World Cup finals 2014 (show jumping and dressage riding)

World Cup Finals 2014
Tournament series:	FEI World Cup Dressage 2013/2014, FEI World Cup Show Jumping 2013/2014
Venue:	Eurexpo, Lyon , France
Participating riders:	17 dressage riders; 40 show jumpers (without framework tests)
Internet:	www.feiworldcupfinals-lyon.com

The 2014 World Cup final in show jumping and dressage was the final of the World Cup series in two equestrian disciplines . It was held from April 17 to April 21, 2014 at Eurexpo in Lyon .

Equestrian sport in Lyon

The annual indoor riding tournament Equita 'Lyon , which takes place at the end of October / beginning of November , has been a CSI 5 * tournament since 2006. Two years later, the tournament was expanded to include international dressage tests (CDI 5 *). Since the tournament in 2009, World Cup competitions for Western Europeans in show jumping and dressage have been held here, and in the same year the tournament program was expanded to include international reining tests.

From October 30 to November 3, 2013, Equita 'Lyon was held differently as a CSI 5 *, CDI 4 * and CRI 3 * -A tournament. In April 2014, the World Cup finals in dressage and show jumping were held for the first time in Lyon.

Prize money

The World Cup final in Lyon was the most highly endowed World Cup final since the introduction of the World Cup in equestrian sport. In total, the tournament's prize money was over 1.7 million euros.

The show jumping final, whose title sponsor was Longines for the first time (instead of Rolex in previous years), was endowed with around 1.3 million euros, and the show jumpers were able to win a further 218,000 euros in the CSI 2 * and 3 * general competitions. The prize money for the finals of the dressage world cup series sponsored by the fashion designer Reem Acra was 250,000 euros (unchanged from the previous year).

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	Tatjana Dorofeewa (rejection) Kazjaryna Wartschenia (rejection, thus another wildcard) Inessa Merkulowa (successor)
North American League	2	Tina Konyot Cesar Parra
Pacific League	1	Mary Hanna
Western European League	9	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén Edward Gal Isabell Werth Jessica von Bredow-Werndl Anna Kasprzak (rejection, so another wildcard) Hans Peter Minderhoud Nanna Skodborg Merrald Marcela Krinke Susmelj Danielle Heijkoop
Participants from Asia / South America	1	Dong-Seon Kim
FEI wildcards	2	Lars Petersen (additional rider from the North American League, cancellation) Mikala Münter Gundersen (additional rider from the North American League) Charlotte Dujardin Marc Boblet Jelena Sidnewa
World Cup winner 2012/2013	1	Helen Langehanenberg

Procedure and results

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix was held on Easter Saturday afternoon (April 19th) . This was the entry test of the World Cup final, but this was mandatory for all participating dressage riders.

There were only 17 riders at the start in the test: the Danish rider Nanna Skodborg Merrald had to finish the World Cup final before the first test because her horse Millibar failed the veterinary examination.

As expected, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro won the Grand Prix . With a result of 87.129 percent, they clearly exceeded their previous world record of 85.942 percent.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Charlotte Dujardin	Valegro	87.129%
2	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	83.343%
3	Edward Gal	Undercover	79,957%
4th	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	75.086%
5	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	74.186%

(best 5 of 17 participants)

Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)

One day after the Grand Prix, on the afternoon of April 20th, the Grand Prix Freestyle was held. This test was the final test of the dressage world cup finals.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Charlotte Dujardin	Valegro	92.179%
2	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	87.339%
3	Edward Gal	Undercover	83.696%
4th	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	80.946%
5	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	79.089%
6th	Danielle Heijkoop	Siro	77.946%
7th	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	Unee BB	77.768%
8th	Hans Peter Minderhoud	Johnson	77.625%
9	Marc Boblet	Noble dream	74.875%
10	Inessa Merkulova	Mister X	73.786%
11	Mikala Münter Gundersen	My lady	72.250%
12	Tina Konyot	Calecto V	71.929%
13	Jelena Sidnewa	Romeo star	71.018%
14th	Marcela Krinke Susmelj	Lazander	69.857%
15th	Mary Hanna	Sancette	69.821%
16	Cesar Parra	Van The Man	68.429%
17th	Dong-Seon Kim	Bukowski	68.089%

