Global Champions Tour 2017

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The Global Champions Tour 2017 was the twelfth season of the Global Champions Tour , an international tournament series. It is considered one of the most important series in show jumping . For the second time, another test series, the Global Champions League 2017 team competition , was held parallel to the Global Champions Tour . Both series were FEI recognized tournament series in 2017 .

Name sponsor and timepiece of the Global Champions Tour (GCT) was also Longines in 2017 , so it was named Longines Global Champions Tour 2017 .

Course of the tournament series

For the 2017 season, new tournament locations were added: In Berlin, an internationally advertised horse show was held for the first time since 2003, and London returned to the Global Champions Tour calendar after a one-year break. As the number of 15 stages was retained, two stages no longer appear in the GCT / GCL calendar: In Vienna, the organizers were unable to find a venue in the direct center. The tournament Jumping Antwerp, which was supplemented by a GCT evaluation test in 2014, took place in 2017 as a CSI 5 * tournament outside of the tournament series.

All tournaments were  advertised as CSI 5 *, the highest category in show jumping.

Global Champions League

The Global Champions League is a series of tests for teams in which two riders from a team (usually five riders) compete as one team. The teams (with the exception of one Qatari team) are composed independently of their nationalities, the nationalities take a back seat and are not included in the result lists.

In the 2017 season, the special stages of the Global Champions League (GCL) were held before the stage of the Global Champions Tour. Each GCL stage consisted of two tests: The first partial test on Thursday or Friday was a jumping competition with jump-offs with a height of up to 1.55 meters, of which only the normal round was included in the team ranking.

The second partial test took place on the Saturday before the Global Champions Tour test and replaced the previous first round of this test. So it was a jumping competition according to mistakes and time (one round) , obstacle height up to 1.60 meters. The starting order of the teams was based on their result in the first partial test. The team result resulted from the addition of the penalty points of the two team riders of both partial tests, in the case of a penalty point tie the addition of the times of the second round decided. In addition to the prize money for both exams, each GCL stage was endowed with 200,000 euros.

In the 2017 season, 18 teams competed in the GCL, the regulations limit the number of teams to a maximum of 20. The teams included the following riders:

• Berlin Lions: Max Kühner , Aleš Opatrný , Gerco Schröder , Cindy van der Straten-Marie , Anna Kellnerová    
• Cannes Stars: Ludger Beerbaum , Marco Kutscher , Jane Richard Philips , Christian Kukuk, Guido Klatte jun.    
• Cascais Charms: David Will , Andreas Kreuzer , Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo , Nicola Pohl, Philip Houston   
• Chantilly Pegasus: Nicola Philippaerts , Sergio Alvarez Moya , Lauren Hough , Lucy Davis , Martin Fuchs     
• Doha Fursan Qatar: Ali bin Chalid Al Thani , Bassem Hassan Mohammed , Faleh Suwead Al Ajami , Chalid Mohammed al-Emadi , Hamad Ali Mohamed Al Attiyah     
• Hamburg Diamonds: Harrie Smolders , Eric Lamaze , John Whitaker , Audrey Coulter , Jos Verlooy     
• London Knights: Kent Farrington , Ben Maher , Eduardo Menezes , Enrique González , Emily Moffitt    
• Madrid in Motion: Maikel van der Vleuten , Leopold van Asten , Eric van der Vleuten , Marta Ortega Perez , Gonzalo Añón Suarez    
• Mexico Amigos: Christian Ahlmann , Henrik von Eckermann , Geir Gulliksen , Yuri Mansur Guerios , Evelina Tovek    
• Miami Glory: Scott Brash , Cian O'Connor , Georgina Bloomberg , Kimberly Prince , Paris Sellon     
• Monaco Aces: Daniel Bluman , Pieter Devos , Pilar Lucrecia Cordon , Danielle Goldstein , Teddy Vlock    
• Moscow Bears: Kamal Bahamdan , Ramzy Al Duhami , Michael Kearins, Mathilda Karlsson, Kevin Jochems  
• Paris Panthers: Darragh Kenny , Nayel Nassar , Jack Towell , Jennifer Gates, Lillie Keenan   
• Rome Gladiators: Laura Kraut , Marlon Módolo Zanotelli , Lorenzo de Luca , Abdel Said , Emma Heise    
• Shanghai Swans: Daniel Deußer , Roger-Yves Bost , Jessica Springsteen , Janne Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann , Alexandra Thornton     
• St Tropez Pirates: Simon Delestre , Jérôme Guery , Julien Epaillard , Athina Onassis , Laura Klaphake    
• Valkenswaard United: Bertram Allen , Marcus Ehning , Alberto Zorzi , Janika Sprunger , Sanne Thijssen    
• Vienna Eagles: Gregory Wathelet , Niels Bruynseels , José Alfredo Hernández Ortega , Emanuel Andrade , Kerry Mc Cahill    

Global Champions Tour

Following the second stage of the Global Champions League, the special stages of the Global Champions Tour were held on Saturday afternoon or evening. The special stages only consisted of one normal lap and one jump-off , the height of the obstacles was up to 1.60 meters.

The 25 best riders of the previously held second test of the Global Champions League were qualified for the GCT evaluation test. The endowment for the evaluation test was at least € 300,000 in each case .

media

Eurosport was media partner of the Global Champions Tour for another year . The GCT exams were transferred to Eurosport 1 . The broadcasts took place live or with a time delay. The GCT and GCL-stages and many other tests of GCT tournaments were on the websites of the two tournament series via live stream transmitted.

The stages

1st stage: Mexico City

The GCT / GCL season in Mexico started on the weekend after the World Cup final in Omaha . From April 6th to 9th, 2017, the highest-altitude tournament of this series of tournaments (approx. 2300 meters above sea level) was held on the Campo Marte , a large grass pitch in Mexico City .

Global Champions League: In the 2017 season, the Global Champions League rating consists of two tests, each with one round, held on two different days. Already after the first partial test a duel was on the horizon: The newly formed GCL winning team from the previous year, Team Valkenswaard United, was in the lead without any mistakes, the new Team St. Tropez Pirates followed with a time penalty. All other teams had already received eight or more penalty points.

