Olympic champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl also successfully defended her second individual title at the European Dressage Championships in Riesenbeck.
After gold in the Grand Prix Special, the top favorite also won the free skate with the 16-year-old Trakehner mare Dalera with 92.818 percentage points. Once again she set a personal record this week – as she did in the Grand Prix and the Special.
Nevertheless, the world number one was not as clearly superior as in the last few days. Double world champion Lottie Fry and her Glamourdale finished just behind the European champion with 92.379. Bronze also went to Great Britain, to three-time Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin and Imhotep.
Von Bredow-Werndl, who already won both individual titles and gold with the team in Hagen aTW in 2021, now has a total of six European Championship titles. With Dalera she showed her freestyle on Sunday to the music of Edith Piaf, which should bring her Olympic gold in Paris in 2024.
Isabell Werth showed a very strong freestyle and surprisingly came fifth with Quantaz. “Sometimes you’re in the flow, everything works, and you don’t know why. And sometimes you think to yourself: Why isn’t it working now? And today it worked,” Werth said afterwards.
Frederic Wandres and Bluetooth were ultimately far away from the medal ranks. After her introduction, there was initially surprise. The judges debated for minutes whether he might not have shown a lesson at all.
Wandres made a mistake, but showed all the necessary lessons and, despite the mistake, still achieved a good result with 84.568 percent and finished the free skate in ninth place.