European Championships in dressage and show jumping 2019

FEI European Championships in Dressage and Show Jumping 2019
Sports:	Dressage Show jumping Para-dressage
Venue:	Rotterdam , Netherlands
Sports facilities:	"Rotterdam Arena" and "Para-Dressage Arena" in the Kralingse Bos
Participating riders:	approx. 220
Internet:	rotterdam2019.com

The 2019 European Dressage and Show Jumping Championships , also known as the 2019 FEI European Championships (Longines FEI European Championships 2019), were held in Rotterdam from August 19 to 25, 2019 . As part of the event, the individual and team European champions in show jumping , dressage and para-dressage were determined.

organization

Award

At the general assembly of the World Equestrian Federation FEI in November 2016, the 2019 European Championships were awarded in four disciplines. While the CHI Donaueschingen was selected for the four-in-hand driving , Rotterdam was awarded the contract for show jumping as well as for dressage and para-dressage.

An experienced organizer was awarded the contract in Rotterdam: In addition to the annual Nations Cup competitions (show jumping and dressage) at 5 * level, Rotterdam has already hosted several international championships. In show jumping, the 1980 Olympic replacement competition and several European championships from 1957 to 1989 took place here; in dressage, the 2011 European championships were held here .

Sports facilities

The show jumping and dressage competitions were held in the main stadium of the CHIO Rotterdam, which is located on the southern edge of the Kralingse Bos forest and was referred to as the "Rotterdam Arena" during the European Championships. A second, smaller riding arena was built in the forest, which was used for the Para-Dressage competitions and accordingly bore the title “Para-Dressage Arena”.

Sponsors and media

Longines' extensive equestrian sponsorship also extended to the European Championships in Rotterdam in 2019, with the company assuming main and title sponsorship. A large number of other companies supported the championships financially.

The show jumping Nations Cup was broadcast live on Friday by the pan-European television broadcaster Eurosport 1 and the German television broadcaster ONE each for three and a half hours. Eurosport 2 broadcast the individual decision of the show jumpers for 90 minutes and Das Erste for around 40 minutes live. The entire test was streamed on sportschau.de.

Parts of the Grand Prix Spécial and the Grand Prix Freestyle were also broadcast in the livestream on sportschau.de. The World Equestrian Federation streamed live broadcasts of all disciplines on its paid live stream portal FEI TV. In addition, the IPTV broadcaster ClipMyHorse broadcast all tests live for its premium members in Germany and the Netherlands.

Competitions

Time schedule

The championship started on Monday (August 19th) with the Grand Prix, which was continued on Tuesday. The first decision was made there. The other two disciplines had their first exams on Wednesday (August 21). While the final decision in dressage was made on Saturday afternoon, the last medals in jumping and dressage for disabled riders were awarded on Sunday. The event ended on Sunday afternoon with a short closing ceremony.

	19 Aug	20 Aug	21 Aug	22 Aug	23 Aug	24 Aug	25 Aug
Ceremonies	opening celebration						acquisition celebration
Para-dressage			E.	E.	M.	M.	E.
dressage	E / M	E / M		E.		E.
Leap			E / M	E / M	E / M		E.
Framework audits			Spr.		Spr.	Spr.

Legend:

• The blue fields represent days with exams, the gold fields the day of the respective decision. Purple fields indicate frame checks.
• E: Examination of the individual evaluation
• M: Examination of the team ranking
• Spr .: general tests show jumping

Dressage for riders with disabilities (para-dressage)

In para-dressage, a distinction was made between five degrees, depending on the rider's limitations. The two individual tests were ridden and scored separately according to grade, as the required lessons differ according to the abilities of the human athletes. Together with the joint team ranking, eleven sets of medals were awarded at the European Championships.

Compared to Gothenburg 2017 , the championship test and the team test were again stretched to two days each. On August 21st and 22nd, the first individual decisions of all five grades were held with the championship tests. During the next two days the team task served to determine the victorious nation of the team competition.

The championship ended for the para dressage riders on August 25th with the freestyle, in which the individual freestyle European champions were determined. The riders put together the prescribed lessons individually for an exam.

dressage

The Grand Prix de Dressage was the first test of the European Championships in Rotterdam. This test, spread over two days (August 19 and 20), was compulsory for all dressage riders participating in the European Championships. It not only served the qualification within the individual evaluation, but was also the decision test of the team evaluation. All nations were able to bring four dressage riders each with one horse to the start.

The best 30 participants in the Grand Prix de Dressage were entitled to start in the Grand Prix Spécial on August 22nd. The first three individual medals in dressage were awarded in this test. The top 15 riders of the Grand Prix Spécial in turn qualified for the Grand Prix Freestyle on Saturday afternoon. If more than three riders from one or more nations reached the top 15 of the Grand Prix Spécial - which was the case with the German riders - the lowest placed (fourth) rider of the respective nation was not eligible to take part in the Grand Prix Freestyle. For this purpose, the 16th rider moved up after the placement of the Grand Prix Spécial. The second set of individual medals in dressage riding was awarded in the Grand Prix Freestyle.

