Eventing

Aachen will serve as a platform for the German riders to give their sporting reply to the Athens Olympic Games: The joy of the German eventing team and Bettina Hoy at winning a gold medal in 2004 was short and sweet, since they were stripped of both titles by the green table decision: Hoy had inadvertedly crossed the starting line twice in the show-jumping competition of the team classification. After protests were placed by the teams from France, England and the USA, Germany was relegated to fourth place in the team classification, Hoy was knocked back to ninth position in the individual result. Therefore the viewers can rest assured that they are going to enjoy particularly exciting competitions when the old rivals meet again in this discipline that is a combination of show-jumping, dressage and cross-country.
This discipline demands diverse talent on the side of both rider and horse. The initial dressage competition will be followed by the spectacular cross-country course on the Soers grounds that allows the spectators a clear overview. Here the equestrian athletes and their horses have to master natural obstacles such as water ditches or tree trunks. However, it is most likely that the decision in the fight for the respective title in the individual and team classifications won't fall until the third competition has come to an end - i.e. the show-jumping course, which will be watched by tens of thousands of fans in the main stadium of the ALRV, Stadium 1.

Participants Eventing

Information about the Cross Country Course

Show Jumping Course / Obstacles

Past World Champions in Eventing since 1990:
1990 Stockholm: Blyth Tait (NZL) auf Messiah
1994 Den Haag: Vaughan Jefferis (NZL) auf Bounce
1998 Rom: Blyth Tait (NZL) auf Ready Teddy
2002 Jerez: Jean Teulere (FRA) auf Espoir De La Mare
2006 Aachen: Zara Phillips (GBR) auf Toy Town

Detailed Medals Tables:
Stockholm, The Hague, Rome, Jerez, Aachen

Eventing Test September 2005