Global Champions Tour 2011

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The Global Champions Tour 2011 was the sixth season of the Global Champions Tour , an international show jumping tournament . Alongside the FEI Nations Cup, it is considered to be the most important tournament series in the “green season”.

The 2011 season was the fourth season as an officially recognized tournament series by the FEI . The series is organized by Jan Tops , the patroness initially being Athina Onassis de Miranda .

Course of the tournament series

The series stretched from March 17th to November 12th in 2011, making it the longest Global Champions Tour season to date.

Most of the tournaments in which the Global Champions Tour 2011 takes place were in Europe (seven stations). The beginning and end of the season were stages on the Arabian Peninsula, the penultimate tournament took place in South America. All of these tournaments were advertised as CSI 5 *, the highest category in show jumping.

The special stages took place on Saturday afternoons or evenings. They were advertised as a jumping competition with two different rounds and jump-offs , the height of the obstacles was up to 1.60 meters. These exams were each endowed with at least € 285,000 .

The second round reached the best 18 riders of the first round or all riders with faultless rides, if there are more than 18. The jump-off was achieved by the participants who were tied for first place after the two rounds (usually with no mistakes in both rounds).

media

Eurosport was once again the media partner of the Global Champions Tour in the 2011 season and broadcasts the second round as well as the jump-off of the special stages live or with a delay.

Outside of the TV broadcasts, the Global Champions Tour tournaments were broadcast live on the Global Champions Tour website. The English-speaking commentator on the Internet broadcasts is the Belgian Frederik de Backer.

The exams

1st test: Qatar

The Qatar Global Champions Tour took place from March 17 to March 19, 2011 at the Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club in Doha .

The special stage took place on March 19, 2011 from 6.45 p.m. local time and was endowed with € 475,000. The course designer was the German Frank Rothenberger.

The second round reached 17 faultless riders and one rider who got a time penalty in the first round. The second round was significantly more difficult and, according to the course designer, was almost Olympic level. In this round four riders remained clear, of which Denis Lynch did not make it into the jump-off due to the time error from the first round.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto	Ashleigh Thrush Dan	0	-	0	-	0	42.53	40
2	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	0	-	0	-	4th	43.35	37
3	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Shutterfly	0	-	0	-	4th	45.13	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 47 participants)

2nd test: Spain

The then drained water basin in front of the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia is the location of the Spanish stage of the 2011 Global Champions Tour season

The Global Champions Tour of Spain took place from May 6th to May 8th 2011 on the forecourt of the Museu de les Ciencies Príncipe Felipe in the Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias in Valencia .

The special stage took place on May 7, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. local time and was endowed with € 285,000. The course designer was again Frank Rothenberger.

The second round was 19 faultless riders and thus one more rider than originally planned. The second round was again much more difficult. In this round five riders remained clear of obstacles, but this time Denis Lynch had a time penalty in the second round.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Billy Twomey	Je t'aime flamenco	0	-	0	-	0	39.18	40
2	Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	0	-	0	-	0	40.04	37
3	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	-	0	-	0	45.99	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 49 participants)

3rd exam: Germany

The winning couple of the German Global Champions Tour stage 2011

Germany's Global Champions Tour tournament, the German Jumping and Dressage Derby , took place from June 2nd to June 5th, 2011 in Hamburg - Klein Flottbek .

The special stage was held on June 4, 2011 from 1.40 p.m. local time and was endowed with € 285,000. Frank Rothenberger was again commissioned to build the course.

The first round of the test was very demanding, also due to the tight time allowed. Four riders with their horses remained without faults, four more pairs completed the first round with a time penalty. In the second lap, more than half of the eighteen riders who were still eligible to compete were faultless, three riders managed a fault-free ride in both laps and made it into the jump-off. Here the first two riders made no mistakes. Janne Friederike Meyer, who was the last participant in the jump-off, gave up after two obstacle drops to protect the horse.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	-	0	-	0	46.97	40
2	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	0	-	0	-	0	47.93	37
3	Janne Friederike Meyer	Lambrasco	0	-	0	-	given up		35

(Places one to three out of a total of 49 participants)

4th test: France I

France’s first Global Champions Tour this season took place from June 9th to June 11th 2011 at the Stade des Hespérides in Cannes .

