2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage)

The 2012 FEI World Cup Finals in 's-Hertogenbosch was held from April 19 to April 22, 2012. It was the final of the Show jumping and Dressage World Cup series. This finals was held in the Brabanthallen.

Horse sport in 's-Hertogenbosch

Each year the horse show Indoor Brabant is held in the Brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch. A World cup competition in dressage and also one in show jumping are held here. Several times World Cup Finals are held as part of Indoor Brabant: 1994 in show jumping; 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2010 in dressage.

The horse show are held regularly end of March. In 2012 the event is postponed to April because of the World Cup Finals.

Dressage

Qualified riders

World Cup League	Number of competitors of this league eligible to start in this World Cup Final	Qualified riders
Central European League	2	Katarzyna Milczarek Michał Rapcewicz
North American League	2	Jan Ebeling Shawna Harding
Pacific League	1	Rachael Sanna
Western European League	9	Patrik Kittel Helen Langehanenberg Valentina Truppa Isabell Werth Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén Hans Peter Minderhoud Richard Davison Nadine Capellmann Lone Castrup Jørgensen
Competitors from Asia or South America	1	not awarded, so one more wild card
Wild cards of the FEI	2	Jeroen Devroe (did not start) Mikaela Lindh Siril Helljesen Jenny Schreven (move up in the World Cup Final)
defending champion	1	Adelinde Cornelissen

Because of the early dated 2012 Summer Olympics Jeroen Devroe from Belgium did not start. So Jenny Schreven is moved up to the final, her horse Krawall is with an age of 20 years the oldest horse of the participating horses.

Grand Prix

At April 20, 2012 (12:00 noon) the Grand Prix de Dressage was held. It was the first competition of the Dressage World Cup final, but is did not count for the final ranking.

Result:[1]

	Rider	Horse	Percentage
1	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	78.024 %
2	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	76.125 %
3	Valentina Truppa	Eremo del Castegno	75.106 %
4	Hans Peter Minderhoud	Tango	73.404 %
5	Richard Davison	Hiscox Artemis	73.374 %

(Top 5 of 18 Competitors)

Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)

The second competition of the Dressage World Cup final was the Grand Prix Freestyle, held at the afternoon of Saturday, April 21. Started as favourite, Adelinde Cornelissen won with her gelding Parzival this competition with 86.250% She defended her title, so she is again the World Cup Champion.

Result:[2]

	Rider	Horse	Percentage
1	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	86.250 %
2	Helen Langehanenberg	Damon Hill NRW	85.143 %
3	Valentina Truppa	Eremo del Castegno	81.232 %
4	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	79.964 %
5	Richard Davison	Hiscox Artemis	78.571 %
6	Hans Peter Minderhoud	Tango	76.143 %
7	Nadine Capellmann	Girasol	75.625 %
8	Patrik Kittel	Toy Story	75.482 %
9	Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Don Auriello	74.393 %
10	Lone Jörgensen	FBW De Vito	73.589 %
11	Jenny Schreven	Krawall	73.464 %
12	Siril Helljesen	Dorina	73.250 %
13	Mikaela Lindh	Más Guapo	71.696 %
14	Rachael Sanna	Jaybee Alabaster	71.339 %
15	Jan Ebeling	Rafalca	69.875 %
16	Shawna Harding	Come on III	68.821 %
17	Michał Rapcewicz	Randon	65.804 %
18	Katarzyna Milczarek	Ekwador	eliminated

Show jumping

Qualified riders (World Cup Final)

As in dressage, also in show jumping riders rid not start at the World Cup Final because of the date of the Summer Olympics. From the United Kingdom no one of the qualified riders start at the final.

World Cup League	Number of competitors of this league eligible to start in this World Cup Final	competitors who take part in this World Cup Final
Arab League	2	Abdullah Al-Sharbatly (will not start) Khaled Al Eid (will not start) Ali bin Khalid Al Thani (move up in the World Cup Final) Sameh El Dahan (move up in the World Cup Final)
Caucasian League	1	Shalva Gachechiladze (will not start)
Central Asian League	1	Myrza Toktobekov (will not start)
Chinese League	1	Huang Zuping (will not start)
Central European League	3	Benas Gutkauskas Piotr Morsztyn (will not start) Ibragim Vaskov (will not start) Tiit Kivisild (move up in the World Cup Final)
Japan League	1	Yuya Ninomiya
North American League	2 Canadian competitors	Eric Lamaze
	2 Mexican competitors	Antonio Maurer (will not start) Johann Hegewisch Diaz Infante (will not start)
	10 US-American competitors	Margie Goldstein-Engle Michelle Spadone Kent Farrington Kirsten Coe Beezie Madden Charlie Jayne Richard Spooner Rich Fellers Francie Steinwedell-Carvin
		Ljubov Kochetova °
Pacific League	2 competitors from Australian sub-league	Jamie Kermond (will not start) Tim Clarke (will not start)
	1 competitor from New Zealand sub-league	Katie McVean (will not start)
South African League	1	Jade Hooke (will not start)
South American League	3	Pedro Jungueira Muylaert Luiz Francisco de Azevedo Marcelo Chirico Ferreira (will not start)
South East Asia League	1	Akkara Konglapamnuay (will not start)
Western European League	18	Kevin Staut Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Denis Lynch Marco Kutscher Patrice Delaveau Pius Schwizer Steve Guerdat Ludger Beerbaum Malin Baryard-Johnsson (will not start) Nick Skelton (will not start) Edwina Tops-Alexander ° Luciana Diniz Marcus Ehning Philipp Weishaupt Scott Brash (will not start) Ludo Philippaerts Harrie Smolders Emilie Martinsen Maikel van der Vleuten (move up in the World Cup Final) Dermott Lennon (move up in the World Cup Final) Rik Hemeryk (move up in the World Cup Final)
participant at invitation of the host country	1	not applicable because Dutch riders have qualified for the World Cup Final
defending champion	1	Christian Ahlmann

