FEI Nations Cup 2018 (dressage riding)

The FEI Nations Cup 2018 in dressage (2018 FEI Dressage Nations Cup) was the sixth season of the Nations Cup for dressage riders .

Course of the tournament series

Compared to the previous year, the calendar showed no change. Seven competition tournaments were held at unchanged venues.

The tournaments were advertised as CDIOs at 3 *, 4 * or 5 * level. The tendering mode became more firmly established; as in the previous year, the organizers had three different modes to choose from for the Nations Cup:

• The result of the Grand Prix de Dressage (three or four riders per team) was added to the results from the Grand Prix Spécial (two riders per team) and Grand Prix Freestyle (one or two riders per team),
• The former Olympic team competition mode: Grand Prix de Dressage and Grand Prix Spécial counted for the Nations Cup or
• Different tender (only outside Europe, approval by the FEI required)

The Nations Cup tournaments took place from March 27 to July 29, 2018. Points were awarded on the basis of placement, staggered according to the category of the tournament (the winning team received 5 * 15 points for a CDIO, 10 points for a CDIO 3 *).

New in the 2018 season was the mode of determining the team result at the individual Nations Cups: The ranking of the rider decided the number of points: One point for first place, two for second, etc. Thus, the team with the The Nations Cup with the highest result, but the one with the lowest.

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The stages

United States

The 2018 season also started with the US Nations Cup, the only non-European stage of the Nations Cup. The Nations Cup tournament, which also hosted a Nations Cup for U25 dressage riders (CDIOU25), took place from March 27 to 31, 2018. It was part of the Global Dressage Festival dressage series, which lasted several weeks and was held in Wellington , Florida.

At the Wellington Nations Cup, special regulations are always used: the teams not only competed at Grand Prix level. Instead came the riders in the Grand Prix de Dressage either and in the Grand Prix Spécial or in the Prix St. Georges and the Intermediaire I at. 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.

After only three teams were at the start in 2017 and the stage therefore did not count for the Nations Cup overall ranking (four nations are required for this), the number of participants increased again in 2018. Four teams were at the start, but none from a Central or South American nation. The hosts won the victory safely.

	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	Adrienne Lyle	Salvino	-	76.478	77.978	-	76.894	78.394
		Sabine Schut-Kery	Sanceo	-	73.109	74,609	-	72.872	74.372
		Olivia LaGoy-Weltz	Lonoir	-	72,804	74,304	-	71.170	72.670
		Ashley Holzer	Havana	-	69.043	(70,543)	-	67.660	(69,160)
						226.891			225.436	452,327	10
2	Canada	Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu	All in	-	69,804	71,304	-	71.149	72.649
		Megan Lane	Caravella	-	69.391	70.891	-	69.234	70.734
		Jill Irving	Degas	-	69.043	70.543	-	67.234	68.734
		Diane Creech	Chrevis Christo	-	68.565	(70.065)	-	65.979	(67,479)
						212.738			212.117	424.855	8th
3	Australia	Kim Gentry	Leonardo	-	63,087	64,587	-	60.979	62.479
		Kelly Layne	Prince Amante	69.353	-	69.353	67,598	-	67,598
		Nicholas Fyffe	Hitchcock	66,353	-	66,353	66.373	-	66.373
						200.293			196,450	396.743	7th
4th	Spain	Marta Renilla	Rhustler	60.647	-	60.647	65.637	-	65.637
		Pablo Gomez Molina	Prince Fiorano Ymas	69.912	-	69.912	69.608	-	69.608
		Natalia Bacariza Danguillecourt	Rihanna Ymas	65.353	-	65.353	65.392	-	65.392
						195.912			200.637	396,549	6th

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

France

A good two months after the Wellington Nations Cup, the first European Nations Cup for dressage riders was due: The French Nations Cup tournament, which was held again in Compiègne , took place from May 17 to 20, 2018. The tournament was advertised as CDIO 5 *.