In the second partial test, which also counted as a qualification test for the Global Champions Tour, the two leading teams started without changing the riders and horses. Alberto Zorzi made an obstacle error for Valkenswaard United, while St. Tropez Pirates took the lead with a clear round from Simon Delestre. As the penultimate rider, Jérôme Guery incurred eight penalty points for the St. Tropez Pirates. So the decision about the victory lay with Bertram Allen. Allen got four penalty points with his gray stallion Hector van d'Abdijhoeve , but this was enough to secure victory for Valkenswaard United.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Valkenswaard United	Alberto Zorzi with Cornetto K	0	4th	76.08	8th	150.81	30th
		Bertram Allen with Hector van d'Abdijhoeve	0	4th	74.73
2	St. Tropez Pirates	Simon Delestre with Hermes Ryan	0	0	73.92	9	153.13	27
		Jérôme Guery with Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	1	8th	79.21

Global Champions Tour: In Mexico City, a Global Champions Tour stage was carried out for the first time according to the new mode, in which only the best 25 riders of a qualifying test take part in the GCT special test. The starting order was also based on the result of the qualification test (the winner being the last starter).

More than half of the 25 starters (14 riders) got a result of four or less penalty points, Paris Sellon and Marco Kutscher missed the jump-off due to a time penalty. The jump-off course took up the sequence of obstacles of the normal course again: sequence of obstacles 4a - 5 - 6 - 7a - 7b - 9 - 10, as the final jump an oxer was set up as a new obstacle 16. Due to the elimination of obstacle 8, obstacle 9 had to be ridden from a 270-degree turn around the jump, a turn that would be decisive for the course of the jump-off.

After Bertram Allen and Daniel Deußer were the first riders to receive four penalty points each, it was Deusser's stable colleague Lorenzo de Luca who showed a slow but error-free lap with Armitages Boy and thus took the lead. Niels Bruynseels was already significantly faster, but made a bigger arc at the turn to obstacle 9. Maikel van der Vleuten tried to take this turn much closer with Arera C , but lost some of the flow in his ride and thus reached the finish line about half a second behind Bruynseels. Martin Fuchs, who had already finished second in the qualification test with a quick time, competed here with the only 10-year-old stallion Chaplin . He succeeded in overcoming the jump-off course, including the turn to obstacle 9, smoothly and without mistakes, which clearly earned him the fastest time in the jump-off and thus victory.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Martin Fuchs	Chaplin	0	-	0	37.07	40
2	Niels Bruynseels	Gancia de Muze	0	-	0	37.58	37
3	Maikel van der Vleuten	Arera C	0	-	4th	38.37	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

2nd stage: Miami Beach

A weekend after Mexico, the second North American stage was on the program. For the third time, a GCT tournament was held in a makeshift riding arena on the beach in Miami Beach. The tournament took place from April 13th to 15th, 2017.

Global Champions League: In the first GCL competition on the first day of the tournament, Bertram Allen and Alberto Zorzi stayed clear for Valkenswaard United. Both riders of the Doha Fursan Qatar team ( Ali bin Chalid Al Thani and Bassem Hassan Mohammed ) each received a time penalty and were therefore in second place in the interim result. In the second test, Doha Fursan Qatar slipped to fourth place with 12 more penalty points. Valkenswaard United missed their second win of the season as Bertram Allen and his gray stallion Hector van d'Abdijhoeve suffered eight penalty points. Like the London Knights, Valkenswaard United had a total of eight penalty points. However, since the London Knights team, made up of Ben Maher and Kent Farrington, brought the faster times to the finish in the second stage, they clinched the victory in this GCL stage.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	London Knights	Ben Maher with Don Vito	0	4th	70.78	8th	135.43	30th
		Kent Farrington with Dublin	4th
		Kent Farrington with Creedance		0	64.65
2	Valkenswaard United	Alberto Zorzi with Cornetto K	0	0	73.89	8th	143.97	27
		Bertram Allen with Hector van d'Abdijhoeve	0	8th	70.08

Global Champions Tour: No German riders could qualify for the Global Champions Tour stage in Miami. From Austria, Max Kühner started with Electric Touch (eight penalty points in normal circulation, 12th place), for Switzerland Martin Fuchs with Chaplin (also eight penalty points in normal circulation , 11th place) and Jane Richard Philips with Dieudonne de Guldenboom (four penalty points , 7th place).

The jump-off remained clear with four riders. Nicola Philippaerts made no mistakes with Chilli Willi , Alberto Zorzi as the second rider replaced Philippaerts directly on the top spot. The jump-off was unlucky for Harrie Smolders : his stallion Emerald buckled his forehand shortly after the second obstacle. Both could intercept and avoid a fall, but the next obstacle could no longer be ridden properly. The new riding brought four penalty points, which were added four time penalty points. Jérôme Guery was the last rider in the jump-off, with Grand Cru van de Rozenberg he was even faster than Zorzi, and without mistakes he secured victory in the GCT Grand Prix of Miami.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Jérôme Guery	Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	0	-	0	37.39	40
2	Alberto Zorzi	Cornetto K	0	-	0	37.96	37
3	Nicola Philippaerts	Chilli Willi	0	-	0	39.50	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

3rd stage: Shanghai

At the end of April 2017 the Chinese stage of the GCT / GCL was carried out. The tournament was held from April 28th to 30th, 2017 in the immediate vicinity of the China Art Museum (China Art Palace) in Shanghai .

Global Champions League: After the first GCL test in Shanghai, three of the 18 teams were tied without errors. While the St Tropez Pirates dropped to eighth place due to a 16-point ride by Simon Delestre and Chesall , the decision was made between the Paris Panthers and Hamburg Diamonds teams. Both teams remained without errors in the second test. The Paris Panthers were already able to pull away with their first rider, Jack Towell (who started the 11-year-old Lucifer V in this test ) was over three seconds faster than John Whitaker for the Hamburg Diamonds. Darragh Kenny, the second rider of the Paris Panthers, was also quick and flawless on the course, so that the team won the Global Champions League in Shanghai due to the better times in the second test.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Paris Panthers	Jack Towell with Lucifer V		0	78.18	0	155.99	30th
		Darragh Kenny with Charly Chaplin S	0	0	77.81
		Jack Towell with New York	0
2	Hamburg Diamonds	John Whitaker with Ornellaia	0	0	81.52	0	161.94	27
		Jos Verlooy with Caracas	0	0	80.42

Global Champions Tour: On the afternoon of April 29, 2017, the GCT stage from Shanghai was hosted. 13 of the 25 qualified riders got a result of four or less penalty points in the normal round. With just one time penalty, Andreas Kreuzer with Calvilot and Harrie Smolders with the Zangersheider stallion Don Z just missed the jump-off.