Team ranking

The German dressage team, which, due to the championship successes of the last decades, is always burdened with the pressure of expectation of winning the gold medal, was already regarded in advance as one of the most powerful German dressage teams. Despite disturbing moments in two rides ( Äppeln by Jessica von Bredow-Werndl's mare Dalera in the traversal as well as slightly shy of Sönke Rothenberger's Cosmo and a failed gallop pirouette), the victory was superior with a team average of over 81 percent.

With an average result of over 78.500 percent, the British showed themselves to be strong, as expected, and thus seemed to have the silver medal for sure. However, after Charlotte Dujardin's ride , blood was found on the flank of her mare Freestyle , which leads to the pair being excluded. Great Britain fell just short of the medal ranks. The decision about the other medals was not made until the last rider: For Sweden, who entered the 2018 World Equestrian Games unchanged with their top three pairs , seemed to have a good chance of ranking ahead of the Dutch with 229.923 percent. But compared to the World Equestrian Games, the hosts, who were almost completely reorganized, showed themselves to be surprisingly strong at these European Championships. After two Dutchmen had already achieved results of over 75 percent, Edward Gal was able to convince the judges. While his stallion Zonik was distracted during the preparation ("The preparation was difficult because he was more focused on the mares than on me. I had a time window of about five minutes in which he was really focused."), He was able to convince the test, especially with the reinforcements. The Dutch team won silver with a lead of just 0.217 percent.

Although they could not build on the performance of the European Championships in 2017 , Denmark managed to qualify for the Olympic Games with fifth place . Portugal and Ireland in particular also qualified. This Olympic qualification was a historic moment for the Irish: The results of the three former Olympic individual starters Judy Reynolds, Anna Merveldt and Heike Holstein enabled an Irish dressage team to take part in the Olympic Games for the first time.

The two debutants were able to convince for Austria: Both the 33-year-old Florian Bacher and the 26-year-old Karoline Valenta, who moved up at short notice due to the resignation of Victoria Max-Theurer (after a death), delivered the best team results of the Austrians. Nevertheless, it was only enough for 12th place, one place behind the Swiss dressage ladies.

space	country	Riders and horses	percent
1	Germany		244,969
		Jessica von Bredow-Werndl with TSF Dalera BB	(76,894)
		Dorothee Schneider with Showtime FRH	80.233
		Sönke Rothenberger with Cosmo	79.084
		Isabell Werth with Bella Rose	85.652
2	Netherlands		230.140
		Anne Meulendijks with Avanti	(71,801)
		Hans Peter Minderhoud with Dream Boy	75.295
		Emmelie Scholtens with Desperado	76.087
		Edward Gal with Zonik	78.758
3	Sweden		229.923
		Antonia Ramel with Brother de Jeu	(74,224)
		Therese Nilshagen with Dante Weltino OLD	75.466
		Juliette Ramel with Buriel	76.196
		Patrik Kittel with Well Done de la Roche	78.261
4th	Great Britain		228,991
		Charlotte Fry with Dark Legend	74.317
		Gareth Hughes with Classic Briolinca	76,351
		Carl Hester with Delicato	78.323
		Charlotte Dujardin with freestyle	(retired)
5	Denmark		228.541
		Dahl with Fidelio van het Bloemenhof is different	72.733
		Agnete Kirk Thinggaard with Jojo	(72,671)
		Daniel Bachmann Andersen with Zack	78.665
		Cathrine Dufour with Cassidy	77.143
6th	Spain		217,546
		Juan Antonio Jiménez Cobo with Euclides Mor	69.969
		Borja Carrascosa with A Dream	(69,705)
		Claudio Castilla Ruiz with Alcaide	73.214
		Beatriz Ferrer salad with delgado	74,363
7th	Ireland		213,540
		Kate Dwyer with Snowdon Faberge	(66,180)
		Heike Holstein with Sambuca	69.472
		Anna Merveldt with Esporim	67.717
		Judy Reynolds with Vancouver K	76,351
8th	Portugal		213.106
		Duarte Nogueira with Beirao	(67,531)
		Rodrigo Torres with Fogoso	71.786
		João Miguel Torrao with Equador	68,991
		Maria Caetano with Coroado	72,329
9	Russia		209,952
10	France		209.782
11	Switzerland		208.588
		Carla Aeberhard with Delioh von Buchmatt CH	(65,947)
		Estelle Wettstein with West Side Story OLD	70.047
		Charlotte Lenherr with Darko of de Niro CH	66,957
		Birgit Wientzek Pläge with Robinvale	71,584
12	Austria		208.432
		Karoline Valenta with Diego	69.379
		Belinda Weinbauer with Fustanella OLD	68.882
		Astrid Neumayer with Sir Simon	(68,727)
		Florian Bacher with Fidertraum	70.171
13	Finland		207.546
14th	Belgium		205.917
-	Luxembourg		eliminated
		Nicolas Wagner with Quater Back Junior	eliminated
		Sascha Schulz with Dragao	68.774
		Fie Christine Skarsø with So Dark	66.103

