2011 European Eventing Championship

[[File:Julia Krajewski mit After the Battle, Gelände, EM Vielseitigkeit 2011.JPG|thumb|European Eventing Championships in Luhmühlen]] The '''2011 European Eventing Championship''' was held from August 25 to August 28, 2011 in Luhmühlen, borough of the Samtgemeinde [[Salzhausen]] in [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]].

It was the 30th edition of the [[European Eventing Championship]]s, first time held 1953 at Badminton House.

== Organization ==

=== Before the event === At the 2008 [[International Federation for Equestrian Sports|FEI]]-General Assembly in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], Germany was chosen as the country to host the 2011 European Eventing Championship. Luhmühlen, location of the [[Luhmühlen Horse Trials]], was chosen as the location for the event.<ref>[http://mail.zackstack.com/index.php/news/101-2008-fei-general-assembly-gets-underway-in-buenos-aires 2008 FEI General Assembly gets underway in Buenos Aires]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, November 18, 2008</ref>

Luhmühlen had held the European Eventing Championships already in the years 1975, 1979, 1987 and 1999.

=== Event and location === The European Eventing Championship was opened at the afternoon of Wednesday (August 24, 2011) with the opening ceremony “Ritte des Jahrhunderts” (rides of the century).<ref>[http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM/PM%5FEroeffnungsfeier%2Epdf Pressemitteilung: Emotionale Eröffnungsfeier] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001041719/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM/PM%5FEroeffnungsfeier%2Epdf |date=2011-10-01 }} (German)</ref> Also on Wednesday the first horse inspection was held. The sport at the Championship had started on Thursday. On Sunday (August 28, 2011) the event ended with the medal ceremony.

The event was held at the eventing course in the “Westergellerser Heide” near Luhmühlen. Before the 2011 Luhmühlen Horse Trials, two months before the European Championship, the show ground of the course was completely rebuilt.

The main sponsor of the Championship was [[HSBC]]. Patroness of the event was German federal minister [[Ursula von der Leyen]].

== Competitions ==

=== General === Unmodified since the first European Eventing Championship (with the exception of the European Championship 1997) two medal rankings are held at the Championships: the individual and the team medal ranking.

Since 2005 the European Championships are held as long format three-day event in the new format without steeplechase: dressage, cross country and show jumping.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120719083443/http://search.fei.org/Search_Centre/Calendar/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?p=8A1A13234C2D93A812956310083DD884 FEI event calendar: 2011 European Eventing Championship, Luhmühlen]</ref><ref name=mode>[http://www.pferd-aktuell.de/EM-Vielseitigkeit-2011-.5470.104487/index.htm 2011 European Eventing Championship: competition mode] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919015442/http://www.pferd-aktuell.de/EM-Vielseitigkeit-2011-.5470.104487/index.htm |date=2011-09-19 }} (German)</ref>

Eleven teams and also individual riders started at the 2011 European Eventing Championship, in total 70 riders with their horses started.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Startlisten/ch%2Deu%5F01b%5Fsldre%5Fabst%2Epdf |title=start list dressage, day two |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001041842/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Startlisten/ch%2Deu%5F01b%5Fsldre%5Fabst%2Epdf |archive-date=2011-10-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=team>{{Cite web |url=http://janssen.sportcg.net/2011/luhmuehlen/nationcup01.html |title=team result |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331115023/http://janssen.sportcg.net/2011/luhmuehlen/nationcup01.html |archive-date=2012-03-31 |url-status=dead}}</ref> All teams could start with four riders, also each nation could start two extra individual riders. Germany as host nation could start with one team and eight extra individual riders.<ref name=mode/>

=== Timetable === The first part of the competition was the dressage phase, held on Wednesday and on Friday (August 25 and 26, 2011). Before the riders participate at the Championship, a test rider ("guinea pig") rides to test the systems. This task is performed by German eventing rider Anna Siemer with her horse ''Charlott''.

