World Cup finals 2018 (show jumping and dressage)

World Cup Finals 2018
Tournament series:	FEI World Cup Dressage 2017/2018, FEI World Cup Show Jumping 2017/2018
Venue:	AccorHotels Arena , Paris , France
Participating riders:	18 dressage riders; 39 show jumpers (without general tests)
Internet:	feiworldcupfinals-paris.com

The 2018 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 10th to 15th, 2018 in the AccorHotels Arena in Paris - Bercy .

Equestrian sport in Paris

While dressage riders do not have a regular international tournament in Paris, Paris is one of the megacities with the greatest concentration of important show jumping tournaments: The Concours central hippique de Paris , which was first held in the 1860s , was one of the first major show jumping events worldwide. The tournament was last held in 1958 in the Grand Palais , where the CSI 5 * Saut Hermès has had its venue since 2010 .

In Villepinte in November / December the Salon du Cheval de Paris is held with a world cup vaulting tournament and a stage of the Longines Masters Grand Slam in show jumping. The Global Champions Tour / League has one of its stops on the Champ de Mars and Versailles has already hosted a CSI 5 * jumping tournament.

The AccorHotels Arena, then still under the name Palais Omnisports, was itself the venue for a stage of the Show Jumping World Cup - the Jumping International Paris-Bercy - until 2005. The last winners of the local world cup competition were Rodrigo Pessoa and Baloubet du Rouet .

Both disciplines had previously hosted a World Cup final in Paris: in show jumping in 1987 and in dressage in 1991.

Dressage riding

Qualified participants

The dressage riders had two cancellations shortly before the final: The Australian Mary Hanna had already made the long journey to Europe in February, but gave up her horse for health reasons. The FEI then asked Cathrine Dufour (as the world's highest ranking unqualified rider) to participate in the finals. She refrained from doing so due to the short preparation time of only four days for her horse. According to the world rankings, Hayley Watson-Greaves took the wildcard place after Steffen Peters , who was still in the United States, had previously been asked. A day later, Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén , who had spent part of the winter season in Florida, also waived her place in the final. Her horse was not fit for the competition either. Morgan Barbançon Mestre received the further wildcard available.

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Central European League	2	Inessa Merkulowa Hanna Karasiowa
North American League	2	Laura Graves Shelly Francis
Pacific League	1	Mary Hanna (rejection, so another wildcard)
Western European League	9	Patrik Kittel Dorothee Schneider Jessica von Bredow-Werndl Madeleine Witte-Vrees Edward Gal Daniel Bachmann-Andersen Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén (rejection, thus another wildcard) Belinda wine maker Emile Faurie
Participants from areas without a World Cup	1	Yvonne Losos de Muñiz
World Cup winner 2016/2017	1	Isabell Werth
FEI wildcards	2	Ellesse Tzinberg Ludovic Henry Hayley Watson-Greaves Morgan Barbançon Mestre

Procedure and results

Grand Prix

For the dressage riders, the first test of the final tournament was on the program on Friday afternoon (April 13th). The Grand Prix served as an initial test: Participation was compulsory (as with the qualifications), but the result has no direct bearing on the outcome of the final.

The sixth starter pair of the Grand Prix seemed not up to the task in front of the atmosphere of the 15,000-seat hall: Ellesse Tzinberg, who rode for the Philippines, and her experienced gelding Triviant had achieved Grand Prix results of around 65 percent several times at open-air tournaments in the United States . In Paris they only came to 58.292 percent. In the assembled step, in the passage and the single changes, she received only a one as a rating from individual judges (“very bad”). Since a result of 60 percent was the minimum qualification criterion for the Grand Prix Freestyle, she missed the entry into the final test.

