European Eventing Championships 2019

European Championships 2019
Sport:	Eventing riding
Venue:	Luhmühlen , Germany
Participating riders:	73 from 17 nations
Internet:	em.luhmuehlen.de/

The fastest couple on the grounds of the European Championships 2019: Anna-Katharina Vogel and DSP Quintana P

The European Eventing Championships 2019 were held from August 28 to September 1, 2019 in Luhmühlen in the Lüneburg Heath . The event was the 34th European Eventing Championships .

organization

preparation

On the first day of the European Championships in 2017 , the World Equestrian Federation ( FEI) announced that Luhmühlen had won the bid for the European Championships in the pre-Olympic year 2019. This means that the European Championships took place again at one of the most experienced championship venues in Europe: Luhmühlen was previously the venue for the European Championships in 1975, 1979, 1987, 1999 and 2011 .

Implementation, venue, media

The general sponsor of the FEI, Longines , took over the title sponsorship of the CCI Luhmühlen in Luhmühlen in June and the title sponsorship of the European Championships in August / September 2019.

The Luhmühlen site park is located in the Westergellerser Heide, in the border area of ​​the municipalities of Salzhausen (district Luhmühlen) and Westergellersen . This includes the cross-country course as well as the tournament and other preparation areas. The entire facility was extensively modernized in the run-up to the 2011 European Championships.

The FEI showed the entire championship on its paid live stream portal FEI TV. The German IPTV broadcaster ClipMyHorse also broadcast live from the European Championships from Luhmühlen.

German TV broadcast Sportschau reported in the first live from the field day, the final jumping summed up the ZDF as part of ZDF Sport Extra short together.

Time schedule

The European Championships began on August 28, 2019 (Wednesday) with the first veterinary examination and an opening ceremony. The start of the sporting program was the partial dressage test. This took place on Thursday and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The cross-country course had to be mastered as the second partial test on August 31 (approx. 10:00 am to 3:30 pm). On Sunday, the last day of the tournament, the participating horses had to undergo the second veterinary examination. The jumping competition was then held as the third sub-test. The European Championships then ended with the medal presentation.

Results

Intermediate result after the dressage

In the dressage arena of Luhmühlen, one of the newest couples in the starting field shone: Michael Jung took over the 11-year-old gelding Chipmunk at the beginning of the year. Although not initially intended for European championship horses, the couple was able to finish in second or first place from their second international start on every test they finished. With their second best joint dressage result, Jung and Chipmunk took the lead after the first partial test. An even better result would have been possible here, a clock disturbance in the step tour cost a few points. The single European champion couple from 2017, Ingrid Klimke and Hale Bob OLD , came second in dressage as in 2017.

In the team classification, the German team was able to ride out a lead of a good 17 minus points. Behind them, however, the field was close after the dressage: Between second place (Great Britain) and seventh place (Netherlands) there was not a ten minus point difference.

Individual evaluation:

rank	equestrian	horse	Minus points (percent)
1	Michael Jung	Chipmunk FRH	20.90 (79.19%)
2	Ingrid Klimke	Hale Bob OLD	22.20 (77.85%)
3	Laura Collett	London	25.50 (74.51%)
4th	Kai Rüder	Colani Sunrise	25.80 (74.24%)
5	Thibaut Vallette	Qing you briot	25.80 (74.24%)

Team ranking:

	team	equestrian	horse	Minus points
1	Germany	Andreas Dibowski	FRH Corrida	(34.60)
		Kai Rüder	Colani Sunrise	25.80
		Michael Jung	Chipmunk FRH	20.90
		Ingrid Klimke	Hale Bob OLD	22.20
				68.90
2	Great Britain	Pippa Funnell	Majas Hope	(35.40)
		Piggy French	Quarrycrest Echo	29.80
		Kristina Cook	Billy the Red	28.30
		Oliver Townend	Cooley Master Class	27.60
				85.70
3	Belgium	Laura Lodge	Absolutely Allegro	28.80
		Karin Donckers	Fletcha van't Verahof	28.80
		Constantin van Rijckevorsel	Beat it	(33.30)
		Lara de Liedekerke-Meier	Alpaga d'Arville	33.30
				90.90

Intermediate result according to the terrain

Wall jump at the wave run (Cathal Daniels with Rioghan Rua )

In the run-up to the off-road day, course designer Mike Etherington-Smith, who works in Luhmühlen, estimated that he was expecting six perfect rider-horse pairs who would reach the finish line within the ideal time. But the good conditions thwarted his calculations: The day off the road was dry but not humid, the ground was ideal for a cross-country ride. So the allowed time of ten minutes and ten seconds turned out to be a solvable task and thus the off-road course was a bit too easy for a European championship. Instead of six, 20 riders came through the course without any further minus points.