In the jump-off of the four participants with no penalty points in the normal round, Gregory Wathelet and Alberto Zorzi each made one obstacle error with their horses. Maikel van der Vleuten achieved the first error-free ride in the jump-off. The second flawless round of the jump-off was achieved by Lorenzo de Luca, who secured victory in this 500,000 euro test with a time of 38.05 seconds.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Lorenzo de Luca	Ensor de Litrange LXII	0	-	0	38.05	40
2	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	-	0	39.36	37
3	Alberto Zorzi	Fair Light van't Heike	0	-	4th	37.82	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

4th stage: Madrid

As part of the 107th CSI in Madrid, the Spanish stage of the Global Champions Tour / Global Champions League was held. The tournament took place from May 19-21, 2017 at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid .

Global Champions League: Four teams managed to stay clear in the first test of the Global Champions League in Madrid. While the Hamburg Diamonds, the St Tropez Pirates and the Mexico Amigos got four, eight and twelve penalty points in the second test, the victory went to the Cannes Stars team. Marco Kutscher and Ludger Beerbaum made no mistakes with their horses in both rounds. Third place went to the Cascais Charms team (Philip Houston with Loewenherz and Kannella and David Will with Mic Mac du Tillard ), who received no penalty points in the second after eight penalty points in the first test. In particular Wills Ritt, almost three seconds faster than the second placed rider in the individual classification of this test, earned the Cascais Charms the fastest time of the teams with eight penalty points.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Cascais Charms	Marco Kutscher with Clenur	0	0	75.45	0	149.75	30th
		Ludger Beerbaum with Chiara	0	0	74.30
2	Hamburg Diamonds	Harrie Smolders with Don Z	0	0	74.19	4th	144.36	27
		Audrey Coulter with Capital Colnardo	0
		Eric Lamaze with Fine Lady		4th	70.17

Global Champions Tour: On the evening of April 20th, the GCT stage in Madrid was on the program. While the riders Ludger Beerbaum and Marco Kutscher, who were victorious in the GCL, could not place themselves with four or five penalty points in the normal round, five participants qualified for the jump-off.

In the jump-off, Bassem Hassan Mohammed got eight penalty points with Gunder and thus came in fifth. The other four riders and their horses all failed again. The gaps between the times of the three fastest riders in the jump-off were extremely close: Last year's winner couple Marcus Ehning and Pret A Tout finished with 45.68 seconds. While Maikel van der Vleuten could not take the lead with Verdi , Kent Farrington did. The American won with the 11-year-old mare Gazelle with a time of 45.18 seconds.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Kent Farrington	gazelle	0	-	0	45.18	40
2	Marcus Ehning	Pret A Tout	0	-	0	45.68	37
3	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	-	0	45.86	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

5th stage: Hamburg

Starter for Miami Glory and winner of the Hamburg Championship: Denis Lynch and Echo

For the tenth time, a stage of the Global Champions Tour was held as part of the German Show Jumping and Dressage Derby . As every year, the tournament took place on the Ascension weekend , from May 24th to 28th, 2017, in Hamburg - Klein Flottbek .

Global Champions League: The Global Champions League competitions at the German Jumping and Dressage Derby were the Hamburg Championships on Thursday (May 25) and a pre-Grand Prix competition on Saturday afternoon. Two teams finished the first round of the Hamburg championship with a clean slate : Chantilly Pegasus, represented by Martin Fuchs with Clooney and Lauren Hough with Ohlala and Miami Glory. Third place went to the Qatari team Doha Fursan Qatar, whose riders Ali bin Chalid Al Thani and Bassem Hassan Mohammed each exceeded the allowed time of 80 seconds and received a time penalty.

These three teams are also the top three in the overall result of the Hamburg GCT stage. While Chantilly Pegasus and Doha Fursan Qatar each got four penalty points in the second team test on Saturday, the victory went to Miami Glory. His team riders Denis Lynch and Scott Brash also made no mistakes in this second test.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Miami Glory	Scott Brash with Ursula XII		0	76.39	0	151.20	30th
		Denis Lynch with Echo	0	0	74.81
		Scott Brash with Forever	0
2	Chantilly Pegasus	Martin Fuchs with Clooney	0	0	76.46	4th	146.84	27
		Lauren Hough with Ohlala	0	4th	70.38

Global Champions Tour: The special stage of the Global Champions Tour was the Grand Prix in Hamburg on Saturday afternoon. In the normal round of this test, 13 of the 25 participants got a result of four or less penalty points, five made it into the jump-off.

The jump-off was characterized by constant changes in leadership: the tournament had already been successful for 23-year-old Laura Klaphake , including ninth in the Hamburg championship. She opened the jump-off with the 9-year-old mare Catch me if you can , but received four penalty points. Christian Ahlmann and the 13-year-old stallion Epleaser van't Heike brought the first clear round of the jump-off to the finish. Harrie Smolders with his equally 13-year-old stallion Don were a bit faster and without mistakes, while Yuri Mansur with Babylotte had to accept four penalty points.

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Casall were the last couple to start in the jump-off. The 18-year-old Holstein Verband stallion Casall was supposed to be retired from the sport after this test, so this was his last round in the show jumping course. Both played out their years of experience and not only remained flawless, but were also over two seconds faster than Smolders. Casall said goodbye by winning the Hamburg Grand Prix.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	-	0	42.69	40
2	Harrie Smolders	Don Z	0	-	0	45.13	37
3	Christian Ahlmann	Epleaser van't Heike	0	-	0	45.57	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

6th stage: Cannes

The Jumping Cannes tournament was held in Cannes from June 8th to 10th, 2017 . The venue was the Stade des Hespérides football stadium , which is located in the immediate vicinity of the Boulevard de la Croisette.

