FEI Nations Cup 2016 (dressage riding)

The FEI Nations Cup 2016 in dressage (2016 FEI Nations Cup ™ Dressage) was the fourth season of the Nations Cup for dressage riders .

Course of the tournament series

As in the previous year, the Nations Cup series comprised six stages. Only three tournaments that were part of the Nations Cup 2015 were also included in the 2016 season calendar: Wellington, Rotterdam and Falsterbo. In France, Compiègne was selected as the new venue, in Germany the Nations Cup returned to Aachen after a one-year break. The British tournament Dressage at Hickstead has been canceled, a Danish stage is brand new in the program.

The tournaments were again advertised as CDIO 3 * or CDIO 5 *. The Nations Cup organizers could choose between three different modes for the Nations Cup:

• The result of the Grand Prix de Dressage (three or four riders per team) is compared with the results of the Grand Prix Spécial (two riders per team) and Grand Prix Freestyle (one or two riders per team, only one freestyle result per team counts for the overall ranking ) added,
• The Olympic team competition mode: Grand Prix de Dressage and Grand Prix Spécial count towards the Nations Cup (only permitted for CDIO 5 *) or
• Different tender (only outside Europe, approval by the FEI required)

The tournaments were held from March 29th to July 17th, 2016. Points were awarded on the basis of placement; more evaluation points were awarded in CDIO 5 * tournaments than in 3 * tournaments.

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The exams

1st test: United States

The 2016 season kicked off with the only non-European stage of the Nations Cup: the venue for the American Nations Cup tournament was Wellington in Florida. The tournament was held as the 12th week of the local dressage tournament series Global Dressage Festival from March 29 to April 3, 2016 and was advertised as CDIO 3 *.

The Wellington used a special set of rules for the Nations Cup that should allow more nations to participate: The team members did not only compete at Grand Prix level to determine the winner of the Nations Cup. Instead, the riders could either compete in the Grand Prix de Dressage and in the Grand Prix Spécial or in the Prix ​​St. Georges and in the Intermediaire I. In order to take into account the difference in difficulty, the results of the Grand Prix Tour were increased by a factor of 1.5 percent per rider.

In contrast to previous years, most teams competed uniformly in one tour, so either all riders rode in the Grand Prix tests (teams from Australia, Canada and the United States) or competed in the small tour (Spain, Denmark and Costa Rica). The German association was criticized for withdrawing its team a few weeks before the Nations Cup. A team with four riders had been planned in the small tour, but according to press reports, due to "certain standards", this was not done.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent							scoring points
				Prix ​​St. Georges	Grand Prix	1st day (Grand Prix: + 1.5%)	Inter- mediaire I	GP Special	2nd day (GPS: + 1.5%)	Bottom line
1	United States	Laura Graves	Verdades	-	76.860	78,360	-	78.294	79.794
		Shelly Francis	doctor	-	71.740	73.240	-	(69,588)	(71,088)
		Kasey Perry-Glass	Doublet	-	73,000	74,500	-	74.882	76,382
		Arlène Page	Woodstock	-	(69,762)	(71,262)	-	70.922	72,422
						226,100			228,598	454.698	10
2	Canada	Megan Lane	Caravella	-	68,360	69.860	-	69.667	71.167
		Jacqueline Brooks	D stainless steel	-	(67,720)	(69,220)	-	(69,078)	(70,578)
		Karen Pavicic	Don Daiquiri	-	68.820	70.320	-	69.529	71.029
		Belinda Trussell	Anton	-	70.920	72,420	-	72,412	73.912
						212,600			216.108	428.708	8th
3	Spain	Juan Matute Guimon	Dhannie Ymas	71.868	-	71.868	74.526	-	74.526
		Pablo Gomez Molina	Lanzado de Ymas	(62,684)	-	(62,684)	67.211	-	67.211
		Alfonso Ramirez	Cosmico	64.895	-	64.895	(62,947)	-	(62,947)
		Juan Antonio Jiménez Cobo	Elevado	67,000	-	67,000	68,921	-	68,921
						203.763			210.658	414,421	7th
4th	Denmark	Mikala Münter Gundersen	My lady	-	72.240	73.740	-	74.647	76.147
		Rikke Poulsen	Pikk Elena	66.184	-	66.184	64,605	-	64,605
		Lars Petersen	Quascai Nexen	(N.GES.)	-	(0.000)	(N.GES.)	-	(0.000)
		Signe Kirk Kristiansen	Roberto	63,026	-	63,026	64.763	-	64.763
						202.950			205.515	408,465	6th
5	Costa Rica	Anne Marie Egerstrom	Amorino	64.789	-	64.789	64.895	-	64.895
		Christer Egerstrom	Bello Oriente	66,526	-	66,526	67.316	-	67.316
		Michelle Batalla	Vivi Light	63.634	-	63.634	63.868	-	63.868
						194,949			196.079	391.028	5
6th	Australia	Kelly Layne	From Primaire	-	66,420	67.920	-	69.157	70.657
		Kim Gentry	Leonardo	-	55.280	56.780	-	NQ	1,500
		Use Schwarz	Cadenza	-	59.640	61.140	-	NQ	1,500
						185.840			211,599	259.497	4th