The second part was the cross country phase on Saturday. The jumping phase, last part of the event, was held on Sunday. The competition was held each day from morning to afternoon.<ref>[http://www.luhmuehlen.de/index.asp?tree_id=142&sprache_id=2 timetable]</ref>

== Results == [[File:Ingrid Klimke und Butts Abraxxas, Dressur, EM Vielseitigkeit 2011.JPG|thumb|Most successful pair of the dressage: Ingrid Klimke and ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'']]

=== Provisional result after dressage === In the dressage phase Germany was the most successful team. The German team get a team result of 98.70 penalty points - the best dressage result in eventing history.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120912031843/http://www.reiterrevue.de/442,2673/ EM Luhmühlen: Deutschland vor Gelände mit Abstand an der Spitze], Reiter Revue International, August 26, 2011 (German)</ref>

An important contribution to this result came from [[Ingrid Klimke]] with ''FRH Butts Abraxxas''. With a dressage result of 80.00% (annualised 30.00 penalty points) Klimke get her best ever eventing dressage result. With this result she was the leader of the individual ranking after dressage.<ref>[http://www.st-georg.de/news/detail.php?objectID=10526&class=6 EM Luhmühlen: Deutsche Reiter das Maß der Dinge], St. Georg, August 26, 2011 (German)</ref>

'''Individual ranking:'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Ferdre%2Epdf |title=result individual ranking after dressage phase |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001042019/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Ferdre%2Epdf |archive-date=2011-10-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! width="5%" | rank ! rider ! horse ! width="20%" | penalty points (percent) |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 1  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Ingrid Klimke]] || ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'' || align="right"| 30.00 (80.00%) |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 2  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] || ''Sam FBW'' || align="right"| 33.30 (77.82%) |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right"| 3  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Frank Ostholt]] || ''Little Paint'' || align="right"| 34.00 (77.31%) |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | rowspan=2 align="right" | 4  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Sandra Auffarth]] || ''Opgun Louvo'' || align="right"| 35.40 (76.41%) |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Laura Collett]] || ''Rayef'' || align="right"| 35.40 (76.41%) |}

'''Team ranking:'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fermandre%2Epdf |title=result team ranking after dressage phase |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921202926/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fermandre%2Epdf |archive-date=2011-09-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! rank ! team ! rider and horse ! penalty points |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 1 | {{DEU}} | [[Ingrid Klimke]] ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'' [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] ''Sam FBW'' [[Sandra Auffarth]] ''Opgun Louvo'' [[Andreas Dibowski]] ''FRH Fantasia'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''98.70''' ''30.00 33.30 35.40 (43.80)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 2 | {{GBR2}} | [[Mary King (equestrian)|Mary King]] ''Imperial Cavalier'' [[Piggy French]] ''Jakata'' [[William Fox-Pitt]] ''Cool Mountain'' [[Nicola Wilson]] ''Opposition Buzz'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''121.90''' ''38.80 40.40 42.70 (52.70)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 3 | {{ITA}} | [[Stefano Brecciaroli]] ''Apollo van de Wendi Kurt Hoeve'' [[Susanna Bordone]] ''Carrera'' [[Marco Biasia]] ''Tatchou'' [[Fabio Magni]] ''Southern King V'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''128.30''' ''35.80 42.70 49.80 (56.40)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" |}

[[File:Michael Jung mit Sam FBW, Gelände, EM Vielseitigkeit 2011.JPG|thumb|without faults in the cross country: Michael Jung and ''Sam FBW'']]

=== Provisional result after cross country === The cross country day was rainy. The course, built by [[Mark Phillips]] was a challenging, but solvable task for the riders: two riders retired at the cross country day, eleven riders was eliminated at the cross country. The Belgian team consisted only of two riders after the cross country and was so no more complete team.

After cross country Germany was still in the lead - despite the fall of their team rider Andreas Dibowski.

'''Individual ranking:'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fertp2%2Epdf |title=result individual ranking after cross country phase |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001042049/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fertp2%2Epdf |archive-date=2011-10-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! rowspan=2 width="5%" | rank ! rowspan=2| rider ! rowspan=2| horse ! colspan=3| penalty points |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! dressage ! cross country ! provisional result |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 1  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Ingrid Klimke]] || ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'' || align="right" | 30.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 30.00 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 2  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] || ''Sam FBW'' || align="right" | 33.30 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 33.30 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 3  || {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sara Algotsson-Ostholt]] || ''Wega'' || align="right" | 36.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 36.00 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 4  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Sandra Auffarth]] || ''Opgun Louvo'' || align="right" | 35.40 || align="right" | 1.60 || align="right" | 37.00 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 5  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Frank Ostholt]] || ''Little Paint'' || align="right" | 34.00 || align="right" | 6.00 || align="right" | 40.00 |}

