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26 August 2012 at 20 : 53 PM
Germany Takes Team Win in Under-25 Competition at Aachen
Germany nabbed victory in dressage in the Under-25 competition being held in Aachen, Germany. The team of Lisette Ahrens, Charlotte Rehborn and Nadine Kraft earned a score of 78.34. Rehborn also took the win in individual dressage competition. France took second in team competition with a score of 77.53. Individual and Team final results: WUEC 2012 Results Final Dressage Pl. Rider Team 1. Charlotte Rehborn GER 2. Charlotte Dobretsberger AUT 3. Lisette Ahrens GER 4. Milou Anthonisse NED 5. Caroline Van der Heyden BEL 6. Katie Nolan IRE 7. Benoit Denisot FRA 8. Estelle Quittet FRA 9. Nadine ...
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18 August 2012 at 19 : 12 PM
In Memoriam: HRH Princess Lalla Amina (MAR), 1954 – 2012
(FEI) - It is with great regret and sadness that the FEI has learned of the passing of HRH Princess Lalla Amina, President of the Fédération Royale Marocaine des Sports Equestres. An emblematic figure in Moroccan equestrian sports and President of the Federation since 1999, HRH Princess Lalla Amina was a devoted and accomplished equestrian. President of the Moroccan league for Child Protection, HRH Princess Lalla Amina was a strong advocate for children’s rights throughout her life and worked tirelessly on national legislation and the harmonisation with international laws and conventions. She was a member of the honorary committee of the global movement of mothers, Honorary ...
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13 August 2012 at 17 : 58 PM
Olympic Results Moves Some Dressage Riders Up in World Rankings
(FEI) -With the Olympics at an end, the FEI has calculated the latest dressage rankings. Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival remain at the top. Several Olympic pairs moved up, including Charlotte Dujarding and Valegro, who went from fourth in the rankings to number two. Victoria Max-Theurer and Augustin OLD moved from 12th to 8th place and Germany's pair of Kristina Sprehe and Desperados moved from 11th place to 5th place. Top 25 dressage riders: Rank Previous Rider Name Horse Name NF Points 1 1 CORNELISSEN, Adelinde JERICH PARZIVAL NED 2704 2 4 DUJARDIN, Charlotte VALEGRO GBR 2637 3 2 BECHTOLSHEIMER, Laura MISTRAL ...
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12 August 2012 at 21 : 12 PM
Great Britain Came Out on Top in Olympic Medal Count
With the Olympic equestrian battle now ended, the final medal count put Great Britain, the host nation, at the top of the medal list. Britain earned a total of five medals, three of them gold. Coming in second in the medal count was Germany with a total of four medals. Shut out in the medals this year was the U.S. Here's the complete medal count - listed in the order gold, silver and bronze: Great Britain 3 1 1 Germany 2 1 1 Switzerland 1 - - The Netherlands – 3 1 Sweden - 1 - Ireland - - 1 Saudi Arabia – - 1 New Zealand – - ...
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10 August 2012 at 14 : 15 PM
Olympics 2012 – Dressage Individual Freestyle Wrap-Up
(FEI by Louise Parkes) - Great Britain’s new shining star, Charlotte Dujardin, brought the crowd to their feet and the London 2012 equestrian events to the perfect conclusion when securing the individual Olympic Dressage title as winner of the Grand Prix Freestyle this afternoon at Greenwich Park. Last of the 18 to line out today, the 26-year-old rider scored a magnificent 90.089 to pin The Netherlands‘ Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival into silver medal position, while the host nation had even more to celebrate when Laura Bechtolsheimer and Mistral Hojris claimed the bronze. On Monday, Dujardin was part of of the team that claimed Britain’s first-ever dressage medals in ...
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9 August 2012 at 17 : 05 PM
Olympics 2012 – Dujardin and Valegro Take Gold in Individual Dressage
(London 2012) - British Dressage star Charlotte Dujardin won her second gold medal of London 2012 when she was crowned Olympic Individual champion at Greenwich Park today. The 27-year-old was the last rider to go, and she broke her third Olympic record of London 2012 by scoring 90.089 per cent. She eclipsed Dutch rider Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival's score of 88.196, while Britain's Laura Bechtolsheimer and Mistral Hojris won bronze. Dujardin, who had not even ridden a competitive Grand Prix test 20 months ago, added Individual gold to the Team gold she won earlier this week with Bechtolsheimer and Carl Hester. Dujardin's routine to music was crammed with patriotic ...
