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Double-Gold for Argentina, but Brazil Dominates the Podium Once Again

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In full flight – the host nation’s Santiago Orifici enjoyed a faultless week of competition with Voloma to take Junior individual gold at the FEI Americas Jumping Championships 2015. (FEI/Lucio Landa)

Capilla del Señor (ARG), 11 November 2015 – Following a familiar pattern, Brazilian athletes claimed a huge haul of gold at the FEI Americas Jumping Championships for Young Riders, Juniors, Pre-Juniors and Children 2015 which drew to a close at Capilla del Señor in Buenos Aires (ARG) last Sunday. Organised by the National Federation of Argentina, and staged from 2 to 8 November at Haras El Capricho which celebrates its 17th annual equestrian extravaganza this year, the event attracted 86 talented young competitors to the busy week of action.

A total of 10 countries were represented – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela – and the host nation had plenty to celebrate when claiming team gold in the Children’s Championship as well as the Junior Individual title earned by 2014 team silver medallist Santiago Orifici. There was a recurring theme throughout this year’s fixture, with many of last year’s medallists featuring once again as they continue on an exciting upward curve in their equestrian careers.

Children

It took a two-way jump-off to decide the Children’s team title when Argentina’s Los Pumas and Brazil’s Amarillo were tied on 12 faults each after three rounds. Amarillo’s Helena Malucelli Egoroff (Indira Rec) was eliminated, so when Raphael Halaban (Dito van de Rispen) picked up four, Lys Katherine Park Kang (Capuava Jmen) collected eight and Carlos Eduardo Zaniboni de Asumpcao (Cantilio Jmen) added three to his tally, then the Brazilian team total of 15 faults was five too many.

Because Argentina’s Richard Kierkegaard (Du Noble) never touched a pole so all the home side had to count was the single error from Lautaro Pena Bruno (Tres Marias Dominique) and the six picked up by Stefano Urtubey (Remonta Fijativo), discarding the eight racked up by Joaquin Lopez Picard (VR Chaplin) for a total of 10.

Bronze went to Brazil’s Verde selection of Laura Bosquirolli Tigre (Cher Da Boavista), Henrique Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo (Valentino), Felipe Pereira Teixeira (Cophia Topocart) and Thales Gabriel De Lima Marino (Coudeur Jmen) who pinned Argentina’s Las Leonas into fourth place by just a single time fault.

Laura Bosquirolli Tigre claimed individual gold for Brazil in fine style, the 14-year-old absolutely faultless throughout the three days of tough competition with her nine-year-old Brazilian-bred chestnut mare Cher Da Boavista. But it was a two-way tussle for silver and bronze when Paraguay’s Alexia Martinez (Quindaro) and Argentina’s Richard Kierkegaard (Du Noble) each added nothing more to the four faults they collected in the first qualifier. And it was tantalisingly close to the very end, with 13-year-old Martinez squeezing her Argentinean rival down to bronze spot by a margin of just 0.08 seconds when both went clear in a jump-off against the clock.

Pre-Juniors

Brazil claimed both gold and silver in the Pre-Junior team championship while Argentina claimed the bronze.

The two Brazilian selections were neck-and-neck after the first round when finishing on a zero score, but the Amarillo squad of Felipe Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo (Attil van’t Steenputje), Paulo Roberto Brasileiro Miranda (Charleston Jmen), Gabrielle Fontoura Berger (Quite Capitano) and Laura Ramos Rait (MD Quastor Jmen) only added four faults in the second round while Brazil Verde added eight.

The silver medal side included last year’s individual silver medal winning partnership of Siew Chiang Cheng and Asterix TW along with Amanda Do Mascimento Teixeira Santos (Intoyka), Filipe Baratella Risi (Bancouver de la Vaux) and Pedro Malucelli Egoroff (Bo). And they finished with a significant seven-fault advantage over the bronze medallists from Argentina Celeste who pipped Chile’s Azul, also by a seven-fault margin. Celeste’s Candela Oyarzabal (Chiquita Z), Lautaro Martin Borsotti Lugo (BM Gem de Baugy), Alex Dircie (Remonta Jamaiquina) and Francisco Leonforte (Nurmi Rouge) were carrying just three faults after the first round, so were well in touch with the leaders at that stage. The addition of 12 faults second time out, however, saw them having to settle for third spot in the final analysis.