Laura Graves and her now 16-year-old Verdades coped much better with the change from the Florida sun to the Paris hall . With over 81 percent, she took the lead as the fourth from last starter. The World Cup final winners of the previous year, Isabell Werth and Weihegold OLD , showed up to the 17th lesson, as expected, strong with several lessons rated with nine. But then they made mistakes in the strong canter, in the zigzag traversals and in the single changes. Even if they then leveled off again at the 9-grade level, Werth's overall result was three percent less than Graves, who was victorious against Isabell Werth for the second time after the CHIO Aachen 2017.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Laura Graves	Verdades	81.413%
2	Isabell Werth	Weihegold OLD	78.261%
3	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	Unee BB	75.668%
4th	Dorothee Schneider	Sammy Davis Jr.	75.311%
5	Patrik Kittel	Deja	74.689%

(best 5 of 18 participants)

Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)

Podium of the dressage world cup final 2018

Without a day off was less than 24 hours later, already in the finals: On April 14 at 14:00 which was Grand Prix Freestyle performed. The World Cup winner was determined based on the result of this test. The World Cup was endowed with 275,000 euros.

The first starter in the freestyle was the American Shelly Francis with the black gelding Danilo . After she only came 17th in the Grand Prix with 68.326 percent, she convinced the judges, especially with the B mark. Several judges gave her over 80 percent, and 74.189 percent as an overall grade was enough for twelfth place in the end. The best evaluation of the first half of the starting field was given to Daniel Bachmann-Andersen and the KWPN stallion Zack . They were the first to make the jump over 80 percent as an overall result. Inessa Merkulowa and her Trakehner Mister X were the last couple to miss the 80 percent mark in the first half, but again proved their position as the strongest Eastern European couple in dressage.

Edward Gal and Zonik , a son of the recently started Zack (79.654 percent), started the second half . The best Dutch couple, however, were Madeleine Witte-Vrees and Cennin . With Belinda Weinbauer, a rider from Austria was also at the start. But Weinbauer with the 16-year-old son Brilliant MJ did not come close to their best performances of this World Cup season due to mistakes in the single and double substitutions, 74.050 percent were enough for 13th place in the end.

Deja , Patrik Kittel's 14-year-old mare, was highly concentrated . His freestyle with Stevie Wonders Isn't she lovely as the central piece of music was celebrated frenetically by the audience, and the judges also gave very high B grades (two judges even in the 90 percent range). With 83.146 percent, this was the new leadership. The previous day's winners went into the arena with less thrilling, but very sustaining music and a technically very demanding series of lessons. Laura Graves and Verdades received A grades around 83 percent and B grades well over 90 percent. With an overall grade of 89.082 percent, there was a realistic chance of winning the World Cup final.

The start of the freestyle program was unhappy for Dorothee Schneider, who started in Graves. Her freestyle music did not sound at her hand signal. Only after a long wait could she start her freestyle with music. But Schneider was not unsettled by this and came with her 12-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. to 81.843 percent. Schneider's ride had opened a German trio at the end of the test, followed by Isabell Werth. Unlike the day before, she made no mistakes with Weihegold OLD and was able to build on the mare's best results . With 90.657 percent, she managed to take the lead from Laura Graves. This should also remain the best result until the end of the test. Werth defended her World Cup final victory.

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl had assigned the lot to the last starting place in the freestyle. After she gave up on Unee BB at her last World Cup start in Gothenburg , the stallion was back in top form in Paris. As in the 2016 final, 83.725 percent were enough for third place.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Isabell Werth	Weihegold OLD	90.657%
2	Laura Graves	Verdades	89.082%
3	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	Unee BB	83.725%
4th	Patrik Kittel	Deja	83.146%
5	Dorothee Schneider	Sammy Davis Jr.	81.843%
6th	Madeleine Witte-Vrees	Cennin	81.336%
7th	Daniel Bachmann-Andersen	Zack	80.532%
8th	Edward Gal	Zonik	79.654%
9	Inessa Merkulova	Mister X	79.139%
10	Morgan Barbançon Mestre	Sir Donnerhall II OLD	76.207%
11	Hayley Watson-Greaves	Rubin's Nite	75.346%
12	Shelly Francis	Danilo	74.189%
13	Belinda winemaker	Son Brilliant MJ	74.050%
14th	Ludovic Henry	After you	72.786%
15th	Yvonne Losos de Muñiz	Foco Loco W	72.679%
16	Patrick van der Meer	Zippo	72.289%
17th	Hanna Karasiowa	Zodiac	70.621%