The Scandinavian dominance in Compiègne was already evident in the Grand Prix: six of the best seven results came from riders from Sweden and Denmark. The victory went with a clear lead to Cathrine Dufour with Cassidy (79.696%). Juliette Ramel and Patrik Kittel followed in second and third with over 74 percent each. With only ten points from the individual placement, Sweden was clearly in the lead in the Nations Cup.

First on Sunday was the Grand Prix Spécial, which Juliette Ramel and Buriel (75.532%) won ahead of her older sister Antonia Ramel and Brother de Jeu (72.596%). In the freestyle that followed, Cathrine Dufour achieved 84.250%, Patrik Kittel came in second with Well Done de la Roche (78.950%).

Sweden won the Nations Cup final, with no individual result worse than fifth place. Denmark started with only three riders, so there was no one deleted result. Cathrine Dufour's victories could not compensate for Ulrik Moelgaard's rear placement, but it was enough to make it to second place.

	team	equestrian	Horses	placement			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Sweden	Antonia Ramel	Brother de Jeu	5	2	-
		Rose Mathisen	Zuidenwind	(7)	-	(4)
		Patrik Kittel	Well done de la Roche	3	-	2
		Juliette Ramel	Buriel	2	1	-
				15th			15th
2	Denmark	Dahl is different	Rare HW	6th	5	-
		Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	1	-	1
		Ulrik Moelgaard	Michigan	18th	8th	-
				39			13
3	Netherlands	Diederik van Silfhout	Four Seasons	9	4th	-
		Patrick van der Meer	Zippo	11	-	6th
		Hans Peter Minderhoud	Zanardi	8th	-	5
		Katja Gevers	thriller	(17)	(9)	-
				43			11
4th	Great Britain	Hayley Watson-Greaves	Rubin's Nite	10	7th	-
		Gareth Hughes	Classic Briolinca	4th	-	3
		Henriette Andersen	Flavio	16	12	-
				52			9
5	Belgium			73			7th
6th	France			73			6th
7th	Switzerland	Caroline Haecki	Rigoletto Royal CH	(25)	(13)	-
		Antonella Joannou	Dandy de la Roche CH	15th	11	-
		Birgit Wientzek Pläge	Robinvale	21st	-	11
		Alexandra Zurbrügg	Get time	22nd	-	10
				90			5

(Exclusions do not count as discarded results for the team result)

Denmark

The Nations Cup stopped in Denmark for the third time, and for the second time in a row in Uggerhalne in Aalborg Municipality . On the grounds of the Uggerhalne Sportsride Club, where the Danish dressage rider Andreas Helgstrand is also based, the Danish Nations Cup tournament in dressage and show jumping was held from May 23 to 27, 2018. The dressage tests were advertised as CDIO 4 *.

Three Scandinavian teams and a team from the Netherlands competed in the Nations Cup. The dominant rider in the Grand Prix was Daniel Bachmann Andersen, who won with the Oldenburg stallion Zepter with 76.217%. Emmelie Scholtens from the Netherlands came in second (73.870%), followed by all four Swedish team riders.

All riders started as the second test in the Grand Prix Spécial. Here the field was better mixed. With the exception of Emma Kanerva (7th place), the Finns were far behind in this test and therefore also finished the Nations Cup in last place. Despite the slightly poorer performance in the Grand Prix Spécial, the overall victory went to the Swedes with a three percent advantage. In the individual, Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Zepter won again in the special, almost three percent behind Therese Nilshagen, who placed second. The winner of Compiègne, Cathrine Dufour, took part in front of a home crowd with her young horse, the 8-year-old dark chestnut gelding Bohemian .

