Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup 2016

The Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup 2016 is the fourth season of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup for show jumpers. This stands in a tradition of more than a hundred years of Nations Cup tournaments in show jumping.

Procedure and regulations of the tournament series

The rules of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup were retained in principle, but again adjusted in various points compared to the previous year. It remained with seven (theoretical) leagues that are distributed around the world: Europe 1, Europe 2, North and Central America, South America, the Middle East, Asia / Australasia and Africa. However, since there are no corresponding Nations Cup tournaments in Asia / Australasia, Africa and South America, only four leagues are played.

Evaluation points are awarded at each Nations Cup in the series. The points system revised for the 2014 season will be used again:

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	Further
Points	100	90	80	70	60	55	50	45	40	35	no points

The number of Nations Cups at which the teams can collect points varies depending on the league: In the Europa League 1, each national association had to select four Nations Cups at the beginning of the season, where their own team could collect points for participation in the finals. Further starts in other Nations Cups outside of your own league are possible, but no rating points can be collected for these. In the other leagues, a previous determination is not required, in the Europa League 2, a maximum of the collected evaluation points of 50 percent of the Nations Cup in this league counts per team.

After the end of the season, which runs from mid-February to the end of August 2016, a final tournament will be held. The venue for the final is again Barcelona. Eighteen teams qualify for the final: seven from Europe 1, two from Europe 2, two from North and Central America, two from South America, two from the Middle East, two from Asia / Australasia and one team from Africa. If the host country does not qualify for the finals, it may start as the 19th team. The importance of the Nations Cup final for the European leagues declined, however, since the relegation decision is only made based on the final score of the Europa League 1.

Middle East League

In its fourth season, the Middle East League included only one special stage, the United Arab Emirates Nations Cup. The CSIO  5 * tournament President of UAE Show Jumping Cup was held in Al-Ain from February 17th to 20th, 2016.

The Nations Cup was held on Thursday afternoon (February 18). The victory went to France, the best team from the Middle East League came second with Qatar. In addition to Qatar, Saudi Arabia also qualified for the season finale.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	France (team from the Europa League 1)	Mathieu Billot	Shiva d'Amaury	0	4th
		Frederic David	Equador van't Roosakker	0	4th
		Julien Gonin	Soleil de Cornu CH	(4)	8th
		Jerome Hurel	Ohm de Ponthual	0	(N.GES.)
				0	16	16			-
2	Qatar	Bassem Hassan Mohammed	California	4th	(19)
		Ali Hamad al-Attiya	Appagino	4th	5
		Khalid al-Emadi	Tamira IV	(5)	5
		Ali bin Chalid Al Thani	First devision	0	0
				8th	10	18th			90
3	Switzerland (team from the Europa League 1)	Werner Muff	Pollendr	1	5
		Christina Liebherr	Actor	4th	0
		Edwin Smits	Copain du Perchet CH	4th	(9)
		Claudia Gisler	Cordel	(16)	5
				9	10	19th			-
4th	Ukraine (team from the Europa League 2)	Cassio Rivetti	Fine Fleur du Marais	0	1
		Oleksandr Onishchenko	Valentino Velvet	(17)	4th
		Ferenc Szentirmai	Quickdiamond	8th	(5)
		Ulrich Kirchhoff	Prince de la Mare	5	4th
				13	9	22nd			-
5	Italy (team from the Europa League 1)			10	13	23			-
6th	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)			20th	4th	24			-
7th	Egypt (team from Africa)			10	18th	28			-
8th	Saudi Arabia			14th	33	47			45
9	Great Britain (team from Europa League 1)			22nd					-
	Syria			22nd					-
11	United Arab Emirates			26th					0

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

North and Central America League

In 2016, the tournament calendar of the North and Central American League (full name: North America, Central America and Caribbean Division ) again included three Nations Cup tournaments, all of which were held in the first half of the year.

1st test: United States

For the second time the US Nations Cup tournament took place in the self-proclaimed Horse Capital of the World , Ocala . The CSIO 4 * tournament opened the 2016 Nations Cup season, it was held from February 16 to 21, 2016 as the fifth week of the Ocala Winter Circuit tournament series held here.

All teams had a fairly high number of starting points, the United States team won the test.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	United States	McLain Ward	Roth child	0	4th
		Lauren Hough	Cornet	(4)	8th
		Todd Minikus	Babalou	0	(12)
		Beezie Madden	Breitling	0	1
				0	13	13			US $ 38,950.50	100
2	Mexico	Alberto Michán	Warrant	4th	(19)
		Eugenio Garza Perez	Bariano	(8th)	4th
		Federico Fernández	guru	4th	4th
		Santiago Lambre	Johnny Boy	1	4th
				9	12	21st			$ 22,580	90
3	Colombia (team from South America)	Daniel Bluman	Sancha	(8th)	0
		Mark Bluman	Copa Cabana	4th	(13)
		Fernando Cardenas	Quincy Car	0	8th
		Roberto Teran	Woklahoma	4th	8th
				8th	16	24			US $ 18,064	-
4th	Australia (team from Asia / Australasia)	Matthew Williams	Valinski S.	1	4th
		Harley Brown	apex	(13)	8th
		Thomas McDermott	Quick petite slide	10	5
		Scott Keach	Fedor	0	(12)
				11	17th	28			$ 13,548	-
5	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)			21st	12	33			US $ 9,032	-
6th	Canada			24	21st	45			US $ 6,209	55
7th	New Zealand (team from Asia / Australasia)			22nd	33	55			US $ 4,516	-
8th	El Salvador			35	UP	-			-	45

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

2nd test: Mexico

The Mexican Nations Cup tournament took place in Club Hipico Coapexpan in Xalapa . The CSIO 4 * tournament was held from April 28th to May 1st, 2016.

In the Nations Cup, the Mexican team achieved a historic success. For the first time in 26 years, Mexico won a Nations Cup in show jumping, the last time they did so in 1990 in Bratislava. Under the leadership of their boss d'Equipe, the former US show jumper Norman Dello Joio , the Mexicans got eight penalty points and thus one obstacle clearance to the other (second-placed) teams.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Mexico	Nicolas Pizarro	Temascaltepec	0	0
		Juan Jose Zendejas Salgado	Tino la Chapelle	4th	(4)
		Federico Fernández	guru	(8th)	4th
		Jose Antonio Chedraui Eguia	La Bamba	0	0
				4th	4th	8th			696,000  MXN	100
2	Canada	Yann Candele	Showgirl	(8th)	4th
		Tiffany Foster	Southwind	0	(5)
		Elizabeth Gingras	Floreen	4th	4th
		Eric Lamaze	Coco Bongo	0	0
				4th	8th	12			402,000 MXN	85
	United States	Jonathan McCrea	Aristotle V	4th	4th
		Ali Wolff	Quirie	4th	0
		Christine Mc Crea	dynamo	(12)	(4)
		Richard Spooner	Big Red	0	0
				8th	4th	12			402,000 MXN	85

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

3rd exam: Canada

After only the Nations Cup tournament, not counting for the Nations Cup series , was held in Calgary in Canada in 2015, two Nations Cups were held in Canada in 2016: In addition to Calgary, Langley in British Columbia was also selected as the tournament location. The CSIO 4 * tournament was held from June 1st to 5th, 2016 in the Thunderbird Show Park, where world cup tournaments have been held for years .