Show jumping

Qualified participants (World Cup)

Due to the final location in Central Europe, the riders qualified from the Western European League competed almost entirely in Paris. Refusals came only from the riders from Jan Tops, Edwina Tops-Alexander and Alberto Zorzi, as well as from Christian Ahlmann. Ahlmann waived because his horse Epleaser van´t Heike , who was supposed to start in the World Cup finals, was injured. This reduced the line-up of the German show jumping sport, which was already in a phase of weakness, to two riders: Marcus Ehning and Daniel Deußer.

Switzerland is also represented with two riders in Paris: Steve Guerdat had already qualified in the Western European League. Paul Estermann was only 23rd there, but benefited from the fact that Max Kühner (who was a successor himself) canceled his start at short notice. Beat Mändli, who lives in the United States, qualified for the final via the North American League, but shied away from the long journey and also focuses more on the World Equestrian Games in late summer. Despite this long journey, the United States made the largest contingent at the World Cup final, all of its ten starting positions were used.

Probably the longest journey had to be made by the two participants qualified via the Australian league, who both started the journey to Europe.

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Arab League	3	Ibrahim Hani Bisharat Mohammad Osama El Borai (rejection) Abdulrahman Alrajhi (successor)
Caucasus-Caspian League	1	Shalva Gachechiladze (cancellation)
Central Asian League	1	Nurjon Tuyakbaev (cancellation)
Chinese league	1	Ruiji Liang (cancellation)
Central European League	3	Urmas Raag Aleš Opatrný (rejection) Kristaps Neretnieks Rein Pill ( replacement )
Japan League	1	Keisuke Koike (cancellation)
North American League	7 Americans from the East Coast subleague	Alison Robitaille Devin Ryan Beezie Madden Kristen Vanderveen Sarah Scheiring Andrew Kocher Jack Towell (cancellation) Charlie Jacobs (successor)
	3 Americans from the West Coast subleague	Richard Spooner Mandy Porter (cancellation) Jamie Barge Jenni McAllister (replacement)
	2 Canadians (both sub-leagues)	Isabelle Lapierre (cancellation) Ali Ramsay (cancellation)
	2 Mexicans (both subordinates)	Luis Alejandro Plascencia Oñate (cancellation) Gustavo Ramos
	Additional tabs (both sub-leagues)	Beat Mändli (cancellation) Conor Swail (cancellation)
Australian League	2	Billy Raymont Jamie Kermond
New Zealand League	1	Rose Alfeld (rejection)
South African League	1	Lisa Williams (cancellation)
Central American and Caribbean League	1	League not played
Northern South American League	1	Santiago Medina (cancellation)
Southern South American League	2	Felipe Amaral Artemus de Almeida (cancellation)
Southeast Asian League	1	Jaruporn Limpichati (cancellation)
Western European League	18th	Henrik von Eckermann Kevin Staut Marcus Ehning Edwina Tops-Alexander ° (Rejection) Denis Lynch Christian Ahlmann (Rejection) Michael Whitaker Roger-Yves Bost Pieter Devos Daniel Deußer Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo ° Harrie Smolders Alberto Zorzi (Rejection) Steve Guerdat Eduardo Álvarez Aznar Robert Whitaker Douglas Lindelöw Mark McAuley Olivier Philippaerts Simon Delestre Julien Epaillard ( replacement ) Max Kühner ( replacement , rejection) Paul Estermann (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 2016/2017	1	McLain Ward

° 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

World Cup Finals

April 10th was a day without exams, on which, in addition to the first examination of the horses participating in the World Cup, a training course was set up. This could be used for 90 seconds per horse to familiarize horses with the hall. One day later, the World Cup riders could take part in an entry test with up to two horses, which did not count towards the World Cup ranking.

1st partial examination

On the evening of April 12th (Thursday) the first partial test of the show jumping World Cup final was on the program. The task for the participants was a time jump test . The result was then, as explained in the article FEI World Cup Show Jumping , converted into points.

