Ground weather condition were described equally “improving” afterward the initial loops, together with afterward the 3rd loop, French rider Jean-Philippe Frances said: “The outset 2 loops were terrible”. Heavy pelting had fallen inward the Sartilly expanse earlier the competition.
Sheikh Hamdan was the solely passenger from the v riders from the UAE to consummate the race, together with French Republic was the solely terra firma to instruct v riders through.
The terminal passenger through, Costa Rica’s Rocio Echeverri riding Jamin, finished inward 11:08.11.
Team aureate to Spain
Over really heavy basis Spain’s squad of 3 won aureate afterward a total riding fourth dimension of 28:56:02. French Republic rode to silvery inward 29:08:44, adding to its silvery at the 2010 Games. They were 12:42 minutes behind Spain, together with overtaking Switzerland on 29:42.54.
Jaume Punti Dachs, 45, endurance trainer for the Newmarket based stable of Sheik Mohammed’s Darley stud, led the Castilian squad riders Jordi Arboix Santacreu together with Javier Cervera Sanchez-Arnedo. Punti Dachs’s married adult woman Maria Alvarez Ponton could non defend her private championship from Lexington 2010, together with retired on the course.
Experienced Jean-Philippe Frances, riding the youngest Equus caballus on the French squad led the way, from team-mates to Denis Le Guillou together with Robin Cornely. Frances rode the course of didactics inward 8:12:37.
The Swiss team’s bronze is the 2nd squad success afterward silvery inward Aachen 2006. Claude Nordmann, Chef de Mission for the Swiss Team, gave all the credit to Barbara Lissarrague, finishing 4th individually. “She has done her utmost for the squad (with Sonja Fritschi together with Andrea Amacher). They all rode together afterward nosotros had lost the outset 2 riders of v rather early the course.”
First endurance medal for The Netherlands
Silver medalist Marijke Visser rode Laiza de Jalima to the country’s outset endurance medal at a World Games, together with the outset fourth dimension the Dutch had fielded a team.
Royal Dutch Equestrian Federation president Theo Ploegmakers said endurance was a minority land of written report inward The Netherlands. he said the terra firma had invested a lot of fourth dimension together with coin inward the sport, “taking assist of the correct advertisement for the sport to win over to a greater extent than immature riders together with making certain they discovery proficient trainers together with proficient horses.”
Marijke Visser, a student, won the 2013 Young Riders Endurance championship together with likewise rides dressage. Her grey arabian mare, 10-year-old Laiza de Jalima, is owned yesteryear Dubai’s Sheikh Abdulla Bin Faisal Bin Saqr Al Qassimi together with trained inward The Netherlands. To laid upward for the Games, the mare was sent to Belgium to prepare alongside Emile Docquier.
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