Global Champions League: The first partial test of the Global Champions League in Cannes was demanding, only four of the 32 riders of the teams finished the course without mistakes. The teams also collected a number of penalty points in the second sub-test: of the 15 teams still at the start, nine teams received 12 or more penalty points. The three teams that were in the lead with eight penalty points after the first sub-test (St Tropez Pirates, Doha Fursan Qatar and the London Knights) lost their top position in the second sub-test and found themselves between fifth and tenth place in the final result. The riders from Valkenswaard United, who placed fifth in the first part of the test, made no mistakes in the second part of the test on Saturday and thus took the victory. The Shanghai Swans, who placed second in the final result, made full use of the opportunity to swap horses and riders: three riders with four horses competed for the team in the special stages in Cannes.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Valkenswaard United	Alberto Zorzi with Going Global	5	0	76.81	10	144.21	30th
		Janika Sprunger with Aris	5
		Marcus Ehning with Pret A Tout		0	67.40
2	Shanghai Swans	Roger-Yves Bost with Sydney une Prince	0			16	147.32	27
		Daniel Deußer with Hidalgo	14th
		Alexandra Thornton with Figero		2	81.45
		Roger-Yves Bost with Pegase du Murier		0	65.87

Global Champions Tour: The last test of the tournament, which ended on Saturday, was the GCT special test from 10 p.m. There was a high number of clear rounds in the first round, ten of the 25 starters with their horses made no mistakes. In the jump-off, half of the ten riders were again clear. Eric van der Vleuten came with Wunschkind , a chestnut mare he had been riding for six months, at a rather restrained pace in fifth place (43.84 seconds). The decision to win was made with significantly faster rides: Alberto Zorzi and Going Global , who are already part of the winning team in the Global Champions League, came fourth here. Daniel Deußer and Simon Delestre were also quick and error-free with their horses, but the victory went to Sergio Álvarez Moya. With the 12-year-old gelding Arrayan , he was the only rider to stay under 36 seconds in the jump-off.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Sergio Álvarez Moya	Arrayan	0	-	0	35.76	40
2	Simon Delestre	Hermes Ryan	0	-	0	36.70	37
3	Daniel Deußer	Hidalgo	0	-	0	37.63	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

7th stage: Monaco

Two weeks after Cannes, another stage of the GCT / GCL took place on the Côte d'Azur: The Jumping International de Monte Carlo tournament was held from June 23rd to June 25th 2017 on a provisional clay court on the banks of the Boulevard Albert 1er at Port Hercule in Monaco .

Global Champions League : The number of faultless rides in the first partial test of the Global Champions League in Monaco was quite high, four teams were in the lead after this partial test without penalty points. But no team could keep this result. The Vienna Eagles managed to do this best, whose two Belgian riders achieved an overall result of only one time penalty from two partial tests. The Shanghai Swans and the Mexico Amigos each received four penalty points in addition to their flawless intermediate results. Benefiting from Roger-Yves Bost's fast lap in the second partial test (which also brought him victory in the individual classification of the test), the Shanghai Swans were able to show the better time and came in second.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Vienna Eagles	Gregory Wathelet with Eldorado van het Vijverhof	0	0	65.62	1	137.83	30th
		Niels Bruynseels with Cas de Liberte	0	1	72.21
2	Shanghai Swans	Jessica Springsteen with Cynar	0	4th	68.64	4th	130.22	27
		Daniel Deußer with Hidalgo	0
		Roger-Yves Bost with Pegase du Murier		0	61.58

Global Champions Tour : The third starter in the Grand Prix of the Prince of Monaco, Christian Ahlmann, made no mistakes. He was the only one of three German riders who managed to qualify for the jump-off. The number of faultless rides also remained low for the other participants, only three other riders managed a clear round. In the jump-off, Ahlmann and his 9-year-old mare Dolocia had to put in a quick time of 38.20 seconds without mistakes. Scott Brash was the second starter in the jump-off. With his chestnut gelding Forever , he rode the third obstacle diagonally to make up for time in the tight turn to the double (previously triple) combination. But he threw him back eight penalty points, he finished the jump-off in fourth place. Kevin Staut also made an obstacle error. This cleared the way for Alberto Zorzi, who remained flawless with Cornetto K and was 40 hundredths of a second faster than Ahlmann.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Alberto Zorzi	Cornetto K	0	-	0	37.80	40
2	Christian Ahlmann	Dolocia	0	-	0	38.20	37
3	Kevin Staut	For Joy van't Zorgvliet	0	-	4th	41.05	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

8th stage: Paris

After two stages on the Mediterranean, the GCT / GCL program took the riders to the French capital from June 30th to July 2nd, 2017. After the Paris Eiffel Jumping tournament was held a little more decentrally in the previous year due to the final round of the European Football Championship, it returned to the Field of Mars in 2017 in the immediate vicinity of the Eiffel Tower.

Global Champions League: In the first partial test, held on the afternoon of June 30th, two teams remained without obstacle errors: the St Tropez Pirates did not score any penalty points, while the Hamburg Diamonds were due to Audrey Coulter and Capital's eight hundredths of a second slow ride Colnardo suffered a time penalty. With eight penalty points each in the second partial test for both teams, the remaining teams got the chance to take the lead again. The closest came Lauren Hough and Sergio Álvarez Moya for Chantilly Pegasus with only one time penalty. But due to her preload of twelve penalty points from the first partial test, it was only enough for her for third place.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	St Tropez Pirates	Simon Delestre with Hermes Ryan		0	78.31	0	162.75	30th
		Jérôme Guery with Grand Cru van de Rozenberg	0	8th	84.44
		Simon Delestre with Chesall	0
2	Hamburg Diamonds	Audrey Coulter with Capital Colnardo	1	4th	83.46	9	164.10	27
		Harrie Smolders with Don Z	0	4th	80.64

Global Champions Tour: In the normal round of the Grand Prix there were a high number of obstacle errors, in particular the combinations were the main errors. 15 of the 24 riders who finished the round got a result of eight or more penalty points. The three clear rides came early: Harrie Smolders as the sixth rider managed the first clear round, the third clear round was achieved by Olivier Philippaerts as the eleventh starter.

