Olympics-bound occasion rider Sandra Auffarth confirmed the depth of her skills to land a serious victory in a second self-discipline – lower than two weeks earlier than she heads to Paris 2024.
The 2014 eventing world champion gained the CSIO5* 1.60m Agria Falsterbo grand prix on Sunday (14 July) with the 13-year-old Hannoverian gelding Quirici H.
The pair jumped one among simply 4 clears within the first spherical from 42 starters, from which 11 went via to the jump-off.
“I believed it could be a spherical to realize expertise at this peak, after which he jumped tremendous and was tremendous centered!” mentioned Sandra, who owns the horse with Evelyn and Michael Viehof.
Sandra Auffarth and Quirici H.
Cian O’Connor was second with the thrilling nine-year-old stallion Fancy De Kergane, with whom he helped Eire to Aachen Nations Cup victory this month. Belgium’s Abdel Saïd was third with Kapitol D’Argonne mare Figueras De Laume.
Sandra has been competing Quirici H in pure showjumping since 2021, and this was the by far the most important showjumping profession win for horse and rider.
Sandra is called on the German Olympic eventing crew with Nikolaus Prinz von Croy’s 15-year-old Viamant Du Matz, who has been her journey at each senior championships since 2019. The partnership have been a part of the gold medal-winning aspect on the 2022 World Championships, and took dwelling two medals from the 2023 Europeans – crew silver and particular person bronze.
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Lucy is an skilled information journalist, reporter and presenter. Since becoming a member of the Horse & Hound crew in 2015, Lucy has reported from main world sporting occasions together with the Tokyo Paralympic Video games and a number of European Championships, in addition to Badminton, Burghley and London, to call a number of. She has coated present affairs and sports activities information throughout the total spectrum of equestrian disciplines and racing, in addition to human and equine welfare, business information and courtroom instances.