Team gold medallist Ramos Rait was Pre-Junior individual champion in Vitacura, Chile last year with the same horse, but this time around she finished 10th in the individual rankings, while team silver medallist, Filipe Baratella Risi, came out on top with Vancouver de la Vaux.

Brazil completely dominated the individual podium, 15-year-old Baratella Risi pipping team gold medallist Fontoura Berger who had to settle for individual silver and Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo who took individual bronze.

Juniors

Argentina Celeste lost out by just a single time fault in the battle for Junior team gold, but team silver medallist, Santiago Orifici, clinched the individual title for the host country.

Celeste led the way after Martina Campi (Resistire Piam), Lihuel Gonzalez (Checa Z), Santiago Brandolino (Clon Cooper) and Orifici with Voloma posted a zero score, discarding the single error from Brandolino. But Brazil Verde’s Maria Victoria David Ludwig (Gizelle van de Watering), Pedro Grandi Backheuser) (Q’Pleasure de Bacon), Lucas Teixeira Lima (Alpha Condor) and Victoria Junqueira Ribeiro de Mendonca (Una Bella) carried just four faults into the second round and when they all went clear second time out that proved the winning score.

Campi’s single second-round time fault proved expensive for Argentina’s Celeste as, obliged to add the four posted by Gonzalez when Brandolino collected 12 at his second attempt and despite another clear from Orifici, the five-fault total relegated them to silver spot.

Team bronze went to the Brazil Amarillo side of Isabela Piovesan Dall=Oglio (GTI3), Nicolle Pantoja Margeotto (Chap Lando Z), Fred Morais Menezes Abdul-Hak Antelo (Salto Sela Platina Z) and Iury Guimaraes Bores (August Utopia) who finished well adrift on a final tally of 28 faults.

Orifici was immensely impressive, the 18-year-old who showed such promise at these Championships 12 months ago racking up further experience earlier this year when campaigning the Florida (USA) circuit and sealing his individual victory this year with a faultless week partnering the Dutch-bred Voloma.

Brazil took silver and bronze, Victoria Junqueira Ribeiro de Mendonca pipping her fellow team gold medallist Maria Victoria David Ludwig for the higher place on the podium.

Young Riders

The Brazilians took gold and silver in both the team and individual Young Riders competitions, and, underlining the value of Championships of this calibre, the new individual champion was a graduate from last year’s Junior podium.

The Young Riders team competition was a high-scoring affair, but Brazil Verde’s Yasmim Almendros Marinho Santos (Piaf de Quintin), Andre Moraes Mohr (Noa Noa Da Lagoa), Andre Joao Bacchi (Eye Catcher) and Thiago Aquino de Arruda Martins (Anneline) were already out in front on a nine-fault scoreline at the halfway stage and despite adding 17 more second time out they won through emphatically. It was like old times for Almendros Marinho Santos, Moraes Mohr and Aquino de Arruda Martins as they were also members of Brazil’s winning Young Riders side in Chile 12 months ago.

Last year’s Junior individual champions, Giulia del Canton Scampini and Keep on Fighting, joined Rafael Rodrigues Moderno (El Santo), Anna Victoria de Lorenzi Campelo (Fleur de Vauxelles) and 2014 Junior individual bronze medallists Alberto Bento Sinimbu and Sharapova MCJ racled up a final tally of 44 faults for silver. And, despite posting 85 faults at the end of the day, Argentina Celeste’s three-member side of Carola Di Mambro (Tatabra Texas), Damian Dominino (Winbishi Be Eme Delenda), and Pablo Milito (CW Chelsie) claimed the bronze when the only other contenders from Argentina Bianco were eliminated in the second round.

Bento Sinimbu and Sharapova won the first qualifier and then collected nine faults over the two rounds of the team event. It was another win on the final day that clinched the individual title for the 18-year-old rider and his 13-year-old Brazilian-bred chestnut mare.

Team gold medallists Thiago Aquino de Arruda Martins and Anneline took individual silver and Chile’s Alexander Imschentzky (Salto Por Salto Centina) earned individual Young Riders bronze.

