Olympia London International Horse Show
The Olympia London International Horse Show (officially: Olympia - The London International Horse Show ) is a horse show in London , England , considered to be one of the largest tournaments in the United Kingdom. It is advertised as CSI 5 * -W and CDI -W and is held on the last weekend before Christmas. The venue is the Olympia Grand Hall .
history
In 2007 the tournament celebrated its 100th anniversary, making it one of the oldest tournaments still held in equestrian sport.
At the beginning the tournament was called the Royal International Horse Show , which today only refers to the British Nations Cup in show jumping , which was initially held in the Olympia. The Nations Cup tournament later changed location and will now be held in Hickstead . The tournament in the Olympia Hall remained under a different name.
The tournament made history as early as 1909. As part of the tournament, the first Nations Cup in the history of the jumping discipline, which was still young at the time, was held.
Once again, the tournament was in December 2009 in history: As part of the Grand Prix Freestyle erritten Edward Gal and Totilas a score of 92.300%, which set a new world record in the Grand Prix Freestyle on.
procedure
The Olympia Horse Show is of its kind as a special tournament: Referring to the tradition of the tournament, everyone involved in the tournament (with the exception of the riders) is obliged to wear a suit. The structure of the tournament is also unusual in comparison to other large equestrian events: From Thursday to Monday, the program consists of two sections per day. The center of each section is a show program that repeats itself over the entire tournament, around which jumping competitions are grouped. The sections also include tests such as dogagility and Shetland pony races . Despite this structure, the tournament always enjoys a high number of visitors. A new record was set in 2013, when 95,276 visitors came to the tournament.
Many jumping competitions have special names adapted to the Christmas atmosphere, for example "The Santa Stakes" or "The Christmas Pudding Stakes". The rides of the jumping competitions were commented on by the English show jumping legend Geoff Billington , among others , in a funny way.
As part of the tournament, a world cup competition and a dressage world cup test will be held.
dressage
The first two days of the tournament (Monday and Tuesday) only consist of an evening program. On Monday only the Grand Prix de Dressage will be held. The Grand Prix is the qualification test for the Grand Prix Freestyle, which is the valuation test of the Dressage World Cup. This takes place on Tuesday evening. In 2014, the freestyle was endowed with € 40,000. The show program will also be shown for the first time on this evening.
Records have been set in the Grand Prix competitions several times at the Olympia London International Horse Show . After Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro's world record ride in December 2014, the chief judge of the exam, Stephen Clark, said: “ Charlotte's ride was just out of this world. In 2009 I really thought we'd never see anything like this again. I don't know what this tournament does to the horses that they go so extraordinary here. But they are amazing here. "
Winner: Grand Prix Freestyle
(List from 2006)
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Team driving
World Cup driving four in hand
The Olympia London International Horse Show has been a valuation test for the four-in-hand World Cup since 2012 . A year earlier, tests were carried out for the first time in trailer driving. The run-in test was carried out on Friday afternoon in 2015, and the World Cup special test took place on the evening of the following day.
Winner:
- 2011: IJsbrand Chardon with his team
- 2012: Boyd Exell and his team
- 2013: IJsbrand Chardon with Feles , Illem , Inci , Maestoso X-28 Fegyenc 2 and Maestoso X-30 Magus
- 2014: Boyd Exell with Bajnok , Ajax , Conversano Poker and Clinton Star
- 2015: IJsbrand Chardon with Feles , Illem , Inci and Maestoso X-30 Magus
- 2016: Boyd Exell with Bajnok , Clinton Star , Costa and Demi
- 2017: IJsbrand Chardon with Baturra Lix , Feles , Incitato Pandur and Maestoso X-30 Mágus
- 2018: Boyd Exell with Bajnok , Barny , Demi and Rocket
- 2019: Boyd Exell with Bajnok , Barny , Demi and Rocket
Show jumping
Christmas puissance
The first public highlight of the jumping competitions is "The Christmas Puissance", a power jump . This test is carried out in the evening program on Friday. It was endowed with € 27,000 in 2019 and led over 2.18 meters in the fifth jump-off.