The special stage was held on June 11, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. local time. It was endowed with € 285,000. Course builders were Serge Houtman and Luc Musette.

In the first lap four riders remained clear, one participant only had a time penalty. In the second round, eight riders and their horses made no mistakes, so that four participants entered the jump-off with two faultless rounds. The Swiss Clarissa Crotta was the first starter to have two drops here, the remaining three starters also remained clear in the jump-off.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Edwina Alexander	Itot du Château	0	-	0	-	0	39.30	40
2	Sergio Alvarez Moya	Action breaker	0	-	0	-	0	42.37	37
3	Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	0	-	0	-	0	43.23	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 47 participants)

5th test: Monaco

The Monaco Global Champions Tour took place from June 23 to June 25, 2011 on the banks of Boulevard Albert 1er at Port Hercule.

The special stage took place on June 25, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. local time and was endowed with € 285,000. The course designer was Frank Rothenberger for the fourth time this season.

The tournament in Monaco took place on a provisionally raised clay court for the event. Due to the cramped space conditions in Monaco, this is quite small compared to the often very large spaces in the green season. This results in a particular difficulty for the rider, the distances and gallop stretches are correspondingly short here.

The first round was completed by 12 riders without mistakes in the allowed time. The second round of the test turned out to be much more difficult, only three riders with their horses without jumping and timing errors. Before that, however, only Rolf-Göran Bengtsson was fault-free on the first lap, so that the victory went to him without a jump-off. Christian Ahlmann barely missed the double zero lap, he was 95 hundredths of a second above the allowed time of 60 seconds on the second lap and received a time penalty for this.

Honorary president of the tournament was Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Caroline von Hannover and herself an amateur show jumper. The congratulations at the award ceremony for the Global Champions Tour ranking were brought by Prince Albert II .

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	-	0	59.79			40
2	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	0	-	1	60.95			37
3	Rodrigo Pessoa	Let's fly	4th	-	0	54.14			35

(Places one to three out of a total of 47 participants)

6th test: Portugal

The Global Champions Tour of Portugal took place from June 30th to July 2nd 2011 at the Hipódromo Manuel Possolo in Cascais . Since the neighboring Estoril is advertised as a sports tourism region with a large advertising campaign, Estoril is usually named as the venue.

The special stage of the Global Champions Tour took place on July 2, 2011 from 7:00 p.m. local time, the endowment was € 285,000. Frank Rothenberger was again a course designer.

In the first lap, nine riders remained clear, two participants had only one time penalty. For most of the riders with their horses, the second round was less problematic than the first round, more than half of the now 18 riders remained error-free. A total of six riders completed both rounds without any mistakes and made it into the jump-off. Like the second round, this took place under floodlights. In the jump-off there were three riders with no mistakes.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	0	-	0	-	0	45.21	40
2	Luciana Diniz	Winning mood	0	-	0	-	0	47.32	37
3	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	0	-	0	-	0	48.85	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 45 participants)

7. Exam: France II

So far, France is the only country in the history of the Global Champions Tour to host two tournaments in one season. The second Global Champions Tour tournament in France will take place from July 22nd to July 24th 2011 on the grounds of the racecourse on the edge of the castle of Chantilly . The stadium is named after Édouard de Rothschild , who financially supported the construction of the field.

The special stage was held on July 23, 2011 from 3:30 p.m. local time. It was endowed with € 285,000. The course designer was the Italian Uliano Vezzani.

The test was characterized by rainy weather, which led to sometimes slippery conditions on the grass floor of the riding arena. Six riders and their horses completed the first round without any mistakes, and four riders only had time penalties. In the second lap nine riders could stay clear. In both rounds, three riders remained clear and thus entered the final jump-off. Here triumphed Edwina Alexander with a guide only three hundredths of a second.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Edwina Alexander	Itot du Château	0	-	0	-	0	41.88	40
2	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	0	-	0	-	0	41.91	37
3	Pénélope Leprevost	My lord Carthage	0	-	0	-	0	44.16	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 46 participants)

8th test: Netherlands

The Netherlands' Global Champions Tour tournament will take place from August 12 to August 14, 2011 at the hometown of series founder Jan Tops in Valkenswaard .