The Nations Cup, which counts for the North and Central American League, took place on the afternoon of June 3rd. After the first round of the test, the team in Mexico was clear and clear in the lead. In the second lap Canada caught up significantly, but could not get close to the Mexicans despite their faultlessness, so that the final riders from Canada and Mexico did not start at all. After a long break, Mexico achieved its second Nations Cup victory within a few weeks.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Mexico	Juan Jose Zendejas Salgado	Tino la Chapelle	(12)	0
		Patricio Pasquel	Babel	0	4th
		Francisco Pasquel	Naranjo	0	8th
		Alberto Michán	Gigolo van de Broekkant	0	(N.GES.)
				0	12	12			C $ 34,668	100
2	Canada	Tiffany Foster	Victor	0	0
		Ben Asselin	Veyron	4th	0
		Amy Millar	hero	(13)	0
		Eric Lamaze	Coco Bongo	10	(N.GES.)
				14th	0	14th			$ 22,256	90
3	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)	Daniel Coyle	Tennyson	0	0
		James Chawke	Eros H	8th	(12)
		Jennifer Crooks	Uryadi	(9)	8th
		Conor Swail	Grafton	0	0
				8th	8th	16			16,692 C $	-
4th	United States	Jonathan McCrea	Special Lux	0	4th
		Karl Cook	Tembla	(9)	(4)
		Christine Mc Crea	Nectarina B.	9	0
		Richard Fellers	Flexible	0	4th
				9	8th	17th			C $ 11,984	70

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

Overall ranking of the North and Central American League

With two wins and a second place, Mexico clearly secured the finals. As the second team of the North and Central American League, the United States of America secured the starting place for Barcelona.

		United States	MEX	CAN	scoring points
1	Mexico	90	100	100	290
2	United States	100	85	70	255
3	Canada	55	85	90	230
4th	El Salvador	45	-	-	45

European League 1

As in the previous year, ten teams are taking part in the Europa League 1 ( Europe Division 1 ). The teams qualified for this league based on the following rules:

1. European teams finishing one to three in the 2015 Nations Cup Final (Belgium, Great Britain and the Netherlands)
2. the leading team of the final overall ranking of the Europa League 2 of the previous year (Czech Republic)
3. the second-placed team in the final overall ranking of the Europa League 2 of the previous year, if they would have been among the best eight teams in the 2015 Nations Cup final (which was not the case)
4. other teams from last year's Europa League 1 based on the overall ranking of the previous year (Switzerland, France, Ireland, Sweden, Germany and Italy)

Only Spain was relegated from European League 1 to European League 2 in 2016. The relegation rules for the 2016 season, however, are stricter: The Europa League 1 should only include eight teams, which was the case up to 2013. The teams that are in eighth to tenth place in the overall ranking of the Europa League 1 at the end of the 2016 season will be relegated.

1st test: Belgium

Also in 2016 the Belgian Nations Cup tournament in Lummen was supposed to mark the beginning of the top European league. The tournament, which was to be held from April 27th to May 1st, 2016, was affected by heavy rain on the days before the tournament. Since the conditions for a 5 * tournament were not appropriate, the tournament was largely canceled, only the framework tests and the Flanders Jumping Derby were played.

The associations of Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Czech Republic had selected Lummen as an exam in which they want to collect points. Since these teams would miss their fourth valuation result due to the cancellation, an average result is scored instead: For this, the valuation points of the three other valuation tournaments for each team are added up and divided by three. This result is also included in the overall ranking.

2nd test: France

Part of the team of the third placed French: Roger-Yves Bost and Sydney Une Prince

On the weekend of Pentecost, from May 12th to 15th, 2016, the French Nations Cup tournament was held in La Baule-Escoublac . The Nations Cup took place on May 13th from 2 p.m.

After the first round of the Nations Cup, four teams remained without penalty points. Of these, the team from the Netherlands mastered the second round (with only one time penalty) best and thus won the test. The German team, which was only sixth after the first lap, was the only one not to receive any penalty points in the second lap, which allowed them to work their way up to fourth place.

The following teams received points in La Baule: Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Netherlands	Wout-Jan van der Schans	Aquila	0	0
		Leopold van Asten	Zidane	0	1
		Jur Vrieling	Glasgow van't Merelsnest	(8th)	0
		Willem Greve	Carambola	0	(1)
				0	1	1			100
2	United States (North and Central American League team)	Lauren Hough	Oh la la	0	(12)
		Lucy Davis	Barron	(0)	0
		Margie Goldstein-Engle	Royce	0	0
		Todd Minikus	Babalou	0	4th
				0	4th	4th			-
3	France	Pénélope Leprevost	Flora de Mariposa	0	0
		Simon Delestre	Hermes Ryan	0	0
		Kevin Staut	Reveur de Hurtebise	4th	(4)
		Roger-Yves Bost	Sydney Une Prince	(4)	1
				4th	1	5			80
4th	Germany	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Fibonacci	8th	0
		Christian Ahlmann	Epleaser van't Heike	0	5
		Daniel Deußer	First Class van Eeckelghem	0	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Chiara	(12)	0
				8th	0	8th			65
	Switzerland	Janika Sprunger	Nice chance	0	4th
		Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	(12)	0
		Martin Fuchs	Clooney	0	(8th)
		Steve Guerdat	Corbinian	0	4th
				0	8th	8th			65
6th	Great Britain			0	12	12			55
7th	Belgium			9	9	18th			50
8th	Brazil (team from South America)			13	9	22nd			-

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

3rd test: Italy

From May 26th to 29th, 2016, the traditional CSIO Rome took place in the Italian capital for the 84th time on the Piazza di Siena in the park of the Villa Borghese . The Nations Cup was held on the afternoon of May 27th.

In the first round of the test, only the team from Great Britain remained without penalty points. Their result of four penalty points was also the best team result in the second round, so that the victory was clear with eight penalty points. As in La Baule, the German team (which was also aiming for points) started a race to catch up in the second lap, but again did not get beyond a placement in the midfield.

In addition to Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Italy also selected Rome to collect points here.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Great Britain	Ben Maher	Tic Tac	0	(8th)
		Jessica Mendoza	Spirit T	0	4th
		Michael Whitaker	Cassionato	(9)	0
		John Whitaker	Ornellaia	0	0
				0	4th	4th			100
2	United States (North and Central American League team)	Kent Farrington	voyeur	0	4th
		Callan Solem	Wizard	(8th)	4th
		Laura herb	ceremony	0	(4)
		McLain Ward	Azure	0	0
				4th	8th	12			-
	France	Simon Delestre	Hermes Ryan	(12)	4th
		Kevin Staut	Reveur de Hurtebise	0	4th
		Pénélope Leprevost	Vagabond de la Pomme	0	0
		Roger-Yves Bost	Sydney Une Prince	4th	(8th)
				4th	8th	12			85
4th	Germany	Marco Kutscher	Van Gogh	4th	0
		Mario Stevens	Brooklyn	5	(4)
		Patrick Stühlmeyer	Lacan	(8th)	1
		Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	0	4th
				9	5	14th			70
5	Netherlands			4th	16	20th			60
6th	Canada (team from the North and Central American League)			9	13	22nd			-
7th	Sweden			8th	16	24			-
	Italy			4th	20th	24			47.5

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

4th exam: Switzerland

The Swiss stage of the Europa League 1 of the Nations Cup took place in St. Gallen . The CSIO Switzerland , Switzerland 's Nations Cup tournament, was held from June 2nd to 5th, 2016 in the Grundmoos stadium.

After the first round, Germany was in first place, but the team threw eight more penalty points back in the second round to second place. They shared this with three other teams. The victory, however, went to Ireland, whose riders coped well with the changed conditions in the second lap (the onset of heavy rain) and received no penalty points.

From both Sweden and Switzerland, only the results of three riders were included in the evaluation, as both Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Martin Fuchs were disqualified due to traces of blood on their horses.