The course was set up in a demanding manner for a time competition, so it took until the eighth rider before a clear round could be recorded for the first time. Only eight of the 37 starters did not miss any obstacle errors. One of the strongest couples of the World Cup season showed the fastest ride: Henrik von Eckermann and Mary Lou crossed the finish line in 60.33 seconds. In doing so, they made an obstacle error, despite the additional four seconds they made for fifth place in the first partial test. Two Americans and the two German riders placed in front of him. Beezie Madden received the largest share of the examination prize money of 100,000 euros with her daily win.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	time	Points (overall rating)
1	Beezie Madden	Breitling	61.89 s + 0 penalty seconds = 61.89	38
2	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	62.61 s + 0 penalty seconds = 62.61	36
3	Devin Ryan	Eddie Blue	62.84 s + 0 penalty seconds = 62.84	35
4th	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	62.90 s + 0 penalty seconds = 62.90	34
5	Henrik von Eckermann	Mary Lou	60.33 s + 4 penalty seconds = 64.33	33
6th	Pieter Devos	Espoir	64.67 s + 0 penalty seconds = 64.67	32
7th	Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Rokfeller de Pleville	65.02 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.02	31
8th	Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo	Admara	65.30 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.30	30th
9	Douglas Lindelow	Zacramento	65.40 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.40	29
10	McLain Ward	Azure	61.67 s + 4 penalty seconds = 65.67	28

(best 10 of 37 participants)

2nd partial examination

The second part of the show jumping World Cup final followed 24 hours after the start of the first partial test. The second partial test was organized as a jumping competition with a single jump-off . Course designer Santiago Varela had set up a jumping course with obstacles of up to 1.60 meters in height, the permitted time of 75 seconds which turned out to be extremely tight.

There were still 36 riders at the start. Gustavo Ramos did not compete after he had received 40 penalty points on his time of 88.84 in the first partial test. Denis Lynch was disqualified after a slightly bleeding spot was found on his gelding (probably by a spore prick). Not disqualified, but under observation after his ride, Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo was. In a promising position in the ranking, his gelding Admara pulled his hind legs up extremely carefully when overcoming the obstacles. Lopez Lizarazo had no obstacle faults and was seventh in the interim ranking with just one time penalty. Against the background of the ban on certain hind leg gaiters from 2021, which can be extremely tightened, questions arose at the press conference. The behavior of the horse was explained by the fact that it was hit hard with its hind legs once when riding. The director of the FEI for show jumping, John Roche, warned the rider and assured him that Lopez Lizarazo would no longer use the mesh.

Henrik von Eckermann was able to work his way forward in the World Cup ranking with one lap without mistakes, as the two German riders placed in front of him failed. Marcus Ehning made three obstacle errors, two of them in the triple combination. Daniel Deußer even got 14 penalty points: He did not get the correct distance to the double combination, Cornet d'Amour clearly tore the bar of the entry and no longer got a jump distance to the second jump of the obstacle.

Another time without a jumping fault and thus in third place in the intermediate ranking was a couple that was still largely unknown in Europe: The 36-year-old World Cup final debutant Devin Ryan and his gray Eddie Blue , the youngest horse in the field at the age of nine. Beezie Madden was able to hold onto her top spot, and she also made no mistakes with Breitling .

In the jump-off there were several riders who were considered promising before the World Cup finals, but who did not meet these expectations in the first partial test. Kevin Staut had received 20 penalty seconds in the first partial test and then decided together with the horse owner to say goodbye to his 17-year-old gelding Reveur de Hurtebise from the sport promptly. With Silver Deux de Virton, on the other hand, he made no mistakes in the second partial test and was the first rider in the jump-off to do a clean jump-off in 36.87 seconds. Harrie Smolders also changed horses after the first test and qualified for the jump-off with his chestnut stallion Emerald . Here he lived up to his role as a favorite and took a clear lead. But the final rider was even faster: Beezie Madden also won the second partial test, which was endowed with 150,000 euros.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		Points (overall rating)
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Beezie Madden	Breitling	0	-	0	33.22	38
2	Harrie Smolders	Emerald	0	-	0	33.44	36
3	Henrik von Eckermann	Mary Lou	0	-	0	33.92	35
4th	Olivier Philippaerts	Legend of Love	0	-	0	35.19	34
5	Kevin Staut	Silver Deux de Virton	0	-	0	36.87	33
6th	Jamie Barge	Luebbo	0	-	0	37.02	32
7th	McLain Ward	Azure	0	-	4th	32.74	31
8th	Douglas Lindelow	Zacramento	0	-	4th	32.85	30th
9	Simon Delestre	Chesall	0	-	4th	35.57	29
10	Devin Ryan	Eddie Blue	1	75.09			28