In addition to some combinations of sloping hedge obstacles, which are almost absolutely necessary for a modern off-road course, also quite classic-looking off-road obstacles were put in the way of the riders and horses. A deep wall jump that had been buried for years was restored on the wave run. There the riders had to overcome a hedge jump either left or right over a corner immediately after the deep jump.

Bird obstacle in the third water complex (Camille Guyot with Ulsan de Lacoree )

As a member of the Risk Managing Steering Group of the FEI, Etherington-Smith is an advocate of throwable obstacle parts at terrain obstacles; these safety measures were used on six obstacles. The three water complexes are always characteristic of the Luhmühlen area. At these European championships, a series of obstacles in the third water was a particular challenge: After a massive obstacle as a water jump, riders and horses had to master a 90-degree curve in the water and then overcome a "bird" sitting in the water. There were also five falls on this obstacle. Due to the water and the wearing of airbag safety vests, however, these went largely without a hitch. Laura Collett, who had been third so far, was among the fallen riders.

Michael Jung and Ingrid Klimke were able to hold the German double lead, both of them came through the off-road day without any new minus points. A somewhat unfortunate situation arose for Jung at the last water complex: The Spaniard Maria Pinedo Sendagorta, who had ridden in front of him, fell here in the bird obstacle and was crouching in her inflated airbag vest in the shallow pond water for a long time. Helpers could only lead them out of the water when Michael Jung arrived in the first part of the water complex that had been ridden through several times. In the course of this, an obstacle judge gave him hand signals that the rider couldn't classify.

The other places were different, the ranking of the remaining top group was mixed up in the terrain. Cathal Daniels, for example, improved from 13th to sixth. On the other hand, Kai Rüder fell from fourth place to 35th place. As in other tournaments, his horse Colani Sunrise had problems at the start. The gelding fixed himself on the first obstacle, climbed and did not want to enter the start box. As a result, Rüder lost a good 30 seconds, which could hardly be caught up in the otherwise problem-free off-road course.

Belgium slipped from third place to seventh in the team ranking after a fall of its team rider Laura Loge. For the Dutch, trained by Bettina Hoy, things didn't go well in the field either, only one of the four team riders crossed the finish line. Sweden and Italy are working their way towards the medal ranks (places five and four). France now took third place. The order of Germany and Great Britain did not change, only the gap narrowed slightly to a good 14 minus points.

Individual evaluation:

rank	equestrian	horse	Minus points
			dressage	terrain	Intermediate result
1	Michael Jung	Chipmunk FRH	20.90	0.00	20.90
2	Ingrid Klimke	Hale Bob OLD	22.20	0.00	22.20
3	Thibaut Vallette	Qing you briot	25.80	0.00	25.80
4th	Tim Lips	Bayro	26.00	0.00	26.00
5	Oliver Townend	Cooley Master Class	27.60	0.00	27.60

Team ranking:

rank	team	equestrian	horse	Minus points
				dressage	terrain	Intermediate result
1	Germany	Andreas Dibowski	FRH Corrida	34.60	0.80	35.40
		Kai Rüder	Colani Sunrise	25.80	16.00	(41.80)
		Michael Jung	Chipmunk FRH	20.90	0.00	20.90
		Ingrid Klimke	Hale Bob OLD	22.20	0.00	22.20
						78.50
2	Great Britain	Pippa Funnell	Majas Hope	35.40	0.00	35.40
		Piggy French	Quarrycrest Echo	29.80	0.00	29.80
		Kristina Cook	Billy the Red	28.30	35.60	(63.90)
		Oliver Townend	Cooley Master Class	27.60	0.00	27.60
						92.80
3	France	Thibaut Vallette	Qing you briot	25.80	0.00	25.80
		Nicolas Touzaint	Absolutely gold	31.60	0.00	31.60
		Alexis Goury	Trompe l'Oeil d'Emery	35.40	0.80	36.20
		Karim Florent Laghouag	Punch de l'Esques	38.40	0.00	(38.40)
						93.60