Winner:
(list from 2006)
- 2006: shared victory of three riders: Markus Fuchs , John Whitaker and Robert Whitaker
- 2007: William Whitaker (18 years old, so the youngest winner so far) with Leonardo
- 2008: shared victory of two riders: William Whitaker with Leonardo and Ellen Whitaker with Ladina B.
- 2009: shared victory of five riders: Pénélope Leprevost , Natale Chiaudani , Michael Whitaker , Cian O'Connor and Ellen Whitaker
- 2010: Ben Maher with Noctambule Courcelle
- 2011: shared victory by two riders: Pius Schwizer with Koby du Vartellier and Guy Williams with Richi Rich
- 2012: Ben Maher with Noctambule Courcelle
- 2013: Luca Maria Moneta with Quova de Vains
- 2014: David Simpson with Richi Rich
- 2015: shared victory of two riders: Jos Verlooy with Sunshine and Hilmar Meyer with Continuo
- 2016: Shared victory for two riders: Holly Smith with Quality Old Joker and Christopher Megahey with Cruise Cavalier
- 2017: Laura Renwick with Top Dollar VI
- 2018: shared victory of two riders: Mathieu Billot with Dassler and Guy Williams with Mr Blue Sky UK
- 2019: shared victory of two riders: William Whitaker with Charly and Michael Pender with Hearton du Bois Halleux
World Cup jumping
Every Sunday afternoon there is a special test of the Western European League of the FEI World Cup Show Jumping at the Olympia Horse Show. This is a jumping competition with jump-off over 1.60 meters. In 2015, the examination was endowed with € 145,000.
Winner:
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Grand Prix
The traditional finish of the tournament is the Grand Prix ("The Olympia Grand Prix") as the last stage of the Monday evening. This is also a jumping competition with jump-off over 1.60 meters. The grant in 2015 was € 100,000.
In the 2015 Grand Prix, Bertram Allen was first after the jump-off , but was disqualified due to a bleeding spot on the right flank (spur mark) of his gelding Quiet Easy . Then the second-placed Michael Whitaker moved up as the winner.
Winner:
(list from 2006)
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Leading rider of the show
The most successful rider of the tournament (“Leading Rider of the Show”) is determined from the results of the jumping competitions of the tournament - 11 in 2019.
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media
Until 2015, the tournament was traditionally broadcast by Eurosport in the evening program, mostly live. Since then Eurosport 1 has shown recordings of the World Cup competitions in dressage and show jumping. Several exams were offered as live streams on the tournament website.
Web links
- Tournament website
- Video from the record freestyle ride of 2014 by Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro (English commentary)
- John Whitaker and Milton : Video from the 1980 Grand Prix (significantly less Christmassy than today)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympia to celebrate 100th anniversary , Horse & Hound , March 26, 2007
- ^ Horse show marks centenary year , BBC News, July 25, 2007
- ↑ History of the Nations Cup on the website of the Bulgarian Nations Cup tournament in Albena ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Edward Gal now holds all "world records" with the black horse Totilas , Dieter Ludwig, July 17, 2010
- ^ Olympia, the International Horse Show in London, the somewhat different tournament ( Memento from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Record attendance at the tournament in the London Olympic Hall , January 10, 2014
- ^ Geoff Billington: Commentating & After Dinner Speeches ( Memento of September 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FEI tournament calendar
- ↑ Results database, enter search term "London"
- ↑ London: Another world record for Dujardin - update with video , St. George, December 17, 2014
- ↑ Hickstead Derby winner and puissance first-timer share Olympia spoils , Sarah Radford / Horse & Hound, December 19, 2019
- ↑ London: Bertram Allen disqualified from Grand Prix , Reiter Revue International , December 22, 2015
- ↑ Tournament preview - TV tips - starts abroad from December 17th to 21st, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )