2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage)
The 2012 FEI World Cup Finals in 's-Hertogenbosch was held from April 19 to April 22, 2012. It was the final of the Show jumping and Dressage World Cup series. This finals was held in the Brabanthallen. Because of the close date of the 2012 Summer Olympics, many riders did not compete in these competitions.
Horse sport in 's-Hertogenbosch
Each year the horse show Indoor Brabant is held in the Brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch. A World cup competition in dressage and also one in show jumping are held here. Several times World Cup Finals are held as part of Indoor Brabant: 1994 in show jumping; 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2010 in dressage.
The horse show are held regularly at the end of March. In 2012 the event was postponed to April because of the World Cup Finals.
Dressage results
Grand Prix
At April 20, 2012 (12:00 noon) the Grand Prix de Dressage was held. It was the first competition of the Dressage World Cup final, but it did not count for the final ranking.
| Placing [1] | Rider | Horse | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelinde Cornelissen | Parzival | 78.024 % |
| 2 | Helen Langehanenberg | Damon Hill NRW | 76.125 % |
| 3 | Valentina Truppa | Eremo del Castegno | 75.106 % |
| 4 | Hans Peter Minderhoud | Tango | 73.404 % |
| 5 | Richard Davison | Hiscox Artemis | 73.374 % |
(Top 5 of 18 Competitors)
Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)
The second competition of the Dressage World Cup final was the Grand Prix Freestyle, held at the afternoon of Saturday, April 21. Started as favourite, Adelinde Cornelissen won with her gelding Parzival this competition with 86.250% She defended her title, so she is again the World Cup Champion.
| Placing [2] | Rider | Horse | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelinde Cornelissen | Parzival | 86.250 % |
| 2 | Helen Langehanenberg | Damon Hill NRW | 85.143 % |
| 3 | Valentina Truppa | Eremo del Castegno | 81.232 % |
| 4 | Isabell Werth | El Santo NRW | 79.964 % |
| 5 | Richard Davison | Hiscox Artemis | 78.571 % |
| 6 | Hans Peter Minderhoud | Tango | 76.143 % |
| 7 | Nadine Capellmann | Girasol | 75.625 % |
| 8 | Patrik Kittel | Toy Story | 75.482 % |
| 9 | Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén | Don Auriello | 74.393 % |
| 10 | Lone Jörgensen | FBW De Vito | 73.589 % |
| 11 | Jenny Schreven | Krawall | 73.464 % |
| 12 | Siril Helljesen | Dorina | 73.250 % |
| 13 | Mikaela Lindh | Más Guapo | 71.696 % |
| 14 | Rachael Sanna | Jaybee Alabaster | 71.339 % |
| 15 | Jan Ebeling | Rafalca | 69.875 % |
| 16 | Shawna Harding | Come on III | 68.821 % |
| 17 | Michał Rapcewicz | Randon | 65.804 % |
| 18 | Katarzyna Milczarek | Ekwador | eliminated |
Show jumping results
Final I
The first competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a speed and handiness competition, was held at Thursday afternoon (April 19, 2012). The result of this competition was converted into faults for the World Cup Final standings.
| Placing [3] | Rider | Horse | Time | World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich Fellers | Flexible | 60.26 s + 0 penalty s = 60.26 | 38 |
| 2 | Steve Guerdat | Sabrina | 61.94 s + 0 penalty s. = 61.94 | 36 |
| 3 | Rik Hemeryck | Quarco de Kerambars | 62.66 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.66 | 35 |
| 4 | Pius Schwizer | Ulysse | 62.83 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.83 | 34 |
| 5 | Kevin Staut | Silvana | 63.07 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.07 | 33 |
| 6 | Rolf-Göran Bengtsson | Casall | 63.60 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.60 | 32 |
| 7 | Harrie Smolders | Regina Z | 63.67 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.67 | 31 |
| 8 | Kirsten Coe | Baronez | 65.76 s + 0 penalty s. = 65.76 | 30 |
| 9 | Marcus Ehning | Sabrina | 61.87 s + 4 penalty s. = 65.87 | 29 |
| 10 | Eric Lamaze | Coriana van Klapscheut | 57.97 s + 8 penalty s. = 65.97 | 28 |
(Top Ten of 37 competitors)
The previous year's final winner Christian Ahlmann had three obstacle faults in the speed and handiness competition, so he had a time of 76.09 seconds. Because of this result he had no chance to defend his title, so he did not start in the further final competitions.