The following teams received evaluation points in St. Gallen: Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ireland	Denis Lynch	All star	4th	(4)
		Greg Patrick Broderick	Going global	0	0
		Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	(10)	0
		Cian O'Connor	good luck	4th	0
				8th	0	8th			€ 64,000	100
2	United States (North and Central American League team)	Lauren Hough	Oh la la	0	0
		Lucy Davis	Barron	4th	0
		Margie Goldstein-Engle	Royce	(8th)	4th
		Todd Minikus	Babalou	4th	(4)
				8th	4th	12			€ 28,000	-
	Germany	Ludger Beerbaum	Casello	4th	4th
		Janne Friederike Meyer	Goja	(12)	4th
		Marcus Ehning	Pret a toout	0	0
		Hans-Dieter Dreher	Cool and Easy	0	(AUFG)
				4th	8th	12			€ 28,000	-
	France	Cédric Angot	Saxo de la Cour	4th	0
		Fabrice Dumartin	Cannavaro	(12)	0
		Timothee Anciaume	Kiamon	4th	(4)
		Roger-Yves Bost	Qoud'Coeur de la Loge	4th	0
				12	0	12			€ 28,000	-
	Sweden	Peder Fredricson	All in	0	0
		Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Cue Channa	4th	0
		Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Unita	(DISQ)	(DISQ)
		Helena Persson	Bonzai H	8th	0
				12	0	12			€ 28,000	75
6th	Switzerland	Martin Fuchs	Clooney	(DISQ)	(DISQ)
		Steve Guerdat	Bianca	4th	4th
		Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	4th	4th
		Romain Duguet	Quorida de Treho	0	4th
				8th	12	20th			€ 11,000	55
7th	Belgium			16	12	28			€ 8,000	-
8th	Czech Republic			20th	18th	38			€ 5,000	45

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

5th test: Netherlands

The CHIO Rotterdam, the Netherlands' Nations Cup tournament, was held from June 22nd to 26th, 2016. The following teams can receive points in the Rotterdam Nations Cup: France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.

Already in the first round the team from the Netherlands took the lead without any obstacle errors, with the exception of the second-placed teams from Germany and Switzerland (each with four penalty points), the other teams were already far behind. In the second lap, Maikel van der Vleuten, as the last rider in the Netherlands, did not have to start at all. The hosts won with a penalty-free final result. Switzerland was also able to finish the second round without counting penalty points and thus came in second. The German team, which consisted of four riders with experience of championships and mostly horses with no experience in national prizes, came third. The other teams followed with 13 to 33 penalty points on the other places, with the last two places in the Rotterdam Nations Cup, which counts for them for the overall standings, to France and Great Britain.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Netherlands	Harrie Smolders	Emerald	(1)	0
		Jur Vrieling	Zirocco Blue	0	0
		Willem Greve	Carambola	0	0
		Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	(N.GES.)
				0	0	0			€ 64,000	100
2	Switzerland	Janika Sprunger	Nice chance	4th	0
		Martin Fuchs	Clooney	0	0
		Paul Estermann	Castlefield Eclipse	(19)	(4)
		Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	0
				4th	0	4th			€ 40,000	90
3	Germany	Marco Kutscher	Balermo	4th	(12)
		Daniel Deußer	Equita van't Zorgvliet	(9)	0
		Marcus Ehning	Funky Fred	0	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Casello	0	4th
				4th	4th	8th			€ 32,000	-
4th	Sweden	Henrik von Eckermann	Yajamila	8th	4th
		Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Cue Channa	1	0
		Charlotte Mordasini	Novels du part	(8th)	(4)
		Peder Fredricson	All in	0	0
				9	4th	13			€ 24,000	70
5	United States (North and Central American League team)			16	0	16			€ 16,000	-
6th	Belgium			21st	0	21st			€ 11,000	-
7th	France			12	16	28			€ 8,000	50
8th	Great Britain			12	21st	33			€ 5,000	45

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

6th test: Sweden

The Swedish stage of the Europa League 1 was held from July 7th to 10th, 2016 as part of the Falsterbo Horse Show in Skanör med Falsterbo . The following teams had the opportunity to collect points in Falsterbo: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Three teams managed to finish the first round of the Nations Cup without penalty points. Germany and the Netherlands completed the first round with four penalty points more. While the German team had the second worst team result in the second round (the Czech Republic was again clearly lagging behind in last place), Switzerland achieved the ideal result: In both rounds without penalty points, the Confederates won the test and also collected 100 points for the overall standings.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Switzerland	Janika Sprunger	Nice chance	0	0
		Werner Muff	Pollendr	0	0
		Paul Estermann	Castlefield Eclipse	0	0
		Romain Duguet	Quorida de Treho	(N.GES.)	(AUFG)
				0	0	0			€ 64,000	100
2	Sweden	Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Cue Channa	0	4th
		Henrik von Eckermann	Yajamila	0	(4)
		Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Unita	0	0
		Peder Fredricson	All in	(0)	0
				0	4th	4th			€ 40,000	90
3	Great Britain	Tim Stockdale	Fleur de L'Aube	4th	0
		Tim Wilks	Quelbora Merze	0	0
		Emma O'Dwyer	Figero	4th	0
		Joseph Clayton	Con Man	(4)	(17)
				8th	0	8th			€ 24,000	-
	Netherlands	Jeroen Dubbeldam	Zenith	0	4th
		Jur Vrieling	Glasgow van't Merelsnest	(9)	(4)
		Wout-Jan van der Schans	Aquila	4th	0
		Gerco Schröder	London	0	0
				4th	4th	8th			€ 24,000	70
	Brazil (team from South America)	Rodrigo Pessoa	Cadjanine Z	0	8th
		Stephan de Freitas Barcha	Country Peter do Feroleto	0	0
		Doda de Miranda	Cornetto K	0	0
		Marlon Modolo Zanotelli	Cash del Mar Z	(4)	(AUFG)
				0	8th	8th			€ 24,000	-
6th	Ireland			13	0	13			€ 9,500	52.5
	Germany	André Thieme	Conthendrix	0	0
		Holger Wulschner	Cha Cha Cha	4th	8th
		Mario Stevens	Brooklyn	(4)	(12)
		Janne Friederike Meyer	Goja	0	1
				4th	9	13			€ 9,500	-
8th	Czech Republic			13	17th	30th			€ 5,000	45

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

7th test: Ireland

Due to the fact that the equestrian competitions at the Summer Olympics were held in the first half of August, the Dublin Horse Show in 2016 was not held in August, as traditionally, but from July 20 to 24. This means that the Irish stage was not the final test of the Europa League 1 this year either. The teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the Czech Republic received evaluation points in Dublin.

After the first round of the Nations Cup, which was held on the afternoon of July 22, 2016, three teams were in the lead: Ireland, Italy and the United States of America. While the former two went into the second round with four riders each and again made no mistakes, the team in the United States was weakened: Jessica Springsteen was unable to get her horse Cynar to cross the moat twice in the first round. Therefore she did not start in the second lap, the course of which was identical to the first lap. Due to the mistakes of Lauren Hough and Georgina Bloomberg, the team slipped to third place in the second round.