Individual classification: Grand Prix Spécial

The Grand Prix Spécial started at 4 p.m. and continued well into the late evening, so that the best participants without daylight competed exclusively under floodlights. The last rider of the second of three blocks of ten participants was Jessica von Bredow-Werndl. With her Trakehner mare Dalera , she starts strongly in the trotting classes, but lost points in the collected walk and especially in the single changes . Overall, however, it was able to improve significantly compared to the Grand Prix de Dressage (78.541 percent).

After the break, Carl Hester and his 11-year-old gelding Delicato showed almost the same performance as von Bredow-Werndl, and Hester also lost a lot of points in the single substitutions. But while von Bredow-Werndl was able to record a significant increase in earnings with several 10- grade scores, Hester lagged behind (77.508 percent). Judy Reynolds also proved her position as the best Irish dressage rider in the Grand Prix Spécial, with the 17-year-old Vancouver K she achieved 78.252 percent with a constant individual grade level without any real mistakes and several 9 grades for seat and angle of the rider.

The bronze couple at the European Championships, Cathrine Dufour and Cassidy , also shone in Rotterdam and were the first couple to break the 80 percent mark (81.337 percent). Gareth Hughes and his 13-year-old mare Classic Briolinca achieved a new personal best . With 78.085 percent, they were also the best British dressage pair that day.

Dorothee Schneider and her 13-year-old Showtime kicked off a German trio . The couple got off to an excellent start, with only two individual grades of less than 8.0 in the first 17 of 36 lessons and individual grades of 9.0 in almost every lesson. In the passages, the couple received quite a few 10.0 grades. She also made a mistake in the single change, but it remained the only serious weak point in the task. With 85.456 percent a new personal best result in the Grand Prix Spécial for the couple and the clear lead. Sönke Rothenberger and Cosmo, on the other hand, fell short of their possibilities, expensive mistakes in the two-man exchanges, in the gallop tour and in the single exchanges reduce their result to 78.116 percent. Although Rothenberger came in sixth in the end, they were only the fourth best German couple and thus missed the freestyle qualification.

Isabell Werth attacked Dorothee Schneider's result with her chestnut mare Bella Rose . Both pairs showed the highest level of dressage sport and were almost consistently tied until the end of the test. The decision ultimately brought about the piaffe passage tour on the last line: Werth received a 10.0 27 times out of 28 individual grades in lessons 32 to 35. With a result of 86.520 percent, Isabell Werth was ultimately already the European champion.

As the last Dutch rider, Edward Gal tried to make it onto the podium with his 11-year-old stallion Zonik . But with too many lessons, especially with piaffes and passages, they fell short of their performance in the Grand Prix. With 77.994 percent it was enough for eighth place in the end. After Zonik , his father, 15-year-old Zack, was the last horse to enter the arena. With his rider Daniel Bachmann Andersen he had delivered the best Danish result in the Grand Prix. In the Grand Prix Spécial it was also possible to keep up with the grades of his compatriot Cathrine Dufour. But in the first two piaffes and the adjacent transitions, the couple lost many percentage points. With him, too, there were significant point deductions after mistakes in the single substitutions, which completely thwart his chance for the bronze medal. At the end of the ride, Bachmann Andersen got 77.234 percent, which was enough for tenth place.

rank	equestrian	horse	percent
1	Isabell Werth	Bella Rose	86.520%
2	Dorothee Schneider	Showtime FRH	85.456%
3	Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	81.337%
4th	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	TSF Dalera BB	78.541%
5	Judy Reynolds	Vancouver K	78.252%
6th	Sönke Rothenberger	Cosmo	78.116%
7th	Gareth Hughes	Classic Briolinca	78.085%
8th	Edward Gal	Zonik	77.994%
9	Carl Hester	Delicato	77.508%
10	Daniel Bachmann Andersen	Zack	77.234%
11	Patrik Kittel	Well done de la Roche	77.052%
12	Juliette Ramel	Buriel	76.003%
	...
26th	Birgit Wientzek Pläge	Robinvale	70.684%
	...
28	Florian Bacher	Fidertraum	67.644%

Individual ranking: Grand Prix Freestyle

Claudio Castilla Ruiz kicked off the Grand Prix Freestyle, who with his Lusitano chestnut stallion Alcaide had moved up into the field of freestyle participants for Sönke Rothenberger. The couple shone in particular in the piaffe passage tour and in single changes. In addition, the B grade consistently received over 80 percent (total: 77.861 percent). The 2019 European Championships did not turn out to be the best tournament for Therese Nilshagen and her stallion Dante Weltino OLD . The couple also make mistakes in the freestyle. With a result of almost 79 percent, she sat ahead of Castilla Ruiz, but remained behind her best result of 83.395 percent in Aachen in mid-July 2019. Instead of fifth place at the 2019 European Championships, it was only eleven in 2019.