The special stage took place on August 13, 2011 from 2.15 p.m. local time and was endowed with € 285,000. As in Chantilly, the jumping course for this competition was created by Uliano Vezzani.

Twelve riders were able to finish the first round without errors, three more only had time penalties. Six horse-rider pairs remained without obstacle errors in the second round, two times only time errors were noted. Four riders and their horses remained faultless in both rounds and thus took part in the jump-off.

The win in the jump-off went to the American Beezie Madden . The second big winner of the day was Athina Onassis de Miranda , who for the first time in her career had no drops in both rounds of a CSI 5 * Grand Prix and ended up sixth with three time penalties.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Beezie Madden	Cortes'C '	0	-	0	-	0	38.38	40
2	Denis Lynch	Lantinus	0	-	0	-	0	38.92	37
3	Jur Vrieling	Bubalu	0	-	0	-	4th	39.52	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 49 participants)

9. Exam: Brazil

The Brazilian Global Champions Tour tournament took place from September 2nd to September 4th 2011 at the equestrian facility of the Sociedade Hípica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro . The tournament organizer is Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto , who named the tournament "Athina Onassis International Horse Show" after his wife.

The special stage was held on September 4, 2011 from 4 p.m. local time. With prize money of € 1,000,000, the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix is ​​the most highly endowed jumping competition in the world in 2011 - ahead of the Calgary Grand Prix (with C $ 1,000,000 prize money) and Saugerties (1,000,000. US $ 000 in prize money).

The course builder for this test was the Belgian Luc Musette. In accordance with the prize money, the course was very demanding, in the first round there were only two faultless rounds, five riders gave up on the course. In the second round 18 riders entered, six of them with eight penalty points. The second round was more manageable for most of the riders with their horses, ten riders made no mistakes. The only double clear in the test was shown by the Dutchman Gerco Schröder with the Belgian stallion London , a jump-off was therefore not necessary.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Gerco Schröder	London	0	-	0	72.02			40
2	Edwina Alexander	Itot du Château	4th	-	0	64.87			37
3	Philipp Weishaupt	Monte Bellini	4th	-	0	66.68			35

(Places one to three out of a total of 38 participants)

10. Exam: United Arab Emirates

In 2011, a stage of the Global Champions Tour took place in the United Arab Emirates for the first time. The tournament took place from November 24th to November 26th 2011 at the Al-Forsan International Sports Resort in Abu Dhabi . The exam began on November 26th at 6:45 p.m. local time (3:45 p.m. CET). Once again, the Italian Uliano Vezzani was commissioned to build the course.

The prize money in this final test of the season was € 400,000.

In the first round of the test, 13 riders remained faultless, three others only had time penalties. Ludger Beerbaum , who started with Chaman , had significant problems in a combination and gave up after two obstacle drops. It was already clear in the first round that the overall victory of the series went to Edwina Tops-Alexander . However, this also did not reach the second round with eight penalty points.

The second round turned out to be less difficult for the participants, eleven out of 18 riders with their horses remained faultless. A total of eight riders, who remained clear in both laps, entered the jump-off. The victory went to the Frenchman Roger-Yves Bost, who was the only rider to use a shortcut shortly before the finish and thus achieved the fastest time of the jump-off without mistakes.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Roger-Yves Bost	Ideal de la Lodge	0	-	0	-	0	41.14	40
2	Khalid al-'Aid	Presley Boy	0	-	0	-	0	42.08	37
3	Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto	Ashleigh Thrush Dan	0	-	0	-	0	42.20	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 38 participants)

Overall rating

In 2011, the Global Champions Tour was decided for the second time in a row on the basis of the final overall ranking after the last special stage. Based on this ranking list, bonus prize money was awarded to the most successful riders on the Global Champions Tour at the end of the season.