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9 August 2012 at 16 : 29 PM
Statement from FEI Secretary General on disqualification of Canadian horse Victor
(FEI) - FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos has spoken publicly for the first time about the Canadian team Jumping horse Victor, which was disqualified under the FEI’s hypersensitivity protocol shortly before the Olympic team competition in London on 5 August. “Disqualification of an athlete will always spark speculation, but in the case of Tiffany Foster’s horse Victor the protocol established very clearly that this was an obvious case of hypersensitivity”, Ingmar De Vos said today. “This was a unanimous decision, supported by four highly qualified veterinarians who specialise in testing for hypersensitivity using a system that has been monitoring FEI competitions ...
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9 August 2012 at 06 : 44 AM
Guerdat Takes Individual Olympic Gold for Switzerland
(FEI by Louise Parkes) - Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat claimed individual jumping gold at the London 2012 Olympic venue at Greenwich Park today when he was the only rider in the final competition to maintain a completely clean sheet in the two rounds. And in a thrilling two-way third-round jump off, The Netherlands’ Gerco Schroder pipped Ireland’s Cian O’Connor for silver. Hopes had been high for a fairytale British ending to a week of fantastic jumping sport, but it wasn’t to be. And it was a very last-minute affair for O’Connor who only made the cut when Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengtsson’s stallion, Casall, was withdrawn after being sent to the holding box at this ...
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8 August 2012 at 03 : 37 AM
Olympic Gold Again for Great Britain as Dujardin Leads the Dressage Team to Glory
(FEI by Louise Parkes) - You could hardly have scripted it better as Great Britain’s Dressage riders scooped Olympic team gold today. Yesterday the equestrian venue at Greenwich Park resounded to the wild roars of the home crowd as their jumpers topped the team podium for the first time in 60 years. Today it was the turn of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin to bring spectators to their feet in celebration of the first-ever British Dressage medals in the history of the Games - and, even better, they were also golden ones. They began the day with a narrow lead over Germany, whose fantastic record includes team gold at the previous seven Olympic and, once in ...
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7 August 2012 at 03 : 16 AM
Farouche Proves Invincible at FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Dressage Horses 2012
(FEI by Carole Mortimer) - The British-bred Woodlander Farouche and her rider Michael Eilberg (GBR) made history yesterday at the FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Verden, Germany by scoring the highest marks – 9.88% - ever recorded in the 15 years of the competition. The Hannovarian chestnut mare, who won the five-year-old class last year, is also the only mare ever to have won the competition for both age groups, and joins the elite group of double winners that includes the stallions Florencio (WEST) and Astrix (KWPN). The expectation for this mare was enormous. The moment she entered the arena the capacity crowd, many of whom had come especially ...
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7 August 2012 at 03 : 04 AM
Great Britain Takes Olympic Jumping Gold in Two-way Showdown Thriller
(FEI by Louise Parkes) - There were ecstatic scenes in Greenwich Park this afternoon when Great Britain ended a 60-year drought to claim Jumping team gold for only the second time in the history of the Olympic Games. They had to battle all the way, and it came down to a two-way jump-off against The Netherlands, but Nick Skelton, Peter Charles, Ben Maher and Scott Brash triumphed in the finest style and, to put the icing on the cake, they did it on home soil. Saudi Arabia took bronze behind the Dutch, with Switzerland finishing fourth and just outside the medals. For Skelton and Charles, level at this success has been a long time coming. "It’s taken me 54 years,” Skelton said ...
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5 August 2012 at 15 : 39 PM
Olympics 2012 – Order of Go for Tuesday’s Grand Prix Special
(London 2012) -Next up in Olympic dressage competition is the Grand Prix Special, which will determine the final team placings and also will determine which horse and rider pairs move on to the Grand Prix Freestyle. The Freestyle will determine individual placings. The Grand Prix Special takes place on Tuesday, August 7 and the order of go is below: Bib Time Rider Horse + 228 10:00 BALKENHOL Anabel DABLINO + 223 10:09 MICHEL Jessica RIWERA + 222 10:18 LINDH Mikaela MAS GUAPO + 238 10:27 van der MEER Patrick UZZO + 221 10:36 KANERVA Emma SPIRIT + 251 10:45 EBELING Jan RAFALCA + 220 10:54 ...
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