In the Grand Prix Spécial, the Finn Henri Ruoste, who lives in Germany, and his 11-year-old Rossetti were the surprise couple who, with over 75 percent, clearly achieved their best result across all Grand Prix level tests. The freestyle was unhappy from the start: Immediately after the greeting lineup, Rossetti climbed , and this is repeated in the assembled step. Combined with clear deductions in the single changes and a gallop pirouette, it will be the last place in the field of 15 participants.

Carl Hester and Delicato fell well short of expectations . The gelding was tense, the assembled step was rated by most of the judges with a grade of 3.0 and lower, and the alternating tours were also unsuccessful (overall result: 70.732%). Gareth Hughes, who competed after Hester, was again the best British rider with his 13-year-old mare with a good ten percent more than Hester.

Daniel Bachmann Andersen was convincing at the start of the second half of the freestyle, with his 15-year-old Dutch stallion Zack they achieved 83.711 percent without any real weaknesses (thanks to clever use of a “Joker Line” to compensate for a mistake in the single changes). As the next starter, Patrik Kittel does not quite come close to this result (82.296 percent). Edward Gal's Danish stallion Zonik showed his best performance at these European championships (84.271 percent).

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl was the first of the German riders to enter the arena. With her mare Dalera she had already achieved an individual best performance of over 87 percent at the CHIO Aachen, but in Rotterdam the couple was able to improve significantly: Almost exclusively 9 individual grades for the piaffe passage tour, also the entire rest of the harmonious ride convince the judges: 89.107 percent meant the clear leadership. For Cathrine Dufour as the next starter, bronze medal winner 2017, it was only necessary to come up with a comparable result in order to be able to secure a medal. Although Dufour and her now 16-year-old Cassidy confirm with their ride that they are one of the best couples ever in dressage, the result range of over 89 percent was not achievable. With a strong 87.771 percent, they ranked behind von Bredow-Werndl.

Again it was up to Isabell Werth to have to beat a world-class result for one of her teammates in order to secure the gold medal again. Although Werth's mare Bella Rose was perhaps not as fresh as in the two previous tests and revealed weaknesses in the collected cut (average grade: 6.8), in the end it was in particular the double-rated piaffe passage tour and the B- Overall rating that brought the couple to an outstanding score of 90.875 percent.

But Werth's victory was not certain, with Dorothee Schneider and Showtime FRH , an equal couple in dressage followed. Schneider's 13-year-old Wallach was relaxed and secured a number of 9.0 grades in various lessons. A slight mistake in the single changes and also weaknesses in the last piaffe depress the very high live result up to this point. The German couples were close to each other in terms of performance: The judge at H saw Jessica von Bredow-Werndl in the lead, two judges Dorothee Schneider and four judges Isabell Werth. In the end, Werth had a result of 90.875 percent and thus a narrow victory.

It was up to Judy Reynolds and the most experienced horse in the test, 17-year-old Vancouver K , to bring the test to a close. Even if Reynolds was no longer an aspirant for a medal, she again showed a harmonious ride and received no individual mark below 7.0 at a consistently high level. With an individual best result of 85.589 percent, the couple ranked fifth behind Cathrine Dufour. For the first time, three German riders won all three freestyle medals at a European championship (the Dutch had already achieved this ten years earlier).

rank	equestrian	horse	percent
1	Isabell Werth	Bella Rose	90.875%
2	Dorothee Schneider	Showtime FRH	90.561%
3	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	TSF Dalera BB	89.107%
4th	Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	87.771%
5	Judy Reynolds	Vancouver K	85.589%
6th	Edward Gal	Zonik	84.271%
7th	Daniel Bachmann Andersen	Zack	83.711%
8th	Patrik Kittel	Well done de la Roche	82.296%
9	Hans Peter Minderhoud	Dream boy	81.546%
10	Gareth Hughes	Classic Briolinca	80.125%
11	Therese Nilshagen	Dante Weltino OLD	78.946%
12	Claudio Castilla Ruiz	Alcaide	77.861%
13	Juliette Ramel	Buriel	74.346%
14th	Carl Hester	Delicato	70.732%
15th	Henri Ruoste	Rossetti	67.982%

Leap

The nations could each send five show jumpers with one horse each to Rotterdam, whereby one pair then serves as a reserve and (if no other rider or horse from his nation is canceled before the start of the time competition) does not take part in the competitions.