However, a jump-off was required between Ireland and Italy. The team bosses of both nations each chose their first rider as a jump-off rider. Ireland had to present in the jump-off, which Denis Lynch sent into the jump-off course. After receiving a time penalty in the second lap, Lynch showed a fast ride with good turns with All Star . Before the last obstacle, however , All Star pushed to the left and ran past the obstacle. Denis Lynch had to start again and got two time penalty points in addition to the four penalty points. Piergiorgio Bucci was able to use this starting position as the second rider in the jump-off and secured victory for Italy with a flawless lap.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Italy	Piergiorgio Bucci	Casallo Z	0	0		0	47.85
		Lorenzo de Luca	Ensor de Litrange	0	0
		Emilio Bicocchi	Ares	0	(8th)
		Bruno Chimirri	Tower Mouche	(AUFG)	0
				0	0	0	0	47.85	€ 64,000	100
2	Ireland	Denis Lynch	All star	0	(1)		6th	57.84
		Greg Patrick Broderick	Going global	0	0
		Bertram Allen	Hector van d'Abdijhoeve	(8th)	0
		Cian O'Connor	good luck	0	0
				0	0	0	6th	57.84	€ 40,000	90
3	United States (North and Central American League team)	Lauren Hough	Oh la la	0	8th
		Jessica Springsteen	Cynar	(OUT)	(N.GES.)
		Georgina Bloomberg	Lilly	0	4th
		Laura herb	Cavalia	0	0
				0	12	12			€ 28,000	-
	Sweden	Peder Fredricson	Flip's Little Sparrow	0	4th
		Angelie of Essen	Newton Abbot	4th	0
		Charlotte Mordasini	Novels du part	(4)	4th
		Douglas Lindelow	Zacramento	0	(4)
				4th	8th	12			€ 28,000	75
5	Great Britain			12	4th	16			€ 13,500	-
	Netherlands			8th	8th	16			€ 13,500	-
7th	France			12	12	24			€ 8,000	50
8th	Czech Republic			18th	12	30th			€ 5,000	45

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

8. Examination: United Kingdom

The Royal International Horse Show formed the framework for the eighth station of the Europa League 1. The United Kingdom's Nations Cup tournament was held in Hickstead from July 28th to 31st, 2016, just one week before the start of the Olympic equestrian competitions. At this last stage of the season, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland had the opportunity to collect points.

The date also had an impact on the starting field for the Nations Cup held on the afternoon of July 29th, the nations mostly brought riders to the start who were not supposed to start at the Olympic Games. After the first round, two teams were in the lead, the Netherlands and Germany. While the Dutch got twelve penalty points three times in the second round and fell back to last place, things went much better for the German team. After Germany had only landed in the middle of the field in the two previous Nations Cups, where it was able to collect points, it brought four A-riders to the start in Hickstead, three of them with their best horses. Ludger Beerbaum, who had only decided on Casello instead of Chiara shortly before the Olympic nomination , had been selected as the final rider for the German team, as was so often the case, and due to the performance of his teammates with Chiara, he didn't even have to start in both laps go - after the third German rider in the second round, the victory was certain.

The Irish, who were only allowed to start with a single rider at the Olympic Games, got four penalty points in the first round, with the same result in the second round they secured second place together with Belgium. Despite the start of four of their best non-Olympic pairs, the hosts lacked the necessary luck, all British riders received four or eight penalty points in the second round, which threw them back to sixth place. It was even worse for Italy that, like Ireland, only had one Olympic starting place in show jumping and so brought some of their strongest horse-rider pairs to the start in Hickstead, due to 24 penalty points in the second round they share last place with the Netherlands and got only a few points for the overall ranking.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Germany	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Fibonacci	0	0
		Janne Friederike Meyer	Goja	0	0
		Patrick Stühlmeyer	Lacan	0	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Chiara	(N.GES.)	(N.GES.)
				0	4th	4th			€ 64,000	100
2	Ireland	Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	4th	4th
		Billy Twomey	Diaghilev	0	(4)
		Anthony Condon	Aristio	0	0
		Shane Breen	Golden Hawk	(AUFG)	0
				4th	4th	8th			€ 36,000	-
	Belgium	Olivier Philippaerts	Challenge van de Begijnakker	4th	4th
		Catherine van Roosbroeck	Gautcho da Quinta	(DISQ)	(DISQ)
		Niels Bruynseels	Cas de Liberte	0	0
		Karel Cox	Cor van de Wateringhoeve	0	0
				4th	4th	8th			€ 36,000	85
4th	Switzerland	Christina Liebherr	Eagle Eye	4th	4th
		Nadja Peter Steiner	Capuera II	4th	0
		Claudia Gisler	Cordel	0	(8th)
		Werner Muff	Pollendr	(4)	0
				8th	4th	12			€ 20,000	65
	United States (North and Central American League team)	Lillie Keenan	Super Sox	4th	0
		Paris Sellon	Adare	4th	(4)
		Katherine Dinan	Dougie Douglas	4th	0
		Lauren Hough	Cornet	8th	0
				12	0	12			€ 20,000	-
6th	Great Britain			4th	16	20th			€ 11,000	55
7th	Italy			4th	24	28			€ 6,500	47.5
	Netherlands			0	28	28			€ 6,500	-

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

Overall ranking Europa League 1

Most of the rating points were collected by the Dutch in the 2016 season. Due to the missing result of the first special stage and the therefore alternatively determined average result for five teams, the last special stage of this season was even more exciting and important than in previous years. Belgium came in second in Hickstead, poor placements in La Baule and St. Gallen depressed their average result, so that the team is among the relegated of the season. Although the British were able to record a victory, three back places in the other counting special tests brought them to eighth place in the overall standings, so that they too have to leave the Europa League 1. The Czech Republic entered the season as an outsider, four last places confirmed this, so that the Czechs are relegated straight back to the Europa League 2. The remaining seven teams remain in the Europa League 1 and are also qualified for the Nations Cup finals in Barcelona.

		FRA	ITA	SUI	NED	SWE	IRL	GBR	Average result a	scoring points
1	Netherlands	100	60	-	100	75	-	-	-	335
2	Ireland	-	-	100	-	52.5	90	-	80.83	323.33
3	Germany	65	70	-	-	-	-	100	78.33	313.33
4th	Switzerland	-	-	55	90	100	-	65	-	310
5	Sweden	-	-	75	70	90	70	-	-	305
6th	France	80	85	-	50	-	50	-	-	265
7th	Italy	-	47.5	-	-	-	100	47.5	64.17	259.17
8th	Great Britain	55	100	-	45	-	-	55	-	255
9	Belgium	50	-	50	-	-	-	85	61.67	246.67
10	Czech Republic	-	-	45	-	45	45	-	45	180

^aAverage of the results of the other three special tests of the teams, explanation in section 1. Test: Belgium

European League 2

In the Europa League 2, all European teams that did not belong to the Europa League 1 can collect points. In 2016 the Europa-Liga 2 has seven special stages. A Slovak and a San-Marinese Nations Cup were no longer part of the tournament series, but the Slovenian Nations Cup tournament with Celje was added.

In contrast to the previous year, the teams did not have to determine in advance where they wanted to collect points. However, only the best four results from each nation are included in the overall ranking.

1st test: Austria

The Linz Horse Festival, the Austrian Nations Cup tournament, was held from May 5th to 8th, 2016 in Linz- Ebelsberg . The Nations Cup of this CSIO 4 * tournament was held on May 6th at 4 p.m., there were 13 teams at the start.

