World Cup finals 2013 (show jumping and dressage)

The 2013 World Cup final in show jumping and dressage was the final of the World Cup series in two equestrian disciplines . It took place from April 24th to April 28th 2013 in the Scandinavium in Gothenburg .

Equestrian sport in Gothenburg

Every year the Gothenburg Horse Show takes place in Gothenburg . The tournament includes a world cup test in show jumping and a world cup test in dressage riding .

In 1979 the first show jumping World Cup took place here. The 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2008 events were also held in Gothenburg. In dressage, the World Cup finals in 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2003 took place here.

The tournament will be held regularly at the end of February; the tournament will be postponed to April for the World Cup finals.

Dressage riding

Qualified participants

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Central European League	2	Inna Logutenkova Tatiana Dorofeeva
North American League	2	David Marcus (cancellation) Jacqueline Brooks Jaimey Irwin ( replacement )
Pacific League	1	Lyndal Oatley (rejection for another wildcard)
Western European League	9	Kristina Sprehe Valentina Truppa Isabell Werth Edward Gal Helen Langehanenberg Patrik Kittel Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén Anna Kasprzak Marcela Krinke Susmelj
Participants from Asia / South America	1	not awarded so another wildcard
FEI wildcards	2	Minna Telde Sidsel Johansen Lillann Jebsen Marlies van Baalen
World Cup winner 2011/2012	1	Adelinde Cornelissen

Procedure and results

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix was held on Thursday afternoon (April 25th) . This was the warm-up test, but this was compulsory for all participants in the World Cup dressage.

Before the exam, Kristina Sprehe withdrew her start. Her horse Desperados was paralyzed on its right front leg during warm-up training. Several horses were frightened due to the lavish floral decorations on the edge of the dressage arena, which was still missing during training in the morning. The jury rejected a protest submitted by Patrick Kittel because the decoration was the same for all horses in the test.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	79.863%
2	Edward Gal	Undercover	78.465%
3	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	77.432%
4th	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	75.410%
5	Isabell Werth	Don Johnson FRH	75.015%

(best 5 of 17 participants)

Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)

The final test of the FEI Dressage World Cup took place on the afternoon of April 25th (Saturday). This was a Grand Prix Freestyle .

After having seen her freestyle test as the best of the World Cup final in several comments last year, Helen Langehanenberg also won the official result in Gothenburg. Her harmonious ride with the stallion Damon Hill NRW was rated 88.286 percent. This was the highest freestyle result that she has ever achieved in an international test. The winning couple of the last two years, Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival , achieved a freestyle result of 86.500 percent, which resulted in second place.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	88.286%
2	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	86,214%
3	Edward Gal	Undercover	84.446%
4th	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	82.964%
5	Isabell Werth	Don Johnson FRH	80.429%
6th	Valentina Truppa	Eremo del Castegno	79.696%
7th	Patrik Kittel	Scandic	78.393%
8th	Anna Kasprzak	Donnperignon	77.857%
9	Sidsel Johansen	Schianto	75.393%
10	Minna Telde	Santana	74.107%
11	Lillann Jebsen	Pro set	71.679%
12	Marlies van Baalen	tango	70.286%
13	Marcela Krinke Susmelj	Molberg	69.089%
14th	Jacqueline Brooks	D stainless steel	68.661%
15th	Inna Logutenkova	Vian Stallone	68.625%
16	Jaimey Irwin	Lindor's finest	66.643%
17th	Tatiana Dorofeeva	Khorovod	63.393%

Show jumping

The focus of the show jumping program is formed by the three valuation tests of the World Cup finals. There is also a framework tournament, the highlight of which is the Göteborg Trophy on Saturday evening.