With his entry into the jump-off, Harrie Smolders already had the lead in the intermediate result of the GCT overall standings. With his 13-year-old Zangersheider stallion Don Z , he presented a flawless ride in the jump-off. Julien Epaillard rode the 9-year-old chestnut stallion Usual Suspect d'Auge as the second rider in the jump-off . For the stallion, this was the first Grand Prix at 5 * level, Epaillard had previously competed mostly in tests up to 1.40 meters high. Julien Epaillard took the lead without penalty points and well over a second faster than Smolders. Olivier Philippaerts was the last participant in the jump-off. With Legend of Love he got no penalty points here either, with his required time of 41.98 seconds he placed second.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Julien Epaillard	Usual Suspect d'Auge	0	-	0	40.67	40
2	Olivier Philippaerts	Legend of Love	0	-	0	41.98	37
3	Harrie Smolders	Don Z	0	-	0	42.13	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

9th stage: Cascais

The Portuguese stage of the Global Champions Tour / Global Champions League was held in Cascais . The venue was the Hipódromo Manuel Possolo. After the tournament was extended to three days in the previous year due to the implementation of the Global Champions League outside the program of the examinations according to the FEI regulations, exams were only held on two days in 2017: the CSI 5 * lasted from July 7th to 8th 2017 on. In addition to the GCL / GCT evaluation tests, there was only one test at all.

Global Champions League: Many riders finished the first partial test of the GCL in Cascais without penalty points, four teams finished the test without penalty points. The second partial test on Saturday (July 8th) was more demanding, with few clear rounds. Accordingly, only one of the four teams was able to maintain their flawless team result: Miami Glory. Thus the team victory seemed to be assured after the faultless ride of their last rider Scott Brash. However, during the routine inspection of Brash's horse Forever , a steward found a slightly bleeding spot on its flank, which led to the rider being excluded. Since the Global Champions League regulations do not provide for any cancellation results, this also meant the team was eliminated.

The victory in the test went to the Mexico Amigos, who were the only team to have only collected four penalty points from both partial tests.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Mexico amigos	Henrik von Eckermann with Chacanno	0	0	67.63	4th	143.45	30th
		Yuri Mansur Guerios with Unita	4th
		Yuri Mansur Guerios with Babylotte		0	75.82
2	Paris Panthers	Lillie Keenan with Skyhorse		4th	78.70	8th	155.88	27
		Jack Towell with New York	0	4th	77.18
		Lillie Keenan with Fibonacci	0

Global Champions Tour: The GCT stage from Cascais was not scheduled to begin until late in the evening, at 9:30 p.m. local time. In the normal course of the test, five participants remained without errors. In the jump-off of these riders it was Maikel van der Vleuten who (as the second starter) managed the first clear round. This tour was taken over by Danielle Goldstein, riding for Israel, who rode the chestnut mare Lizziemary here . After her, Martin Fuchs and Bertram Allen started. Fuchs was faster than Goldstein with Clooney , but both he and Allen had to accept four penalty points in the jump-off. This was the first time ever to win a Global Champions Tour special test.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Danielle Goldstein	Lizziemary	0	-	0	45.56	40
2	Maikel van der Vleuten	Arera C	0	-	0	47.03	37
3	Martin Fuchs	Clooney	0	-	4th	44.93	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

10th stage: Chantilly

After being held in May, the CSI 5 * tournament in Chantilly 2017 returned to July. The event took place on the grounds of the racetrack on the edge of Chantilly Castle from July 13th to 16th, 2017.

Global Champions League: Two teams were in the lead without penalty points after the first GCL partial test on July 14th: Hamburg Diamonds and Miami Glory. Cascais Charms was still within striking distance , represented by Philip Houston with Loewenherz and David Will with Cento du Rouet . While the Cascais Charms dropped to seventh place in the second sub-test, the decision was made between the first-named teams. A mistake by Paris Sellon caused the Miami Glory penalty point to grow to four penalty points. The riders of Hamburg Diamonds were able to take advantage of this starting position: Harrie Smolders made no mistakes with Emerald . John Whitaker could even afford a time penalty with his gray stallion Cassinis Chaplin without jeopardizing the team victory .

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Hamburg Diamonds	Harrie Smolders with Emerald	0	0	77.91	1	162.61	30th
		John Whitaker with Cassini's Chaplin	0	1	84.70
2	Miami Glory	Paris Sellon with Cassandra	0	4th	81.74	0	151.20	30th
		Scott Brash with Senator	0
		Scott Brash with Forever		0	73.36

Global Champions Tour: The GCT stage was held on Saturday (July 15th) from 5:15 pm. Few of the 25 starters remained without mistakes: up to the penultimate rider, only three riders had qualified for the jump-off. Scott Brash, as the last participant in the normal round, also made no mistakes, so four riders and their horses started in the jump-off. Philippe Rozier, the only French there, opened the jump-off with Rahotep de Toscane with a clear round. But his time proved to be beatable, Harrie Smolders as the second starter took the lead with Emerald . Slower than Smolders and with an obstacle error , Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo as the third playoff participant had nothing to do with the decision to win. It was different with Scott Brash: With his 11-year-old gelding Forever he made it through the jump-off course without any mistakes, was fast, but slower than Harrie Smolders by over a second. For Smolders the second victory on that day was clear.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Harrie Smolders	Emerald	0	-	0	41.63	40
2	Scott Brash	Forever	0	-	0	42.82	37
3	Philippe Rozier	Rahotep de Toscane	0	-	0	44.80	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

11th stage: Berlin

For the first time since 2013, the Global Champions Tour made two stops in Germany. After Hamburg, a new CSI 5 * tournament was held in Berlin from July 28th to 30th, 2017 . The summer garden of the Berlin exhibition center was selected as the location for the Global Jumping Berlin tournament .

Global Champions League: The end of the first day of the tournament was the first partial examination of the GCL in Berlin. Of the 18 teams, three remained without errors. No mistakes were made in the second test by two teams, both of which were far from the lead in the first round: the Cannes Stars in 16th place (represented in the second round by Ludger Beerbaum / Chacon and Marco Kutscher / Clenur ) and the last-placed Berlin Lions. The latter were represented in both rounds by Max Kühner and Anna Kellnerova, but after a total of 28 penalty points in the first sub-test, both of them started other horses in the second sub-test.

Despite four penalty points in each case in the second round, the decision was made between two teams that were flawless so far. Ultimately, the slow lap of Eric Lamaze and Chacco Kid brought the decision that the Hamburg Diamonds had to be satisfied with second place, while Alberto Zorzi and Bertram Allen secured victory as team riders for Valkenswaard United.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Valkenswaard United	Alberto Zorzi with Cornetto K	0	0	65.29	4th	120.47	30th
		Bertram Allen with Izzy by Picobello	0	4th	64.95
2	Hamburg Diamonds	Eric Lamaze with the Chacco Kid	0	0	68.71	4th	123.76	27
		Jos Verlooy with Igor	0	4th	64.28

Global Champions Tour: The jump-off of the main test of the tournament, the GCT-Grand Prix, was clear in Berlin. Ludger Beerbaum narrowly missed the jump-off with Chacon with a time penalty, but three riders managed a clear round with their horses in the normal round.