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	total
1	Sweden	Paulinda Friberg	Di Lapponia T	70,304	(68,596)
		Jeanna Hogberg	Duendecillo P	(69,978)	69.191
		Therese Nilshagen	Dante Weltino OLD	73.087	75.319
		Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Paridon Magi	72,304	72.213
				215.695	216.723	432,418	12
2	Denmark	Daniel Bachmann Andersen	scepter	76.217	78.128
		Cathrine Dufour	Bohemian	65.717	72,426
		Rikke Svane	Finckenstein TSF	67,609	68.936
		Anna Zibrandtsen	Arlando	(EDITION)	-
				209,543	219,490	429.033	10
3	Netherlands	Danielle Heijkoop	Badari	67.522	70.723
		Emmelie Scholtens	Apache	73.870	74.745
		Thamar Zweistra	Double Dutch	68.283	69.234
				209.675	214.702	424,377	9
4th	Finland	Elisabet Ehrnrooth	Wizard II	65,500	(N.GES.)
		Stella Hagelstam	Julitrea	66.870	67,809
		Emma Kanerva	Heartbreaker	69.891	69.064
		Mikaela Lindh	Bellissimo L	(61,913)	66,000
				202.261	202.873	405.134	13

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

Netherlands

From June 21st to 24th, 2018 the Nations Cup of the Netherlands in dressage and show jumping was held. The venue was Rotterdam , the Nations Cup competitions for dressage riders were advertised as CDIO 5 *.

Edward Gal won the Grand Prix de Dressage with Zonik (76.957%). Therese Nilshagen (second place) and Patrik Kittel (third place) also achieved results above 75 percent. After this test, the Netherlands were only two points ahead of Sweden in the Nations Cup.

The Grand Prix Spécial and Grand Prix Freestyle were each divided into two tests: The riders from the fifth to seventh placed nations competed in a B final. The riders of the first to fourth placed nations, however, each started in an A final. The best result in the Grand Prix Spécial came from Therese Nilshagen and Dante Weltino OLD (74.149%), behind her in the A-final Hans Peter Minderhoud and his black Dream Boy (73.830%) placed. In the freestyle, Edward Gal's ride was rated just over 80 percent. Patrik Kittel, Steffen Peters and Kasey Perry-Glass were close together with more than 77 percent in places two to four.

The victory in the Nations Cup went to the Netherlands, but the Swedes were even able to come closer to one point.

	team	equestrian	Horses	placement			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Netherlands	Hans Peter Minderhoud	Dream boy	8th	2	-
		Emmelie Scholtens	Apache	4th	4th	-
		Edward Gal	Zonik	1	-	1
		Madeleine Witte-Vrees	Cennin	(12)	-	(6)
				20th			15th
2	Sweden	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Paridon Magi	(11)	-	(5)
		Juliette Ramel	Buriel	10	3	-
		Therese Nilshagen	Dante Weltino OLD	2	1	-
		Patrik Kittel	Well done de la Roche	3	-	2
				21st			13
3	United States	Olivia Lagoy-Weltz	Lonoir	(14)	(6)	-
		Kasey Perry-Glass	Doublet	7th	-	4th
		Steffen Peters	Rosamunde	5	-	3
		Adrienne Lyle	Salvino	6th	5	-
				30th			11
4th	Germany	Frederic Wandres	Duke of Britain	15th	-	7th
		Kathleen Keller	San Royal	19th	-	8th
		Anabel Balkenhol	Heuberger TSF	9	7th	-
				65			9
5	France			88			7th
6th	Great Britain			89			6th
7th	Belgium			93			5

(Exclusions do not count as discarded results for the team result)

Sweden

In the 2018 season, too, the last three Nations Cup tournaments followed on three consecutive weekends. The beginning of this was the Falsterbo Horse Show, which took place from July 12th to 15th, 2018 in Skanör med Falsterbo . The Swedish Nations Cup tournament in dressage was advertised as CDIO 5 *.

In the Grand Prix, which was organized on July 14th, Patrik Kittel secured victory with almost two percent advantage (75.543%). In second place came the strongest Russian couple in dressage at the time, Inessa Merkulowa and her 14-year-old Trakehner Mister X (73.717%). After this first test, Sweden was with a clear lead at the top of the Nations Cup standings.