Final II
On the afternoon of April 20th the second competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a show jumping competition with one jump-off, was held. After the second round, the World Cup Points were converted in Penalties for the Final III.
| Placing [4] | Rider | Horse | Round 1 | Jump-off | World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalties | Time (s) | Penalties | Time (s) | ||||
| 1 | Philipp Weishaupt | Monte Bellini | 0 | - | 0 | 33.04 | 38 |
| 2 | Pius Schwizer | Carlina | 0 | - | 0 | 33.56 | 36 |
| 3 | Marco Kutscher | Cornet Obolensky | 0 | - | 0 | 35.03 | 35 |
| 4 | Eric Lamaze | Coriana van Klapscheut | 1 | 72.05 | - | - | 34 |
| 5 | Beezie Madden | Cortes C | 4 | 66.77 | - | - | 33 |
| 6 | Steve Guerdat | Nino des Buissonnets | 4 | 67.33 | - | - | 32 |
| 7 | Kevin Staut | Silvana | 0 | 68.40 | - | - | 31 |
| 8 | Rich Fellers | Flexible | 4 | 68.69 | - | - | 30 |
| 9 | Margie Goldstein-Engle | Indigo | 4 | 69.72 | - | - | 29 |
| 10 | Patrice Delaveau | Ornella Mail | 4 | 69.85 | - | - | 28 |
(Top Ten of 33 competitors)
Final III
The third competition of this final will be held at April 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm. It will be a competition over two different rounds, both not against the clock. Here only the 25 best placed riders have the chance to start in this competition, in the second round of the Final III only 19 riders start with their horses.
| Placing [5] | Rider | Horse | Round 1 | Round 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalties | Penalties | Penalties | |||
| 1 | Steve Guerdat | Nino des Buissonnets | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rich Fellers | Flexible | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Denis Lynch | Abbervail van het Dingeshof | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Rolf-Göran Bengtsson | Casall | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Maikel van der Vleuten | Verdi | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| 6 | Pius Schwizer | Carlina | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Marcus Ehning | Copin van de Broy | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 8 | Philipp Weishaupt | Monte Bellini | 5 | 1 | 6 |
(Top 8 of 24 competitors)
Final standings
The decision about the title "World Cup Champion 2011-2012" took place in a jump-off. Two riders, Steve Guerdat from Switzerland and Rich Fellers from the US had only one point after four rounds in three competitions in this World Cup Final. First rider in the jump-off was Guerdat with his gelding Nino des Buissonnets. He ride very fast and had a time of 26.61 seconds. After him Fellers start with his Flexible: His time was nearly equal to Guerdats time most time of the jump-off. But one turn Rich Fellers ride much faster than Guerdat, so he was 64 hundredths of a second faster than the time of Steve Guerdat.
With this victory Rich Fellers is the first rider from the United States, who win the Show jumping World Cup since 25 years (in 1987 won Katharine Burdsall from the US).
| Placing [6] | Rider | Horse |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich Fellers | Flexible |
| 2 | Steve Guerdat | Nino des Buissonnets |
| 3 | Pius Schwizer | Ulysse and Carlina |
Grand Prix (CSI 3*)
Also a CSI 3* is held at the “Indoor Brabant“ 2012. The Grand Prix of this show jumping horse show was held at Saturday, April 21, 2012 (9:30 pm). It was a show jumping competition with one jump-off, the fences will be up to 1.55 meters. The competition was endowed with € 100.000, the sponsor was the Rabobank.
| Placing [7] | Rider | Horse | Round 1 | Jump-off | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalties | Time (s) | Penalties | Time (s) | |||
| 1 | Marc Houtzager | Opium | 0 | - | 0 | 29.18 |
| 2 | Ali bin Khaled Al Thani | Casanova | 0 | - | 0 | 29.30 |
| 3 | Richard Spooner | Apache | 0 | - | 0 | 30.03 |
| 4 | Ludger Beerbaum | Chiara | 0 | - | 0 | 30.16 |
| 5 | Marco Kutscher | Satisfaction FRH | 0 | - | 0 | 30.36 |
(Top 5 of 29 Competitors)
Besides the sport
Unexpectedly, the German dressage team coach Holger Schmezer died April 19 in the afternoon in his hotel room. The German dressage riders wore a black armband on their riding jackets as a sign of mourning in the Grand Prix de Dressage. After the Grand Prix de Dressage, a minute of silence was observed in memory of Holger Schmezer.[8]
The loss of Holger Schmezer is a terrible blow to the German Dressage team and to lose such an inspirational coach in an Olympic year is tragic.
References
- Dressage World Cup Final: Grand Prix de Dressage
- Dressage World Cup Final: Grand Prix Freestyle
- Show jumping World Cup Final,result Final I
- Show jumping World Cup Final, result Final II
- Show jumping World Cup Final,result Final III
- 2012 FEI World Cup Jumping Final: final result
- Show jumping: result Rabobank Grote Prijs
- In memoriam: Holger Schmezer (GER), FEI, April 20, 2012
External links
- Website of Indoor Brabant (Dutch / English)
- Results