After the first lap Poland and Norway were in the first two places, both teams only with time penalties. Both teams showed a significantly weaker result in the second round, but it was enough for victory or third place. The Ukraine achieved the first of a series of top placings with second place in Linz. Austria and Luxembourg came in the middle of the final ranking.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Poland	Michał Kaźmierczak	Que pasa	1	5
		Sandra Piwowarczyk-Bałuk	Chabento	(9)	(18)
		Jarosław Skrzyczyński	Crazy Quick	0	4th
		Krzysztof Ludwiczak	Zoweja	0	5
				1	14th	15th			€ 16,000	100
2	Ukraine	Cassio Rivetti	Fine Fleur du Marais	0	4th
		Oleksandr Onishchenko	Calcourt Falklund	(8th)	(17)
		Ferenc Szentirmai	Zipper	8th	4th
		René Tebbel	cooper	0	0
				8th	8th	16			€ 8,000	90
3	Norway	Therese Henriksen	Clarke's Ferro	1	5
		Cecilie Hatteland	Alex	0	8th
		John Gunvar Knutsen	Zip	(13)	(17)
		Nicholai Lindbjerg	Coquette	1	5
				2	18th	20th			€ 6,000	80
4th	Spain			13	9	22nd			€ 3,000	67.5
	Japan (team from Asia / Australasia)			8th	14th	22nd			€ 3,000	-
6th	Austria	Gerfried Puck	Bionda	8th	17th
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	4th	1
		Astrid Kneifel	Royal des Bissons	(OUT)	(17)
		Max Kühner	Chardonnay	0	4th
				12	22nd	34			€ 2,000	55
7th	Luxembourg	Christian Weier	Global	4th	0
		Charlotte Bettendorf	Queltis	4th	8th
		Marcel Ewen	Orgueil Fontaine	4th	21st
				12	29	41			€ 1,000	50
8th	Russia			14th	42	56				45
9	Australia (team from Asia / Australasia)			16						-
10	Hungary			17th						35
11	Portugal			20th						0
	Slovakia			20th						0
13	Lithuania			54						0

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

2nd test: Slovenia

For the first time the CSIO Celje, Slovenia's Nations Cup tournament since 2014, was a stage of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup. The second tournament of the Europa League 2 took place from May 12th to 15th, 2016 at the Equestrian Center Celje.

After the first round of the Nations Cup on the afternoon of May 13th, Ukraine and Austria were flawlessly in the lead, with Spain in third place with a time penalty. The other nine teams followed at a considerable distance. The dominance of these three teams also continued in the second round, although Austria received twelve penalty points and fell back to third place. The victory went to the team starting for Ukraine.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ukraine	René Tebbel	cooper	0	0
		Oleksandr Onishchenko	Calcourt Falklund	(1)	5
		Ferenc Szentirmai	Chadino	0	0
		Ulrich Kirchhoff	Gabbiano	0	(AUFG)
				0	5	5			€ 10,500	100
2	Spain	Manuel Fernandez Saro	Coreall	(4)	8th
		Pilar Lucrecia Cordon	Goriana van Klapscheut	0	(8th)
		Gerardo Menendez	Cassino	0	0
		Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Chatman	1	0
				1	8th	9			€ 6,600	90
3	Austria	Gerfried Puck	Bionda	(4)	8th
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	0	0
		Roland Englbrecht	Poorboy	0	(8th)
		Max Kühner	Cielito Lindo	0	4th
				0	12	12			€ 4,800	80
4th	Luxembourg	Christian Weier	Global	0	0
		Victor Bettendorf	Colchique du Gibet	8th	(20)
		Marcel Ewen	Orgueil Fontaine	(8th)	9
		Charlotte Bettendorf	Queltis	4th	0
				12	9	21st			€ 3,300	70
5	Hungary			12	12	24			€ 1,575	57.5
	Russia			12	12	24			€ 1,575	57.5
7th	Portugal			8th	24	32			€ 825	47.5
	Turkey			16	16	32			€ 825	47.5
9	Poland			21st						40
10	Slovenia			24						35
11	Lithuania			26th						-
-	Croatia			OUT						-

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

3rd test: Denmark

Just like the CSIO Celje, the CSIO in Odense on the island of Funen was held for the third time in 2016. The Danish Nations Cup tournament, a CSIO 3 *, took place from May 18-22, 2016.

In the first round of the Nations Cup, which was held on May 20th from 4:30 p.m., Ukraine and Belgium each got four penalty points, which earned them the joint lead. In the second round, almost all participating teams collected double-digit penalty points. With just eight penalty points, Ukraine achieved the best result in the second round, so that the team won the test by a clear margin.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ukraine	Cassio Rivetti	Torgal de Virton	4th	4th
		Ulrich Kirchhoff	Gabbiano	0	4th
		Ferenc Szentirmai	Zipper	0	(8th)
		René Tebbel	Giljandro van den Bosrand	(4)	0
				4th	8th	12			€ 8,400	100
2	Netherlands (team from Europa League 1)	Robert Ehrens	Hisa	4th	4th
		Stefanie van der Brink	Baronescha	0	4th
		Suzanne Tepper	Dyango	(OUT)	(AUFG)
		Jur Vrieling	Glasgow van't Merelsnest	1	4th
				5	12	17th			€ 6,750	-
3	Spain	Diego Perez Bilbao	Corrada	1	(13)
		Armando Trapote	Macau	(8th)	12
		Laura Roquet Puignero	Sandi Puigroq	5	0
		Manuel Añón	Rackel Chavannaise	1	0
				7th	12	19th			€ 5,250	80
4th	Belgium			4th	21st	25th			€ 2,925	65
	Denmark			16	9	25th			€ 2,925	65
6th	Finland			12	24	36			1,650 €	55
7th	Germany (team from Europa League 1)	Nisse Lueneburg	Cadensky	(12)	8th
		Hans-Thorben Rüder	Compagnon	8th	(17)
		Evi Bengtsson	Ulika	0	5
		Jan Wernke	Queen Mary	4th	12
				12	25th	37			€ 1,200	-
8th	Japan (team from Asia / Australasia)			18th	UP	-			€ 900	-
9	Sweden (team from Europa League 1)			20th						-
10	Norway			21st						35
11	Australia (team from Asia / Australasia)			23						-
12	Austria	Christoph Obernauer	Magic	4th
		Josef Schwarz jun.	Captain Future	8th
		Marianne Schindele	Outlaw II	16
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	(DISQ)
				28						-
13	Poland			36						-

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

4th test: Portugal

The westernmost Nations Cup tournament in Europe, the CSIO 3 * in Lisbon , took place from May 24th to 29th, 2016. The Nations Cup was held on the evening of May 27th. After the first round of the test, France and Spain were flawlessly in first place. While the French dropped to fifth place with 24 penalty points in the second round, Spain was able to secure their victory with only four penalty points.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Spain	Manuel Fernandez Saro	U watch	(4)	4th
		Paola Amilibia Puig	Notre Star de la Nutria	0	0
		Sergio Alvarez Moya	Arrayan	0	(8th)
		Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Fidux	0	0
				0	4th	4th			€ 8,471.71	100
2	Portugal	Antonio Matos Almeida	Nikel de Presle	0	(OUT)
		Duarte Seabra	Curra Quinn	5	4th
		Luis Sabino Gonçalves	Filou Imperio Egipcio	(8th)	4th
		Mario Wilson Fernandes	Saltho de la Roque	0	0
				5	8th	13			€ 6,087.71	85
	Great Britain (team from Europa League 1)	Anna Edwards	Blazer B	4th	1
		Laura Robinson	Jonti	(4)	8th
		Tim Wilks	Quelbora Merze	0	0
		Louise Saywell	Dassler	0	(17)
				4th	9	13			€ 6,087.71	-
4th	Belgium (team from the Europa League 1)			13	10	23			€ 3,852.71	-
5	France (team from the Europa League 1)			0	24	24			€ 2,213.71	-
6th	Italy (team from the Europa League 1)			12	26th	38			€ 1,766.71	-
7th	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)			25th	31	56			€ 1,319.71	-
8th	Brazil (team from South America)			OUT						-

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

5th exam: Poland

For the second time in a row, the Polish Nations Cup tournament in Sopot was held as CSIO 5 *. The tournament was held from June 9th to 12th, 2016, the Nations Cup took place on June 10th from 2pm.