° extra competitor (Extra competitors are riders, who live in a country, which is not part of the World Cup League of the country of this riders nationality. These riders are at first part of the World Cup League of the country in which they live. At the end of the season this riders deducted from the final score of this league. If they have just as many or more points as the last qualified rider, they have the chance to start at the World Cup Final.)

Final I

The first competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a speed and handiness competition, was held at Thursday afternoon (April 19, 2012). The result of this competition was converted into faults for the World Cup Final standings.

Result:[3]

	Rider	Horse	Time	World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final)
1	Rich Fellers	Flexible	60.26 s + 0 penalty s = 60.26	38
2	Steve Guerdat	Sabrina	61.94 s + 0 penalty s. = 61.94	36
3	Rik Hemeryck	Quarco de Kerambars	62.66 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.66	35
4	Pius Schwizer	Ulysse	62.83 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.83	34
5	Kevin Staut	Silvana	63.07 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.07	33
6	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	63.60 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.60	32
7	Harrie Smolders	Regina Z	63.67 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.67	31
8	Kirsten Coe	Baronez	65.76 s + 0 penalty s. = 65.76	30
9	Marcus Ehning	Sabrina	61.87 s + 4 penalty s. = 65.87	29
10	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	57.97 s + 8 penalty s. = 65.97	28

(Top Ten of 37 competitors)

Last year final winner Christian Ahlmann had three obstacle faults in the speed and handiness competition, so he had result of 76.09 seconds. Because of this result he had no chance to defend his title, so he did not start in the further final competitions.

Final II

At April 20 afternoon the second competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a show jumping competition with one jump-off, was held. After the second round, the World Cup Points were converted in Penalties for the Final III.

Result:[4]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1		Jump-off		World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final)
			Penalties	Time (s)	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Philipp Weishaupt	Monte Bellini	0	-	0	33.04	38
2	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	0	-	0	33.56	36
3	Marco Kutscher	Cornet Obolensky	0	-	0	35.03	35
4	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	1	72.05	-	-	34
5	Beezie Madden	Cortes C	4	66.77	-	-	33
6	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	4	67.33	-	-	32
7	Kevin Staut	Silvana	0	68.40	-	-	31
8	Rich Fellers	Flexible	4	68.69	-	-	30
9	Margie Goldstein-Engle	Indigo	4	69.72	-	-	29
10	Patrice Delaveau	Ornella Mail	4	69.85	-	-	28

(Top Ten of 33 competitors)

Final III

The third competition of this final will be held at April 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm. It will be a competition over two different rounds, both not against the clock. Here only the 25 best placed riders have the chance to start in this competition, in the second round of the Final III only 19 riders start wuth their horses.

Result:[5]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Total
			Penalties	Penalties	Penalties
1	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	0	0
	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	0	0
3	Denis Lynch	Abbervail van het Dingeshof	4	0	4
	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	4	4
	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	4	4
6	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	1	4	5
	Marcus Ehning	Copin van de Broy	5	0	5
8	Philipp Weishaupt	Monte Bellini	5	1	6

(Top 8 of 24 competitors)

Final standings

The decision about the title "World Cup Champion 2011-2012" took place in a jump-off. Two riders, Steve Guerdat from Switzerland and Rich Fellers from the US had only one point after four rounds in three competitions in this World Cup Final. First rider in the jump-off was Guerdat with his gelding Nino des Buissonnets. He ride very fast and had a time of 26.61 seconds. After him Fellers start with his Flexible: His time was nearly equal to Guerdats time most time of the jump-off. But one turn Rich Fellers ride much faster than Guerdat, so he was 64 hundredths of a second faster than the time of Steve Guerdat.

With this victory Rich Fellers is the first rider from the United States, who win the Show jumping World Cup since 25 years (in 1987 won Katharine Burdsall from the US).