The opening test for the individual and team tests was a time competition on August 21st . The winner of the time jumping was scored with zero penalty points after completing the test. The time difference between him and the other riders was multiplied by 0.5 and thus results in their number of penalty points.

The Nations Cup, which counts as the second test in the team classification, was held over two days. It was a jumping competition with two rounds . On August 22nd, all nations started in the first round. One day later the best ten teams (and the best 50 riders in the individual ranking up to this point) were allowed to compete. At the end of this test, the decision of the team ranking was made (addition of the time jumping test and both rounds of the Nations Cup). If two or more teams had tied for first place after the second round, there would have been a jump-off for the gold medal.

On the last day of the European Championships, the final test of the individual evaluation was on, a jumping competition with two rounds. The best 25 riders competed again with their horses in the first round, in the second round there were only the best twelve. The penalty points collected up to this point were retained, so that the overall ranking of the individual ranking included all three championship tests with a total of five rides per participant. Here, too, a tie-off for gold would have been necessary in the event of a tie for penalty points.

Intermediate result after the time jump

The time jump, which was ridden over 1.50 meters, did not pose too much of a challenge for the majority of the participants. It already contained many "half-distances" (distances between obstacles that do not exactly match the average gallop jump length and therefore require the riders to shorten or lengthen the gallop jumps of their horses), and the open moat had to be overcome for the first time in this test.

The German team was lucky and was assigned the last of the 15 team starting places. While German teams have often only finished in the midfield in the time jumping in recent years, the time jumping in Rotterdam was particularly good: With three riders among the top eight, the team got the equivalent of 4.22 penalty points and thus came first. France followed ahead of Sweden, each just over a penalty point behind the better team (5.39 and 6.81 penalty points). The British team, which, like Germany , could not shine in the Nations Cup series in 2018 and 2019 , was able to convince (now again with Ben Maher and Scott Brash ) - as in Dublin two weeks earlier - and came in fourth in the intermediate ranking ( 9.41 penalty points).

In the individual ranking, European champion Peder Fredricson was able to build on his title win in 2017: As in Gothenburg, he also won the time competition with All In in Rotterdam and thus went into the Nations Cup competition without penalty points. After the successful World Equestrian Games in 2018 , Max Kühner was again in top form with Chardonnay in line with the championship in 2019 , he followed in second place (equivalent to 0.40 penalty points). In places three to five at this point were Ben Maher (0.62 penalty points), Christian Ahlmann (1.19 penalty points) and Steve Guerdat (1.31 penalty points).

Intermediate result after the second round

On the first day of the Nations Cup competition, the individual riders started first, followed by the teams that had been placed 15th to 11th. Finally, the ten best nations so far competed against each other. The course was very demanding, only 11 of the 68 remaining riders finished it without errors. The number of rides with four penalty points also remained manageable.

The Austrian team, which had already driven to Rotterdam weakened by failures, was overwhelmed on this course. Matthias Raisch retired after two refusals, Stefan Eder and Roland Englbrecht each gave up after several mistakes. Max Kühner, on the other hand, still had good chances in the individual ranking with 4.40 penalty points.

The Israeli team was also overwhelmed, among other things, after the surprising 13 penalty points for Danielle Goldstein Waldman and her mare Lizziemary , it was only enough for the penultimate team rank . The riders of Denmark had a good day after qualifying for the second day of the Nations Cup. The Netherlands, Ireland and Switzerland each had to record two riders with at least 12 penalty points, but were still among the top 10 teams at the halfway point of the Nations Cup. Great Britain was able to work its way up to third place with only four mistakes, but the best team management brought Belgium: Without penalty points, the Belgians managed to jump to first place in the intermediate ranking. Germany slipped slightly to second place with a mixed result (two clear rounds and two eight-point rides).

In the individual ranking, Peder Fredricson made an obstacle error, Ben Maher took the lead from Steve Guerdat. Alexis Deroubaix, who with his gray gelding Timon d'Aure had already achieved good successes at CSI (O) 4 * and 5 * level all season, confirmed this performance in Rotterdam and was at this point in third place, only 0 , 07 penalty points ahead of Daniel Deußer in fourth place. Simone Blum (sixth place), Martin Fuchs (seventh place) and Max Kühner (ninth place) were also less than one jumping error behind Maher.

Team ranking

The second round of the Nations Cup competition was a little easier than the first round in terms of the required task. Instead of the open moat, two covered waters were now part of the jumping course. In return, the time allowed was kept short and caused many time penalties. As expected, Denmark remained in tenth place, for Italy the too even distribution of errors among its riders without a zero-error round meant that the team dropped to ninth place. For the hosts, the clear rounds by Marc Houtzager and Maikel van der Vleuten were conciliatory, but the Dutch sold themselves under eighth place at this European Championship.

