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EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP IN JUMPING
SWITZERLAND IS THE NEW TEAM CHAMPION, JULIA BRAUWEILER (GER) WINS THE INDIVIDUAL GOLD

The European Junior Championship in Jumping was organised from 10 to 13 July in Sanremo (ITA). Switzerland earned the team gold medal with a all-female team composed of Sabrina Rhyner/BMC’s Skybreaker, Janika Sprunger/Felix des Noues, Nadine Schlotterback/Diapason du Nil and Faye Schoch/Tequi d’I CH who completed the championship team competition with a total of 13 penalty points. Great Britain earned the silver medal with 16 points while Germany had to settle for bronze with a disappointing 28 points score.

A record number of 22 nations (15 with a team) participated in the Championship over clever courses designed by Uliano Venazzi (ITA).

The European Individual Champion is Julia Brauweiler (GER), who finished the three competitions counting for the title with a total of 4 points. The silver and bronze were decided after a jump-off between Faye Schoch and the Italian Beatrice Patrese, who finally earned silver and bronze respectively.


EUROPEAN YOUNG RIDER CHAMPIONSHIP IN JUMPING DOMINATED BY GERMANY

Germany clearly dominated the European Young Rider Championship in Jumping which was organised in le Touquet (FRA) from 4 to 6 July.

The German team composed of Caroline Muller/Kyraleen, Mario Stevens/Night and Day 8, Jorne Sprehe/Lady Weingard and Johannes Ehning/Gelha S Junior flew over the championship and earned the gold medal with a remarkable score of 1 point. They were followed by the Netherlands (15 points) and Norway (18 points).

Gold Team Member Caroline Muller earned the individual gold medal, followed by team-mate Jorne Sprehe and Dutch rider Wim Vos riding Dublin V.

The courses designed by Serge Houtmann were ideally balanced for all participants who came from 20 different nations (13 teams).


EUROPEAN JUMPING CHAMPIONSHIP IN DONAUESCHINGEN
THREE TEAMS TO QUALIFY FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Three teams will be able to qualify for Athens 2004 at the forthcoming European Jumping Championship to be held in Donaueschingen (GER) from 20 to 24 August 2003. The following nations have already obtained their qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games: Greece (host nation), the five first nations of the 2003 World Equestrian Games (France, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands).

No wonder why a record number of 18 teams have announced their participation to the European Championship in Donaueschingen. In total, riders from 23 nations will compete for the team and individual European titles.

More information on www.chi-donaueschingen.de.


OPEN EUROPEAN VAULTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN SAUMUR (FRA)

Ten Teams, 45 male and 30 female vaulters from 19 countries will participate in the Open European Vaulting Championship to be held in Saumur (FRA) from 7 to 10 August 2003.

It is the 2nd time that Saumur is hosting the European Vaulting Championship. The World Champion Matthias Lang (FRA) will try to obtain his second European title. The defending European Champion of Poznan in 2001, Kai Vorberg (GER), is also among the big favourites who have confirmed their participation. The female title will probably see a tough fight between the World and European Champion Nadia Zülow (GER), Nicola Ströh also from Germany who earned the silver medal in 2001, and the French 2001 bronze medallist Maud Bousignac who will benefit from the support of her home public. The favourite nations for the Team title are Switzerland, Germany and Sweden.

The definite entries will be published on the Championship’s website www.saumur.org by the end of July.

SAMSUNG SUPER LEAGUE UPDATE

This article is an extract of the Samsung Super League Press Release No. 12

Next week the Samsung Super League will resume at Hickstead and, if the second half of the eight-leg series is anything like as exciting as the first four competitions, there is much to look forward to over the coming months.

Can the French, who have held the lead from the very start, continue to maintain their advantage? They began so convincingly with wins in La Baule and Rome but have been losing their grip over the past few weeks. Can the Irish, who are lying second, just a half point behind, make it a successive hat-trick of wins by taking the British title? Their recent record at Hickstead is impressive - winners in 2000 and 2001 and runners-up by a margin of just 1.24 seconds to Germany last summer - and they look like real contenders for pole position in the second half of the series.

Will the mighty Germans, who were expected to make more of an impression, suddenly produce a burst of energy and improve from their current third placing? And what about the British in fourth spot? Very little has gone their way in recent times but they were thoroughly consistent and doggedly determined in the first three legs of the Super League before finishing last in Aachen.

The Swiss went out with all guns blazing into the normal Nations Cup series and currently lead the rankings by a comfortable margin of 7 points, although the Spanish are advancing ominously after Falsterbo where the USA also improved their position to third.

The Swiss have made no secret of the fact that they intend to be Super League contenders in 2004 but they must be at the head of the Nations Cup league table right at the end of the 2003 series if they are to gain that much-desired promotion.

So it is still all for play for as the Samsung Super League resumes in Hickstead next week. The French have the Irish breathing down their necks. They know there is no room for error and that they can be toppled from the lead very easily indeed. The Germans are likely to put on a strong show of force but Nations Cup jumping is about national pride and the British will be giving it everything they’ve got on their home ground. Hickstead provides Belgium with the chance to get right back in the race and for Sweden, Italy and Holland there is an opportunity to escape from the extremely tight situation at the bottom of the table.

It may be tough at the top, but it's pretty tough at the bottom as well….Hickstead here we come!