On the morning of the following day, the first thing to do was the Grand Prix Freestyle. In this test Patrik Kittel and his Swedish mare Deja again won ahead of Inessa Merkulowa. The lead was even more than five percent (81.975% to 76.875%). Kathleen Keller placed directly behind with her Oldenburg gelding San Royal (76.280%). In the subsequent Grand Prix Spécial, Keller's team-mates Jan-Dirk Giesselmann and Frederic Wandres took top positions (first place with 72.660% and third place with 71.298%).

With these strong performances in Freestyle and Special, the German team was able to work its way closer to the Swedes. Nevertheless, Sweden clearly won by nine points. The other three teams followed behind on the other places.

	team	equestrian	Horses	placement			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	Sweden	Jeanna Hogberg	Duendecillo P	(10)	4th	-
		Juliette Ramel	Wall street	3	2	-
		Antonia Ramel	Brother de Jeu	6th	-	(5)
		Patrik Kittel	Deja	1	-	1
				17th			15th
2	Germany	Kathleen Keller	San Royal	4th	-	3
		Frederic Wandres	Duke of Britain	8th	-	3
		Jan-Dirk Gießelmann	Real Dancer FRH	7th	1	-
				26th			13
3	Netherlands	Katja Gevers	thriller	(19)	(10)	-
		Thamar Zweistra	Double Dutch	9	5	-
		Adelinde Cornelissen	Aqiedo	5	-	4th
		Patrick van der Meer	Zippo	11	-	6th
				40			11
4th	Russia	Stanislav Cherednichenko	Arums	(18)	-	(8th)
		Jelena Sidnewa	Fuhur	15th	7th	-
		Inessa Merkulova	Mister X	2	-	2
		Tatiana Kosterina	Diavolessa VA	13	6th	-
				45			9
5	Denmark			66			7th

(Exclusions do not count as discarded results for the team result)

Germany

On the weekend after Falsterbo, the German Nations Cup of Dressage took place in Aachen . The CDIO 5 * was carried out during the second week of the CHIO Aachen from July 17th to 22nd, 2018. For the Nations Cup, the second (classic) Nations Cup mode from Grand Prix and Grand Prix Spécial was chosen. The teams could bring up to four horse-rider pairs to the start. The venue for both tests was the Deutsche Bank Stadium .

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

The Grand Prix was held on Thursday (July 19). The victory went to Laura Graves, who with her gelding Verdades was the only one to achieve a result over 80 percent. The best Danish couple, Cathrine Dufour and her 15-year-old Cassidy , came in second with 78.494%, ahead of Helen Langehanenberg with the Hanoverian stallion Damsey FRH . For Langehanenberg this was a comeback ride, four weeks after the birth of their daughter. Isabell Werth and her bay gelding Emilio did not find each other in the Grand Prix. With 17th place they were the result of the German team's elimination. This had to be content with second place in the interim ranking of the nations ranking. The United States came out on top with places one, five and ninth and was more than two percent in the lead.

The Grand Prix Spécial took place two days later. Here the decision about the victory was much closer: Kasey Perry-Glass and her Brauner Dublet came in third place with 78.787%. Helen Langehanenberg received only 0.234% more. Another 0.107% more and thus the victory went than Isabell Werth and Emilio , who found their way back to their usual form that day. The exam went unhappy for Laura Graves, who had won the Grand Prix Spécial a year earlier. Her horse Verdades was frightened in front of a television camera, tensed up as a result and only came in eleventh.