Qualified participants (World Cup)

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Arab League	2	Abdullah Sharbatly (cancellation) Ali bin Chalid Al Thani Bassem Hassan Mohammed
Caucasus League	1	Shalva Gachechiladze (cancellation)
Central Asian League	1	Gairat Nazarow (cancellation)
Chinese league	1	Raena Leung
Central European League	3	Anna Gromzina Kristaps Neretnieks Jarosław Skrzyczyński
Japan League	1	Koki Saito (cancellation)
North American League	2 Canadians	Jenn Serek (rejection) Jonathan Asselin (rejection)
	2 Mexicans	Enrique González (cancellation) Manuel Senderos (cancellation)
	10 Americans	Ashlee Bond Karl Cook Lucy Davis Katherine Dinan Kent Farrington Charlie Jayne Reed Kessler Beezie Madden Christine McCrea McLain Ward
		Nayel Nassar ° Shane Sweetnam °
Pacific League	2 Australians	Alison Rowland (cancellation) Evie Buller (cancellation)
	1 New Zealander	Maurice Beatson (cancellation)
South African League	1	Jodi Pieters (cancellation)
Central American and Caribbean League	1	Alvaro Enrique Tejada Arriola (cancellation)
Northern South American League	1	Santiago Medina
Southern South American League	2	Daniel Chaves Anicet (cancellation) Cesar Almeida (cancellation)
Southeast Asian League	1	Ferry Wahyu Hadiyanto (cancellation)
Western European League	18th	Sergio Alvarez Moya Christian Ahlmann Kevin Staut Pius Schwizer Luciana Diniz Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum , Marcus Ehning Edwina Tops-Alexander ° Malin Baryard-Johnsson Denis Lynch Marc Houtzager Henrik von Eckermann Jens Fredricson Penelope Leprevost Roger-Yves Bost Hans-Dieter Dreher Steve Guerdat Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Gerco Schröder (cancellation) Ludo Philippaerts
Special starting place for participants from the host country	1	not applicable as Swedish riders are qualified for the World Cup finals
World Cup winner 2011/2012	1	Rich Fellers

° Additional rider: If a rider has his place of residence in a country other than his home country, he can participate in the league of this country and is initially also rated for this league. If he qualifies for the World Cup finals based on the regulations of this league, he does not count as an additional participant for the (limited) number of starting places in this league.

Procedure and results

World cup

1st partial examination

The first partial test of the show jumping World Cup final took place on April 25th (Thursday) from 6:00 p.m. The participants competed in a time jumping test . As explained in the article FEI World Cup Show Jumping , the result was converted into penalty points.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	time	Points (overall rating)
1	Beezie Madden	Simon	62.28 s + 0 penalty seconds = 62.28	40
2	Pius Schwizer	Verdi III	62.79 s + 0 penalty seconds = 62.79	38
3	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	64.20 s + 0 penalty seconds = 64.20	37
4th	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	64.40 s + 0 penalty seconds = 64.40	36
5	Sergio Álvarez Moya	Carlo	64.79 s + 0 penalty seconds = 64.79	35
6th	Kevin Staut	Silvana	65.04 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.04	34
7th	Jens Fredricson	Lunatic	66.23 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.23	33
8th	Pénélope Leprevost	Nayana	66.26 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.26	32
9	Katherine Dinan	Nougat du Vallet	66.50 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.50	31
10	McLain Ward	Great Trooper de Ness	62.63 s + 4 penalty seconds = 66.63	30th

(best 10 of 39 participants)

2nd partial examination

The second test of the World Cup final will be held on Friday evening. This is a jumping competition with one jump-off .

After the first two partial exams, the points achieved by the participants are added together. These evaluation points are then converted into fault points.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		Points (overall rating)
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	-	0	34.09	40
2	Marc Houtzager	Tamino	0	-	0	36.80	38
3	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	0	-	0	37.22	37
4th	Roger Yves Bost	Myrtille Paulois	0	-	0	37.92	36
5	Kevin Staut	Silvana	0	-	0	39.23	35
6th	Kristaps Neretnieks	Conte Bellini	0	-	0	40.23	34
7th	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Ego van Orti	0	-	0	42.10	33
8th	McLain Ward	Great Trooper de Ness	0	-	4th	35.98	32
9	Beezie Madden	Simon	0	-	4th	36.62	31
10	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Quintero	0	-	4th	36.81	30th

(best 10 of 38 participants)

3rd partial examination

The third partial test, a jumping competition with two different rounds, formed the end . This was not ridden against time, but a permitted time was provided.