Switzerland managed to stay in the middle of the field despite a third unsuccessful ride by Paul Estermann and Lord Pepsi (who gave up prematurely). Alexis Deroubaix was the last French rider to make an obstacle error, like two of his team-mates. So it was clear before Scott Brash's ride that Great Britain would win a medal. Unexpectedly, Brash and his mare M'Lady dropped poles at two obstacles. So it came down to a decision between Germany and Belgium for the gold medal.

Daniel Deußer and his 11-year-old stallion Tobago Z were among the most successful couples in top-class sport in the previous months and had confirmed this in the first two courses of these European championships. But as with the first German couple (Simone Blum and Alice ) there was a jumping fault. This allowed Grégory Wathelet four penalty points to ensure Belgium's victory. With his gray Nevados, Wathelet even remained without any faults. For Belgium the first ever European title in show jumping was certain.

The three Olympic starting places awarded here went to Belgium, Great Britain and France. Ireland, 2017 European champions, missed this penultimate chance of qualifying for Tokyo.

space	country	Riders and horses	Penalty points
			Time jumping	Nations Cup 1st round	Nations Cup 2nd round	total
1	Belgium		11.07	0	1	12.07
		Pieter Devos with Claire Z	(5.83)	0	(5)
		Jos Verlooy with Igor	1.68	0	0
		Jérôme Guery with Quel Homme	4.76	(8th)	1
		Grégory Wathelet with Nevados S	4.63	0	0
2	Germany		4.22	8th	4th	16.22
		Simone Blum with DSP Alice	(2.21)	0	4th
		Christian Ahlmann with Clintrexo Z	1.19	(8th)	0
		Marcus Ehning with Comme il faut	1.56	8th	0
		Daniel Deußer with Tobago Z	1.47	0	(4)
3	Great Britain		9.41	4th	8th	21.41
		Ben Maher with Explosion W	0.62	0	0
		Holly Smith with Hearts Destiny	4.68	0	4th
		Amanda Derbyshire with Luibanta	4.11	(8th)	4th
		Scott Brash with M'Lady	(6.01)	4th	(8th)
4th	France		5.39	12	8th	25.39
		Pénélope Leprevost with Vancouver de Lanlore	1.63	8th	0
		Nicolas Delmotte with Urvoso du Roch	2.36	4th	4th
		Kevin Staut with Calevo	(4.08)	(8th)	(4)
		Alexis Deroubaix with Timon d'Aure	1.40	0	4th
5	Sweden		6.81	12	8th	26.81
		Henrik von Eckermann with Mary Lou	3.56	4th	0
		Malin Baryard-Johnsson with Indiana	3.25	4th	(5)
		Fredrik Jönsson with Cold Play	(4.02)	(17)	4th
		Peder Fredricson with All In	0.00	4th	4th
6th	Switzerland		9.83	17th	5	31.83
		Niklaus Rutschi with Cardano CH	5.06	17th	1
		Paul Estermann with Lord Pepsi	(8.36)	(20)	(given up)
		Martin Fuchs with Clooney	3.46	0	0
		Steve Guerdat with Bianca	1.31	0	0
7th	Ireland		10.36	20th	4th	34.36
		Cian O'Connor with final	(6.26)	(16)	0
		Shane Sweetnam with Alejandro	3.83	12	4th
		Peter Moloney with Chianti's Champion	4.75	4th	0
		Darragh Kenny with Balou du Reventon	1.78	4th	(4)
8th	Netherlands		13.90	20th	5	38.90
		Frank Schuttert with Lyonel D	5.31	4th	4th
		Doron Kuipers with Charley	5.39	(13)	(5)
		Marc Houtzager with Calimero	3.20	4th	1
		Maikel van der Vleuten with Dana Blue	(5.65)	12	0
9	Italy		16.74	10	13	39.74
10	Denmark		16.65	19th	15th	50.65
11	Portugal		22.56	21st		43.56
12	Spain		28.86	16		44.86
13	Norway		22.70	26th		48.70
14th	Israel		10.63	44		54.63
15th	Austria		25.53	eliminated		-
		Matthias Raisch with Coleur Blue	(40.03)	eliminated
		Roland Englbrecht with Corwinni	15.11	(given up)
		Stefan Eder with Dr Scarpo	10.02	given up
		Max Kühner with Chardonnay	0.40	4th

Individual evaluation

Also in the second round of the Nations Cup jumping the European championship pair from 2017, Peder Fredricson and All In made a mistake, so that Fredricson was now in tenth place with eight penalty points. Ben Maher and his 10-year-old gelding Explosion W , dominant couple of the Global Champions Tour 2018 and also successful there in the 2019 season , was able to pull away after this third round and was now 1.06 penalty points ahead of the runner-up. Responsible for this was a jumping fault by Steve Guerdat.