Results:

FEI Americas Jumping Championships 2015:

Children’s Team: GOLD – Argentina Los Pumas, 10 faults in third-round jump-off: Du Noble (Richard Kierkkegaard), Tres Marias Dominique (Lautaro Pena Bruno), Remonta Fijativo (Stefano Urtubey), VR Chaplin (Joaquin Lopez Picard); SILVER – Brazil Amarillo, 15 faults in third-round jump-off: Dito van de Rispen (Raphael Halaban), Capuava Jmen (Lys Katherine Park Kang), Cantilio Jmen (Carlos Eduardo Zaniboni de Assumpcao, Indira Rec (Helena Malucelli Egoroff); BRONZE – Brazil Verde 20 faults: Cher Da Boavista (Laura Bosquirolli Tigre), Valentino (Henrique Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo), Sophia Topocart (Felipe Pereira Teixeira), Coudeur Jmen (Thales Gabriel De Lima Marino).

Children’s Individual: GOLD – Cher Da Boavista (Laura Bosquirolli Tigre) BRA 0/0/0//0/0; SILVER – Quindaro (Alexia Martinez) PAR 4/0/0/0/04/-35.55; BRONZE – Du Noble (Richard Kierkegaard) ARG 4/0/0/0/04-35.63.

Pre-Junior Team: GOLD – Brazil Amarillo 4 faults: Attil Van’t Steenputje (Felipe Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo), Charleston Jmen (Paulo Roberto Brasileiro Miranda), Quite Capitano (Gabrielle Fontoura Berger), MD Quaster Jmen (Laura Ramos Rait); SILVER – Brazil Verde 8 faults: Intoyka (Amanda Do Nascimento Teixeira Santos), Vancouver de la Vaux (Felipe Baratella Risi), Bo (Pedro Malucelli Egoroff), Asterix TW (Siew Chiang Cheng); BRONZE – Argentina Celeste 15 faults: Chiquita Z (Candela Oyarzabal), BM Gem de Baugy (Lautaro Martin Borsotti Lugo), Remonta Jamaiquina (Alex Dircie), Nurmi Rouge (Francisco Leonforte).

Pre-Junior Individual: GOLD – Vancourver de la Vaux (Filipe Baratella Risi) BRA 4.84; SILVER – Quite Capitano (Gabrielle Fontoura Berger) BRA 6.75; BRONZE – Attil van’t Steenputje (Felipe Piza de Toledo de Lorenzo) 9.13.

Junior Team: GOLD – Brazil Verde 4 faults: Gizelle van de Watering (Maria Victoria David Ludwig), Q’Pleasure de Bacon (Pedro Grandi Backheuser), Alpha Condor (Lucas Teixeira Lima), Una Bella (Victoria Junqueira Ribeiro de Mendonca); SILVER – Argentina Celeste 5 faults: Resistire Piam (Martina Campi), Checa Z (Lihuel Gonzalez), Clon Cooper (Santiago Brandolino), Voloma (Santiago Orifici); BRONZE – Brazil Amarillo 28 faults: GTI 3 (Isabela Piovesan Dall’Oglio), Chap Lando Z (Nicolle Pantoja Margeotto), Salto Sela Platina Z (Frede Morais Menezes Abdul-Hak Antelo), August Utopia (Iury Guimaraes Borges).

Junior Individual: GOLD – Voloma (Santiago Orifici) ARG 0; SILVER – Una Bella (Victoria Junqueira Ribeiro de Mendonca) BRA 6.60; BRONZE – Gizelle van de Watering (Maria Victoria David Ludwig) BRA 8.15.

Young Riders Team: GOLD – Brazil Verde 26 faults: Piaf de Quintin (Yasmin Almendros Marinho Santos), Noa Noa da Lagoa (Andre Moraes Mohr), Eye Catcher (Andre Joao Bacchi), Anneline (Thiago Aquino de Arruda Martins); SILVER – Brazil Amarillo 44 faults: Keep on Fighting (Giulia Dal Canton Scampini), El Santo (Rafael Rodeigues Moderno), Fleur de Vauxelles (Anna Victoria de Lorenzi Campelo), Sharapova MCJ (Alberto Bento Sinimbu); BRONZE – Argentina Celeste 85 faults: Tatabra Texas (Carola Di Mambro), Winbishi de Eme Delenda (Damian Dominino), CW Chelsie (Pablo Milito).

