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Dibowski Shines in the Last 2004 FEI Eventing World Cup Qualifier The
17th and ultimate qualifier of the 2004 season of the FEI Eventing World Cup took
place near Waregem in Northwestern Belgium. The outstanding performance of Germany's
Andreas Dibowski, riding the 10-year old mare FRH Serve Well gave
him the final victory with 54.1 penalty points. Dibowski took an early
lead after an impressive Dressage test (41.7), which was
strengthened by a
faultless Jumping round. Despite the 12.4 time penalties after the Cross Country,
which had allowed for no clears, he retained the undisputed leadership. All the
more remarkable is the fact that Dibowski, for whom this is a fourth participation
in an FEI World Cup Eventing
qualifier, also took the third position on Leonas
Dancer. Interestingly, the pair had performed the competition's third best
Cross Country test (9.2 time penalties), but an average Dressage performance (55.8)
and 6 time penalties in the Jumping test, left him on a final result of 71 points.
Andreas Dibowski finishes first on the FEI Eventing World Cup standings.
He had placed 9th at Luhmühlen (GER) gaining 14 points on Serve Well.
This promising beginning was followed by a victory at Strzegom (POL) on his Olympic
mount Little Lemon B bringing 100 additional points, a 6th place at Malmö
(SWE) on Leonas Dancer (20 points) and the final and impressive
performance
at Waregem (140 points). According to the 2004 FEI Eventing World Cup Rules, only
the three best results are added up towards the final standings. The results of
Luhmühlen and Malmö are hence discarded and Dibowski finishes on 240
World Cup points. Runner up position was taken by Belgium's own Karin
Donkers on the 9-year old gelding Steelbrook with whom she placed 11th
in the FEI Eventing World Cup qualifier at Martinvast (FRA) only two weeks earlier.
Karin was 5th after Dressage with 49.6 points on this horse but tied first on
her other mount Lamicell Idem du Roc (41.7). The gap with Dibowski widened
after
Show Jumping, when she had two fences down and one time penalty on Steelbrook
and three fences down and one time penalty on Lamicell Idem du Roc. An
energetic Cross Country on Steelbrook, outdone only by the French Gilles
Pons, where she scored 8 time penalties, left her with 71 penalty points.
With a total of 96 World Cup points, Karin places 19th on the final
standings.
The full results are available on the event's website
http://www.eventingwaregem.be/results.htm
The final
leaderboard of the FEI Eventing World Cup is as follows:
1.
Andreas Dibowski (GER) - 240 points
2. Sonja Johnson (AUS) -
200 points
3. Linda Algotsson (SWE) - 190 points
4. William
Fox-Pitt (GBR) - 150 points
5. Andrew Nicholson (NZL) - 130 points
6. Darren Chiacchia (USA) - 123 points
7. Andrew Hoy (AUS) - 120 points
8. Matthew Grayling (NZL) -
118 points
9. Kristin Bachman (USA) -
109 points
10. Phillip Dutton (AUS) - 105 points
11. Andrzej
Pasek (POL) - 101 points
12. Arnaud Boiteau (FRA) - 100 points
12. Robyn Fisher (USA) - 100 points
12.
R. de Gouveia Jr. (BRA) - 100 points
12. Pippa Funnell (GBR)
- 100 points
12. Pavel Sergeev (RUS) - 100 points
12. Bonnie
Mosser (USA) - 100 points
18. Viktoria
Carlerbäck (SWE) - 99 points
19. Karin Donckers (BEL) - 96
points
19. Pascal Leroy (FRA) - 96 points The full standings
are available on the FEI's website www.horsesport.org (section venting/results/standings)
(direct link http://62.2.231.126/PDFS/C/03_03/C_04_st_WC.pdf The
Final of the 2004 FEI Eventing World Cup will take place from 22 to 24
October
in Pau (FRA). Malina Gueorguiev
Fédération
Equestre Internationale
Communications Department
tel. ++41 21 310 47
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