Crucial jump-off:[6]

	Rider	Horse	Jump-off
			Penalties	Time (s)
1	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	25.97
2	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	26.61

Total result before the crucial jump-off:

	Rider	Horse/ Horses	Final I	Final II	World Cup Points (only from Final I and Final II) TOTAL	World Cup Points, converted in Penalties	Final III		Penalties (Total)
			World Cup Points	World Cup Points			Penalties	Penalties
1	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	36	32	68	1	0	0	1
	Rich Fellers	Flexible	38	30	68	1	0	0	1
3	Pius Schwizer	Ulysse und Carlina	34	36	70	0	1	4	5
4	Philipp Weishaupt	Souvenir und Monte Bellini	24	38	62	4	5	1	10
5	Kevin Staut	Silvana	33	31	64	3	0	8	11
6	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	32	21	53	8	0	4	12
7	Marcus Ehning	Sabrina und Copin van de Broy	29	20	49	10	5	0	15
	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	20	27	47	11	0	4	15
9	Rik Hemeryck	Quarco de Kerambars	35	26	61	4	8	4	16
10	Harrie Smolders	Regina Z	31	22	53	8	5	4	17
11	Denis Lynch	Abbervail van het Dingeshof	17	18	35	17	4	0	21
12	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	28	34	62	4	9	9	22
13	Germany Marco Kutscher	Satisfaction FRH und Cornet Obolensky	15	35	50	10	4	9	23
14	Patrice Delaveau	Ornella Mail	25	28	53	8	8	8	24
15	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	26	19	45	12	9	4	25
16	Richard Spooner	Cristallo	24	27	41	14	4	8	26
17	Beezie Madden	Cortes C	22	33	55	7	8	15	30
18	Kent Farrington	Uceko	16	16	32	19	4	8	31
19	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Titus	27	12	39	15	5	16	36
20	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	10	23	33	18	12		30
	Margie Goldstein-Engle	Indigo	13	29	42	14	16		30
22	Sameh El Dahan	Wkd Pepperpot	11	25	36	17	17		34
23	Ali bin Khaled Al Thani	Cantaro	19	13	32	19	17		36
24	Kirsten Coe	Baronez und Combina	30	10	40	15	29		44
25	Charlie Jayne	Uraya	18	14	32	19	DNS
26	Ljubov Kochetova	Aslan	2	24	26	22
27	Francie Steinwedell-Carvin	Taunus	9	15	24	23
28	Benas Gutkauskas	Lascar	8	11	19	25
29	Emilie Martinsen	Carisma	5	11	14	28
30	Luiz Francisco de Azevedo	Special	21	RET
	Ludo Philippaerts	Kassini Jac	14	RET
	Pedro Junqueira Muylaert	Ducati	7	RET
	Dermott Lennon	Hallmark Elite	4	RET
34	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	12	DNS
	Michelle Spadone	Uwwalon	6	DNS
	Tiit Kivisild	Cinnamon	3	DNS
37	Yuya Ninomiya	Willem	ELI

ELI = eliminated
DNS = did not start
RET = retired

Grand Prix (CSI 3*)

Also a CSI 3* is held at the “Indoor Brabant“ 2012. The Grand Prix of this show jumping horse show was held at Saturday, April 21, 2012 (9:30 pm). It was a show jumping competition with one jump-off, the fences will be up to 1.55 meters. The competition was endowed with € 100.000, the sponsor was the Rabobank.

Result:[7]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1		Jump-off
			Penalties	Time (s)	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Marc Houtzager	Opium	0	-	0	29.18
2	Ali bin Khaled Al Thani	Casanova	0	-	0	29.30
3	Richard Spooner	Apache	0	-	0	30.03
4	Ludger Beerbaum	Chiara	0	-	0	30.16
5	Marco Kutscher	Satisfaction FRH	0	-	0	30.36

(Top 5 of 29 Competitors)

Besides the sport

Unexpected of everyone the German dressage team coach Holger Schmezer died at April 19 afternoon in his hotel room. The German dressage riders wore a black armband on their tailcoat as a sign of mourning in the Grand Prix de Dressage. After the Grand Prix de Dressage a minute's silence in memory of Holger Schmezer was held.[8]

The loss of Holger Schmezer is a terrible blow to the German Dressage team and to lose such an inspirational coach in an Olympic year is tragic.

— Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, President of the FEI

References

1. Dressage World Cup Final: Grand Prix de Dressage
2. Dressage World Cup Final: Grand Prix Freestyle
3. Show jumping World Cup Final,result Final I
4. Show jumping World Cup Final, result Final II
5. Show jumping World Cup Final,result Final III
6. 2012 FEI World Cup Jumping Final: final result
7. Show jumping: result Rabobank Grote Prijs
8. In memoriam: Holger Schmezer (GER), FEI, April 20, 2012

External links

• Website of Indoor Brabant (Dutch / English)
• Results