Bottom line

Fractions of a second before the mistake that made them lose the individual gold medal: Michael Jung and Chipmunk FRH overcoming the jump of the third double combination

Presentation of medals, individual evaluation: Michael Jung, Ingrid Klimke and Cathal Daniels (from left to right)

At the beginning of the last day of the tournament the second "Horse Inspection" (veterinary medical examination) was due. There none of the presented horses was taken out of the competition. But five riders had already decided in advance not to start in the last partial test and had not even started the "Horse Inspection". Since this also affected four team riders, this also had an impact on the nations ranking: France and Ireland no longer had a result in jumping. For Spain and Austria the impact was less, as both teams were already in the lower ranks without a chance after the terrain.

Although there were quite a few faultless rides, the jumping course proved to be sufficiently selective to shake up the field in individual and team competitions. The allowed time of 84 seconds only caused problems for individual riders who were placed further behind, many top pairs master the course in well under 80 seconds.

Germany as host was allowed to start 12 pairs of participants in Luhmühlen. This included Jörg Kurb, who made his championship debut for Germany at the age of 52. He worked his way up from 40th place in dressage to 21st place in the final result with his 11-year-old gelding Entertain You , among other things with a faultless round in the jump- off. The 22-year-old Anna-Katharina Vogel also made her debut at a championship in the “rider” age group in Luhmühlen. The rider, who finished fourth in the individual at the Junior European Championships in 2013, was the fastest rider in the field with a time of 9 minutes 43 seconds. With her 12-year-old mare Quintana P , she made no mistakes in jumping after the terrain, so that she was able to bring her dressage result of 32.30 minus points to the finish. This enabled her to jump from 26th place after dressage to 14th place in the final ranking.

In the first half of the field, the eight minus points from Karim Florent Laghouag meant that France fell out of the medal ranks in the intermediate ranking. And the silver rank for the British riders did not seem certain either: While their individual rider Kitty King made no mistakes and finished the individual ranking in seventh place, the team riders were not lucky. Only Kristina Cook, who was beaten off the field after a refusal, also remained without mistakes. Her three teammates, whose results counted for the British team classification, each made one obstacle error. With that the tide had completely turned, now Great Britain threatened to drop out of the medal ranks. But also the Cadre Noir rider Thibaut Vallette made a mistake, and France finally flew out of the team medal ranks due to his mistake. The British riders, on the other hand, could breathe a sigh of relief, they were guaranteed team silver. Sweden also benefited: The faultless rides by Louise Romeike and Ludwig Svennerstål not only brought them to the individual places twelve and eight, but also secured Sweden the team bronze medal thanks to the French mistakes.

The mistake of Oliver Townend and his horse Cooley Master Class was not only annoying for the team standings. With his dressage result of 27.60 minus points he would have won the individual bronze medal, so he fell back to ninth place with his one obstacle error in jumping. Tim Lips and Thibaut Vallette also missed their medal chances in the individual. From France, however, the 33-year-old individual rider Christopher Six was able to make a name for himself, with his gray gelding Totem de Brecey not only achieved what is by far the best joint result for the couple. Her result of 29.20 minus points led her to fourth place in the individual ranking.

The chestnut mare Rioghan Rua and her 22-year-old Irish rider Cathal Daniels also achieved a joint best result . Both were able to maintain the dressage result of 29.00 minus points over the entire European Championship. Daniels, who was already individual European pony eventing champion in 2012 and, together with Rioghan Rua, individual vice European junior champion in 2014 , won the individual bronze medal in Luhmühlen.

Ingrid Klimke started the course as the penultimate starter. Unlike at the 2018 World Equestrian Games , she managed a flawless ride with Hale Bob . Since their team colleagues Kai Rüder and Andreas Dibowski had also succeeded in doing this, the German team victory was already clear with an enormous advantage over Great Britain. Thus Michael Jung could concentrate entirely on the individual evaluation. With Chipmunk he couldn't make a jumping mistake to win the individual ranking. But a double combination of two oxers was the couple's undoing, a pole fell. It stayed that way, Jung was thus an individual silver medalist. The European champion of 2017, Ingrid Klimke, defended the individual European title.

Final result individual evaluation

rank	equestrian	horse	Minus points
			dressage	terrain	Leap	total
1	Ingrid Klimke	Hale Bob OLD	22.20	0.00	0.00	22.20
2	Michael Jung	Chipmunk FRH	20.90	0.00	4.00	24.90
3	Cathal Daniels	Rioghan Rua	29.00	0.00	0.00	29.00
4th	Christopher Six	Totem de Brecey	28.40	0.80	0.00	29.20
5	Thibaut Vallette	Qing you briot	25.80	0.00	4.00	29.80
6th	Tim Lips	Bayro	26.00	0.00	4.00	30.00
7th	Kitty King	Vendredi Biats	27.90	2.40	0.00	30.30
8th	Ludwig Svennerstål	El Kazir	31.00	0.00	0.00	31.00
9	Oliver Townend	Cooley Master Class	27.60	0.00	4.00	31.60
10	Nicolas Touzaint	Absolutely gold	31.60	0.00	0.00	31.60
11	Sandra Auffarth	Viamant du Matz	31.70	0.00	0.00	31.70
12	Louise Romeike	Waikiki	31.90	0.00	0.00	31.90
13	Anna Siemer	FRH Butts Avondale	31.90	0.00	0.00	31.90
14th	Anna-Katharina Vogel	DSP Quintana P	32.30	0.00	0.00	32.30
15th	Piggy French	Quarrycrest Echo	29.80	0.00	4.00	33.80
16	Andreas Dibowski	FRH Corrida	34.60	0.80	0.00	35.40
	...
20th	Christoph Wahler	Carjatan S.	33.80	0.00	4.00	37.80
21st	Jörg crank	Entertain you	35.20	4.00	0.00	39.20
	...
24	Kai Rüder	Colani Sunrise	25.80	16.00	0.00	41.80
	...
28	Robin Godel	Grandeur de Lully CH	34.40	0.80	8.00	43.20
29	Felix Etzel	bandit	33.10	3.20	8.00	44.30
	...
35	Felix Vogg	Archie Rocks	36.50	0.00	16.00	52.50
	...
39	Harald Ambros	Dictionary	35.30	16.80	4.00	56.10
	...
48	Josefa summer	Hamilton	29.30	56.40	4.00	89.70
	...
51	Caroline Gerber	Tresor de Chignan CH	46.40	46.00	4.40	96.80
	...
53	Camille Guyot	Ulsan de Lacoree	39.70	85.20	2.80	127.70
	...
-	Roxane Gonfard	Opi de Saint Leo	36.40	54.80	eliminated	-
-	Katrin Khoddam Hazrati	Cosma	37.60	47.60	withdrawn	-
-	Nadine Marzahl	Valentine	30.50	eliminated		-
-	Tiziana Realini	Toubleu de Rueire	36.70	eliminated		-
-	Rebecca Gerold	Shannon Queen	42.40	eliminated		-

Footnote:

1. ↑ The ideal time in the field was 10:10 minutes. As Louise Romeike, with her required off-road time of 10:03 minutes, was closer to the ideal time than Anna Siemer (with 10:02 minutes), she is in 12th place ahead of Siemer.