Leopold van Asten was the first rider to take part in the jump-off, but with the 11-year-old mare Beauty he got eight penalty points. So the following two riders had a good chance of securing a German victory. The reigning German champions Simone Blum and Alice needed more than three seconds less than van Asten for the jump-off course and made no mistakes. Even with the secure second place for Blum, the greatest success so far in an internationally advertised test was certain.

Christian Ahlmann was the last to go into the jump-off. After unluckily missing the qualification for the Aachen Grand Prix the previous weekend , he attacked in Berlin: With Codex One he was even faster than Blum and won the GCT stage. On top of that, he won the championship on Sunday with Colorit , a test endowed with 92,000 euros.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Christian Ahlmann	Codex One	0	-	0	40.56	40
2	Simone Blum	Alice	0	-	0	41.01	37
3	Leopold van Asten	Beauty	0	-	8th	44.55	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 24 participants)

12th stage: London

After a one-year break, the Global Champions Tour program again included a stage in London . Once again, the venue changed within the British capital. The tournament was now held from August 4-6, 2017 in the gardens of the Royal Hospital Chelsea on the left bank of the Thames .

Global Champions League: The British stage of the Global Champions League started with a surprise: After the first partial test, the Czech team Berlin Lions was the only team in the lead without a mistake. The Berlin Lions had made no mistakes in the second round in Berlin a week earlier, but otherwise had consistently been in the back of the season in the GCL stages.

In the second round, the Berlin Lions (again represented by Max Kühner and Anna Kellnerova) received five penalty points and were at the top of the field together with the Miami Glory and Valkenswaard United teams. However, since the other two teams had their time penalty in the first partial test and the time of the second partial test is decisive for the ranking, only the third place remained for the Berlin Lions. The victory went to Miami Glory, due in particular to the fast ride of Scott Brash and Forever (third place in the individual ranking of the second partial test).

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Miami Glory	Denis Lynch with All Star	0			5	141.81	30th
		Paris Sellon with Cassandra	5
		Scott Brash with Forever		0	68.17
		Denis Lynch with Echo		0	73.64
2	Valkenswaard United	Bertram Allen with Hector van d'Abdijhoeve		0	71.92	5	145.70	27
		Alberto Zorzi with Cornetto K	1	0	73.78
		Janika Sprunger with Aris	4th

Global Champions Tour: The time allowed in the normal circuit of the GCT stage in London was tight, so that five riders received time penalties. But quite a few remained without mistakes here: Christian Kukuk was the first starter to do this with Colestus . Ten other riders should be able to do the same with their horses. The shock moment of normal circulation was a fall of John Whitaker , who celebrated his 62nd birthday that day.

In the jump-off of these eleven riders, penalty points played a subordinate role, only two had obstacle errors in the jump-off. Fast riding decided the test for the best time. This was best achieved by Scott Brash, who went into the jump-off with Forever as the penultimate rider. After him, as the last participant, there was Ben Maher, who came close to Brash's time with Madame X , but was six hundredths of a second too slow for victory over the finish line.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Scott Brash	Forever	0	-	0	38.62	40
2	Ben Maher	Madame X	0	-	0	38.68	37
3	Denis Lynch	All star	0	-	0	39.35	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 24 participants)

13th stage: Valkenswaard

In the 12th season of the Global Champions Tour, Valkenswaard , hometown of series founder Jan Tops, was the venue for a stage of the GCT / GCL. The Dutch stage of the two tournament series took place on the ultra-modern riding facility, which has been expanded into the Tops International Arena from August 11th to 13th, 2017.

Global Champions League: Only the Hamburg Diamonds team, which was represented in Valkenswaard by Jos Verlooy and his stable colleague and trainer Harrie Smolders, remained completely flawless in the first partial test. The Berlin Lions also seemed to be on the road to success once again with just one time penalty. But Max Kühner and Anna Kellnerova collected 25 penalty points in the second partial test on Saturday, which dropped them to tenth place.

While the Hamburg Diamonds got four penalty points in the second part of the test, the Madrid in Motion team made no mistakes and thus also got four penalty points in the addition. Thus, the times of the second test were decisive, and the Hamburg Diamonds secured victory.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Hamburg Diamonds	Jos Verlooy with Igor	0	0	76.81	4th	153.91	30th
		Harrie Smolders with Capital Colnardo	0
		Jos Verlooy with Caracas		4th	77.61
		Harrie Smolders with Emerald		0	76.30
2	Madrid in motion	Maikel van der Vleuten with Quatro	0			4th	156.90	27
		Leopold van Asten with Miss Untouchable	4th
		Leopold van Asten with Beauty		0	78.52
		Maikel van der Vleuten with Verdi		0	78.38

Global Champions Tour: For Daniel Deußer as the first starter, the GCT stage of Valkenswaard with Clintop was unsatisfactory (12 penalty points). Things looked better for the second rider in the starting field: Andreas Kreuzer made no obstacle errors with Calvilot . But as in the Grand Prix three weeks earlier, he had problems with the time, 29 hundredths of a second over 80 seconds meant a time penalty and thus no entry into the jump-off. Eight riders and their horses qualified for the jump-off when the heavy rain poured in.

Jos Verlooy and Caracas made the first error-free ride in the jump-off, but they did not yet make use of the possibilities of the jump-off course . Lorenzo de Luca was significantly faster and took the lead with Ensor de Litrange LXII . Christian Ahlmann was the third who managed a flawless ride in the jump-off. Like de Luca, he too stayed under 40 seconds, but it was not enough for the top position. The fourth and final clear round in the jump-off came about curiously: Maikel van der Vleuten's horse Verdi lost a lot of speed before the second obstacle and wanted to pound . In this situation, Van der Vleuten managed to convince his horse to continue the ride and despite this disturbance he was able to overcome the obstacle without errors. By riding briskly, he was even able to reduce the gap to de Luca, but due to the course of the ride, the time could not be caught. With a time of 40.31 seconds, van der Vleuten came third.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Lorenzo de Luca	Ensor de Litrange LXII	0	-	0	39.20	40
2	Christian Ahlmann	Codex One	0	-	0	39.93	37
3	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	-	0	40.31	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 25 participants)

14th stage: Rome

For the third time, Rome hosted a stage of the Global Champions Tour. The Rome GCT / GCL tournament was held at the Stadio dei Marmi from September 21 to 24, 2017 .

