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The Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final will take place at Lyon, France from 17-21 April. Marcus Ehning is in the lead.
Gothenburg in Sweden presented the 10th and last qualifying leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League last Sunday.
The winning rider was 20-year-old Nicola Philippaerts from Belgium, son of Belgian jumping star Ludo Philippaerts and twin-brother of Olivier Philippaerts who also competes at top international level.
He was riding the 11-year-old mare Donatella-N, which is by the stallion Vigo d'Arsouilles which carried Philippe Lejeune to individual gold at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky, USA in 2010.
Course designer was Germany's Frank Rothenberger. He said: “I was expecting something between 3 and 15 clear rounds (joke)! No, but in all honesty, I was expecting around 8 clear rounds and we were just on the ‘right side’ with 10 in total. It worked very well. It is my first time as a course designer here in Gothenburg but my first ever appearance at the show was in 1981. I came back in 2006 to attend the event as a spectator. I love Sweden. The arena is of good international size. The curves on the long sides make it a bit special – as opposed to being rectangular - but it is more or less easy to build a course in this arena.
Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2013/2014 Western European League - Standings after Round 10 at Gothenburg (SWE):
1. Marcus Ehning GER - 81
2. Scott Brash GBR - 69
3. Pius Schwizer SUI - 63
4. Patrice Delaveau FRA - 61
5. Maikel van der Vleuten NED - 55
6. Edwina Tops-Alexander AUS - 53
7. Steve Guerdat SUI - 51
8. Kevin Staut FRA - 48
9. Roger Yves Bost FRA - 45
10. Billy Twomey IRL - 40
11. Luciana Diniz POR - 40
12. Joe Clee GBR - 39
13. Lars Nieberg GER - 39
14. Nicola Philippaerts BEL - 38
15. Tim Gredley GBR - 36
16. Lucy Davis USA - 36
17. Christian Ahlmann GER - 35
18. Francois Mathy Jr. BEL - 34
19. Michael Whitaker GBR - 32
20. Hans-Dieter Dreher GER - 31
21. Malin Baryard-Johnsson SWE - 28
22. Simon Delestre FRA - 28