'''Team ranking:'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fermangel%2Epdf |title=result team ranking after cross country phase |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001042109/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/files/EM_Ergebnisse/ch%2Deu%5F010%5Fermangel%2Epdf |archive-date=2011-10-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! rowspan=2| rank ! rowspan=2| rider ! rowspan=2| rider and horse ! colspan=3| penalty points |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! dressage ! cross country ! total |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 1 | {{DEU}} | [[Ingrid Klimke]] ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'' [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] ''Sam FBW'' [[Sandra Auffarth]] ''Opgun Louvo'' [[Andreas Dibowski]] ''FRH Fantasia'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''30.00 33.30 35.40 43.80'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 0.00 1.60 eliminated'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''100.30''' ''30.00 33.30 37.00 (eliminated)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 2 | {{GBR2}} | [[Mary King (equestrian)|Mary King]] ''Imperial Cavalier'' [[Piggy French]] ''Jakata'' [[William Fox-Pitt]] ''Cool Mountain'' [[Nicola Wilson]] ''Opposition Buzz'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''38.80 40.40 42.70 52.70'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''eliminated 6.80 0.00 0.00'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''142,60''' ''(eliminated) 47.20 42.70 52.70'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 3 | {{FRA}} | [[Donatien Schauly]] ''Ocarina du Chanois'' [[Nicolas Touzaint]] ''Neptune de Sartene'' [[Stanislas de Zuchowicz]] ''Quirinal de la Bastide'' [[Pascal Leroy]] ''Minos de Petra'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''45.60 37.90 55.60 53.10'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 9.20 2.80 eliminated'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''151.10''' ''45.60 47.10 58.40 (eliminated)'' |}

[[File:Medaillenübergabe Einzel, EM Vielseitigkeit 2011.JPG|thumb|medal ceremony in the individual competition]]

=== Final result === After the cross country phase, on Sunday morning, the second horse inspection was held. Here the horses of a Spanish and of a Polish team rider were deemed "not fit to compete", so they were eliminated. Because of this the Polish team now consisted only of two riders - not a complete team.

Much changes in the individual ranking result from the show jumping phase. Again the German team was successful, team riders Sandra Auffarth and Michael Jung was clear in the show jumping course. As last rider in the competition Ingrid Klimke start in show jumping phase. Her horse ''Abraxxas'', who had often faults in show jumping in the past - had six time knocked a rail down in this show jumping course. Klimke, now eleventh in the final ranking, comment time with the words ''"Sechs um - so schlecht ist er noch nie gesprungen"'' (six down - so bad he had never jumped before).<ref>[http://www.st-georg.de/news/detail.php?objectID=10541&class=6 Michael Jung Europameister der Vielseitigkeitsreiter / Gold für deutsches Team], St. Georg, August 28, 2011 (German)</ref>

German rider Michael Jung benefited from this. He hold his result form the dressage phase the whole competition, so he won the individual gold medal. Jung is now the third (after [[Virginia Leng]] and [[Zara Phillips]]) who is the current world and European eventing champion at the same time. The German team was because of the large gap of penalty points also after the show jumping phase in the lead. So Germany win the 2011 European Eventing team gold medal.

Rank two and three in the final individual ranking are also German eventing riders: young Sandra Auffarth won at their first senior championship individual silver. Bronze was won by Frank Ostholt - he benefited by a refusal of the horse of his wife Sara Algotsson-Ostholt in show jumping.

The riders of the British team all had one obstacle fault in the show jumping phase, so they lost the second place in team ranking. The French team rider had all one faults here, so they won team silver.<ref name=team/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://janssen.sportcg.net/2011/luhmuehlen/leaderboard01.html |title=individual result |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228104528/http://janssen.sportcg.net/2011/luhmuehlen/leaderboard01.html |archive-date=2011-12-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Final individual result ==== {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! rowspan=2 width="5%" | rank ! rowspan=2| rider ! rowspan=2| horse ! colspan=4| penalty points |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! dressage ! cross country ! show jumping ! total |- style="background-color:#F7F6A8;" | align="right" | 1  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] || ''Sam FBW'' || align="right" | 33.30 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 33.30 |- style="background-color:#DCE5E5;" | align="right" | 2  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Sandra Auffarth]] || ''Opgun Louvo'' || align="right" | 35.40 || align="right" | 1.60 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 37.00 |- style="background-color:#FFDAB9;" | align="right" | 3  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Frank Ostholt]] || ''Little Paint'' || align="right" | 34.00 || align="right" | 6.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 40.00 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 4  || {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Dirk Schrade]] || ''King Artus'' || align="right" | 36.70 || align="right" | 6.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 42.70 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 5  || {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Stefano Brecciaroli]] || ''Apollo van de Wendi Kurt Hoeve'' || align="right" | 35.80 || align="right" | 9.20 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 45.00 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 6  || {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Donatien Schauly]] || ''Ocarina du Chanois'' || align="right" | 45.60 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 45.60 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 7  || {{flagicon|GBR}} [[William Fox-Pitt]] || ''Cool Mountain'' || align="right" | 42.70 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 4.00 || align="right" | 46.70 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | align="right" | 8  || {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Nicolas Touzaint]] || ''Neptune de Sartene'' || align="right" | 37,90 || align="right" | 9.20 || align="right" | 0.00 || align="right" | 47.10 |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" |}