Due to the very good results of the German riders, the situation in the Nations Cup ranking also changed. With the exception of Kasey Perry-Glass, the Americans got results of less than 75 percent. Germany was seven percent better than the US-Americans in the Grand Prix Spécial and thus also secured the Nations Cup victory. The Danish team came in third, 20 percent behind in first place.

	team	equestrian	Horses	percent			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	total
1	Germany	Helen Langehanenberg	Damsey FRH	77.034	79.021
		Dorothee Schneider	Sammy Davis Jr.	75.916	76,404
		Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	TSF Dalera BB	76.848	(76,255)
		Isabell Werth	Emilio	(72,516)	79.128
				229.798	234,553	464,351	15th
2	United States	Steffen Peters	Rosamunde	(71,351)	(72,362)
		Kasey Perry-Glass	Doublet	76,801	78.787
		Adrienne Lyle	Salvino	74,581	74.511
		Laura Graves	Verdades	80,606	74.085
				231.988	227,383	459,371	13
3	Denmark	Dahl is different	Rare HW	(70.093)	68.511
		Anna Zibrandtsen	Arlando	70.435	(RESOLUTION)
		Daniel Bachmann Andersen	Zack	74.177	75,000
		Cathrine Dufour	Cassidy	78.494	77.489
				223.106	221,000	444.106	11
4th	Netherlands	Anne Meulendijks	Avanti	(71,304)	71.681
		Hans Peter Minderhoud	Zanardi	72.842	(64,489)
		Madeleine Witte-Vrees	Cennin	73.618	72,404
		Emmelie Scholtens	Apache	74.627	74.043
				221.087	218.128	439.215	9
5	Spain			218,090	219,595	437.685	7th
6th	Sweden			217,532	213,915	431,447	6th

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

United Kingdom

The season finale was Dressage at Hickstead , the British dressage Nations Cup tournament. Together with the Royal International Horse Show of Show Jumping, the tournament took place from July 26th to 29th, 2018 in Hickstead . The tournament was advertised as CDIO 3 *.

The national ranking was made up of the placements in the Grand Prix (three or four riders per team), the Grand Prix Spécial (two team riders each) and the Grand Prix Freestyle. One or two weeks after the top-class Nations Cup tournaments in Aachen and Falsterbo, Hickstead could not have such a high performance density.

As in the previous year, the Frenchman Pierre Volla was the only rider to achieve a result of over 72 percent in the Grand Prix. France lost 17 points in the Grand Prix, the same applied to Great Britain. Four nations were at the start, Portugal and Sweden followed in third and fourth place with 22 and 23 points respectively.

In the Grand Prix Spécial the victory went to Vasco Mira Godinho with a result of 71.511%. In the freestyle, Pierre Volla won with the 12-year-old chestnut mare Badinda Altena (76.325%). This gave him a lead of almost two percent over the runner-up Hayley Watson-Greaves. She rode the British Hanoverian black gelding Rubins Nite (74.575%).

France was able to set itself apart from Great Britain in the following two tests and won the Nations Cup. The best result in the addition of the Grand Prix Spécial and Grand Prix Freestyle came from Portugal at its only participation in the Nations Cup in 2018. The Portuguese managed to finish the Nations Cup tied with Great Britain. In the event of a tie, the Nations Cup rules stipulated that the team with the better result would place better in the Grand Prix. Thus the hosts were able to keep their second place.

	team	equestrian	Horses	placement			scoring points
				Grand Prix	GP Special	GP freestyle
1	France	Anne Sophie Serre	Vistoso de Massa	(12)	2	-
		Arnaud Serre	Ultra blue de Massa	9	-	6th
		Alexandre Ayache	Zo What	7th	(7)	-
		Pierre Volla	Badinda Altena	1	-	1
				26th			10
2	Great Britain	Fiona Bigwood	Abutsiaq	(16)	(back)	-
		Vicki Thompson Winfield	Mango Jacaro	10	-	8th
		Hayley Watson-Greaves	Rubin's Nite	5	-	2
		Louise Anne Bell	Into the blue	2	3	-
				30th			8th
3	Portugal	Manuel Veiga	Ben Hur da Broa	(15)	(6)	-
		Rodrigo Torres	Fogoso	11	-	4th
		Miguel Ralão Duarte	Xenofonte d'Atela	8th	-	3
		Vasco Mira Godinho	Bariloche	3	1	-
				30th			7th
4th	Sweden	Sofia Möller	royalist	(14)	5	-
		Natalie Oldfors	Mickey M	13	-	(7)
		Per Sandgaard	charmer	6th	4th	-
		Charlotte Haid-Bondergaard	Roberto des Frettes	4th	-	5
				37			6th

(Exclusions do not count as discarded results for the team result)

Overall rating

In the 2018 season, a maximum of the four highest rating points per nation were included in the overall ranking. Two nations were affected by this regulation, no nation took part in all seven Nations Cups. The number of nations that competed in at least one Nations Cup rose significantly from 11 to 15. Sweden managed to defend the overall victory of the previous year.

