Dressage rider Dinja van Liere has won the bronze medal in the freestyle to music at the world championships in Herning, Denmark. With her horse Hermès she achieved a score of 86.900. Van Liere also won bronze in the Grand Prix Special on Monday.
Just like in the Grand Prix Special, the victory went to Charlotte Fry. The British came with Glamourdale to 90,654. The Danish Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, who was the last to come into action after Van Liere in his own country, took the silver with Vamos Amigos with 89.411.
Van Liere (31), debutante at the World Cup, already became national champion with Hermès earlier this year. Last year she already won the top competition in Aachen. She missed the Tokyo Olympics due to an administrative error by the international federation FEI, which could not be rectified in time.
Emmelie Scholtens also played in the final. She was the first to come into action with her horse Indian Rock and came to 74,589. She finished fifteenth and last.
Jumping riders in Nations Cup
The Dutch show jumping riders of national coach Jos Lansink started the World Championship in Herning in Denmark with an eighth place in the first part. That was a jumping test on time. Maikel van der Vleuten was individually the best Dutchman with Beauville in fourteenth place.
Harrie Smolders was 34th with Monaco and Sanne Thijssen 36th with Con Quidam. The result of Jur Vrieling with Long John Silver (64th) does not count.
The gap in the stage on the Frenchman Julien Epaillard, who was fastest with Caracole de la Roque, is converted into penalty points. Sweden, for example, leads the country classification with 3.69 penalty points. France is second with 5.44 and Belgium third with 5.49. The Netherlands has 9.31 penalty points.
The Nations Cup has two more rounds, one on Thursday and one on Friday. The show jumping riders want to qualify for the World Championships for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. Lansink’s team must then finish in the best five countries, excluding France.
,,I would have preferred to see something different today”, said Lansink. ,,We had just too many trivial mistakes. The beams would have remained in place for the same money, but you need that luck a bit.”
The national coach does not look gloomy in the coming days. ,,We haven’t been perfect all year in the first round, I assume that things will go in the right direction in the coming days. The horses are fit and the riders have ridden well. Maikel had a great lap. Tomorrow we go for the clear rounds.”
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