Jump rider without dropping in the team finals

The German show jumpers have reached the team final on Saturday (12 o'clock) without dropping. Andre Thieme (Plau am See) with Chakaria, Maurice Tebbel (Emsbüren) with Don Diarado and the world ranking Daniel Deßer (Wiesbaden) with Killer Queen finished in qualifying with a total of four time-off points, three behind the faultless Sweden and European champion Belgium.

In singles Deßer had disappointed with place 18 and then questioned his own abilities. "If you want to go zero, you have to ride better," he had said and "powerful". On Friday he made it better with only a time error.

With just a time error, Andre Thieme came as a starter from the course. He had just missed the final as Christian Kukuk (Riesenbeck) with Mumbai. Its space in the team took over on Friday Maurice Tebbel, who made two time mistakes, but also no pole took. "That felt great," Tebbel said, "I hope that we can be a bit faster in the final."

Unchallested the Swedes took over the top of the class. As in singles, Henrik of Eckermann with King Edward, 2017 European champion Pedricson with all in and Malin Baryard-Johnsson with Indiana and Malin Baryard-Johnsson remained completely error free and go to the final as a large favorite.

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Even before the qualifications, the hopes of the British had fallen to a minimum. The former world ranking resident Scott Brash had to completely retire because of a swelling at the front leg of his gelding Jefferson. Spare rider Harry Charles collected with Romeo twelve errors, and single-Olympic champion Ben Maher did not come with an explosion without dropping through the course. In the end, the British were seventh.