European Championship 2008 - Course plans and results

The 2008 European Young Rider Championship in Prague

Wednesday 16th July 2008
Training Session Young Riders - Warm-Up
Training Session Juniors - Warm-Up

• Course plan

Thursday 17th July 2008
Competition No. 1 Young Riders - 1st Individual Qualifier

• Course plan • Results

Competition No. 2 Juniors - 1st Individual Qualifier

• Course plan • Results

Friday 18th July 2008
Competition No. 3 Young Riders – Team & 2nd Individual Qualifier

This competition the riders must jump twice and the horses always get tired after one round, so I decided to make a course with longer distances between the obstacles and with less technical difficulties than the first qualifier competition. But I had also to consider that this competition was also a kind of semifinal for the final on Sunday so I decided to have maximum heigts of the obstacles. The results was very good, of 76 riders 13 riders ride a clear round in the first round and in the second round 9 riders and only 2 riders double cleared in both rounds.

• Course plan • Results

Saturday 19th July 2008
Competition No. 4 Juniors – Team & 2nd Individual Qualifier

• Course plan • Results

Sunday 20th July 2008 Competition No. 7 Juniors - Individual Final

• Round A • Round B • Results

Competition No. 8 Young Riders – Individual Final Round A - B

In the Round A we had the 30 best riders and I decided to make a even more difficult course than before encouraged of the good riding i have seen before. The course line was of normal Grand Prix standard for this size of arena. I used a more difficult 3 combination than before related to a another obstacle and the 2 combination was on a bended line with a little shorter distance. I was a little worried how the riders would react. But I had also tested this type of combination two times before on other events and the result was good. Of 30 riders 9 riders had a clear round and we had still a fight before round B.

In the Round B it is only alowed to use 10 obstacles and it is difficult to make a very technical course with 10 obstacles, and of course the horses had jumped a lot before but still tried make a straight line with two verticals on 20,50m witch is a very short distance. In this competition I also decided to use new and more difficult material in the obstacles and to put the liverpool behind the vertical to increase the obstacle difficulty. This competition should not be the most difficult, it should be more a confirmation of the riders good riding before. The result was 6 riders with clear round and 3 riders double cleared.

• Course plan • Results