		United States	FRA	THE	NED	SWE	GER	GBR	scoring points
1	Sweden	-	15th	12	13	15th	(6)	(6)	55
2	Netherlands	-	11	9	15th	11	(9)	-	46
3	Denmark	-	13	10	-	7th	11	-	41
4th	Germany	-	-	-	9	13	15th	-	37
5	United States	10	-	-	11	-	13	-	34
6th	Great Britain	-	9	-	6th	-	-	8th	23
7th	France	-	6th	-	5	-	-	10	21st
8th	Spain	6th	-	-	-	-	7th	-	13
9	Belgium	-	7th	-	5	-	-	-	12
10	Russia	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	9
11	Canada	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th
12	Australia	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th
	Finland	-	-	7th	-	-	-	-	7th
	Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	7th
15th	Switzerland	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	5

Web links

• FEI Nations Cup Dressage (English)
• FEI tournament calendar

• Individual stages:
  • CDIO 3 * Wellington
  • CDIO 4 * Uggerhalne
  • CDIO 5 * Rotterdam
  • CDIO 5 * Falsterbo
  • CDIO 5 * Aachen
  • CDIO 3 * Hickstead

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list Wellington Nations Cup 2018
2. ^ Result list Prix St-Georges, CDIO 3 * Wellington 2018
3. ^ Result list Grand Prix, CDIO 3 * Wellington 2018
4. ^ Result list Intermediate I, CDIO 3 * Wellington 2018
5. ↑ Result list Grand Prix Special, CDIO3 * Wellington 2018
6. ^ Result Grand Prix, CDIO 5 * Compiègne 2018
7. ↑ Result Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 5 * Compiègne 2018
8. ↑ Result Grand Prix Freestyle, CDIO 5 * Compiègne 2018 (PDF)
9. ↑ Result Nations Cup Compiègne 2018 (PDF)
10. ↑ Grand Prix, CDIO 3 * Uggerhalne 2018
11. ↑ Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 3 * Uggerhalne 2018
12. ↑ Result of team classification CDIO 4 * Uggerhalne 2018
13. ↑ Result Grand Prix, CDIO 5 * Rotterdam 2018
14. ↑ Result Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 5 * Rotterdam 2018
15. ↑ Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle, CDIO 5 * Rotterdam 2018
16. ↑ Result Nations Cup Rotterdam 2018 (PDF)
17. ↑ Result Grand Prix, CDIO 5 * Falsterbo 2018
18. ^ Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle, CDIO 5 * Falsterbo 2018
19. ^ Result Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 5 * Falsterbo 2018
20. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Falsterbo 2018 (PDF)
21. ↑ Result Grand Prix, CDIO 5 * Aachen 2018
22. ↑ CHIO Aachen 2018: Emilio von der Rolle in the Nations Cup Grand Prix, USA lead , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, July 19, 2018
23. ↑ Result Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 5 * Aachen 2018
24. ↑ CHIO Aachen: Convincing catch-up with a golden outcome for the birthday , Sarah Schnieder / Reiter Revue International, July 21, 2018
25. ^ Result Nations Cup Aachen 2018
26. ↑ Result Grand Prix, CDIO 3 * Hickstead 2018
27. ^ Result Grand Prix Spécial, CDIO 3 * Hickstead 2018
28. ↑ Result Grand Prix Freestyle, CDIO 3 * Hickstead 2018
29. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Hickstead 2018
30. ↑ Final standings overall ranking FEI Nations Cup 2018 (PDF)