At the CHIO in Aachen, the German champion Mario Stevens took third place in the opening event. Victory went to Frenchman Roger-Yves Bost.
According to the current results, Mario Stevens is currently the number one among the German show jumpers: ten days ago German champion in Balve, on Tuesday at the start of the CHIO in the Aachen Soers in third place as the best German.
After a clear round with the ten-year-old Oldenburg mare Botakara, the 39-year-old from Molbergen only had to concede to the former European Champion and Olympic Team Champion Roger-Yves Bost (France) with Bluemuch des Baleines and the Swiss Pius Schwizer with Bakatina in the show jumping test based on penalties and time de Beaufour defeated.
Riders take it easy at first
All German top stars did the honors at the start in the largest equestrian stadium in the world, albeit mostly not with their top horses. Daniel Deußer (Wiesbaden), last year’s winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen with Killer Queen, finished eighth with Maya, Christian Ahlmann (Marl) placed 13th with Mr. Lincoln – immediately behind Janne Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann (Hamburg) with Chaka Chaka and in front of the four-time Olympic champion Ludger Beerbaum (Riesenbeck) with Mila 64.
European Champion Andre Thieme (Plau am See) had saddled his championship horse Chakaria. He also had a clear lap, but was twelve seconds slower than the victorious Bost. Following the first competition in 2022, the first test for young horses, also based on penalty points and time, took place in the main Soers stadium on Tuesday.
Wednesday Price of Europe
After the official opening ceremony on Tuesday evening, the first highlight of the CHIO on Wednesday is the Europa Prize (6.30 p.m.), the second most important individual show jumping event at the world’s largest horse show. In front of 40,000 spectators, a spring competition with two rounds will be completed under floodlights.