(best 10 of 36 participants)

3rd partial examination

After a day's break for the horses of the World Cup finals, the third and last partial test was on the program. This was carried out on April 15 at 2 p.m. The test was advertised as a jumping competition with two different rounds . She was not ridden against time, but an allowable time was provided. In the event of a tie in the overall regulations, however, the time of the second cycle was used as a distinguishing criterion.

29 starters were still at the start in the first lap. The first round went well for the Swiss riders: Paul Estermann was the first rider to fail here, and Steve Guerdat also finished the round without a mistake. Marcus Ehning added an obstacle error , while Daniel Deußer with Cornet d'Amour was able to keep his result with a zero-error ride.

Of the four French runners, Simon Delestre was the best placed after two partial tests (twelfth). In the first round of the third partial test, however, he and Chesall got 19 penalty points, so that he could no longer qualify for the second round of the best 20 riders. Kevin Staut also missed a place in the top 20, only Roger-Yves Bost managed this qualification. While the three riders who started with eight points in this partial test (Lindelöw, Philippaerts, Ward) each got four penalty points, the top group (Ryan, von Eckermann, Madden) remained clear.

As stipulated by the World Cup regulations, the second round was about the same length as the first round, but the demands were again noticeably higher. Michael Whitaker's horse Hot Stuff had no obstacle errors in the first lap of the day, but in the second lap the decreasing strength showed. After several throws, towards the end of the lap, Whitaker refrained from attempting a distance that was not entirely appropriate, received four penalty points for refusing and started the jump again. With 17 penalty points from this round he came in 20th place. Harrie Smolders was also passed through to the back: After eight penalty points in the first round, his stallion Emerald did not come close to his usual performance in the second round (twelve more penalty points, 17th place).

The winner of the Central European League was able to finish the final with satisfaction: With only two time penalty points in this last lap , Urmas Raag came in 15th. His mare Ibelle van de Grote haar let her rider steer her over the obstacles of the World Cup final with loose, occasionally hanging reins was sold to the United States while still in Paris. Steve Guerdat was able to work his way up with another flawless lap from Bianca , the same applied to Marcus Ehning and Daniel Deußer (the latter with a time penalty). For Deußer, it should even be eighth in the end, as only one of the following riders should remain without mistakes.

Due to several four-fault rides, four riders were in the lead with 16 points ahead of the last three starters, so that a clear gap to the top group had developed. Henrik von Eckermann also made a mistake early on in the run with Mary Lou . Devin Ryan seized the resulting chance, with Eddie Blue he remained (as the only rider) over all laps without obstacle errors. But because of her victories in the first two stages, Beezie Madden had a lead of six penalty points. A falling bar melted the gap, but Madden crossed the target with Breitling without any further errors. Her second World Cup final victory after 2013 was confirmed.