Show jumping

The focus of the show jumping program is made up of the three valuation tests of the World Cup finals. In addition, there is a framework tournament that is advertised as CSI 3 * and CSI 2 *. The highlight of the framework tournament is the Airbus Group Grand Prix 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	3	Abdelkebir Ouaddar Hamad Ali Mohamed Al Attiyah Abdullah Sharbatly
Caucasus League	1	Jamal Rahimov
Central Asian League	1	Umid Kamilow (cancellation)
Chinese league	1	Tongyan Liu (cancellation)
Central European League	3	Aleš Opatrný (rejection) Andrius Petrovas Kristaps Neretnieks Natalia Simonia (successor)
Japan League	1	Tae Satō (cancellation)
North American League	2 Canadians	Chad Bretton (cancellation) Elizabeth Gingras (cancellation)
	2 Mexicans	Enrique González (cancellation) Patricio Pasquel (cancellation)
	10 Americans	Leslie Burr-Howard Ashlee Bond-Clarke Kirsten Coe (rejection) Saer Coulter Katherine Dinan Kent Farrington Brianne Goutal (rejection) Charlie Jayne Mandy Porter (rejection) McLain Ward Charlie Jacobs (replacement) Jenni Martin-McAllister (replacement)
		Nayel Nassar ° Richie Moloney (rejection) ° Conor Swail ° (rejection) Ljubow Kochetowa ° (rejection) Andrés Rodríguez ° (rejection)
Pacific League	2 Australians	Jamie Kermond Billy Raymont (cancellation)
	1 New Zealander	Samantha McIntosh (cancellation)
South African League	1	Jeanne Engela (cancellation)
Central American and Caribbean League	1	Manuel Espinosa Pla (cancellation)
Northern South American League	1	Juan Manuel Gallego (cancellation)
Southern South American League	2	Yuri Mansur Guerios Cesar Almeida (cancellation)
Southeast Asian League	1	Kurniadi Katompo (cancellation)
Western European League	18th	Marcus Ehning Scott Brash Pius Schwizer Patrice Delaveau Maikel van der Vleuten Ben Maher (cancellation) Edwina Tops-Alexander ° Steve Guerdat Kevin Staut Daniel Deußer Roger-Yves Bost (cancellation) Billy Twomey Luciana Diniz Joe Clee (cancellation) Lars Nieberg Nicola Philippaerts Tim Gredley (Rejection) Lucy Davis ° Christian Ahlmann François Mathy Jr Malin Baryard-Johnsson (replacement) Simon Delestre (replacement) Michael Whitaker (replacement) Ludger Beerbaum (replacement)
Special starting place for participants from the host country	1	not applicable as French riders are qualified for the World Cup finals
World Cup winner 2012/2013	1	Beezie Madden

° 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

On the evening of Good Friday (April 18), from 8 p.m., the first partial test of the show jumping World Cup final took place. The participants competed in a time jumping test . The result will be converted into penalty points , as explained in the article FEI World Cup Show Jumping .

Result:

	equestrian	horse	time	Points (overall rating)
1	Pius Schwizer	Quidam du Vivier	63.37 s + 0 penalty seconds = 63.37	41
2	Patrice Delaveau	Lacrimoso	63.67 s + 0 penalty seconds = 63.67	39
3	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	65.54 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.54	38
4th	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	66.06 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.06	37
5	Abdelkebir Ouaddar	Quickly de Kreisker	62.40 s + 4 penalty seconds = 66.40	36
6th	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	66.69 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.69	35
7th	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	66.92 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.92	34
8th	Billy Twomey	Tinka's serenade	67.25 s + 0 penalty seconds = 67.25	33
9	Christian Ahlmann	Aragon Z	67.65 s + 0 penalty seconds = 67.65	32
10	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	68.13 s + 4 penalty seconds = 68.13	31

(best 10 of 40 participants)

2nd partial examination

On April 19, also from 8 p.m., the second test of the World Cup final took place. This was a jumping competition with one jump-off .

Andrius Petrovas was eliminated in the first special stage, Abdullah Sharbatly did not start after his 39th place in the first stage. This meant that there were only 38 horse-rider pairs left in the second partial test.

After the first three rides of the test, there were disagreements between the course designer Frank Rothenberger and the judges as to whether the time allowed should be reduced. The judges decided against it, because of the good conditions and the strong field of starters, there was a high number of faultless rides: in the normal round, 21 starter pairs remained faultless, of which eleven were again without faults in the 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	Kent Farrington	voyeur	0	-	0	39.69	41
2	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	-	0	40.29	39
3	Beezie Madden	Simon	0	-	0	40.35	38
4th	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	0	-	0	40.61	37
5	Patrice Delaveau	Lacrimoso	0	-	0	41.66	36
6th	Scott Brash	Ursula XII	0	-	0	42.16	35
7th	Charlie Jayne	Chill RZ	0	-	0	42.52	34
8th	Christian Ahlmann	Aragon Z	0	-	0	42.93	33
9	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	0	-	0	43.66	32
10	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	-	0	43.74	31

(best 10 of 38 participants)

3rd partial examination

The third partial test, a jumping competition with two different rounds , formed the end of the show jumping World Cup final . The exam took place on Easter Monday (April 21) from 2 p.m. She was not ridden against time, but an allowable time was provided.