	equestrian	QAT	ESP	GER	FRA I	MON	POR	FRA II	NED	BRA	UAE	scoring points	Prize money (bonus)
1	Edwina Tops-Alexander	28	(27)	30th	40	30th	(0)	40	33	37	(0)	238	€ 300,000
2	Ludger Beerbaum	19.5	37	37	35	23	35	(0)	(0)	32	(0)	218.5	€ 180,000
3	Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto	40	26th	32	(19)	(6)	(0)	21st	29	27	35	210	€ 120,000
4th	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	(0)	20th	40	12	40	30th	(0)	(0)	30th	33	205	€ 80,000
5	Luciana Diniz	33	(0)	20th	30th	29	37	37	(6)	(0)	12	198	€ 60,000
6th	Denis Lynch	32	32	24	32	0	21st	(0)	37	-	19th	197	€ 33,750
7th	Philipp Weishaupt	27	-	8th	29	26th	26th	(0)	20th	35	(8th)	171	€ 33,750
8th	Clarissa Crotta	-	-	-	33	24	32	25th	22nd	-	31	167	€ 20,000
9	Marco Kutscher	(0)	(8th)	31	(8th)	11	31	31	30th	8th	22nd	164	€ 20,000
10	Christian Ahlmann	(8th)	10	11	(6)	37	40	23	28	-	11	160	€ 20,000
11	Pius Schwizer	37	-	-	24	31	27	-	0	26th	10	155	€ 20,000
12	Billy Twomey	11	40	21st	11	19th	22nd	-	(7)	-	24	148	€ 10,000
13	Judy-Ann Melchior	0	(0)	33	22nd	22nd	-	10	(0)	31	28	146	€ 10,000
14th	Kevin Staut	25th	19th	-	26th	25th	25th	(0)	11	12	(0)	143	€ 10,000
15th	Rodrigo Pessoa	-	21st	-	10	35	8th	29	0	33	-	136	€ 10,000
16	Gerco Schröder	30th	25th	28	0	0	-	0	(0)	40	(0)	123	€ 7,500
17th	Laura herb	-	33	9	(0)	0	-	33	12	25th	6th	118	€ 7,500
18th	Marcus Ehning	-	31	0	21st	32	0	0	32	(0)	-	116	€ 7,500

The seven best results of each rider are included in the overall ranking.

Web links

• Global Champions Tour website (English)
• FEI tournament calendar
• Individual stages:
  • CSI 5 * Valencia
  • CSI 5 * Hamburg
  • CSI 5 * Cannes
  • CSI 5 * Monaco
  • CSI 5 * Chantilly
  • CSI 5 * Rio de Janeiro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GCT Live Streaming Commentator and Interviewer , globalchampionstour.com
2. ↑ Preliminary schedule of the GCT of Qatar 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2011 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; 207 kB) 
3. ^ Result of the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Qatar 2011
4. ^ Result Global Champions Tour - Gran Premio de Espana 2011
5. ^ Result of the Global Champions Tour of Germany 2011
6. ↑ Edwina electrifies Cannes with a back to back win , globalchampionstour.com (English)
7. ↑ Result of the Global Champions Tour Cannes 2011
8. ^ Result of the Global Champions Tour of Monaco 2011
9. ↑ Global Champions Tour: Welcome to Monte-Carlo
10. ↑ Estoril Tourism Official Site ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 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. (English)  
11. ↑ Timetable CSI 5 * Estoril 2011
12. ^ Result of the Global Champions Tour of Portugal 2011
13. ^ Édouard de Rothschild: Sports commitment
14. ↑ Results CSI 5 * Chantilly 2010
15. ↑ Result Global Champions Tour Chantilly 2011
16. ↑ Result Global Champions Tour Valkenswaard 2011
17. ↑ Exchange rate at the beginning of September 2011: 1 euro corresponds to approximately 1.40 Canadian and US dollars
18. ↑ Result of the Global Champions Tour Rio de Janeiro 2011
19. ↑ Result of the Global Champions Tour Abu Dhabi 2011 ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Announcement CSI 5 * Abu Dhabi 2011: INVITATION SYSTEM AND RULES FOR THE GLOBAL CHAMPIONS TOUR (GCT) 2011, Overall classification ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 363 kB)  
21. ↑ Overall ranking Global Champions Tour 2011