In the first round of this test, which was held on Sunday afternoon, only the 25 best placed riders from the first two partial tests were allowed to take part. After a lot of riders had no mistakes in the second part of the test, course designer Uliano Vezzani created an extremely difficult first lap. As a result, there was no faultless ride in this first round, many riders had to accept eight or more penalty points.

In the second round, 17 riders start with their horses. In particular, the final jump led to errors with several riders, but two riders managed a fault-free ride.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	total
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Penalty points
1	Sergio Álvarez Moya	Carlo	4th	0	4th
	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	4th	0	4th
3	Karl Cook	Jonkheer Z	4th	4th	8th
	Henrik von Eckermann	Gotha FRH	4th	4th	8th
	McLain Ward	Great Trooper de Ness	4th	4th	8th
	Kevin Staut	Silvana	4th	4th	8th
	Beezie Madden	Simon	4th	4th	8th
8th	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Ego van Orti	5	5	10
	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Quintero	9	1	10

(best 9 of 23 participants)

Final score

At the end of the third test, the World Cup had not yet been decided, and a jump-off was necessary between the two best placed riders in the overall result. The Olympic champion couple , Steve Guerdat and Nino des Buissonnets started the jump-off . Guerdat tried to get a good time through tight turns, but misjudged himself on the final line and had to accept eight penalty points. Beezie Madden was able to take her play-off with Simon calmly, was over ten seconds slower than Guerdat. However, having no mistakes in the jump-off, Madden won the World Cup final for the first time in her career.

Jump-off for the World Cup victory:

	equestrian	horse	Sting
			Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Beezie Madden	Simon	0	41.66
2	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	8th	30.33

Overall result before the decisive jump-off:

	equestrian	Horse / horses	1st exam	2nd exam	Points from exam 1 and 2	Points converted into penalty points	3rd exam		Penalty points
			Points	Points			Penalty points	Penalty points
1	Beezie Madden	Simon	40	31	71	1	4th	4th	9
	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	23	40	63	5	4th	0	9
3	Kevin Staut	Silvana	34	35	69	2	4th	4th	10
4th	Sergio Álvarez Moya	Carlo	35	21st	56	8th	4th	0	12
5	McLain Ward	Great Trooper de Ness	30th	32	62	5	4th	4th	13
	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall and Quintero	37	30th	67	3	9	1	13
7th	Marc Houtzager	Tamino and Uppity	26th	38	64	4th	8th	4th	16
8th	Henrik von Eckermann	Gotha FRH	25th	24	49	12	4th	4th	20th
	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	36	37	73	0	12	8th	20th
10	Reed Kessler	Cylana	27	28	55	9	8th	8th	25th
11	Karl Cook	Jonkheer Z	22nd	10	32	20th	4th	4th	28
12	Jens Fredricson	Lunatic	33	14th	47	13	12	4th	29
	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Ego van Orti and Erenice Horta	2	33	35	19th	5	5	29
14th	Denis Lynch	All star	9	25th	36	18th	4th	8th	30th
15th	Ludo Philippaerts	Challenge van de Begijnakker	18th	29	47	13	4th	16	33
16	Katherine Dinan	Nougat du Vallet	31	5	36	18th	8th	12	38
17th	Charlie Jayne	Chill RZ	29	12	41	16	8th	20th	44
18th	Pius Schwizer	Verdi III and Picsou du Chene	38	25th	63	5	20th	DNS
19th	Hans-Dieter Dreher	Embassy II	28	22nd	50	11	16	DNS
20th	Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Tornesch	20th	13	33	20th	8th	DNS
21st	Kristaps Neretnieks	Conte Bellini and Continue	3	34	37	18th	17th
22nd	Roger Yves Bost	Myrtille Paulois	17th	36	53	10	RET
23	Marcus Ehning	Titus	13	26th	39	17th	RET
24	Pénélope Leprevost	Nayana	32	19th	51	11	DNS
25th	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Bella Donna	20th	23	43	15th	DNS
26th	Kent Farrington	Uceko	24	9	35	19th
27	Ali bin Khalid Al Thani	California	14th	17th	31	21st
28	Christine McCrea	Take One	21st	8th	29	22nd
29	Lucy Davis	Nemo	10	16	26th	23
	Rich Fellers	Flexible	6th	20th	26th	23
31	Bassem Hassan Mohammed	Rosalia	7th	18th	25th	24
	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	15th	9	24	24
33	Ashlee Bond	Wistful	5	15th	20th	26th
34	Shane Sweetnam	Amaretto d'Arco	12	7th	19th	27
	Jarosław Skrzyczyński	Balouzino	16	3	19th	27
36	Anna Gromzina	Pimlico	11	6th	17th	28
37	Nayel Nassar	Vangelis S	8th	4th	12	30th
38	Santiago Medina	Monterrey	4th	2	6th	33
39	Raena Leung	Orphee you granite	1	DNS