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

2nd test: Denmark

The Nations Cup was continued in mid-May, and the first week of the Odense Horse Festival took place in Odense from 13 to 16 May 2016 (one week later the show jumping Nations Cup was held here). In this CDIO 3 *, all Nations Cup riders had to compete in the Grand Prix; the second special test was either the Grand Prix Spécial (two riders per team) or the Grand Prix Freestyle.

While Sweden was still in the lead after the Grand Prix de Dressage, Denmark with better results in the second partial tests narrowly secured the overall victory. The German team followed a long way behind in third place.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Denmark	Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	73,400	75.961	-
		Agnete Kirk Thinggaard	Yo-yo	72.960	-	73.975
		Daniel Bachmann Andersen	Hotline	69,500	70.725	-
		Lisbeth Seierskilde	Raneur	(66,920)	-	(65,275)
				436,521			10
2	Sweden	Therese Milshagen	Dante Weltino OLD	72.940	-	75.425
		Rose Mathiesen	Zuidenwind	71.920	71.922	-
		Juliette Ramel	Buriel	71.860	72.137	-
		Paulinda Frieberg	Di Lapponia T	(66,680)	-	(71,500)
				436.204			8th
3	Germany	Kathleen Keller	Daintree	68.780	-	71,600
		Brigitte Wittig	Bodega W	68.540	67.471	-
		Marcus Hermes	Cabanas	67,800	67.922	-
		Svenja Peper	Disneyworld	(66,900)	-	(68,925)
				412.113			7th
4th	Australia	Kristy Oatly	You soleil	69.520	70.569	-
		Mary Hanna	Umbro	66,920	-	68,000
		Maree Tomkinson	Diamantina	66,100	65.020	-
				406.129			6th
5	United States	Katherine Bateson-Chandler	Alcazar	69,000	-	(66,000)
		Beatrice Marienau	Stafano	67.160	67.294	-
		Jennifer Hoffmann	Rubino NRW	65.780	-	67,800
		Susan Dutta	Currency	(63,220)	66,490	-
				403,524			5
6th	Great Britain	Richard Davison	Bubblingh	66.180	67.392	-
		Gillian Davison	Alfranco	65.840	66.745	-
		Emily Kate cousins	Solo Bachelorette	65,200	-	68.650
		Bobby Hayler	Aldborough Rubinhall	(AUFG)	-	-
				400.007			4th
7th	Finland	Anna von Wendt	Denzel	65.640	-	65,450
		Mikaela Lindh	Gamin G.	64.780	66.510	-
		Stella Hagelstam	Julitrea	64.660	66,431	-
				393,471			3

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

3rd test: France

The third station of the Nations Cup took place just one weekend after Odense. After three years in Vidauban, the French Nations Cup tournament took place in Compiègne . The CDIO 5 * tournament was held from May 19-22, 2016.

The event was hit by heavy rainfall. While the Grand Prix could still be held, the conditions on the Sunday of the tournament were too bad for the Nations Cup to be held again. The Grand Prix Spécial was canceled entirely, in the Grand Prix Freestyle only three riders started. Therefore, only the Grand Prix counted for the Nations Cup. The United States team dominated here.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent	scoring points
1	United States	Laura Graves	Verdades	75,440
		Shelly Francis	doctor	(71,120)
		Allison Brock	Roosevelt	73.920
		Kasey Perry-Glass	Doublet	77,440
				226,800	15th
2	Sweden	Emilie Nyreröd	Miata	70.060
		Jennie Larsson	Zircon Spring Flower	(70,020)
		Patrik Kittel	Deja	74.640
		Mads Hendeliowitz	Jimmie Choo SEQ	70.340
				215.040	13
3	France	Stephanie Brieussel	Amorak	(66,060)
		Ludovic Henry	After you	71.440
		Karen Tebar	Don Luis	75.060
		Pierre Volla	Badina Altena	67.160
				213,660	11
4th	Germany	Jenny Lang-Nobbe	Loverboy	70,400
		Bernadette Brune	Spirit of the Age OLD	69.360
		Annabel Frenzen	Cristobal	(65,600)
		Kathleen Keller	Daintree	68.740
				208,500	9
5	Belgium	Jeroen Devroe	Eres	69.820
		Jorinde Verwimp	Tiamo	71,360
		Mario van Orshaegen	Wilco V	66,940
				208.120	7th
6th	Great Britain	Hayley Watson-Greaves	Rubin's Nite	68.780
		Laura Tomlinson	Rosalie B	69,500
		Anna Louise Ross	The callas	(68,220)
		Lara Griffith	Ruby Al Asad	69.240
				207.520	6th
7th	Netherlands	Kim Schmid	Theodoor	63,320
		Margo Timmermans	Catch me	68.260
		Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	75,400
				206.980	5
8th	Switzerland	Caroline Haecki	Rigoletto Royal CH	69.760
		Antonella Joannou	Dandy de la Roche	69.280
		Birgit Wientzek Pläge	For compliment	67.340
				206.380	4th

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

3rd test: Netherlands

The Dutch Dressage Nations Cup took place as part of the CHIO Rotterdam . The tournament took place from June 23 to 26, 2016, the dressage tests were advertised as CDIO 5 *.

The Nations Cup variant was also selected in Rotterdam, in which the final classification consists of the results of the Grand Prix (all riders), Grand Prix Spécial (two riders per team) and Grand Prix Freestyle (other team riders). A special feature in Rotterdam was that only the riders of the best five teams from the Grand Prix were allowed to compete in the second partial tests. The riders of the sixth and seventh placed teams, however, were only allowed to compete in one consolation test that did not count towards the Nations Cup.

The Rotterdam Nations Cup was very strong: no team remained below 70 percent on average for their riders in the Grand Prix. The Netherlands, the United States, Sweden and France started with their strongest pairs. With an average of over 75 percent both in the Grand Prix and in the second partial tests (overall result after deducting the deleted results: 460.167), the hosts' team won.

For the second partial tests, the regulations stipulated that both results from the Grand Prix Spécial as well as the best result from the Grand Prix Freestyle are included in the evaluation, i.e. the poorer freestyle result is always the deleted result. The third-placed Swedes were particularly affected by this: Their second-best freestyle result of 78.675 percent was deleted, instead the weaker result from the Spécial (67.412%, thus over 10 percent difference) was also included in the final result. Due to the high results of the riders of the United States, the Swedes would not have made it to second place even with other regulations.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Netherlands	Danielle Heijkoop	Siro	(70,780)	-	(73,675)
		Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	76.140	76.725	-
		Diederik van Silfhout	Arlando	76.240	-	79.475
		Hans Peter Minderhoud	Johnson	79.240	72.353	-
				460.167			15th
2	United States	Shelly Francis	doctor	(70,680)	-	(72,800)
		Kasey Perry-Glass	Doublet	74,580	71.765	-
		Steffen Peters	Legolas	76.040	-	79.650
		Laura Graves	Verdades	76,300	77.314	-
				455.649			13
3	Sweden	Rose Mathiesen	Zuidenwind	(69,620)	(67,412)	-
		Juliette Ramel	Buriel	73.880	73.431	-
		Patrik Kittel	Deja	74,380	-	(78,675)
		Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	75.720	-	79.750
				444,573			11
4th	France	Stephanie Brieussel	Amorak	(67,740)	68.314	-
		Ludovic Henry	After you	69.240	-	(69,925)
		Pierre Volla	Badina Altena	69.720	69.882	-
		Karen Tebar	Don Luis	74,440	-	78.375
				429.961			9
5	Great Britain	Lara Griffith	Ruby Al Asad	71,360	71.137	-
		Michael George Eilberg	sleeping Beauty	67.860	-	70.975
		Laura Tomlinson	Rosalie B	72.660	69.608	-
		Gareth Hughes	Classic Briolinca	(N.GES.)	-	-
				423,600			7th
6th	Germany	Kathleen Keller	Daintree	(68,080)
		Juliane Brunkhorst	Fürstano	71.260
		Bernadette Brune	Spirit of the Age OLD	68,460
		Charlott-Maria Schürmann	Burlington FRH	72,000
				ø 70.573			-
7th	Belgium	Dolphins Meiresonne	Wipsy from the Heihof	67,400
		Mario van Orshaegen	Wilco V	(66,000)
		Jeroen Devroe	Eres	71.220
		Jorinde ver Wimp	Tiamo	72,100
				ø 70.240			-