Young Riders Individual: GOLD – Sharapova MCJ (Alberto Bento Sinimbu) BRA 14.00; SILVER – Anneline (Thiago Aquino de Arruda Martins) BRA 17.04; BRONZE – Salto Por Salto Centina (Alexander Imschentzky) CHI 19.01.

By Louise Parkes

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Only Chile’s Labbe Prevents Another Brazilian Whitewash

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(L to R): the silver medallists from Brazil Verde, the gold medallists from Brazil Amarela and the bronze medallists from Argentina Blanco. (FEI/Lucio Landa)

Vitacura (CHI), 17 October 2014 – Brazilian young guns were all but unstoppable at the FEI Americas Jumping Championships for Young Riders, Juniors, Pre-Juniors and Children 2014 which took place at Vitacura in Chile from 6 to 12 October. The history of these Championships is a long and significant one. For almost 40 years the region has consistently encouraged its youngest Jumping athletes through the staging of Championship-level competition, and Brazilian star, Doda de Miranda, first displayed the talent that would take him right to the top when claiming Junior gold at Sao Paolo back in 1990.

Brazilian riders have long been dominant, claiming all the gold on offer at last year’s event in Rosario, Argentina when they also filled all three steps of the podium in the Individual Junior category. This time around they took all three medals in the Children’s, Pre-Junior and Junior Individual competitions, but the host nation’s Paola Labbe put a stop to their gallop with a clear-cut victory in the Young Riders Individual. The 20-year-old headed a field of 17, and she left a host of Brazilians in her wake.

The world’s most popular ringmaster, Pedro Cebulka who has played an essential role at many top international fixtures around the globe including the equestrian events at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the recent Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, ensured the big number of entries was smoothly channelled into the arena throughout the busy programme of events.

Children

It took a three-way jump-off against the clock to decide the Children’s team title when two Brazilian selections, and Chile’s No 1 side, were all matched on a zero score.

And it was Brazil Verde’s Bernardo Braga (Valtellina do Rioacima), Pedro Malucelli (Anton), Marcelo Gozzi (Deuly Z) and Thales de Lima (Quadrille du Quick) who clinched the gold when posting a combined time of 93.81, just 0.89 seconds quicker than the Brazil Amarello foursome of Andre Fonseca (ACL Miss Mirage), Rafaela Piovesan (Madame Lili), Henry Hardman (Ravell Vila Fal) and Paulo Brasileiro (Charleston Jmen) who earned the silver.

Chile 1 posted a time of 100.32 with a total of four faults to line up in bronze medal spot.

It came down to a six-way battle for the Individual medals, with five of the six contenders flying the Brazilian flag. Team Amarello’s Fonseca, Brasileiro and Hardman were joined by Giovanna Lara and team gold medallist Bernardo Braga, while Argentina’s Manuel Chechic also went through to the deciding jump-off when all six never touched a pole through five tough rounds of competition.

Chechic and Braga each had a fence down against the clock, while Lara finished just outside a podium placing when 14-year-old Fonseca produced the quickest time of 32.68 with the 11-year-old mare ACL Miss Mirage for the gold. Brasileiro clinched silver with Charleston Jmen when breaking the beam in 32.9 and Hardman took the bronze with Ravell Vila Fial in 35.23 seconds.

Pre-Junior

Brazil again took gold and silver in the Pre-Junior team event while Argentina Blanco claimed the bronze. Rodrigo Junqueira (Corlanda ll Jmen), Caroline Nehrer de Souza (Lietus), Isabela Piovesan Dall’Oglio (GTI 3) and Laura Ramos Rait (MD Quastor Jmen) posted a four-fault tally over two rounds to decide the result in favour of Brazil Amarela, but it came down to a two-way tussle between Brazil Verde and Argentina Blanco for the remaining two sets of medals when they shared a six-fault second-round scoreline.

And it was an extremely close-fought affair right to the end, with Verde’s Rodrigo Jardim de Rosa (Capuava Jimen), Victoria Junqueira Ribeiro (Ulrike van het Hellehof), and Pedro Backhwuer (Q’Pleasure de Bacon) all staying clear while Frederico Morais Menezes (Chaman Z) produced the drop-score of eight. Their combined time was 102.18, and this gave them the silver despite the fact that all of their Argentinean rivals, Maria Pilar Ganzabal (Racional JED), Alex Dircie (Remonta Jamaiquina), Francisco Leonforte (Nurmi Rouge) and Josefina Rico (Enterriano JR) kept a clean sheet. However, with the best three results counted, they were 0.82 seconds slower and had to settle for the bronze.