The chestnut gelding Igor , who was used very carefully in 2018, was second with his rider Jos Verlooy after three laps. The third, now the best Swiss Martin Fuchs, already had a gap of almost two penalty points. All four German riders were still placed in the top 15: Daniel Deußer in seventh, Simone Blum in eighth, Christian Ahlmann and 14th as well as Marcus Ehning in 15th. Despite eight penalty points in the second round of the Nations Cup, which set him far behind, Max Kühner narrowly qualified with Chardonnay for the individual finals of the best 25 pairs of participants.

Before the individual finals, several starters withdrew their start: This affected the Irish Peter Moloney and Darragh Kenny, because Ireland had missed the Olympic qualification and the riders were now sparing their horses for the last opportunity to qualify, the Nations Cup final in early October 2019 . Pieter Devos, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, Max Kühner and Jérôme Guery also saw no chance of a top placement. Christian Ahlmann, who was still well placed with 9.19 penalty points, did not want to put his 10-year-old stallion Clintrexo Z on two more difficult laps and withdrew his start. With this, the two Danes, Soren Moeller Rohde and Kim Kristensen, who were 36th and 29th, moved up into the starting field, as did Kevin Staut.

The open moat was used for the third time at this European championship. Following an overbuilt water hazard, it caused few problems. The final line, consisting of an oxer built under bushes and a double combination of steep jump and oxer, turned out to be much more difficult. Kevin Staut and Antonio Matos Almeida finished the jumping course, whose time was tight, with only one time error. Only the twelfth starter Pénélope Leprevost managed to be the first rider to stay in the allowed time, but with an obstacle error. Marcus Ehning, who started directly after her, even managed a completely flawless lap. Simone Blum, who started five rides after Enung, also made no mistakes with Alice .

The third German rider, Daniel Deußer, however, was not lucky, in the final double combination his stallion Tobago Z broke poles on both jumps. Deusser formed the prelude to a whole series of riders who ended the course with eight penalty points. This concerned Alexis Deroubaix, Steve Guerdat and Grégory Wathelet. While Martin Fuchs made no mistakes, Jos Verlooy lost a place in the ranking due to an obstacle error. Ben Maher kept his leadership position with Explosion W with her fourth clear round at these European Championships.

Before the final round of the top 12 participants, Steve Guerdat withdrew the start of his mare Bianca . In this last course of the European Championships, too, the time was deliberately chosen to be short; of the obstacles, the triple combination with light blue and white poles and an overbuilt water in the middle turned out to be a problem area of ​​the course. Holly Smith and Grégory Wathelet were the first to both start without obstacle errors. The same was true for the last remaining Dutch rider, Marc Houtzager. During his ride, an animal welfare activist stormed into the course, but luckily did not block Houtzager's riding arena directly. Houtzager and his gelding Calimero had no jumping faults, his time fault was canceled by the jury.

Marcus Ehning and his Westphalian stallion Comme il faut once again made no mistakes. Benefiting from the mistakes made by Peder Fredricson and Henrik von Eckermann, Ehning moved up into the top five. Simone Blum had to accept the second jumping mistake at the European Championships, which kept her fourth. Jos Verlooy and his chestnut gelding Igor made only one time mistake, with which Verlooy was sure of a medal. Martin Fuchs also achieved the same result with his gray Clooney . As a result, Ben Maher was the last starter to have a lead of over three penalty points. His ride seemed sovereign over large parts. But at the penultimate obstacle a pole fell. It was therefore certain that Martin Fuchs had won the individual gold medal.

rank	equestrian	horse	converted points	Penalty points				Overall result
				2nd partial examination		3rd partial examination
			1st partial examination	1st round	2nd round	1st round	2nd round
1	Martin Fuchs	Clooney	3.46	0	0	0	1	4.46
2	Ben Maher	Explosion W	0.62	0	0	0	4th	4.62
3	Jos Verlooy	Igor	1.68	0	0	4th	1	6.68
4th	Simone Blum	DSP Alice	2.21	0	4th	0	4th	10.21
5	Marcus Ehning	Comme il faut	1.56	8th	0	0	1	10.56
6th	Henrik von Eckermann	Mary Lou	3.56	4th	0	0	4th	11.56
7th	Peder Fredricson	All in	0.00	4th	4th	0	4th	12.00
8th	Marc Houtzager	Calimero	3.20	4th	1	4th	0	12.20
9	Grégory Wathelet	Nevados S	4.63	0	0	8th	0	12.63
10	Holly Smith	Hearts Destiny	4.68	0	4th	4th	1	13.68
11	António Matos Almeida	Volver de la Vigne	11.00	0	0	1	9	21.00
12	Steve Guerdat	Bianca	1.31	0	4th	8th	N.GES.	13.31
13	Alexis Deroubaix	Timon d'Aure	1.40	0	4th	8th		13.40
14th	Daniel Deußer	Tobago Z	1.47	0	4th	8th		13.47
15th	Pénélope Leprevost	Vancouver de Lanlore	1.63	8th	0	4th		13.63
	...
27	Christian Ahlmann	Clintrexo Z	1.19	8th	0			9.19
	...
31	Max Kühner	Chardonnay	0.40	4th	8th			12.40
	...
52	Niklaus Rutschi	Cardano CH	5.06	17th				22.06
53	Victor Bettendorf	Sorbier Blanc	5.17	17th				22.17
	...
58	Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	8.36	20th				28.36
	...
63	Matthias Raisch	Coleur Blue	40.03	OUT				-
	...
66	Stefan Eder	Dr Scarpo	10.02	UP				-
	Roland Englbrecht	Corwinni	15.11	UP				-