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

4th test: Sweden

For the second year in a row, the Falsterbo Horse Show hosted the Swedish Nations Cup. The tournament, whose dressage tests were advertised as CDIO 5 *, was held from July 7th to 10th, 2016. The mode of Grand Prix and two second special stages is also used in Falsterbo (two team riders start in the Grand Prix Spécial, one in the Grand Prix Freestyle). In contrast to the previous stages, only three riders per team are allowed to start in Falsterbo.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Sweden	Jennie Larsson	Zircoon Spring Flower	69,900	71.275	-
		Rose Mathisen	Zuidenwind	71.780	73.510	-
		Patrik Kittel	Delaunay	73,300	-	74.475
				434.2 (434.240)			15th
2	Denmark	Helene Melsen	Aston Martin	67.840	69,569	-
		Lena Leschly Aamann	Fanero	66.820	65,000	-
		Rikke Svane	Finckenstein TSF	72,420	-	74.175
				415.8 (415.824)			13
3	Russia	Marina Aframeewa	Vosk	69.860	67.882	-
		Inessa Merkulova	Avans	67,420	-	71.650
		Ekaterina Maslova	Flashman	65.940	67.902	-
				410.7 (410.654)			11
4th	Netherlands	Margo Timmermans	Catch me	66,320	67.059	-
		Mirelle Kemenade-Witlox	Decor Vivaldo	67.540	67.882	-
		Marjan van der Jagt	Radetzky	69.580	-	69.725
				408.1 (408.106)			9
5	Germany	Marcus Hermes	Cabanas	57.840	61,529	-
		Nadine Husenbeth	Florida	71.040	-	72,250
		Helen Langehanenberg	Damsey FRH	67.960	72.706	-
				403.3 (403.325)			7th

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

5th exam: Germany

Since the British Nations Cup tournament in Hickstead was canceled, the German Nations Cup tournament in mid-July was the last Nations Cup stage of the season.

The dressage tests of the CDIO 5 * as part of the CHIO Aachen were held from July 14th to 17th, 2016 in Aachen . In contrast to the other European stages, the Olympic Nations Cup format was selected in Aachen, in which the team result is made up of the results of the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Spécial.

See also : List of winners in dressage at the CHIO Aachen

Since the CHIO took place at the same time as the Dutch championships and one week after the CDI 3 * Hartpury (which served as the last test of the British riders before the Olympic Games), the toughest opponents of the German team were not at all or only with a "second team" Begin. In the first part of the test, the Grand Prix, all German team riders had problems changing between two. Despite these mistakes, the couples convinced, none came under 75 percent (three German riders over 80 percent), so that Germany was already clearly in the lead with almost 28 percentage points.

For the second partial test, the Grand Prix Spécial, the six best teams from the Grand Prix as well as all other riders who achieved a result of over 70 percent in the first partial test (whose result counted for their teams) qualified. In the Grand Prix Spécial, the leading Germans as well as the second-placed US Americans confirmed their achievements and finished the Nations Cup with team results that were almost identical to the Grand Prix.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	total
1	Germany	Sönke Rothenberger	Cosmo	(75,600)	(76,412)
		Dorothee Schneider	Showtime FRH	80,700	81.902
		Isabell Werth	Weihegold OLD	83.271	80.686
		Kristina Bröring-Sprehe	Desperados FRH	82,314	83.725
				246.285	246,313	492,598	15th
2	United States	Katherine Bateson-Chandler	Alcazar	(66,314)	(N.GES.)
		Arlène Page	Woodstock	68.971	71,451
		Shelly Francis	doctor	72,200	70.647
		Steffen Peters	Legolas	77.243	76.627
				218,414	218.725	437.139	13
3	Denmark	Daniel Bachmann Andersen	Hotline	71.071	(70,686)
		Dahl is different	Rare	(70,057)	71.078
		Agnete Kirk Thinggaard	Yo-yo	72.171	71.176
		Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	71,000	73.922
				214.242	216.176	430.418	11
4th	Spain	Sergio Martin Palos	Altaneiro	(68,586)	68.529
		José Manuel Lucena Estrada	Cloud	68.786	(62,922)
		Juan Matute Guimon	Don Diego Ymas	69.743	67.725
		Severo Jesus Jurado Lopez	Lorenzo	74.357	76.176
				212.886	212.430	425,316	9
5	Sweden	Kristian from Krusenstierna	Languedoc	67.357	(65,667)
		Paulinda Friberg	Di Lapponia T	(65,543)	68.176
		Michelle Hagman	Happiness	71.214	70.118
		Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Pardon Magi	74.086	74.235
				212.657	212.529	425.186	7th
6th	Great Britain	Daniel Watson	Amadeus	66.886	66,588
		Sarah Millis	Court jewel	(64,229)	(65,784)
		Michael Eilberg	Marakov	72,000	72.216
		Emile Faurie	Weekend fun	72.886	69.843
				211.772	208.647	420.419	6th
7th	Belgium	Mario van Orshaegen	Wilco V	(65,343)	NQ
		Dolphins Meiresonne	Wipsy from the Heihof	65.829	NQ
		Jorinde Verwimp	Tiamo	73.071	72.961
		Jeroen Devroe	Eres	71,329	68.725
				210.229	141.686	351.915	5
8th	Australia	Maree Tomkinson	Diamantina	65.043	NQ
		Suzanne Hearn	Remmington	67,500	NQ
		Lyndal Oatley	Sandro Boy	71.671	70.039
				204.214	70.039	274.253	4th
9	Japan	Yuko Kitai	Don Lorean	68,600	NQ
		Akane Kuroki	Toots	(61,443)	NQ
		Kiichi Harada	Egistar	67.543	NQ
		Masanao Takahashi	Fabriano	68.314	NQ
				204.457			-

