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Outstanding Swedes in the lead

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103 riders from 35 different nations and 22 team-nations started in the first competition of the championships, and what a competition. All the riders really did all they could to deliver a great round, and the reigning Olympic champions from Sweden ended doing best. With Henrik von Eckermann and Peder Fredricson delivering perfect clear rounds, and with Jens Fredricsons round added from the first part of the competition the Swedes once again manage to ride into the top of a championship.  

“It was a really great start for the team, and we are in the lead position after today, but it is a long week so we will take one day at a time”, said Peder Fredricson, who is individual placed preliminary as number 4. The Swedes are for sure a top showjumping nation with a gold medal from Tokyo last year, a silver medal from the last world championships and lots of great results both individual and for teams.  

It is also looking really good for the French team who is just behind the Swedes. Even though Kevin Staut was unlucky to fall of his horse during his ride, the team result ended up well. Just behind the French team we find Belgium, a very strong team where all four riders delivered almost perfect rounds today.  

“I made my own plan since my horse has small strides, but today she had bigger strides than normal, so we went as fast as possible without going crazy fast”, Nicola Philippaerts said after his ride. He is the best placed Belgian rider after today, as number 7.

A Frenchman in the lead individually 

It was not only the team results the riders were riding for today, because the competition is also a part of the individual championship. It was French Julien Epaillard who was the fastest today. With his horse Caracole de la Roque by Zandor Z he managed to stop the time at 79.08 seconds, just a bit faster than Scott Brash preliminary placed second and Martin Fuchs preliminary placed third.  

“I had a good start and my horses felt super today. We had planned and I followed the plan, and my horse jumps everything with great scope. Sometimes she reacts to the audience, but she was felling super today”, Julien said after his ride.  

British Scott Brash was also superfast today with his amazing gelding Hello Jefferson, who he finished 7 on at the Olympics last year. They were less than half a second below Epaillard and is therefore bringing only 0.23 faults into tomorrow’s competition. Within the fault-difference of one fence, 37 riders are placed, so everything can happen in the individual championship as well.  

Emil Hallundbæk with Chalisco. Photo: Herning2022/Stefan Lafrentz

Home nation rode for a good start 

It started out looking good for the home team starting with two clear rounds delivered by Lars Bak Andersen and Emil Hallundbæk. Unfortunately, Linnnea Ericsson-Carey had problems with the open water, and Andreas Schou had unluckily two fences down after such a great try around the course. The home nation is placed as number 16, but everything is open until after tomorrow, where we know for a fact if the home nation will get a spot in the top-10 final Friday. Emil Hallundbæk is best placed home rider with only 3.13 faults from today’s competition.

Lovely course

The course designer, Dutch Louis Konickx and his team of assistants, including the Dutch Quintin Maertens, did a great job building todays course. During the course, the riders had to jump three doubles, but no triple, as we often see in the championship courses. It was designed to make the riders ride forward and turn, exactly like a speed competition should work out. A lot of the riders gave their compliments for the building. 

“It is a beautiful arena, and it was a great course today. The course designer did such a good job”, Brazil’s Pedro Veniss told today after finishing of a fast round with one rail down.  

Tomorrow the team championships as well as the individual championship continuous. It is tomorrow we will find out which nations there will participate in the team final on Friday, which is open for the top-10 placed nations after tomorrow.

Preliminary result individuals. 

Preliminary result teams.

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The first medals in Para Dressage

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After two days with Horse Inspections and familiarisation, today it was finally time for the first Para Dressage competitions and medals at the ECCO FEI World Championships. 

Grade I – the DJ took a historic gold medal for Latvia 

Rihards Snikus rode a flawless test in front of enthusiastic fans cheering on after his test. He is a DJ in his civilian life and rode his King of Dance to an amazing score of 78.535 percent in a really tight battle, only separated by few points, with Italy’s star rider Sara Morganti on Royal Delight. The bronze was a dream come true for Irish rider Michael Murphy, coming out of the arena very pleased with his Cleverboy, doing good on his name. 

The competition had ten riders over 70 percent, so it was a really competitive grade and class under blazing sun at the beautiful BB Arena where spectators were flowing in and out of the stands during the day.