Final result team ranking

Medal handover of the teams

space	country	Riders and horses	Minus points
			dressage	terrain	Leap	total
1	Germany					82.50
		Andreas Dibowski FRH Corrida	34.60	0.80	0.00	35.40
		Kai Rüder Colani Sunrise	25.80	16.00	0.00	(41.80)
		Michael Jung Chipmunk FRH	20.90	0.00	4.00	24.90
		Ingrid Klimke Hale Bob OLD	22.20	0.00	0.00	22.20
2	Great Britain					104.80
		Pippa Funnell Majas Hope	35.40	0.00	4.00	39.40
		Piggy French Quarrycrest Echo	29.80	0.00	4.00	33.80
		Kristina Cook Billy the Red	28.30	35.60	0.00	(63.90)
		Oliver Townend Cooley Master Class	27.60	0.00	4.00	31.60
3	Sweden					105.10
		Niklas Lindbäck Focus Filiocus	35.00	6.00	4.00	(45.00)
		Malin Josefsson Golden Midnight	37.40	0.80	4.00	42.20
		Louise Romeike Waikiki	31.90	0.00	0.00	31.90
		Ludwig Svennerstål El Kazir	31.00	0.00	0.00	31.00
4th	France					107.80
		Thibaut Vallette Qing du Briot	25.80	0.00	4.00	29.80
		Nicolas Touzaint Absolutely gold	31.60	0.00	0.00	31.60
		Alexis Goury Trompe l'Oeil d'Emery	35.40	0.80	withdrawn	(1000.00)
		Karim Florent Laghouag Punch de l'Esques	38.40	0.00	8.00	46.40
5	Italy					119.60
		Arianna Schivo Quefira de l'Ormeau	34.90	0.80	0.00	35.70
		Pietro Roman Barraduff	29.40	0.00	8.00	37.40
		Vittoria Panizzon Super Cillious	31.50	11.00	4.00	46.50
		Giovanni Ugolotti Note Worthy	33.30	0.80	22.40	(56.50)
6th	Ireland					125.00
		Cathal Daniels Rioghan Rua	29.00	0.00	0.00	29.00
		Sarah Ennis Woodcourt Garrison	36.00	2.80	4.00	42.80
		Sam Watson Tullabeg Flamenco	29.60	23.60	0.00	53.20
		Ciaran Glynn November Night	35.50	0.00	withdrawn	(1000.00)
7th	Belgium					151.00
8th	Switzerland					192.50
		Robin Godel Grandeur de Lully CH	34.40	0.80	8.00	43.20
		Felix Vogg Archie Rocks	36.50	0.00	16.00	52.50
		Caroline Gerber Tresor de Chignan CH	46.40	46.00	4.40	96.80
		Tiziana Realini Toubleu de Rueire	36.70	eliminated	-	(1000.00)
9	Netherlands					2030.00
10	Austria					2056.10
		Harald Ambros Lexicon	35.30	16.80	4.00	56.10
		Katrin Khoddam Hazrati Cosma	37.60	47.60	withdrawn	1000.00
		Rebecca Gerold Shannon Queen	42.40	eliminated	-	(1000.00)
11	Finland					2061.20
12	Spain					3000.00

Web links

Commons : European Eventing Championships 2019  - Collection of images

• Website of the European Eventing Championships 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ EM Luhmühlen: All 73 horses pass the constitutional examination, Uta Helkenberg / German Equestrian Association, August 27, 2019
2. ↑ The European Eventing Championship 2019 will take place in Luhmühlen (GER) , eqwo.net / FEI press release, August 17, 2017
3. ↑ The Swiss watch brand Longines becomes title partner of the Longines FEI European Championships in Eventing 2019 , longines.de
4. ↑ European Championships Eventing , clipmyhorse.tv
5. ↑ Livestream - football, equestrian sports, rowing and the Germany tour , sportschau.de
6. ↑ ZDF SPORTextra, in the TV program: ZDF, September 1, 2019, 2:03 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. , zdf.de
7. ↑ Preliminary schedule , preliminary: July / July 2019 , em.luhmuehlen.de (PDF)
8. ↑ A bit of trouble and still have fun with Michael Jung , globalquestriannews.com, August 30, 2019
9. ↑ Result of the individual evaluation after the dressage (PDF)
10. ↑ Result of team evaluation after dressage (PDF)
11. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Jung and Germany stay on track - despite irritations , globalquestriannews.com, August 31, 2019
12. ^ EM Luhmühlen: German Bushmen defend their leadership , Gabriele Pochhammer / St. Georg, August 31, 2019
13. ↑ Blog 1 from Luhmühlen about Olympic hopes, uninvited visits and impressions from the site , Gabriele Pochhammer / St. Georg, August 29, 2019
14. ↑ Fence Report Cross Country (PDF)
15. ↑ Result of individual evaluation after the field day (PDF)
16. ↑ Result of the team evaluation after the off-road day (PDF)
17. ↑ Three questions to Jörg Kurb (52) starter at the European Eventing Championships , interview by Alexandra Koch / Main-Spitze , August 29, 2019
18. ↑ FEI Athlete Performance: Cathal Daniels
19. ↑ Final result individual evaluation (PDF)
20. ↑ Final result of the team ranking (PDF)