Steve Guerdat and Devin Ryan secured the day's victory and thus the largest share of the daily prize money of 300,000 euros with their double clear rounds. Another 750,000 euros were distributed among the best 16 in the overall World Cup final.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	Penalty points
			1st round	2nd round	total
1	Steve Guerdat	Bianca	0	0	0
	Devin Ryan	Eddie Blue	0	0	0
3	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	0	1	1
4th	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	4th	0	4th
	Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Rokfeller de Pleville	0	4th	4th
	Henrik von Eckermann	Mary Lou	0	4th	4th
	Beezie Madden	Breitling	0	4th	4th
8th	Urmas Raag	Ibelle van de Grote hair	5	2	7th
	Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo	Admara	5	2	7th

(best nine of 29 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	Beezie Madden	Breitling	38	38	76	0	0	4th	4th
2	Devin Ryan	Eddie Blue	35	28	63	6th	0	0	6th
3	Henrik von Eckermann	Mary Lou	33	35	68	4th	0	4th	8th
4th	McLain Ward	Azure	28	31	59	8th	4th	4th	16 (65.72 s)
5	Olivier Philippaerts	Legend of Love	25th	34	59	8th	4th	4th	16 (66.49 s)
6th	Eduardo Álvarez Aznar	Rokfeller de Pleville	31	20th	51	12	0	4th	16 (66.68 s)
7th	Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo	Admara	30th	27	57	9	5	2	16 (73.24 s)
8th	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	36	5	41	17th	0	1	18th
9	Pieter Devos	Espoir	32	22nd	54	11	0	8th	19 (66.22 s)
10	Steve Guerdat	Bianca	27	10	37	19th	0	0	19 (66.25 s)
11	Douglas Lindelow	Zacramento	29	30th	59	8th	4th	8th	20th
12	Marcus Ehning	Cornado NRW	34	8th	42	17th	4th	0	21 (67.68 s)
13	Roger-Yves Bost	Sangria du Coty	26th	25th	51	12	0	9	21 (70.77 s)
14th	Alison Robitaille	Ace	24	23	47	14th	1	9	24
15th	Urmas Raag	Ibelle van de Grote hair	16	24	40	18th	5	2	25th
16	Jamie Barge	Luebbo	14th	32	46	15th	8th	4th	27
17th	Harrie Smolders	Zinius and Emerald	22nd	36	58	9	8th	12	29
18th	Paul Estermann	Lord Pepsi	15th	18th	33	21st	0	9	30 (68.61 s)
19th	Robert Whitaker	Catwalk IV	18th	17th	35	20th	5	5	30 (70.57 s)
20th	Michael Whitaker	Hot stuff	23	19th	42	17th	1	17th	35
21st	Kevin Staut	Reveur de Hurtebise and Silver Deux de Virton	5	33	38	19th	8th		(27)
22nd	Kristen Vanderveen	Faustino de Tili	13	21st	34	21st	8th		(29)
23	Ibrahim Hani Bisharat	Chactino	7th	26th	33	21st	9		(30)
	Mark McAuley	Miebello	19th	13	32	22nd	8th		(30)
	Julien Epaillard	Usual Suspect d'Auge	17th	15th	32	22nd	8th		(30)
26th	Jamie Kermond	Constellation	12	11	23	26th	5		(31)
27	Simon Delestre	Chadino and Chesall	21st	29	50	13	19th		(32)
28	Felipe Amaral	Premiere Carthoes	8th	16	24	26th	9		(35)
29	Andrew Kocher	Navalo de Poheton	20th	3	23	26th	12		(38)
30th	Richard Spooner	Arthos R and Chatinus	9	14th	23	26th	N.GES.
31	Pure pill	A brok	10	7th	17th	29
32	Sarah Scheiring	Dontez	4th	12	16	30th
	Billy Raymont	Oaks Redwood	6th	9	15th	30th
34	Abdulrahman Alrajhi	Chilli Pepper van de Helle	2	6th	8th	34
	Charlie Jacobs	Cassinja S.	3	4th	7th	34
36	Denis Lynch	All star	11	DISQ
37	Gustavo Ramos	Izzy Miaki	1	N.GES.

AUFG = given up / waived
AUSG = retired
DISQ = disqualified
N.GES. = not started

Further exams

As part of the World Cup final in Paris, a CSI  2 * tournament with six jumping competitions took place. Its main test was a jumping competition with a single jump over 1.45 m height on Sunday morning. There were mostly French riders at the start, Olivier Perreau won with the nine-year-old mare Dolce Deceuninck .