Grade I 

Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Individual Championship presented by Elsass Fonden 

Prize podium with medals 

Gold Rihards Snikus (LAT) with King of the Dance 14-year-old gelding by Kadius LS, 78.535 % 

Silver Sara Morganti (ITA) with Royal Delight 17-year-old gelding by Royaldik, 78.393 % 

Bronze Michael Murphy (IRL) with Cleverboy 15-year-old gelding by Vivaldi, 74.143 % 

Judges presiding in Individual program for Grade I 
E – Katherine Lucheschi (ITA) 

H – Jeannette Wolfs (NED) 

C – Suzanne Cunningham (AUS) 

M – Kjell Myhre (NOR) 

B – Marco Orsini (GER) 

Link to result Grade I 

Grade II – Danish victory in tight battle 

Several really experienced combinations entered in Grade II, and it was an extremely narrow battle for the top placings as less than one percent separated a bronze from a gold. Danish hope Katrine Kristiansen made all the wishes for a medal to the hosting nation come true.  

Highly experienced and skilled multi medalist Pepo Puch from Austria took the lead with a good performance scoring over 75 percent. He was followed by fellow fierce competitor since many years Lee Pearson who really tried his heart out and nearly succeeded, just fractions behind in the scores.  

The two seniors had to stand aside as Katrine Kristiansen put in a superb ride and overtook the lead. Pepo Puch said it all; “We need this fierce competition, it is sport”. 

Grade II 

Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Individual Championship presented by Elsass Fonden 

Prize podium with medals 

Gold Katrine Kristensen (DEN) with Goerklintgaards Quater 14-year-old gelding by Quaterback, 75.788 % 

Silver Pepo Puch (AUT) with Sailor’s Blue 14-year-old gelding by Swarovski, 75.333 % 

Bronze Lee Pearson (GBR) with Breezer 11-year-old gelding by Bacardi, 75.091 % 

Judges presiding in Individual program for Grade II 
E: John Robinson (GBR) 

H: Suzanne Cunningham (AUS) 

C: Katherine Lucheschi (ITA) 

M: Jeannette Wolfs (NED) 

B: Kristi Wysocki (USA) 

Link to result Grade II 

Grade IV – Dutch ladies thrive under pressure 

Gold and silver went then Netherlands with multi-champion Sanne Voets on top position and championship debutante Demi Haerkens as runner-up. Rodolpho Riskalla from Brazil was really eager to bring a medal home for his championship hero of a horse Don Henrico as this will be a very emotional last championship for the dynamic duo.  

The medalists performed fluent flawless tests with really good scores from the five judges, showing high-lever performances. In the grade some exciting new horses were presented by skilled riders and the coming days will be exciting for the team and individual competition. 

Grade IV 

Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Individual Championship presented by Elsass Fonden 

Prize podium with medals 

Gold Sanne Voets (NED) with Demantur RS2 N.O.P. 14-year-old gelding by Vivaldi, 76.750 % 

Silver Demi Haerkens (NED) with EHL Daula 14-year-old mare by Gribaldi, 76.000 % 

Bronze Don Henrico (BRA) with 19-year-old stallion by Don Frederico, 74.925 % 

Judges presiding in Individual program for Grade IV 
E – Kjell Myhre (NOR) 

H – Katherine Lucheschi (ITA) 

C – Marco Orsini (GER) 

M – Kristi Wysocki (USA) 

B – John Robinson (GBR) 

Link to result Grade IV 

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Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein honered at ECCO FEI World Championships

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Horsemanship, achievements and training

The award – a memorial silver plate and 25.000,- DKK – was presented by HRH Princess Benedikte, Lis Hartels grandchild Nicole Siesbye Surh and Vice President Carsten Lorentzen from The Danish Friends of Dressage Association Carsten Lorentzen said about Nathalie:

The Danish Friends of Dressage Association has the great pleasure of presenting the ‘2022 Lis Hartel Memorial Award’ to Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, in honour of her achievements in and promotion of dressage riding and good horsemanship.

Nathalie has attained worldwide respect for her achievements and sportsmanship. With many years of experience as international dressage rider, Nathalie won several Danish Championships and helped secure the team bronze medal at the Olympics Games in Hong Kong in 2008, Denmark’s first Olympic team medal. She also achieved great success in training her homebred horses up to international Grand Prix level.

As a board member of the International Dressage Riders Club, Nathalie has always actively supported riders and advocated for the welfare of horses. While training the Danish dressage team, she combined her in-depth knowledge and experience in dressage, and devoted her energy in providing reliable and trustworthy support to the riders.

