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Dutch double-gold as Dubbeldam takes European individual Jumping title

Aug 24, 2015

Dutch dominance in the sport of Jumping continued at its relentless pace when reigning world champion, Jeroen Dubbeldam, steered the brilliant SFN Zenith to victory in the individual final at the FEI European Jumping Championships 2015 in Aachen (GER) today. Silver went to Belgium’s Gregory Wathelet with Conrad de Hus while Simon Delestre and Ryan des Hayettes from France claimed the bronze in a two-round competition that kept spectators in the packed Soers Arena on the edges of their seats.

Dubbeldam now has the big three in the bag - Olympic individual gold claimed at Sydney 2000, the world championship title he took at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy (FR) last year and now the individual European title which has not been won by The Netherlands since Johan Heins stood top of the podium in Vienna (AUT) back in 1977. And he has achieved each of the last two victories after already contributing to team gold with the same brilliant gelding.

Horse inspection

Today’s final began without Ukraine’s Cassio Rivetti whose horse, Vivant, did not pass yesterday’s second horse inspection. That saw Dubbeldam move up from third to silver medal spot, and he was only just over one penalty-point behind the leading partnership of Spain’s Sergio Alvarez Moya and Carlo as the first round began this afternoon.

1 ZENITH SFN RASH R 103CQ75 KWPN Jeroen DUBBELDAM NED 3.68 0 €
2 CONRAD DE HUS CON AIR 102ZA68 Holst Gregory WATHELET BEL 5.04 0 €
3 RYAN DES HAYETTES HUGO GESMERAY 103GL81 SF Simon DELESTRE FRA 7.67 0 €
4 FLORA DE MARIPOSA FOR PLEASURE 103IR58 BWP Penelope LEPREVOST FRA 8.00 0 €
5 ZIROCCO BLUE MR. BLUE 103BQ29 SF Jur VRIELING NED 9.29 0 €

15 UTAMARO D'ECAUSSINES DIAMANT DE SEMILLY 102SS23 SBS Joe CLEE GBR 14.00 0 €
16 MOLLY MALONE V KANNAN 102UT81 A.E.S. Bertram ALLEN IRL 14.06 0 €
17 ALL STAR 5 ARGENTINUS 102UL65 Hann Denis LYNCH IRL 18.45 0 €

All the results on HTR

Source FEI News