The World Cup riders also had the opportunity to compete in a show endowed with 100,000 euros on Saturday evening. Six of the 45 pairs made no mistakes in the first round, the best 12 pairs entered the second round according to the rules. In front of four French riders (in positions two to five) Daniel Deußer won with the 14-year-old gray Cornet .

Result Grand Prix Equithème:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		2nd round
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Daniel Deußer	Cornet	0	-	0	45.33
2	Patrice Delaveau	Aquila	0	-	0	46.41
3	Cédric Angot	Saxo de la Cour	0	-	4th	46.83

(best 3 of 45 participants)

Web links

Commons : World Cup Finals in Dressage 2018  - Collection of images

• Web presence of the World Cup final in Paris (English)
• Schedule and results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max E. Ammann: History of equestrian sport: jumping, military, dressage, driving . Special edition, Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1983, ISBN 3-570-09074-4 , p. 22-23, 141 .
2. ↑ FEI tournament calendar
3. ↑ FEI World Cup Jumping Update: Paris Bercy , inside.fei.org, March 13, 2005, accessed March 31, 2018
4. ↑ Results of Jumping International Paris-Bercy 2005
5. ↑ Watson-Greaves Gets Hanna's Vacant Spot at 2018 World Cup Final , eurodressage.com, April 6, 2018
6. ↑ 2018 World Cup Finals, Barbançon Substitutes , eurodressage.com, April 7, 2018
7. ↑ FEI World Cup Dressage Final - PARIS (FRA) - Season 2017/2018, Definite Entries List ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of April 5, 2018 
8. ^ FEI Athlete Performance: Ellesse Tzinberg
9. ↑ Result of the Grand Prix de Dressage
10. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Graves wins qualification, Germans on places two to four , Jan Tönjes / St. Georg, April 13, 2018
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Schedule and results World Cup Final Paris 2018
12. ↑ 13th place for Belinda Weinbauer and Söhnlein Brilliant MJ , eqwo.net, April 14, 2018
13. ↑ Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle
14. ↑ World Cup Final: Dressage Queen Isabell Werth , Sabine Gregg / Reiter Revue International, April 14, 2018
15. ↑ Mini line-up in Paris with a German top favorite ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2018 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. , Handelsblatt / dpa, April 11, 2018 
16. ↑ Last minute change for the FEI World Cup finals in Paris , equnews.com, April 9, 2018 (English)
17. ↑ Mändli waives the World Cup final , Aargauer Zeitung , April 3, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2018
18. ↑ Ranking of the world cup jumping competitions, season 2017/2018 , fei.org
19. ↑ Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Final 2018 - Definite Entries  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ FEI World CupTM Jumping - Season 2017-2018, Central European League Final Standings following the Central European League Final (PDF)
21. ^ Result show jumping, 1st partial test World Cup finals
22. ↑ Overall ranking of the World Cup final show jumping, intermediate result after the 1st partial test
23. ↑ World Cup finals in Paris: First disqualification according to the so-called blood rule, Thomas Borgmann / reitturniere.de, April 14, 2018
24. ↑ Admara- A Storm In A Jump Cup? , Lulu Kyriacou / grandprix-replay.com, April 14, 2018
25. ↑ ^{a b} World Cup Show Jumping 2018 to Beezie Madden , Gabriele Pochhammer / St. Georg, April 15, 2018
26. ↑ Eddie Blue - the secret favorite? , grandprix-replay.com, April 13, 2018
27. ↑ Reveur de Hurtebise says goodbye - "He told us yesterday that he no longer had so much fun" , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, April 13, 2018
28. ^ Result Longines FEI World Cup ™ Jumping Final II , longinestiming.com
29. ↑ World Cup Final: Broken dreams among German show jumpers , Sabine Gregg / Reiter Revue International, April 14, 2018
30. ↑ Result show jumping, 3rd partial test of the World Cup finals
31. ↑ Show jumping: intermediate result after two partial exams (PDF)
32. ↑ Overall ranking show jumping, final standings (PDF)
33. ↑ Show jumping: Result CSI2 * Grand Prix
34. ↑ Show jumping: Result Grand Prix Equithème