Global Champions League: After the first of two partial tests of the GCL in Rome, the Valkenswaard United team, represented by Alberto Zorzi and Marcus Ehning, was the only one at the top without penalty points. But the second sub-test threw the previous result overboard: Valkenswaard United slipped to third place with 12 penalty points. In the second part of the test there were two teams that did not make any mistakes: Miami Glory had exchanged two horses and one rider compared to the first test. The fact that the second test was free of errors resulted in a total of nine penalty points, which was second place.

The Hamburg Diamonds only brought eight penalty points from the first test. Eric Lamaze and Harrie Smolders started the same horses in both tests. Two clear rounds meant victory in the GCL in Rome. In the overall GCL standings, the lead before the final in Doha was increased to 17 points.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Hamburg Diamonds	Eric Lamaze with the Chacco Kid	4th	0	68.61	8th	144.94	30th
		Harrie Smolders with Don Z	4th	0	76.33
2	Miami Glory	Denis Lynch with Bella Baloubet	4th			9	147.10	27
		Cian O'Connor with Skyhorse	5
		Scott Brash with Forever		0	69.40
		Denis Lynch with Echo		0	77.70

Global Champions Tour: Only three out of 24 riders made it into the jump-off of the Global Champions Tour special test in Rome. Here it was up to Marcus Ehning to submit. He attacked with Funky Fred , but had to accept a mistake on the penultimate jump (a built-over moat). Harrie Smolders as the next starter did not take any chances and stayed with Don just within the allowed time of 53 seconds. However, since he made no mistakes, he took the lead. At this point in time it was already clear to Smolders that he could no longer take first place in the Global Champions Tour overall standings for the 2017 season. But in the day's decision for victory in the Grand Prix, there was another starter: the 24-year-old Swede Evelina Tovek competed with the 9-year-old gray gelding Castello . As the last starter in the jump-off, she made no mistakes. Her time was faster than that of Harrie Smolders, so that Tovek was able to celebrate the greatest success of her career so far.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Evelina Tovek	Castello	0	-	0	50.71	40
2	Harrie Smolders	Don Z	0	-	0	52.43	37
3	Marcus Ehning	Funky Fred	0	-	4th	47.90	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 24 participants)

15th stage: Doha

For the fifth year in a row, the Global Champions Tour concluded in Doha . The Al Shaqab riding facility in the capital of Qatar, built in 2013, was the venue for the CSI 5 * tournament. This took place from November 9th to 11th, 2017.

Global Champions League: Three teams completed the first part of the GCL stage in Doha without errors: the Mexico Amigos, the Paris Panthers and Valkenswaard United. The Paris Panthers fell in the second part of the test, as Lillie Keenan and Darragh Kenny each received four penalty points with their horses. Christian Ahlmann had not yet played for the Mexico Amigos in the first sub-test, in the second sub-test his four penalty points with Taloubet Z put the team back in second place. Alberto Zorzi and Bertram Allen were again without mistakes in the partial test, so that their team Valkenswaard United won the stage.

	team	Riders / horses	1st exam	2nd exam		total		scoring points
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Valkenswaard United	Alberto Zorzi with Fair Light van't Heike	0	0	76.09	0	151.01	30th
		Bertram Allen with Molly Malone V	0	0	74.92
2	Mexico amigos	Christian Ahlmann with Taloubet Z		4th	75.82	4th	155.60	27
		Henrik von Eckermann with Chacanno	0	0	79.78
		Evelina Tovek with Castello	0

Global Champions Tour: 24 riders competed in this last GCT test of 2017, nine of them with their horses without faults. The jump-off of these nine started with faultless rides by Maikel van der Vleuten , Peder Fredricson and Janika Sprunger. The fourth clear round showed Bassem Hassan Mohammed, who took the lead with the 11-year-old gelding Gunder . It should have been the last clear round of the jump-off: Edwina Tops-Alexander , Martin Fuchs , Pieter Devos and also last rider Kevin Staut each received four penalty points. This means that victory in front of his home crowd in this 400,000 euro test went to Bassem Hassan Mohammed.

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		scoring points
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Bassem Hassan Mohammed	Gunder	0	-	0	35.31	40
2	Janika Sprunger	Bacardi	0	-	0	37.34	37
3	Peder Fredricson	Christian K	0	-	4th	37.41	35

(Places one to three out of a total of 24 participants)

Overall ratings

Global Champions Tour

The overall ranking decided the overall victory of the Global Champions Tour. 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. Harrie Smolders was already the overall winner of 2017 before the final in Doha.

	equestrian	Mexico	Miami	Shanghai	Madrid	Hamb.	Cannes	Monaco	Paris	Estoril	Chant.	Berlin	London	Valkensw.	Rome	Doha	scoring points	Prize money (bonus)
1	Harrie Smolders	-	33	32	(21)	37	(27)	-	35	(22)	40	(26)	33	31	37	(21)	278	€ 294,500
2	Maikel van der Vleuten	35	(17)	37	35	-	-	-	24	37	-	-	27	35	-	33	263	€ 190,000
3	Lorenzo de Luca	33	27	40	33	-	-	-	-	-	27	(13.5)	30th	40	30th	-	260	€ 123,500
4th	Christian Ahlmann	28	-	-	26th	35	28	37	26th	-	-	40	-	37	-	-	257	€ 76,000
5	Alberto Zorzi	-	37	35	-	-	33	40	(16)	-	29	31	24	26th	-	(14)	255	€ 47,500
6th	Scott Brash	(18)	28	29	-	21st	-	33	-	-	37	-	40	24	33	-	245	€ 33,250
7th	Martin Fuchs	40	26th	-	-	31	-	-	-	35	-	-	32	-	18th	29	211	€ 33,250
8th	Kevin Staut	-	-	28	13	-	-	35	22nd	-	16	-	25th	-	32	32	203	€ 19,000
9	Jack Towell	23	20th	24	(18)	-	-	31	-	20th	25th	28	-	19th	-	-	190	€ 19,000
10	Niels Bruynseels	37	16	-	-	-	17th	15th	30th	-	31	25th	18th	-	-	-	189	€ 19,000
11	Gregory Wathelet	-	-	33	-	26th	-	29	-	17th	28	-	-	32	-	24	189	€ 19,000
12	Simon Delestre	15th	31	-	-	-	37	-	32	-	14th	32	-	23	-	-	184	€ 14,250
13	Sergio Álvarez Moya	-	-	-	-	-	40	-	27	14.5	17th	13.5	-	22nd	28	13	175	€ 14,250
14th	Ben Maher	-	24	13.5	-	-	21st	-	13	29	-	18th	37	-	-	18th	173.5	€ 14,250
15th	Jos Verlooy	27	-	27	-	-	19th	32	-	32	-	-	-	33	-	-	170	€ 9,500
16	Daniel Deußer	31	-	13.5	-	-	35	27	-	-	-	15th	22nd	15th	-	-	158.5	€ 9,500
17th	Marco Kutscher	30th	-	17th	20th	19th	-	-	-	16	-	19th	-	-	16	20th	157	€ 7,125
18th	Bertram Allen	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	33	-	21st	26th	-	-	25th	152	€ 7,125