A sincere advocate for well-educated horses, she stays true to her principle of “getting there, slowly”. Founded on a well-thought-out plan she always gives young and upcoming horses time to develop and mature, thus laying the foundation for a “happy athlete”.

It is fair to say that Nathalie has had a very positive influence on the success of Danish Dressage and has earned respect world-wide, as well as in Denmark. Many congratulations with this year’s 2022 Lis Hartels Memorial Award.

About The Danish Friends of Dressage Association

The association was founded in 2007 by HRH Princess Benedikte and aims to support Danish dressage at all levels. Every year, the Lis Hartels Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an extraordinary contribution to Danish dressage.

Para Dressage has kicked off

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The para-dressage horses were shown this morning in front of the veterinary commission and Ground Jury as well as the FEI officials involved in the para-dressage.

All horses passed and are now ready to carry out arena familiarization at BB Horse Arena, team by team and individual riders according to the published time plan, see link below.

In total 83 horses passed the horse inspection, representing 18 national teams and 14 individual riders from ten national federation.

The para-dressage competition kick-off on Wednesday morning with Grade IV in the Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Individual Championship presented by Elsass Fonden at the BB Horse Arena at 8:30.

Useful links

Start list for all events

https://www.longinestiming.com/equestrian/2022/ecco-fei-world-championships-herning/#area23

List for horse inspection para-dressage
https://results.hippodata.de/2022/2124/docs/herning_2022_-_para_dressage_horse_inspection_list.pdf

List for arena familiarization
https://results.hippodata.de/2022/2124/docs/flow_para_dressage_familiarisation_tuesday_v05.pdf

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Let the jumping begin

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35 nations are gathered in the jumping championships today. 22 of them are participating in the team competition. The team competition medals are given on Friday, while the individual final is on Sunday.  

Today all the jumpers have trained in the Stutteri Ask Stadium, where they got the chance to jump on a course with 8 fences, among other the water jump and a double. They were not forced to ride all the jumps, so some of the riders only took a few. Most of the horses looked in top shape and it will for sure be exciting to see who will become the new world champions in this discipline.  

The home nation performed super in the training, but the competition is hard with favourite nations like Sweden and Germany looking good – and in jumping everything can happen. So, keep your eyes open for the coming days of jumping.

The British team, including Scott Brash, looked like they are in perfect shape. Photo: Herning2022/Annika Knudsen Lorentsen

The first rider in the competition is from Mexico, the host nation is riding as team number 20, while it is Sweden who is finishing as the last team out of 22 teams participating. Besides the teams there are some individual riders participating in the championship and in total 103 riders are participating in the championships. The Danish national coach Bo K. Møller is happy about the draw: 

“We are glad that we do not have to ride as number one, but if it had been the reality, we had kept our head high. Starting as number 20 gives us more peace, so all the Danish riders can watch some riders compete before going to the warmup themselves. We are feeling ready for tomorrow and all the Danish horses jumped very well at the familiarisation today.”

Emil Hallundbæk with Chalisco from the Danish team. Photo: Herning2022/Annika Knudsen Lorentsen

The team starting order:

1.Mexico 

2. Spanien 

I3. Irland 

4. Belgien 

5. Australien 

6. Tyskland 

7. Holland 

8. Columbia 

9. Norge 

10. Storbritannien 

11. Frankrig 

12. Brasilien 

13. Italien 

14. Canada 

15. Israel 

16. Østrig 

17. Argentina 

18. Schweiz 

19. Japan 

20. Danmark 

21. USA 

22. Sverige

The full starting list with individual riders for tomorrow’s speed competition HERE

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British gold in Herning

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A new generation of stars emerges at Herning2022, and they have young talented horses to develop even further. The Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Grand Prix Special Championship 

showed 29 combinations giving their best to reach the freestyle and final medal possibilities on Wednesday evening under floodlight. 

Daniel Bachmann Andersen

Best of the best in a tight competition filled with suspense and drama was Charlotte “Lottie” Fry on the black stallion Glamourdale. She beat silver winning Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour in a tight battle where perhaps a tiny misstep in canter cost the Danish home-rider the top podium position. Dutch rider Dinja van Liere kept control of the reins of her elegant stallion Hermés, whom she claims is a bit of a clown from time to time. 

As the competition of the Grand Prix Special unfolded, many combinations came through producing even better rides than in the team competition. A bit of the tension from the pressure of representing a team had gone away and the combinations could really show off their qualities in the more demanding program that is the Grand Prix Special.  