ELI = dropped out
DNS = not started
RET = given up / waived

Further exams

Gothenburg Trophy

Outside of the World Cup, a framework tournament was held. The highlight of this was the Göteborg Trophy on Saturday evening. This test was advertised as a jumping competition with a single jump-off with obstacles up to a height of 1.55 meters.

The German riders who were unlucky in the World Cup finals were all the more successful in the Göteborg Trophy: The victory went to Ludger Beerbaum, who could not qualify for the World Cup finals at all. Christian Ahlmann, who came to the bottom of the World Cup final for the second year in a row, achieved sixth place in the Göteborg Trophy with Taloubet Z. The luckless previous year's World Cup winners, Rich Fellers and Flexible , were also able to place in this test.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	0	-	0	30.97
2	Marcus Ehning	Plot Blue	0	-	0	32.02
3	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	-	0	32.12
4th	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	-	0	32.13
5	Nayel Nassar	Lordan	0	-	0	34.82

(best 5 of 39 participants)

media

In German-speaking countries, the ZDF broadcast live as part of the program SPORTextra on Saturday from the Grand Prix Freestyle and on and Sunday parts of the third final test of the show jumping riders. Both transmissions were around an hour long. On May 8, 2013 Eurosport showed one-hour summaries of the final exams of both disciplines.

Web links

• Gothenborg Horse Show website
• Result lists
• FEI World Cup Series website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see FEI tournament calendar ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Entries Confirmed for Gothenburg Final , FEI press release, April 3, 2013
3. ↑ World Cup Finals Gothenburg: Kittel protest rejected , St. Georg , April 25, 2013
4. ↑ Helen and Damon Hill on their way to their first World Cup victory , St. Georg, April 25, 2013
5. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix de Dressage
6. ↑ World Cup victory for Helen Langehanenberg , St. Georg, April 27, 2013
7. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix Freestyle
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Gothenborg Horse Show program ( Memento from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Full riders list for the World Cup Final ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), April 18, 2013 (English)
10. ↑ FEI Rankings ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ Result show jumping, 1st partial test World Cup finals
12. ↑ Result show jumping, 2nd partial test World Cup finals
13. ↑ World Cup Finals Gothenburg: All German riders outside , Reiter Revue International , April 28, 2013
14. ↑ Result show jumping, 3rd partial test of the World Cup finals
15. ↑ World Cup Final Show Jumping: overall ranking
16. ↑ Show jumping: Result Göteborg Trophy