With another victory, Ukraine secured qualification for the Nations Cup final in Barcelona before the end of the season. The Austrian team came in second, while Germany's team, which was victorious last year, came in seventh.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ukraine	Cassio Rivetti	Fine Fleur du Marais	0	0
		Ulrich Kirchhoff	Prince de la Mare	0	4th
		Ferenc Szentirmai	Chadino	(4)	0
		René Tebbel	Giljandro van den Bosrand	0	(N.GES.)
				0	4th	4th			PLN 123,000	100
2	Austria	Julia Kayser	Ushi	0	5
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	0	4th
		Roland Englbrecht	Poorboy	(9)	(OUT)
		Max Kühner	Chardonnay	0	0
				0	9	9			76,000 PLN	90
3	Belgium (team from the Europa League 1)	Nicola Philippaerts	Bisquet Balou C.	0	0
		Niels Bruynseels	Cas de Liberte	0	4th
		Karel Cox	Cor van de Wateringhoeve	(8th)	0
		Jerome Guery	Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	8th	(4)
				8th	4th	16			60,000 PLN	-
4th	Spain			6th	10	16			45,000 PLN	70
5	Denmark			9	9	18th			30,000 PLN	60
6th	Sweden (team from Europa League 1)			6th	13	19th			PLN 21,000	-
7th	Germany (team from Europa League 1)	André Thieme	Conthendrix	0	4th
		Denis Nielsen	Cashmoaker	(9)	(13)
		Mario Stevens	Brooklyn	0	8th
		Patrick Stühlmeyer	Lacan	4th	4th
				4th	16	20th			15,000 PLN	-
8th	Australia (team from Asia / Australasia)			2	19th	21st			10,000 PLN	-
9	Norway			10						37.5
	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)			10						-
11	Japan (team from Asia / Australasia)			13						-
12	Russia			16						-
13	Poland			17th						-
14th	Italy (team from the Europa League 1)			20th						-
15th	Great Britain (team from Europa League 1)			21st						-

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

6th test: Hungary

At the same time as the German Nations Cup tournament in Aachen , the CSIO Budapest was held from July 14th to 17th, 2016. The CSIO 3 * tournament formed the framework for the Hungarian Nations Cup.

In this Nations Cup, Luxembourg was eliminated after the first round, Austria came in fifth with 20 penalty points from both rounds. For the first time in this Nations Cup season, the winner was not yet certain after two rounds, a play-off between Italy and Hungary had to bring the decision. Both riders earned four penalty points, but Gábor Szabó needed three seconds less than his Italian competitor for the jump-off course and thus secured victory for the hosts.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Hungary	Mariann Hugyecz	Chacco boy	0	0
		Gábor Szabó Jr.	Bolcsesz	0	4th		4th	39.52
		Balázs Horváth	Zordon	0	0
		László Tóth	Isti	(AUFG)	(4)
				0	4th	4th	4th	39.52	€ 10,200	100
2	Italy	Luca Maria Moneta	Connery	(4)	(4)
		Paolo Paini	Ottava Meraviglia di Ca 'San Giorgio	0	0
		Paolo Cannizzaro	Cinnamon	4th	0
		Luca Marziani	Tokyo du Soleil	0	0		4th	42.79
				4th	0	4th	4th	42.79	€ 8,000	90
3	Denmark	Soeren Pedersen	Chaloubet	0	0
		Rikke Haastrup	Charleston K	(8th)	4th
		Torben Frandsen	Highrise	4th	4th
		Linnea Ericsson-Carey	Quidam's Flower	0	(AUFG)
				4th	8th	12			€ 4,800	80
4th	Norway			8th	8th	16			€ 2,400	70
5	Austria	Gerfried Puck	Bionda	8th	8th
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	0	0
		Christoph Obernauer	Magic	(8th)	(8th)
		Max Kühner	Cielito Lindo	4th	0
				12	8th	20th			1,800 €	60
6th	Poland			9	12	21st			€ 1,000	52.5
	Russia			9	12	21st			€ 1,000	52.5
8th	Switzerland (team from the Europa League 1)	Evelyne Bussmann	Fleury d'Aveline CH	(8th)	0
		Fanny Queloz	Tipsy du Terral	4th	4th
		Adrian Schmid	Camilla IX	8th	8th
		Urs Fäh	Quansas of the Ivernons	0	(8th)
				12	12	24			€ 800	-
9	Luxembourg	Christian Weier	Global	4th
		Charlotte Bettendorf	Safir III	(8th)
		Marcel Ewen	Zidane D	5
		Victor Bettendorf	Sorbier Blanc	4th
				13						40
10	Turkey			17th						35
11	Slovakia			21st						0
12	Finland			24						0
13	Slovenia			OUT						0
14th	Bulgaria			UP						0

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

7th test: Spain

The end of the Europa League 2 was the CSIO Gijón in 2016. The Nations Cup tournament in Gijón was the second CSIO 5 * tournament in the context of the Europa League 2, it took place from 24 to 29 August 2016.

In the Nations Cup, which was held on the afternoon of August 27th, only a few riders managed a faultless ride. In the first round only the team from Great Britain managed to finish with less than 12 penalty points. Although there were fewer mistakes in the second round, while Great Britain received 12 penalty points, the lead from the first round was so large that it was enough for the British to win. The hosts came in second, Spain had remained flawless after deducting the cancellation result in the second round.

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	Penalty points (total)	Sting		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalty points	Penalty points		Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Great Britain (team from Europa League 1)	Tim Stockdale	Fleur de l'Aube	0	4th
		Joe Whitaker	Lola V	(8th)	(12)
		Samuel Hutton	Happydam	0	8th
		Robert Bevis	Courtney Z	4th	0
				4th	12	16			€ 24,000.00	-
2	Spain	Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Fidux	5	0
		Armando Trapote	Macau	4th	(12)
		Gerardo Menendez Mieres	Cassino	(12)	0
		Sergio Álvarez Moya	Arrayan	8th	0
				17th	0	17th			€ 16,000.00	90
3	Netherlands (team from Europa League 1)	Doron Kuipers	Cinius	4th	0
		Roelof Bril	Arlando	4th	4th
		Charlotte Verhagen	Abache	(13)	(16)
		Sanne Thijssen	Captain Cooper	8th	0
				16	4th	20th			€ 12,000.00	-
4th	Switzerland (team from the Europa League 1)	Nadja Peter-Steiner	Capuera II	(8th)	0
		Claudia Gisler	Cordel	4th	4th
		Vladya Reverdin	Edison	5	4th
		Christina Liebherr	Eagle Eye	5	(8th)
				14th	8th	22nd			€ 8,000.00	-
5	Canada (team from the North and Central American League)			12	12	24			€ 5,000.00	-
6th	Italy (team from the Europa League 1)			17th	8th	25th			€ 5,000.00	-
7th	France (team from the Europa League 1)			16	13	29			3,000.00 €	-
8th	Ireland (team from Europa League 1)			17th	20th	37			3,000.00 €	-
9	Egypt (team from Africa)			17th						-
10	Mexico (team from the North and Central American League)			21st						-
11	Portugal			25th						0
12	Norway			34						0

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

Overall ranking Europa League 2

For the Nations Cup final, the two best-placed teams from the Europa League 2 qualify, with a maximum of four results per team being included in the ranking. After the fifth of eight Nations Cups, Ukraine had already collected so many points that one of the two qualifying places could no longer be taken from them. Spain secured second place on the grid for the final.

		AUT	SLO	THE	POR	POLE	HUN	ESP	scoring points
1	Ukraine	90	100	100	-	100	-	-	390
2	Spain	(65)	90	80	100	(70)	-	90	360
3	Austria	55	80	(0)	-	90	60	-	285
4th	Norway	80	-	35	-	37.5	70	(0)	222.5
5	Denmark	-	-	70	-	60	80	-	210
6th	Poland	100	40	0	-	(0)	52.5	-	192.5
	Hungary	35	57.5	-	-	-	100	-	192.5
8th	Luxembourg	50	70	-	-	-	40	-	160
9	Russia	45	57.5	-	-	0	52.5	-	155
10	Portugal	-	47.5	-	85	-	-	0	132.5
11	Turkey	-	47.5	-	-	-	35	-	82.5
12	Finland	-	-	55	-	-	0	-	55
13	Slovenia	-	35	-	-	-	0	-	35
14th	Slovakia	0	-	-	-	-	0	-	0
	Bulgaria	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	0

final

General

For the fourth time, the Nations Cup final, the conclusion of the Nations Cup series, was a guest in Barcelona . The Nations Cup final was organized as part of the CSIO Barcelona . The tournament was advertised as CSIO 5 * and was held from September 22nd to 25th on the grounds of the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona .

The first test of the finals was a jumping competition after mistakes (one round). From this test, the eight best teams qualified for the final test. The final test was advertised as a jumping competition based on mistakes and time . The mistakes from the first exam were not included in the final exam. If there was a tie in first place (which occurred) the final test was decided in a jump-off, in which three riders per team started.

A consolation test was planned for the teams that did not qualify for the final exam at the final. Like the final test, this test was advertised as a jumping competition with a one-time jump-off, but in normal circulation time only played a role in relation to time penalties.

Teams

Based on the Nations Cup regulations, 18 teams qualified for the final.

From the leagues these were the following teams:

• Europe League 1: Netherlands , Ireland , Germany , Switzerland , Sweden , France , Italy       
• Europe League 2: Ukraine , Spain  
• Middle East League: Qatar , Saudi Arabia  
• North and Central America League: Mexico , United States  

The following teams were named for the final tournament from the regions without Nations Cup leagues:

• South America: Brazil , Colombia  
• Asia / Australasia: Australia , New Zealand  
• Africa: Egypt 

New Zealand refrained from participating in Barcelona, ​​as did Japan as a replacement for New Zealand. Also from the Middle East League only Qatar agreed to start in Barcelona, ​​both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates waived as successors. The two starting places that became free were given to Belgium and Great Britain.

After Oleksandr Onyshchenko went into hiding and the sale of a number of horses from the riders starting for Ukraine, Ukraine withdrew its willingness to start the Nations Cup final. Austria was named as a successor from the Europa League 2.

Results

Qualification test

Belgium, last year's team that won the Nations Cup final, made no mistakes in the qualifying test. Germany and the United States also succeeded in this. The course of the test was built selectively, six of the 18 teams got a result of over 20 penalty points.

	team	equestrian	horse	Penalty points
1	Belgium	Nicola Philippaerts	Bisquet Balou C.	(4)
		Niels Bruynseels	Cas de Liberte	0
		Jérôme Guery	Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	0
		Gregory Wathelet	Coree	0
				0
	Germany	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	0
		Marcus Ehning	Pret A Tout	0
		Daniel Deußer	First Class van Eeckelghem	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Casello	(4)
				0
	United States	Lauren Hough	Oh la la	0
		Audrey Coulter	Capital Colnardo	(8th)
		Lucy Davis	Barron	0
		Laura herb	ceremony	0
				0
4th	Switzerland	Romain Duguet	Quorida de Treho	(8th)
		Steve Guerdat	Corbinian	0
		Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	4th
		Martin Fuchs	Clooney	0
				4th
	Great Britain	Nick Skelton	Big star	0
		Michael Whitaker	Viking	0
		Scott Brash	Ursula XII	4th
		John Whitaker	Ornellaia	(8th)
				4th
	Italy	Piergiorgio Bucci	Casallo Z	0
		Lorenzo de Luca	Ensor de Litrange LXII	0
		Gianni Govoni	Antonio	4th
		Bruno Chimirri	Tower Mouche	(4)
				4th
7th	Netherlands	Harrie Smolders	Emerald	0
		Maikel van der Vleuten	Arera C	8th
		Jeroen Dubbeldam	Carusso	(8th)
		Gerco Schröder	London	0
				8th
	Ireland	Shane Breen	Golden Hawk	(8th)
		Darragh Kenny	Go Easy de Muze	4th
		Denis Lynch	All star	4th
		Greg Patrick Broderick	Going global	0
				8th
9	Brazil b			8th
10	Qatar			10
11	France			12
12	Spain			16
13	Austria	Gerfried Puck	Bionda	12
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	8th
		Julia Kayser	Cayetano Z	4th
		Max Kühner	Cielito Lindo	(12)
				24
14th	Egypt			25th
	Colombia			25th
16	Mexico			28
17th	Sweden			30th
18th	Australia			37

^bLike the Netherlands and Ireland, Brazil had eight penalty points. In the event of a tie in eighth place, the regulations stipulate that the time of the best rider in each team is used as a differentiation criterion. In all three teams this was a faultless rider, but Brazil came here on the slowest time and is therefore led in ninth place.

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

Consolation test

The Challenge Cup, the consolation test for the teams that did not qualify for the final test, should initially be held on the evening of September 23, 2016. However, due to heavy rain, the test was canceled. This would have promoted Spain to the Europa League 1 of 2017 based on the result of the qualification test. Because of the protests of several team bosses, it was decided to cancel the first test on Sunday and to replace it with the Challenge Cup.

The course presented the teams with a great challenge: All teams got double-digit penalty points, up to the penultimate rider, no rider managed to remain without penalty points. Only two riders came to the finish line with a time penalty. In front of the last rider, Qatar and Brazil were in the lead with 12 penalty points each. Bassem Hassan Mohammed got four penalty points with Dejavu for Qatar. Pedro Veniss was the last rider to have the decision in his hand. His team-mate Stephan de Freitas Barcha had fallen, so that no cancellation result was possible for Brazil. Veniss withstood the pressure and with Quabri de L'Isle was the only rider to make no mistakes , so Brazil won the test. Of the teams in the Europa League 2, Spain came fourth and Austria eighth, so Spain secured promotion on this path.

	team	equestrian	horse	Penalty points	Prize money
1	Brazil	Rodrigo Pessoa	Cadjanine Z	4th
		Stephan de Freitas Barcha	Country Peter do Feroleto	(OUT)
		Yuri Mansur Guerios	Baby lotte	8th
		Pedro Veniss	Quabri de L'Isle	0
				12	€ 80,375
2	Qatar	Hamad Ali Mohamed Al Attiyah	Appagino	8th
		Ali bin Chalid Al Thani	First devision	(8th)
		Ali Al Rumaihi	Gunder	4th
		Bassem Hassan Mohammed	Déjà-vu	4th
				16	€ 65,375
3	Colombia	Roberto Teran Tafur	Brilliant du Rouet	1
		René Lopez	Con Dios III	(13)
		Andres Peñalosa	Cisco's Zidane	(AUFG)
		Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo	Admara	4th
				18th	€ 50,375
4th	Spain	Manuel Fernandez Saro	U watch	5
		Pilar Lucrecia Cordon	Gribouille du Lys	(12)
		Gerardo Menendez Mieres	Cassino	8th
		Sergio Álvarez Moya	Carlo	8th
				21st	€ 30,375
	France	Kevin Staut	Reveur de Hurtebise	8th
		Philippe Rozier	Rahotep de Toscane	12
		Roger-Yves Bost	Sydney Une Prince	(AUFG)
		Pénélope Leprevost	Flora de Mariposa	1
				21st	€ 30,375
6th	Australia	James Paterson-Robinson	Amarillo	5
		Julia Hargreaves	Vedor	15th
		Evie Buller	Stanley	(25)
		Edwina Tops-Alexander	Ego van Orti	5
				25th	€ 15,375
7th	Sweden	Peder Fredricson	Zaloubet	16
		Angelie of Essen	Newton Abbot	5
		Charlotte Mordasini	Novels du part	(21)
		Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Clarimo	5
				26th	€ 7,875
8th	Austria	Gerfried Puck	Bionda	(AUFG)
		Christian Rhomberg	Saphyr des Lacs	4th
		Julia Kayser	Cayetano Z	12
		Max Kühner	Cielito Lindo	13
				29	€ 7,875
9	Mexico	Nicolas Pizarro	Temascaltepec	12
		Patricio Pasquel	Babel	12
		Federico Fernández	guru	9
		Jose Antonio Chedraui Eguia	Ninloubet	13
				33	€ 7,875
10	Egypt	Mohamed Taher Zeyada	Zarco	21st
		Mohamed Talaat	Connaught	7th
		Abdel Said	California	8th
		Karim El Zoghby	Amelia	(N.GES.)
				36	€ 4,125

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

Final exam (Nations Cup Final 2016)

On the evening of September 24, 2016, the final examination of the Nations Cup Finals was held. The regulations for the test, which is very highly endowed with 1.5 million euros, had been changed slightly compared to previous years: in a possibly necessary jump-off (which had not taken place since the re-introduction of the Nations Cup final), three riders per team no longer had to compete Go start, just a rider previously named by the team boss.

Unlike in the previous year, there were a few rides without obstacle errors, instead the time of 76 seconds was chosen so tight that there were time errors. Two teams dominated the test: Great Britain and Germany. Compared to the qualification test, both teams had exchanged one rider each, due to a slight fever from Daniel Deusser's Wallach, Janne Friederike Meyer moved up.

The German team had to accept an obstacle error from Marcus Ehning, Great Britain received 12 starting points from their successor Jessica Mendoza. All other riders of the two nations remained faultless with their horses, including Ludger Beerbaum at his 134th and last Nations Cup for Germany. Thus, the penalty point-loaded results could be deleted, both teams came to an error-free overall result. The United States team was able to work its way forward with two faultless rides towards the end, but no longer endangered the leading group and thus came in third.

Thus, for the first time in this decade, there was a jump-off for victory in the Nations Cup final. First of all, Great Britain had to submit: As with their individual Olympic victory a few weeks earlier, Nick Skelton and Big Star had to put the competition under pressure with a swift, faultless ride. Skelton crossed the finish line in 41.57 seconds with no penalty points. Germany sent Marcus Ehning into the jump-off with Pret A Tout . As in their last joint test four weeks earlier in the Münster Grand Prix, Ehning and Pret A Tout could not be beaten in Barcelona either, both of whom crossed the finish line in under 40 seconds without any mistakes. For Marcus Ehning this was the second victory within a day (he had won the Queen's Cup with Funky Fred in the afternoon ), for Germany it was the first victory in the Nations Cup series after 2012 .

	team	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		Prize money
				Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Germany	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	0
		Marcus Ehning	Pret A Tout	(4)		0	39.80
		Janne Friederike Meyer	Goja	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Casello	0
				0		0	39.80	€ 500,000
2	Great Britain	Nick Skelton	Big star	0		0	41.57
		Michael Whitaker	Viking	0
		Jessica Mendoza	Spirit T	(12)
		Scott Brash	Ursula XII	0
				0		0	41.57	€ 300,000
3	United States	Lauren Hough	Oh la la	4th	73.32
		Audrey Coulter	Capital Colnardo	(8th)	(74.60)
		Lillie Keenan	Super Sox	0	74.47
		Laura herb	ceremony	(4)	74.01
				4th	221.80			€ 200,000
4th	Italy	Piergiorgio Bucci	Casallo Z	(8th)	(72.54)
		Lorenzo de Luca	Ensor de Litrange LXII	0	72.53
		Gianni Govoni	Antonio	1	76.06
		Bruno Chimirri	Tower Mouche	4th	74.44
				5	223.03			€ 135,000
5	Ireland	Shane Breen	Golden Hawk	(8th)	(75.30)
		Darragh Kenny	Go Easy de Muze	0	74.87
		Denis Lynch	All star	1	76.42
		Greg Patrick Broderick	Going global	4th	74.52
				5	225.81			€ 110,000
6th	Switzerland	Romain Duguet	Quorida de Treho	0	74.68
		Steve Guerdat	Corbinian	(8th)	75.26
		Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	1	76.91
		Martin Fuchs	Clooney	4th	74.75
				5	226.34			€ 90,000
7th	Belgium	Nicola Philippaerts	Bisquet Balou C.	4th	70.58
		Niels Bruynseels	Cas de Liberte	8th	74.38
		Jérôme Guery	Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	(8th)	(75.43)
		Gregory Wathelet	Coree	4th	72.03
				16	216.99			€ 85,000
8th	Netherlands	Harrie Smolders	Emerald	(9)	(76.69)
		Maikel van der Vleuten	Arera C	8th	75.50
		Jeroen Dubbeldam	Carusso	4th	75.42
		Gerco Schröder	London	8th	74.35
				20th	225.27			€ 80,000

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

Web links

• Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup on the FEI website
• Regulations of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup 2016 , the changes compared to the previous year are marked

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rules Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Series  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Version with changes marked, as of May 11, 2016 (English)  
2. ^ Result Nations Cup al-Ain 2016
3. ^ Result Ocala Nations Cup 2016
4. ↑ Mexico posts historic Furusiyya Nations Cup victory in Coapexpan , Louise Parkes for the FEI, April 30, 2016 (English)
5. ^ Result of the Nations Cup Xalapa-Coapexpan 2016
6. ^ Result Langley Nations Cup 2016
7. ↑ Overall ranking of the North and Central American League (PDF)
8. ↑ Lummen cancels Nations Cup , St. Georg, April 27, 2016
9. ^ Result of the La Baule Nations Cup 2016
10. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Rome 2016
11. ↑ St. Gallen: Convincing performance of the Irish show jumpers, Germany shared second place , St. Georg, June 3, 2016
12. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup St. Gallen 2016
13. ↑ Rotterdam: Flying Dutchmen without mistakes to win the Nations Cup , St. Georg, June 24, 2016
14. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Rotterdam 2016
15. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Falsterbo 2016
16. ↑ Dublin: Nations Cup Duel Italy vs. Ireland , St. George, July 23, 2016
17. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Dublin 2016
18. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Hickstead 2016
19. ↑ Overall ranking Europa-Liga 1 ( Memento of the original from July 29, 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. (PDF)  
20. ↑ Result of the Linz Nations Cup 2016
21. ↑ Result of the Celje Nations Cup 2016
22. ↑ Result Nations Cup Odense 2016 (PDF)
23. ↑ Result of the Lisbon Nations Cup 2016 (PDF)
24. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Sopot 2016 (PDF)
25. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Budapest 2016 (PDF)
26. ↑ Result of the Nations Cup Gijón 2016 (PDF)
27. ↑ Final result of the overall ranking Europa League 2
28. ↑ Barcelona, ​​here we come: Austria is in the Nations Cup finals! , Horse Review, September 9, 2016
29. ↑ Barcelona: Ukraine does not participate in the final of the FEI Nations Cup series , St. Georg, September 9, 2016
30. ↑ Result of qualification test Nations Cup Final 2016 (PDF)
31. ↑ Cancellation of the Longines Challenge Cup could mean a severe setback for Austria , eqwo.net, September 24, 2016
32. ↑ Interview with Marcus Wallishauser: what happens to the Longines Challenge Cup? , eqwo.net, September 25, 2016
33. ↑ Result of the consolation test Nations Cup Final 2016 (PDF)
34. ↑ Rules Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup ™ Series, Effective for season 2016, July 14, 3 Third Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup ™ Competition (Final Competition) ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)  
35. ↑ Result of the final examination Nations Cup final 2016 (PDF)