The claim on the top positions started out with German team debutante Benjamin Werndl that did a fabulous ride with his Famoso OLD scoring 78.237 percent. Charlotte Dujardin followed up with a very excited and eager Imhotep but could not quite get ahead of Benjamin Werndl. The stadium got really heated when a lovely lady in orange tails entered on a beautiful stallion. Dinja van Liere and Hermes held it together and scored 79.407 percent, a personal best. Still, the amazon used powerful language in a bit of annoyance, she has dreamt of 80 percent for a long time and will surely achieve it given time. Straight after her entered the rider with the highest score in the team competition, Danish rider Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour on her energetic Vamos Amigos. They really showed off a fluent, harmonious, and elegant test, but a tiny tempi fault cost a little, giving them a score of 81.322 percent. Would it be sufficient to win?  

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and  Vamos Amigos. Photo: Herning2022/ www.sportfotos-lafrentz.de/Stefan Lafrentz

Young Charlotte Fry on approved breeding stallion Glamourdale came in meeting the cheer for Cathrine from the crowd in Stutteri Ask Stadium in stride. They produced a flawless test, improving on their weak points with so much promise for the future. The crowd followed her every canter step in awe sending her off to powerful cheering in the last halt. When she left the stadium meeting Die Queen Isabell Werth in the ring the queen shared a high-five with young “Lottie” on her way out, true sportsmanship in full view. Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale scored 82.508 percent and took over the lead securing a top podium place. Isabell Werth and DSP Quantaz delivered their best ride to date, but the percentage did not suffice for a podium place. British gold, Danish silver, and a Dutch bronze medal in the Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Grand Prix Special Championship.

Dinja van Liere and Hermés. Photo: Herning2022/Hippofoto.be Dirk Caremans

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2 times Gold for France

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It has been an amazing day in Jyske Bank Boxen with fantastic vaulting at the world championships. The finals for the individual vaulters were on for both the women and men. And boy, did they deliver. 35 ladies and 16 men was all dressed up to rock the arena with their beautiful and creative freestyles.  

The new queen of vaulting 
We knew she was good, coming to Herning as the world’s number 1. Manon Moutinho from France. Through three fantastic rounds she kept her cool and delivered on the highest level possible earning her a very well-deserved gold medal.  
“I haven’t realised yet, that I won! It is amazing! Today I had to work a bit more in the arena, because my horse was a bit more nervous. But I’m so happy with her, she did a great job. And I’m so happy with all my rounds!” the gold medalist said after her win with her horse Saitiri and the overall score of 8.963.  

Julia Wagner from Germany took the silver medal with 8.529 at her first international championship.  
“I can’t believe it. It’s amazing. It was a little shaky today, and I had a bit of luck. But it has been a really good competition for me, so I’m happy”.  

Bronze for the host nation 
For the Danes in Boxen it was a fantastic experience watching the Danish vaulter Sheena Bendixen win the bronze medal in her final competition as a vaulter and the tears would not stop flowing.  
“My beginning was not so good, but I fought with everything I had and came back. I’m so proud and so happy”.  

WAUW Lambert 
In the men’s competition we witnessed artistry at work. The reigning world champion, Lambert Leclezio, went into the arena as the last vaulter knowing he had the gold in sight. Jannik Heiland from Germany had delivered a fantastic new freestyle taking the second place in the competition with 9.100. And Lamberts countryman, Quentin Jabet, did a 9.032 in his freestyle, putting all the pressure on the sympathetic Frenchman running into the arena. But Lambert showed no signs of pressure in his freestyle with his horse Estado working beautifully underneath him.  
“The horse was so good and has been good in all the rounds. So I was more confident going into the last round with less stress. I took my time and just enjoyed it. We have worked so hard, and I’m very happy. It was amazing”, Lambert said scoring an amazing 9.567 giving him a total score of 9.399. 

Silver for France and Bronze for Germany 
Quentin Jabet looks very much like the new heir to the throne of vaulting with three lovely rounds at this championship. 
“I’m here in Herning with a whole new team and this was our first championship together, and today we just worked so well together, so I’m so, so happy with our performance, and happy about the silver medal!”, a very happy Quentin said after scoring a total of 8.837.  

