Dressage at the Olympics

Dressage at the Olympics

TEXT: CHRISTIE WOLHUTER

RIO 2016 INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Gold - Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) on Valegro (Negro x Gershwin).

Silver - Isabell Werth (GER) on Weihegold OLD (Don Schufro x Sandro Hit).

Bronze - Kristina Broring-Sprehe (GER) on Desperados FRH (De Niro x Wolkenstein II).

Germany won the team Gold.

COMPETITORS FOR TOKYO 2020

GREAT BRITAIN

1. Charlotte Dujardin will be competing on her own 10 year old gelding KWPN Gio (Apache x Tango).

2. Carl Hester will be competing on the KWPN stallion En Vogue (Jazz x Contango).

3. 25 year old Olympic debutant Charlotte Fry will be competing on her and Van Olst Horses’ 12 year old KWPN stallion Everdale (Lord Leatherdale x Negro).

GERMANY

1. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl will be competing on the Trakhener mare TSF Dalera BB (Easy Game by Gribaldi x Handryk)

2. Dorothee Schneider will be competing on the Hanoverian gelding Showtime FRH (Sandro Hit x Rotspon)

3. Isabell Werth will be competing on the Westphalian mare Bella Rose (Belissimo M out of a mare by Anglo Arab stallion Cacir). Her other option is the Oldenburger mare Weihegold (Don Schufro x Sandro Hit).

DENMARK

1. Cathrine Dufour will be competing on the liver chestnut Westphalian gelding Bohemian (Bordeaux 28 x Samarant)

2. Carina Cassoe Kruth will be competing on the Danish Warmblood mare Heiline’s Danciera (Furstenball x De Niro)

3. Nanna Skodborg Merrald will be competing on the KWPN stallion Blue Hors Zack (Rousseau x Jazz) or Atterupgaards Orthilia, a mare by Gribaldi out of Donnerschlag.

SWEDEN

1. Juliette Ramel will be riding the KWPN gelding Buriel K.h (Osmium x Krack C).

2. Therese Nilshagen will be riding the Oldenburger stallion Dante Weltino (Danone 4 x Welt Hit).

3. Patrik Kittel will be riding the CH mare Well Done De La Roche (Furstentraum x Walt Disney).

FAST FACT

Blue Hors Zack is completely blind in one eye and Simone Pearce’s Destano is partially blind in one eye as well.

NETHERLANDS

1. Edward Gal will be riding the Hanoverian stallion Glock’s Total US (Totilas x Sir Donnherhall I).

2. Hans Peter Minderhoud will be riding the KWPN stallion Glock’s Dream Boy N.O.P (Vivaldi x Ferro).

3. Marlies van Baalen will be riding the KWPN gelding Go Legend (Totilas x Olympic Ferro).

SPAIN

1. Severo Jurado Lopez will be competing on the KWPN gelding Fendi T (Negro x Lester).

2. Beatriz Ferrer-Salat will be riding the KWPN gelding Elegance (Negro x Monaco).

3. Jose Antonio Garcia Mena will be competing on the Westphalian gelding Sorento 15 (Sandro Bedo x Florestan I).

FAST FACT

Beatriz Ferrer-Salat and Beauvalais were the Individual Bronze medallists at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

USA

1. Adrienne Lyle will be competing on the Hanoverian stallion Salvino (Sandro Hit x Donnerhall).

2. Steffen Peters will be competing on the KWPN gelding Suppenkasper (Spielberg x Krack C).

3. Sabine Schut-Kery will be competing on the Hanoverian stallion Sanceo (San Remo by Sandro Hit x Ramiro’s Son II).

AUSTRALIA

1. 26 year old Simone Pearce will be competing on the Hanoverian stallion Destano. Simone is an Olympic debutant but is the current Australian record holder.

2. Mary Hannah (66) will be competing on the KWPN Calanta (Glock’s Johnson x Goodtimes).

3. Kelly Layne will be competing on the Oldenburger Samhitas (Sir Donnerhall I x Abanos by Alabaster).

FRANCE

1. Alexandre Ayache will be riding the KWPN gelding Zo What (Scandic x Cocktail).

2. Morgan Barbancon will be riding the Oldenburger stallion Sir Donnerhall II (Sandro Hit x Donnerhall).

3. Maxime Collard will be riding the KWPN stallion Cupido Pb (Painted Black x Jazz).

FAST FACT

Patrik Kittel was placed 4th at the FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon in 2018. Patrik has won 5 times in 2021, and has scored 86.115 % in the Grand Prix Freestyle in Stockholm in 2019.

PORTUGAL

1. Joao Miguel Torrao will be riding the Lusitano stallion Equador (Quo Vadis x Hostil).

2. Rodrigo Torres will be riding the Lusitano gelding Fogoso (Rico x Raja).

3. Maria Caetano will be riding the Lusitano stallion Fenix De Tineo (Rubi x Oheide).

BELGIUM

1. Laurence Roos will be riding the Belgian warmblood gelding Fil Rouge (Stedinger x Argentinus).

2. Domien Michiels will be riding the Belgian warmblood gelding Intermezzo Van Het Meerdaalhof (Gribaldi x Balzflug).

3. Larissa Pauluis will be riding the gelding Flambeau (Ampere x Zeoliet).

AUSTRIA

1. Victoria Max-Theurer will be riding the Westphalian gelding Abegglen (Ampere x Carabas).

2. Christian Schumach will be riding the Holsteiner gelding Te Quiero (Totilas x Loutano).

3. Florian Bacher will be riding the Oldenburger gelding Fidertraum (Fidertanz 2 x Rubinstein I).

FEI RANKINGS

1. Isabel Werth on Bella Rose

2. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl on TSF Dalera BB

3. Isabel Werth on Weihegold OLD

4. Dorothee Schneider on Showtime FRH

5. Charlotte Dujardin on Mount St John Freestyle

6. Cathrine Dufour on Bohemian

7. Cathrine Dufour on Atterupgaards Cassidy