Places one to 18, the eight best results of each rider are included in the overall ranking.

Global Champions League

At the end of the season, 7,500,000 euros in additional prize money was distributed among the team, 2,000,000 euros of which went to the overall ranking winner Hamburg Diamonds.

	team	Mexico	Miami	Shanghai	Madrid	Hamb.	Cannes	Monaco	Paris	Estoril	Chant.	Berlin	London	Valkensw.	Rome	Doha	scoring points
1	Hamburg Diamonds	16	15th	25th	25th	17th	21st	6th	25th	16	30th	25th	14th	30th	30th	17th	312
2	Valkenswaard United	30th	25th	19th	14th	5	30th	10	16	21st	13	30th	25th	19th	21st	30th	308
3	Mexico amigos	12	12	11	16	16	19th	21st	19th	30th	16	16	13	17th	7th	25th	250
4th	St Tropez Pirates	25th	21st	14th	19th	7th	17th	19th	30th	8th	6th	17th	17th	14th	17th	13	244
5	Miami Glory	19th	10	4.5	15th	30th	13	13	15th	0	25th	13	30th	15th	25th	14th	241.5
6th	London Knights	17th	30th	21st	9	8th	12	14th	13	6th	9	21st	12	5	19th	21st	217
7th	Doha Fursan Qatar	8th	19th	6th	17th	21st	16	15th	14th	17th	21st	10	7th	16	9	15th	211
8th	Rome gladiators	11	16	15th	12	19th	14th	11	10	19th	17th	19th	10	9	10	11	203

Web links

• Global Champions Tour website (English)
• Global Champions League website (English)
• FEI tournament calendar
• Individual stages:
  • CSI 5 * Madrid
  • CSI 5 * Hamburg
  • CSI 5 * Cannes
  • CSI 5 * Monaco
  • CSI 5 * Paris
  • CSI 5 * Chantilly
  • CSI 5 * Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Global Champions Tour 2017 in Berlin for the first time? , Riding and Breeding in Berlin and Brandenburg-Anhalt, January 10, 2017, accessed on April 17, 2017.
2. ↑ 2017 no Global Champions Tour in Vienna , pferderevue.at, January 10, 2017, accessed on April 17, 2017.
3. ↑ Rules for the 2017 Global Champions League ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2017 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. 
4. ↑ Rules for the 2017 Longines Global Champions Tour ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Mexico 2017
6. ↑ Mexico City: First GCL victory for Valkenswaard United , St. Georg , April 9, 2017.
7. ↑ Fuchs wins the first GCT Grand Prix of the season , Horse Week, April 9, 2017.
8. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Mexico City 2017
9. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Miami Beach 2017
10. ↑ Miami: Global Champions Tour jumping to Jérôme Guery , St. Georg, April 16, 2017.
11. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Miami Beach 2017
12. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Shanghai 2017
13. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Shanghai 2017
14. ^ Result of the Global Champions League of Madrid 2017
15. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Madrid 2017
16. ^ Result of the Global Champions League of Hamburg 2017
17. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Hamburg 2017
18. ↑ Hamburg: Casall says goodbye to sport with an emotionally charged Global Champions Tour victory , St. Georg, May 27, 2017.
19. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Cannes 2017
20. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Cannes 2017
21. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Monaco 2017
22. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix du Prince de Monaco 2017
23. ↑ Monaco: Zorzi wins Global Champions Tour jumping, Ahlmann with new top horse , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, June 24, 2017.
24. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Paris 2017
25. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Paris 2017
26. ^ Paris: Home win for Julien Epaillard with a new star , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, July 1, 2017.
27. ↑ Program and results CSI 5 * Cascais 2017
28. ↑ Jan Tops wants to change the blood rule , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, July 10, 2017.
29. ^ Result Global Champions League of Cascais 2017
30. ↑ First victory for Israel - Danielle Goldstein wins the LGCT Grand Prix in Cascais , eqwo.net / press release Global Champions Tour, July 9, 2017.
31. ^ Result Longines GCT Grand Prix of Cascais, Estoril 2017
32. ^ Result of the Global Champions League of Chantilly 2017
33. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Chantilly 2017
34. ^ Result of the Global Champions League of Berlin 2017
35. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Berlin 2017
36. ↑ Berlin: Codex One is back with victory, sensational performance by Simone Blum , St. Georg, July 29, 2017.
37. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of London 2017
38. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of London 2017
39. ^ Result Global Champions League of Valkenswaard 2017
40. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Valkenswaard 2017
41. ↑ Italiaanse winnaar bij Global Champions Tour Valkenswaard, Maikel van der Vleuten op podium , omroepbrabant.nl, August 12, 2017 (Dutch)
42. ^ Result of the Global Champions League of Rome 2017
43. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Rome 2017
44. ↑ Result of the Global Champions League of Doha 2017
45. ^ Result of the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Doha 2017
46. ^ Rome: Marcus Ehning jumps to third place ; St. Georg, September 24, 2017.
47. ↑ Final result of the overall ranking Global Champions Tour 2017 (PDF)
48. ↑ Final result of the overall ranking Global Champions League 2017 (PDF)