For Jannik Heiland everything was open going into the final round with five of the male vaulters having a score of 8.5 with them from the first two rounds. But he showed us a stunning freestyle with an exciting theme getting an overall score of 8.833.  
“My round today went very well. I wasn’t nervous going in. I really like my theme and the music, so I just wanted to enjoy it, on my once in a lifetime horse, Dark Beluga. It’s been fantastic”, the proud bronze medalist concluded.  

See all the results here 

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Don’t forget: Goodbye Cassidy tonight at Herning2022

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“Cassidy has meant everything to me. He is the cornerstone of my entire riding-career. He has taught me everything from medium level to Grand Prix”, Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour begins.

Tonight, during an emotional farewell ceremony spectators and fans from all over the world will say goodbye to a combination, who has excited from junior years and all the way to the top amongst the senior riders.
“If anything, he has taught me the joy of riding”, says Cathrine as she continuous her praise of Cassidy.

If you are not able to be in Herning to experience Cathrine and Cassidy one last time, you can follow via livestreaming

Cathrine’s parents bought Cassidy when he was 6 years old, when Cathrine was 17 years old, and she is her parents eternal grateful for keeping Cassidy in the family all these years.

An era is about to end, and for certain there will not be many dry eyes at Stutteri Ask Stadium tonight, when excerpts from the pair’s beautiful Grand Prix Freestyle, which has brought them so much international success will be shown.

“He really just is my highlight every single day with the horses, and I love him more than anything. He has taught me so much,” Cathrine explains.
With Cassidy, she has been on a fantastic journey from junior gold medals to senior medals at the European Championships.
And in spite of being in a league of their own in the junior years, Cassidy was not the most obvious Grand Prix star, Cathrine explains. She has worked with Cassidy with great focus alongside what she describes as an “Awesome team of trainers” throughout the years. With curiosity and openness towards understanding the horse, they created an international Grand Prix horse.

“By working with the talents, the horse is given naturally, you can go really far, and I think Cassidy is a great example of that. And then he has just taught me love of the sport, and love of competing as well as the daily training. He is the entire cornerstone in my love of the equestrian sport. He is completely unique and will likely be the most special horse I have had and will ever have”, Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour ends.

There are still tickets available for the ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning – more info here: ECCO FEI World Championship Herning 2022 – See you there

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Beautiful first round of Pas de Deux

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Lights, music, action. The Pas de Deux in vaulting had their first round at the World Championships in Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning. And we sang along to Grease, was dazzled by the black and white graphics and held our breath through the beautiful routines.  
Seven pairs did their absolute best to show us new moves and choreographies. And then we had the Highlight at the end.  

Highlight carried through 
Germanys Justin van Gerven and Chiara Congia came in last, but finished first, after a routine with lots and lots of stunning moves, giving them a final score of 8.863. But their moves was not the only Highlight. 
“We’re pretty happy with our round. It’s our first competition with our horse, Highlight, this season. And she did such a good job in the arena”, Justin said after the round, giving praise to their horse lunged by Alexandra Knauf. 

 Chiara continued:  
“It was amazing. This arena, this audience. And then Highlight doing such a great job. We’re really happy”. 

Germany second and Italy third 
It was a great first round for Germany, with their Pad de Deux finishing as number one and two. Even though the music told us, there was no sunshine, Diana Harwardt and Peter Künne, brought the sun out with their beautifully choreographed routine on the horse Sir Laulau lunged by Henrik Falk, and they scored 8.625. 

For Rebecca Greggio and Davide Zanella from Italy, who came in third with 8.198. They invited us in to the “House of Gucci”, with a routine of high difficulty, but very well carried out.  

Host country Denmark was also represented in the Pas de Deux by Freja Linde and Maria Thinggaard. They came in fifth and are ready to eliminate the minute mistakes from today, when we have the final in the Pas de Deux on Wednesday.  

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Danish dynamic quartet takes team gold at ECCO FEI World championship in Herning

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The four championship heroes all made close to their best performances in the team class, it is not every year a winning team has a drop score of 76.6 percent, nothing short of impressive.

The field of teams that were closing in on the podium places were after three riders more than a handful throwing the home nation Denmark, Germany, Great Britain in the mix with the Netherlands and Sweden for a while giving the team class quite a bit of suspense. The battle for the podium places were incredibly tight.

The much-awaited debut in the championship from Charlotte Dujardin and Imhotep, called Pete, made the Stutteri Ask Stadium to go completely silent in awe. She produced an amazing ride on the 9-year-old gelding giving Great Britain a boost with a score of 77.41 percent.