In the intermediate ranking, Steve Guerdat and Patrice Delaveau were tied for first place before the third partial test. The morning before the test, however, Delaveau's gelding Lacrimoso went paralyzed, so that no further participation was considered for him.

In the first round of this test, which was held on Sunday afternoon, only the 30 best placed riders from the first two partial tests were allowed to participate, the 20 best starter pairs of the first round then qualified for the second round. Steve Guerdat had to accept four penalty points in both rounds of the test and thus slipped to fifth place in the overall standings. Daniel Deußer, who has been second to date, managed two more clear rounds with his stallion Cornet D'Amour , which brought him the World Cup final victory. With two clear rounds, Ludger Beerbaum (who was the last to qualify for the World Cup final) secured second place in the final ranking.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round	2nd round	total
			Penalty points	Penalty points	Penalty points
1	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	0	0	4th
	Ludger Beerbaum	Chiara	0	0	0
	Scott Brash	Ursula XII	0	0	0
	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	0	0	0
5	McLain Ward	Roth child	0	4th	4th
	Lucy Davis	Barron	4th	0	4th
7th	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	1	4th	5

(best 7 of 27 participants)

Final score

	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	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	35	37	72	2	0	0	2
2	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman and Chiara	38	29	67	4th	0	0	4th
3	Scott Brash	Ursula XII	30th	35	65	5	0	0	5
4th	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	31	32	63	6th	0	0	6th
5	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	37	39	76	0	4th	4th	8th
6th	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	34	31	65	5	1	4th	10
7th	Beezie Madden	Simon	29	38	67	4th	4th	4 (68.42 s)	12 (68.42 s)
8th	Pius Schwizer	Quidam du Vivier and Toulago	41	26th	67	4th	4th	4 (69.97 s)	12 (69.97 s)
9	McLain Ward	Carlos Z and Rothchild	26th	23	49	13	0	4th	17th
10	Charlie Jayne	Chill RZ	14th	34	48	14th	8th	1	23
11	Michael Whitaker	Viking	25th	21st	46	15th	5	4 (71.59 s)	24 (71.59 s)
12	Abdelkebir Ouaddar	Quickly de Kreisker	36	7th	43	16	4th	4 (71.76 s)	24 (71.76 s)
13	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Old Chap Tame and Ego van Orti	18th	30th	48	14th	9	1 (73.12 s)	24 (73.12 s)
14th	Christian Ahlmann	Aragon Z	32	33	65	5	12	8 (68.91 s)	25 (68.91 s)
15th	Katherine Dinan	Nougat du Vallet	17th	24	41	17th	0	8 (71.28 s)	25 (71.28 s)
16	Leslie Burr-Howard	Tic Tac	27	28	55	10	9	8th	27
17th	Lucy Davis	Barron	10	16	26th	25th	4th	0	29
18th	Nayel Nassar	Lordan	12	18th	30th	23	0	8th	31
19th	Kristaps Neretnieks	Caramsin and Conte Bellini	3	22nd	25th	25th	4th	8th	37
20th	Charlie Jacobs	Flaming Star	20th	6th	26th	25th	4th	13	42
21st	Kevin Staut	Silvana	24	20th	44	16	8th	DNS
22nd	Jamal Rahimov	Warrior	21st	12	33	21st	5	DNS
23	Yuri Mansur Guerios	Cupid and First Devision	7th	27	34	21st	9		(30)
	Simon Delestre	Napoli du Ry and Valentino Velvet	22nd	19th	41	17th	13		(30)
	Luciana Diniz	Fit for fun	28	13	41	17th	13		(30)
26th	Lars Nieberg	Leonie W.	11	25th	36	20th	13		(33)
27	Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Tornesch	15th	14th	29	23	RET
28	Patrice Delaveau	Lacrimoso	39	36	75	0	DNS
29	Kent Farrington	Blue Angel and Voyeur	23	41	64	6th	DNS
30th	Billy Twomey	Tinka's serenade	33	10	43	16	DNS
31	Jamie Kermond	Quite Cassini	19th	4th	23
32	François Mathy Jr	Polinska des Isles	4th	17th	21st
	Ashlee Bond-Clarke	Chela	13	8th	21st
34	Hamad Ali Mohamed Al Attiyah	Ultimo and Bella Donna	5	15th	20th
	Saer Coulter	Springtime	9	11	20th
36	Nicola Philippaerts	Donatella-N	16	0 (ELI)	16
37	Jenni Martin-McAllister	Casseur de Prix	6th	9	15th
38	Natalia Simonia	Kilar	8th	5	13
39	Abdullah Sharbatly	Andrea	2	DNS
40	Andrius Petrovas	Complemento	0 (ELI)

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

Further exams

Outside of the World Cup, a framework tournament was held. This was divided into two test tours, a CSI 2 * and a CSI 3 *, each with a Grand Prize at the end.