(Excluded percentage points do not count as a crossed result for the team result)

Overall rating

The evaluation points of a maximum of four stations per nation are included in the overall evaluation.

		United States	THE	FRA	NED	SWE	GER	scoring points
1	United States	10	(5)	15th	13	-	13	51
2	Sweden	-	8th	13	11	15th	(7)	47
3	Denmark	6th	10	-	-	13	11	40
4th	Germany	-	7th	9	(0)	7th	15th	38
5	Netherlands	-	-	5	15th	9	-	29
6th	Great Britain	-	4th	6th	7th	-	6th	23
7th	France	-	-	11	9	-	-	20th
8th	Spain	7th	-	-	-	-	9	16
9	Australia	4th	6th	-	-	-	4th	14th
10	Belgium	-	-	7th	0	-	5	12
11	Russia	-	-	-	-	11	-	11
12	Canada	8th	-	-	-	-	-	8th
13	Costa Rica	5	-	-	-	-	-	5
14th	Switzerland	-	-	4th	-	-	-	4th
15th	Finland	-	3	-	-	-	-	3

Notes on the overall ranking:

1. ↑ According to the table published by the FEI, Costa Rica received 8 points in Wellington. However, this cannot be understood from the result.

Web links

• FEI Nations Cup Dressage (English)
• FEI tournament calendar
• Regulations of the season in 2016 (English)
• Individual stages:
  • CDIO 3 * Wellington
  • CDIO 3 * Odense
  • CDIO 5 * Rotterdam
  • CDIO 5 * Falsterbo
  • CDIO 5 * Aachen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany Pulls Nations Cup Team from Wellington CDIO3 *, Citing Requirement for “Certain Standards” , Kenneth J. Braddick / dressage-news.com, March 18, 2016 (English)
2. ^ Result list Wellington Nations Cup 2016
3. ↑ Team USA wins opening leg of first official FEI Nations Cup ™ Dressage season , Louise Parkes / FEI, April 1, 2016 (English)
4. ↑ Result of the Odense Nations Cup 2016 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Result of the Nations Cup Compiègne
6. ↑ FEI Nations Cup ™ Dressage: USA on top again in rainy Compiegne , Louise Parkes / FEI, May 22, 2016 (English)
7. ↑ 'Learn to swim' in Rotterdam , dressursport-deutschland.de, June 24, 2016
8. ↑ Result Nations Cup CDIO 5 * Rotterdam
9. ↑ Nations Cup CDIO 5 * Rotterdam, intermediate result after the Grand Prix de Dressage
10. ↑ FEI Nations Cup ™ Dressage: Swedes take lead with win on home ground , Louise Parkes / FEI, July 9, 2016 (English)
11. ↑ Interim status of the Falsterbo Nations Cup after the Grand Prix
12. ^ Result Grand Prix Spécial CDIO 5 * Falsterbo
13. ^ Result Grand Prix Freestyle CDIO 5 * Falsterbo
14. ↑ 'This is devastating news': international dressage canceled at Hickstead , Lucy Elder / Horse & Hound , May 20, 2016 (English)
15. ↑ Result of team classification CDIO 5 * Aachen
16. ↑ Final result of the overall ranking FEI Nations Cup 2016 ( Memento from July 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)