Daniel Bachmann-Andersen threw his fist in the air to state how immensely happy and proud he was over his partner for the championship Marshall-Bell. Germany’s third rider was the most decorated dressage rider to date Isabell Werth. With yet another horse she made a result worthy of a German championship team and scored 77.18 with DSP Quantaz.

Under pressure

Going into the last group of riders’ nerves were beginning to show on the faces of team members eagerly watching and awaiting the results. Great Britain’s last rider, young Charlotte Fry on her magnificent black stallion Glamourdale, really put pressure on the competition by a very good score of 80.84 percent. As last rider for the home nation and a crowd that really rooted for her, Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour was under pressure but performed as a seasoned gladiator; calm, cool, collected with razor sharp focus with her valiant steed Vamos Amigos. In a beautiful ride, the 10-year-old gelding showed his classical elegance and rhythm setting every movement perfectly on the spot under the guidance from Laudrup-Dufour. They entered the last halt, and the spectators went wild, score 81.86 percent and Denmark in the lead.

“Thank you to the audience – you rocked the arena to perfection. I was a bit nervous; I am always a little nervous. But today I calmed Nathalie and Kyra and told them; we can do this. My horse was nothing short of amazing. I feel so immensely proud for what me and my team members have done, we are all so proud of our achievement” said Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour with a smile on her face, reaching from ear to ear.

Last rider for Germany was championship debutante Fredric Wandres with his Duke of Britain FRH. A lot was riding on his shoulders, and they produced a good ride, but a few mistakes crept into the performance, they scored 76.66 percent. The German team thus secured a bronze medal keeping Great Britain in a silver position.

“Going out last for a team like Germany is of course pressure but we always have pressure. To ride for German team at a championship has been a childhood dream for me since I was a little boy. I am very proud that me and my horse made it into the team, that is not an easy task, and on to the podium, it is a dream come true.”.

After receiving medals and cheers from the crowd the winning team and silver and bronze medalists performed a lap of honor on their horses.

The three teams make for shift in the dressage world with many new and younger riders in the mix and a considerable number of young talented Grand Prix horses that will be talked of in the years to come. Best on the field of play was the four Danish riders’ bringing gold to a proud community of dressage enthusiasts on home soil.

Link to final individual results, for detailed scores click on (DETAILS) for each combination
https://www.longinestiming.com/equestrian/2022/ecco-fei-world-championships-herning/resultlist_D1-I.html

Link to final team results

https://results.hippodata.de/2022/2124/docs/d1-tfinalresult.pdf

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World Championships athletes from 10 to 68 years

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There is for sure no recipe on how a World Championship-athlete in equestrian sport looks like or how old they are. At the championships in Herning the youngest participant is 10 years old, while the oldest is 68 years. It is 58 years age difference between the youngest and the oldest.  

It is the vaulters that represent the youngest section. Carlota Usón Jaume from Spain is only 10 years old. In dressage and para dressage, we find the oldest, because dressage rider Mary Hanna from Australia and para dressage rider Lee Frawley from Virgin Islands of the US both represent their disciplines with an age of 68 years.

Facts about age in dressage 

In dressage the age range is from 22 till 68 years. Australian Mary Hanna is the senior athlete while both Norwegian Mathilde Merethe Klaesson and Portuguese Martim Meneres is 22 years old. In dressage the age range is therefore 46 years. 

Facts about age in jumping 

In the jumping championship the youngest is American Brian Moggre, who can celebrate his birthday today. He is turning 21. The oldest rider is John Whitaker from Great Britain with his 67 years, and John is also the most experienced rider at World Championships in jumping. With 6 appearances from the past, he for sure knows what the World Championships is. The youngest man in the British team is 23-years-old Harry Charles, and the British team is therefore coming with an age range on 44 years.  

Facts about age in vaulting 

In vaulting the age difference is 33 years. The youngest is Carlota Usón Jaume, while the oldest is Todd Griffiths from the US. Todd is teamed up with his 11 years old daughter, Miriam Griffiths on the US team, and therefore the age range at the US vaulting team is 32 years.  

Facts about age in para dressage 

The youngest athlete in para dressage is 18 years old. It is Alise Muizniece from Latvia, while the oldest is 68-years-old Lee Frawley from Virgin Islands of the USA. It results in an age range on 50 years in this discipline.

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