Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 Day 10 Eventing/Jumping

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CORRECTED FINAL RESULTS FOR EVENTING CHAMPIONSHIP, JUMPING BEGINS THIS MORNING … by Louise Parkes

Lexington, 4 October – Please find below corrected final results for the Eventing Championship at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Kentucky which finished yesterday with Great Britain taking the team title and Germany’s Michael Jung securing an all-the-way individual win with La Biosthetique Sam.

ALLTECH FEI WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES – EVENTING, FINAL RESULT

Team: Great Britain 139.40; 2, Canada 151.50; 3, New Zealand 154.50; 4, USA 160.30; 5, Germany 200.70; 6, Belgium 227.10; 7, Ireland 236.50; 8, France 245.70; 9, Japan 334.10.

Individual: 1, La Biosthetique Sam NRW (Michael Jung) GER 33.00; 2, Cool Mountain (William Fox-Pitt) GBR 42.00; 3, Nereo (Andrew Nicholson) NZL 43.50; 4, Gazelle de la Brasserie (Karin Donckers) BEL 44.40; 5, Redesigned (Pippa Funnell) GBR 45.50; 6, Imperial Cavalier (Mary King) GBR 46.20; 7, Clifton Promise (Jonathan Paget) NZL 46.40; 8, Vettori (Stuart Tinney) AUS 47.60; 9, Port Authority (Stephanie Rhodes-Bosch) CAN 48.20; 10, Neville Bardos (Boyd Martin) USA 49.50.

MORE Facts and Figures about the Eventing Championship:

Michael Jung is Germany’s first-ever individual eventing World Champion.
The German team, which finished fifth, were defending champions at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
Michael Jung, age 28, is the youngest rider to take the individual title since Lucinda Prior-Palmer in 1982.
Great Britain holds the record for the biggest number of World Team titles – 1970, 1982, 1986, 1994 and 2010.
Both Mary King and Tina Cook were also on the winning British team at The Hague in 1994.
Two riders in the Eventing Championship were following in their father’s footsteps – Buck Davidson’s (USA) father, Bruce Davidson, and Sam Watson’s (IRL) father John Watson won individual gold and silver in 1978 at Kentucky.
Newly-crowned individual champion Michael Jung holds the Pferdewirtschafts Meister qualification.  This is issued to top-level trainers in Germany. Michael competes at a high level in both dressage and jumping, as well as eventing.
Before Great Britain’s Nicola Wilson went into jump in the final phase of the Eventing Championship yesterday her husband, Alastair, was at a concession stand and was approached by an American spectator who pressed a dime into his hand and said, “This is for luck for you and your horse!”

Full results and startlists at www.alltechfeigames.com.

JUMPING BEGINS TODAY

The first qualifying competition for the Jumping World Championship is underway at the The Horse Park in Kentucky this morning.  Riders form 41 nations are competing.

There was a weekend attendance of almost 80,000 spectators and over 262,000 people have visited The Kentucky Horse Park since the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games began 10 days ago.
FEI TV – As well as live competition coverage throughout the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, FEI TV will make all competitions available post-event via VoD, plus an exclusive daily 30-minute VoD highlights show from the Kentucky Horse Park featuring the best of the day’s action, interviews, previews and reviews. There will also be lots of behind the scenes footage available.  Check out www.feitv.org.

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The Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), founded in 1921, is the international body governing equestrian sport recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and includes 133 National Federations.

Equestrian sport has been on the Olympic programme since 1912 with three disciplines – Jumping, Dressage and Eventing. It is one of the very few Olympic sports in which men and women compete on equal terms. It is also the only sport which involves two athletes – horse and rider. The FEI has relentlessly concerned itself with the welfare of the horse, which is paramount and must never be subordinated to competitive or commercial influences.  For further information, visit www.fei.org.

The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games is the World Championship of equestrian sport and runs for 16 days, from Saturday 25 September to Sunday 10 October.  It includes eight separate disciplines – Reining, Endurance, Dressage, Eventing, Driving, Jumping, Vaulting and Para-Dressage – and this is the first time for the Games to be held outside Europe.

Media Contact:
Grania Willis
FEI Director Press Relations
Tel: +41 787 506 142
Email: grania.willis@fei.org

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