==== Final team result ==== {{wide image|Medaillenübergabe Mannschaft, EM Vielseitigkeit 2011.jpg|470px|team medal ceremony||none|alt=top three teams at the team medal ceremony}} {| style="border:1px solid #808080; background-color:#EFEFEF;" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" |- valign="top" style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! rowspan=2| rank ! rowspan=2| team ! rowspan=2| rider and horse ! colspan=4| penalty points |- style="background-color:#EFEFEF;" ! dressage ! cross country ! show jumping ! total |- valign="top" style="background-color:#F7F6A8;" ! 1 | {{DEU}} | [[Ingrid Klimke]] ''FRH Butts Abraxxas'' [[Michael Jung (equestrian)|Michael Jung]] ''Sam FBW'' [[Sandra Auffarth]] ''Opgun Louvo'' [[Andreas Dibowski]] ''FRH Fantasia'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''30.00 33.30 35.40 43.80'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 0.00 1.60 eliminated'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''24.00 0.00 0.00 '' | style="text-align:right;" | '''124.30''' ''54.00 33.30 37.00 (eliminated)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#DCE5E5;" ! 2 | {{FRA}} | [[Donatien Schauly]] ''Ocarina du Chanois'' [[Nicolas Touzaint]] ''Neptune de Sartene'' [[Stanislas de Zuchowicz]] ''Quirinal de la Bastide'' [[Pascal Leroy]] ''Minos de Petra'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''45.60 37.90 55.60 53.10'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 9.20 2.80 eliminated'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 0.00 0.00 '' | style="text-align:right;" | '''151.10''' ''45.60 47.10 58.40 (eliminated)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFDAB9;" ! 3 | {{GBR2}} | [[Mary King (equestrian)|Mary King]] ''Imperial Cavalier'' [[Piggy French]] ''Jakata'' [[William Fox-Pitt]] ''Cool Mountain'' [[Nicola Wilson]] ''Opposition Buzz'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''38.80 40.40 42.70 52.70'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''eliminated 6.80 0.00 0.00'' | style="text-align:right;" | '' 4.00 4.00 4.00'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''154.60''' ''(eliminated) 51.20 46.70 56.70'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 4 | {{SWE}} | [[Sara Algotsson-Ostholt]] ''Wega'' [[Malin Petersen]] ''Piccadilly Z'' [[Dag Albert]] ''Mitras Eminen'' [[Niklas Jonsson (equestrian)|Niklas Jonsson]] ''First Lady'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''36.00 52.30 61.70 40,40'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 10.80 12.40 100,00'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''18.00 8.00 0.00 did not start'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''199.20''' ''54.00 71.10 74.10 (retired)'' |- valign="top" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" ! 5 | {{IRL}} | [[Joseph Murphy (equestrian)|Joseph Murphy]] ''Electric Cruise'' [[Mark Kyle (equestrian)|Mark Kyle]] ''Coolio'' [[Sam Watson (equestrian)|Sam Watson]] ''Bushman'' [[Jayne Doherty]] ''The Only One'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''57.70 60.40 50.20 51.00'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''3.20 0.00 25.20 44.80'' | style="text-align:right;" | ''0.00 4.00 6.00 0.00'' | style="text-align:right;" | '''151.10''' ''45.60 47.10 58.40 (eliminated)'' |}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == {{commons category}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110901204442/http://www.luhmuehlen.de/ web page of the 2011 European Eventing Championship]

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