Keep up to date with the latest news from Hickstead at website www.hickstead.co.uk.

You can access all the latest Samsung Super League news and information on website www.samsungsuperleague.com and don’t forget that Biographies on all Riders competing in the series are available at http://bios.horsesport.org.

The Samsung Super League consists of the eight most prestigious horse shows at which the world’s eight best national teams compare their merit. The Super League is connected to the Samsung Nations Cup Series through a promotion/relegation system at the end of each season.

Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest electronics companies, is committed to supporting international sporting events thereby returning corporate profits to the public and working towards a more harmonious and equitable society.

SAMSUNG SUPER LEAGUE LEADERBOARD
1. France - 31 points
2. Ireland - 30.5 points
3. Germany - 18.5 points

SAMSUNG SUPER LEAGUE – NATIONAL PRIDE, INTERNATIONAL PASSION!
SAMSUNG NATIONS CUP SERIES LEADERBOARD
1. Switzerland – 28 points
2. Spain – 21 points
3. USA – 19 points


SAMSUNG NATIONS CUP IN SOFIA (BUL)

Sofia CSIO will be the 8th leg of the Samsung Nations Cup Series. The Nations Cup “Samsung Trophy” will be held on 20 July 2003 at 15:00 and include 5 teams: German, Greece, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria.

More information and results can be obtained at www.horse.sportbg.com and www.konen.sportbg.com,


WORLD DRIVING PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP IN JARDY (FRA)

The Organising Committee chaired by Patrice Clerc invites the media to a press conference to be held in the Haras de Jardy on 4 September 2003 at 10:30. The Marathon course will be presented on that occasion and participants will be invited to try the carriages.

SAN PATRIGNANO TO CELEBRATE ITS 25TH BIRTHDAY

Among the several projects and initiatives to celebrate the 25th birth anniversary of San Patrignano, the 7th International Show Jumping “Vincenzo Muccioli Challenge” will take place from 18 to 20 July 2003 in the equestrian centre of the largest drug rehabilitation community in Europe.

46 riders and 130 horses, representing 18 countries, will be competing in this year’s CSI ***: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States. Among them, many of the top riders of the FEI/Gandini World Rankings: the world’s no.1 of the Rankings, the Swiss Markus Fuchs, the Belgians Jos Lansink (5th) and Ludo Philipaerts (11th), the French Michael Robert (10th) and two of the three medallists of the 2002 World Equestrian Games, the Irish Dermot Lennon (gold medal) and the American Peter Wylde (bronze medal). The total prize money will be 190.000 €, of which 90.000 € for the “Wind Grand Prix The courses will be designed by well-known German course designer and Chairman of FEI Jumping Committee Olaf Petersen, who has been appointed to design the courses of the 2003 European Championship in Donaueschingen and at the next Olympic Games in Athens 2004.

For further information: www.sanpatrignano.org


THE FUTURE OF EVENTING

The Eventing Committee has published a proposal for comments on the Influence of the new Olympic Eventing format on current CCI competition format on the FEI website, section reference, working documents, reports (direct link: http://www.horsesport.org/fei/pdfs/reference/05_03/Future_of_Eventing.pdf).

The National Federations, riders and organisers shall consider the proposals and comment back to the FEI Eventing department by 1 September 2003. Proposals include the name of the Discipline and the Future development of the FEI Eventing Championships both at Senior and Young Rider/Junior level.


CAI-A 2/4 CAIP-B BEEKBERGEN (NED)

The CAI-A/CAIP Beekbergen for Pairs and Four-in-Hand and Ponies-4, will take place from 25 to 27 July 2003. Over 80 competitors from 13 nations will participate, among whom the three individual medallists at the World Championship in Jerez, Ijsbrand Chardon (NED), gold, Christoph Sandmann
(GER), silver and Tomas Eriksson (SWE), bronze.

The Pair driver Ben Voets will start for the Netherlands Antilles for the first time, as he changed nationality last month.

Beekbergen is a World Cup Qualifier and an event counting for the Top Driver Award for teams and pairs. The CAI-A is the last chance for drivers to qualify for the World Pairs Championship to be held in Jardy (FRA) mid-September, as well as the last competition before the World Combined Pony Championship in Karlstetten (AUT) which will be held from 14 to 17 August.

List of participants and programme can be found on www.caibeekbergen.nl.


CALENDAR

CSI*** Moorsele (BEL) due to take place from 15-27 July was CANCELLED

IN MEMORIAM

Margrit Wigger, 44, of Spencerville, ON (CAN) unfortunately suffered a massive heart attack while galloping on the cross-country phase of Fox Hill Horse Trials, (CAN) on 29 June 2003. She received immediate medical attention, but an autopsy report indicated that she died instantly. The tragedy did not involve any obstacles on course and her horse was not harmed in the mishap.

Born in Switzerland, Margrit’s passion for horses lead her to Renroc Farm in Spencerville, ON, where she worked for the past 23 years. She was involved in every aspect of the sport from breeding and starting young horses to coaching riders and organizing local competitions.

The organizers of the Fox Hill Horse Trials will dedicate the Preliminary division to her memory and a Margrit Wigger memorial trophy will be awarded, in her honour, each year to the winner of the division.

www.horsesport.org

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