Team gold medallist, 15-year-old Laura Ramos Rait, led the individual rankings from the outset and could not be caught. Another double-clear with MD Quastor Jmen on the final day ensured she went home as a double-gold medallist, and Brazilians completely dominated the line-up here with Siew Chiang Cheng taking the silver with Asterix TW and another of the gold medal winning side, Isabela Piovesan Dall’Oglio, claiming the bronze.

Ramos Rait has a formidable record in these Championships, having finished fourth in the Children’s division at Passo Fundo in 2012, and taking both Individual gold and team silver in the Children’s category at Rosario last year, each time partnering the same trusty bay gelding, Quastor.

Junior

The Junior team honours went to another Brazil Verde side, with Argentina Celeste taking silver and Brazil Amarela the bronze this time around. There was no doubting the supremacy of the gold-medal-winning side when Gilberto Keiji (Atlanta Vll), Alberto Bento (Sharapova MCJ), Giulia dal Canton (Keep on Fighting) and Patsy Mourao (Dobra) were the only foursome to return a zero first-round score, while Keiji was the only one to make an error second time out.

Only one of the silver-medal-winning Argentinean side managed to complete a double-clear, the fourth-line combination of Santiago Orifici and Boris. But Santiago Brandolino (Hassan Cooper), Lihuel Gonzalez (Elcaro CZ) and Martina Campi (Resistire Piam) backed up this great performance to post a final tally of 17 faults which left them a full 14 faults ahead of Brazil Amarela in bronze. Rafael Rodrigues was eliminated in the first round and retired with Calousco second time out, but team-mates Sarah Rocha (Warthagena) and Pedro Moura (Royal Flol HV) each produced a single clear round and when Bianca de Souza (Abernante) collected 12 that was still good enough to make it onto the last step of the podium.

The medals in the Individual Junior Championship went to three of the team gold-medal-winning side headed up by Giulia Dal Canton. The 16-year-old finished third in the first qualifier and her 12-year-old Oldenberg gelding, Keep on Fighting, lived up to his name to remain flawless from there on. Patsy Mourao and Dobra took the silver while Alberto Bento and Sharapova MCJ claimed the bronze.

Young Riders

It was only when it came to the Young Riders section that the tables were eventually turned, but not until after the Brazilians reigned supreme once again in the team event in which they also took the bronze while Argentina divided the two sides when slotting into silver medal spot.

It was a high-scoring team competition, with Brazil Amarela’s Anna Paula Nerung (Unique Times), Daniela Miro (Sting), Thiago Aquino (Anneline) and Yasmimm Almendros (Piaf de Quintin) coming out on top despite accumulating a total of 28 faults.

Their closest rivals from Argentina, however, racked up 36 in total, Franco Trabucco (Ambato Neron), Amaru Buteler (Charity Z), Nicolas Franchi (Tamanaco Call Girl Z) and Facundo Bertoldi (Tatabra Salome) collecting 16 first-round faults and another 20 second time out.

Only four teams lined out here, and both Brazil Verde and Argentina Blanco fielded just three members each. So when Argentina’s Carola di Mambro was eliminated with Gama Cristal E, then her side’s chances were dashed, leaving Brazil Verde’s Iury Guimaraes (August Utopia), Mario Joao Boff (Refasol Tame) and Filippo Ferrantelli (Caredico Valmar) in bronze medal position.

It took a two-way jump-off between Ferrantelli and team-gold-medallist Thiago Aquino to decide individual silver and bronze, and it was Ferrantelli who got the nod when clear in 43.43 while Aquino retired in that final round.

Chile’s Labbe, however, put individual gold beyond doubt when her final score of 21.74 left her well clear of the rest of the field with her grey Holsteiner gelding Chinquin JL.

Once again, the story of these Championships was about Brazilian strength but also about a big appetite for the sport in many of their neighbouring countries. And with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games now less than two years away there is every incentive for young athletes in the Americas to be inspired to further, continuing success and, perhaps, a place for themselves amongst the stars in years to come.

By Louise Parkes

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