Web links

• European Championships website
• Schedule, start and result lists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EM Rotterdam 2019: All participants have been determined , Jana Herrmann / St. Georg, August 9, 2019
2. ↑ Who will get the hosting rights for the main FEI events from 2019-2021? , eqwo.net / FEI press release, November 19, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} see schedule, start and result lists
4. ↑ Cosmo in Kralingse Bos, dressage and show jumping championships in the Busch , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, August 19, 2019
5. ↑ Longines is the main sponsor of the Longines FEI European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam , longines.de
6. ↑ Sponsors , rotterdam2019.com
7. ↑ Fri / 15:00 - 18:30 / Eurosport 1 - Equestrian: European Championship 2019 in Rotterdam (NED) , hoerzu.de
8. ↑ Reit-EM: Team decision in show jumping , programm.ard.de
9. ↑ 25.08.2019, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m .: Equestrian sport: European championships , www.tvtv.de
10. ↑ Sportschau: approx. 3:20 pm European Equestrian Championships Show jumping, broadcast from Rotterdam , programm.ard.de
11. ↑ EM Rotterdam: These are the transmission times , Sarah Schnieder / Reiter Revue International, August 16, 2019
12. ↑ FEI European Championships Rotterdam (only for Germany and NL) , clipmyhorse.tv
13. ↑ European Para-Dressage Championship 2019 on the website of the German Equestrian Association (pferd-aktuell.de)
14. ↑ European Championship Dressage 2019 on the website of the German Equestrian Association (pferd-aktuell.de)
15. ↑ Who should stop "the German dressage giants"? , dpa report on sueddeutsche.de, August 18, 2019
16. ↑ Guided tour after day 1 in Rotterdam , dressursport-deutschland.de, August 19, 2019
17. ↑ Dramatic team gold: Germany European Dressage Champion 2019, Dujardin disqualified , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, August 20, 2019
18. ↑ EM Rotterdam: Isabell Werth outstanding - 24th EM gold for Germany! , Sarah Schnieder / Reiter Revue International, August 20, 2019
19. ↑ Irish 'Girls in Green' Aiming to Write History at the 2019 European Dressage Championships , eurodressage.com, August 19, 2019
20. ↑ Dressage, team competition (PDF)
21. ↑ EM Rotterdam 2019: Live Ticker Grand Prix Special , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, 22 August 2019
22. ↑ Dressage: Result Grand Prix Spécial with individual marks
23. ↑ Freestyle European Championship 2019: the seven rides of the first half , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, August 24, 2019
24. ↑ European Championship Freestyle Rotterdam: Werth Gold, Schneider, Silber, v. Bredow-Werndl bronze - the rides , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, August 24, 2019
25. ↑ Dressage: Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle with individual marks
26. ↑ European Jumping Championships 2019 on the website of the German Equestrian Association (pferd-aktuell.de)
27. ↑ Germany leads the European Show Jumping Championships, Ahlmann Vierter , Gabriele Pochhammer / St. Georg, August 21, 2019
28. ↑ Show jumping, team evaluation after the time jumping
29. ↑ Show jumping, individual evaluation after the time jumping
30. ↑ EM Rotterdam: Kühner still in the top 10 - Austria's team retires , eqwo.net, August 22, 2019
31. ↑ Show jumping, team ranking after the first round of the Nations Cup (PDF)
32. ↑ Show jumping, individual evaluation after the first round of the Nations Cup (PDF)
33. ↑ Show jumping, final result of the team ranking (PDF)
34. ↑ Show jumping, individual evaluation after the second round of the Nations Cup (PDF)
35. ↑ Bye, bye Rotterdam! And welcome back! Show jumpers coming back to the EM , Gabriele Pochhammer / St. Georg, August 25, 2019
36. ↑ Show jumping first round individual finals, course plan (PDF)
37. ↑ EM Rotterdam: Martin Fuchs is European Show Jumping Champion - Simone Blum is fourth , Sarah Schnieder / Reiter Revue International, 25 August 2019
38. ↑ Show jumping: final result individual evaluation (PDF)