CSI 3 *: Grand Prix of the Airbus Group

The highlight of the framework tournament was the Airbus Group Grand Prix on Sunday evening , which was endowed with 100,000 euros. This test was advertised as a jumping competition with a single jump-off with obstacles up to a height of 1.60 meters.

In addition to his second place in the World Cup finals, Ludger Beerbaum secured victory in the CSI 3 * Grand Prix with Chaman . Beerbaum and his stallion Chaman had already won the Grand Prix of the framework tournament at the World Cup final in Gothenburg last year .

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	0	-	0	31.54
2	Michael Whitaker	Amai	0	-	0	32.11
3	Eugenie Angot	Davendy S	0	-	0	32.78
4th	Kevin Staut	Oh d'Eole	0	-	0	32.91
5	Ashlee Bond-Clarke	Agrostar	0	-	0	33.19

(best 5 of 39 participants)

CSI 2 *: Grand Prix of CWD

The second Grand Prix of the framework tournament was held on Monday morning from 9:30 a.m. The CSI 2 * Grand Prix was sponsored by the saddle manufacturer CWD and was endowed with around 24,000 euros. It was a jumping competition with one jump-off with obstacles up to a height of 1.45 meters.

The starting field of the CSI 2 * tournament consisted mainly of French riders, who also dominated the Grand Prix.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Thomas Leveque	Quaprice de l'Etivant	0	-	0	33.76
2	Clement Frerejacques	Calypso du Loing	0	-	0	33.78
3	Laurent Guillet	Casilias Z	0	-	0	36.52

(best 5 of 50 participants)

media

The FEI broadcast the World Cup finals in both disciplines for a fee via its Internet portal FEI TV. The pan-European TV broadcaster Eurosport showed a 90-minute recording of the show jumping World Cup final on the evening of the last day of the tournament. Eurosport broadcast a one-hour summary of the final of the dressage riders on May 7, 2014.

In Switzerland, SRF info broadcast live about an hour from the second round of the last partial test of the show jumping finals.

Web links

• Website of the World Cup Final in Lyon
• FEI World Cup Series website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see FEI tournament calendar ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Almost 1.8 million euros are in the premiums at the World Cup finals in Lyon , Dieter Ludwig, April 10, 2014
3. ↑ World Cup Final in Lyon 2014 in the FEI tournament calendar
4. ↑ FEI World Cup Rankings Dressage 2013/2014 ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Reem Acra FEI World Cup ™ Dressage Final: la liste définitive des cavaliers finalistes ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Valegro with wildcard to the World Cup final , St. Georg , April 1, 2014
7. ↑ No World Cup final for Anna Kasprzak , St. Georg, April 4, 2014
8. ↑ Nanna Skodborg Merrald's Millibar Fails Re-inspection at 2014 World Cup Finals , eurodressage.com, April 19, 2014 (English)
9. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix de Dressage
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Program World Cup Finals ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix Freestyle
12. ↑ List of participants in the World Cup finals
13. ↑ FEI World Cup Rankings jumping 2013/2014
14. ^ Result show jumping, 1st partial test World Cup finals
15. ↑ Second ranking World Cup final jumping: Victory for American Kent Farrington, Germany well represented , St. Georg, April 19, 2014
16. ↑ World Cup final in show jumping , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 20, 2014
17. ↑ Result show jumping, 2nd partial test World Cup finals
18. ↑ Big bad luck for Patrice Delaveau , St. Georg, April 20, 2014
19. ↑ Result show jumping, 3rd partial test of the World Cup finals
20. ↑ World Cup final show jumping: intermediate result after two partial tests
21. ↑ World Cup final show jumping: final result
22. ↑ CSI 3 * Lyon in the FEI tournament calendar
23. ↑ Show jumping: Result Grand Prix of the Airbus Group
24. ↑ CSI 2 * Lyon in the FEI tournament calendar
25. ↑ Show jumping: Result of the CWD Grand Prix
26. ↑ Riding: World Cup Final Lyon / FRA - 2nd handling of jump-offs