2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage)

Final I

The first competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a speed and handiness competition, was held at Thursday afternoon (April 19, 2012). The result of this competition was converted into faults for the World Cup Final standings.

Result:^[3]

	Rider	Horse	Time	World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final)
1	Rich Fellers	Flexible	60.26 s + 0 penalty s = 60.26	38
2	Steve Guerdat	Sabrina	61.94 s + 0 penalty s. = 61.94	36
3	Rik Hemeryck	Quarco de Kerambars	62.66 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.66	35
4	Pius Schwizer	Ulysse	62.83 s + 0 penalty s. = 62.83	34
5	Kevin Staut	Silvana	63.07 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.07	33
6	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	63.60 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.60	32
7	Harrie Smolders	Regina Z	63.67 s + 0 penalty s. = 63.67	31
8	Kirsten Coe	Baronez	65.76 s + 0 penalty s. = 65.76	30
9	Marcus Ehning	Sabrina	61.87 s + 4 penalty s. = 65.87	29
10	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	57.97 s + 8 penalty s. = 65.97	28

(Top Ten of 37 competitors)

Last year final winner Christian Ahlmann had three obstacle faults in the speed and handiness competition, so he had result of 76.09 seconds. Because of this result he had no chance to defend his title, so he did not start in the further final competitions.

Final II

At April 20 afternoon the second competition of the Show Jumping World Cup Final, a show jumping competition with one jump-off, was held. After the second round, the World Cup Points were converted in Penalties for the Final III.

Result:^[4]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1		Jump-off		World Cup Points (only from the World Cup Final)
			Penalties	Time (s)	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Philipp Weishaupt	Monte Bellini	0	-	0	33.04	38
2	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	0	-	0	33.56	36
3	Marco Kutscher	Cornet Obolensky	0	-	0	35.03	35
4	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	1	72.05	-	-	34
5	Beezie Madden	Cortes C	4	66.77	-	-	33
6	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	4	67.33	-	-	32
7	Kevin Staut	Silvana	0	68.40	-	-	31
8	Rich Fellers	Flexible	4	68.69	-	-	30
9	Margie Goldstein-Engle	Indigo	4	69.72	-	-	29
10	Patrice Delaveau	Ornella Mail	4	69.85	-	-	28

(Top Ten of 33 competitors)

Final III

The third competition of this final will be held at April 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm. It will be a competition over two different rounds, both not against the clock. Here only the 25 best placed riders have the chance to start in this competition, in the second round of the Final III only 19 riders start wuth their horses.

Result:^[5]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Total
			Penalties	Penalties	Penalties
1	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	0	0
	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	0	0
3	Denis Lynch	Abbervail van het Dingeshof	4	0	4
	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	0	4	4
	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	4	4
6	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	1	4	5
	Marcus Ehning	Copin van de Broy	5	0	5
8	Philipp Weishaupt	Monte Bellini	5	1	6

(Top 8 of 24 competitors)

Final standings

The decision about the title "World Cup Champion 2011-2012" took place in a jump-off. Two riders, Steve Guerdat from Switzerland and Rich Fellers from the US had only one point after four rounds in three competitions in this World Cup Final. First rider in the jump-off was Guerdat with his gelding Nino des Buissonnets. He ride very fast and had a time of 26.61 seconds. After him Fellers start with his Flexible: His time was nearly equal to Guerdats time most time of the jump-off. But one turn Rich Fellers ride much faster than Guerdat, so he was 64 hundredths of a second faster than the time of Steve Guerdat.

With this victory Rich Fellers is the first rider from the United States, who win the Show jumping World Cup since 25 years (in 1987 won Katharine Burdsall from the US).

Crucial jump-off:^[6]

	Rider	Horse	Jump-off
			Penalties	Time (s)
1	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	25.97
2	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	0	26.61

Total result before the crucial jump-off:

	Rider	Horse/ Horses	Final I	Final II	World Cup Points (only from Final I and Final II) TOTAL	World Cup Points, converted in Penalties	Final III		Penalties (Total)
			World Cup Points	World Cup Points			Penalties	Penalties
1	Steve Guerdat	Nino des Buissonnets	36	32	68	1	0	0	1
	Rich Fellers	Flexible	38	30	68	1	0	0	1
3	Pius Schwizer	Ulysse und Carlina	34	36	70	0	1	4	5
4	Philipp Weishaupt	Souvenir und Monte Bellini	24	38	62	4	5	1	10
5	Kevin Staut	Silvana	33	31	64	3	0	8	11
6	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Casall	32	21	53	8	0	4	12
7	Marcus Ehning	Sabrina und Copin van de Broy	29	20	49	10	5	0	15
	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	20	27	47	11	0	4	15
9	Rik Hemeryck	Quarco de Kerambars	35	26	61	4	8	4	16
10	Harrie Smolders	Regina Z	31	22	53	8	5	4	17
11	Denis Lynch	Abbervail van het Dingeshof	17	18	35	17	4	0	21
12	Eric Lamaze	Coriana van Klapscheut	28	34	62	4	9	9	22
13	Germany Marco Kutscher	Satisfaction FRH und Cornet Obolensky	15	35	50	10	4	9	23
14	Patrice Delaveau	Ornella Mail	25	28	53	8	8	8	24
15	Luciana Diniz	Lennox	26	19	45	12	9	4	25
16	Richard Spooner	Cristallo	24	27	41	14	4	8	26
17	Beezie Madden	Cortes C	22	33	55	7	8	15	30
18	Kent Farrington	Uceko	16	16	32	19	4	8	31
19	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Titus	27	12	39	15	5	16	36
20	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	10	23	33	18	12		30
	Margie Goldstein-Engle	Indigo	13	29	42	14	16		30
22	Sameh El Dahan	Wkd Pepperpot	11	25	36	17	17		34
23	Ali bin Khaled Al Thani	Cantaro	19	13	32	19	17		36
24	Kirsten Coe	Baronez und Combina	30	10	40	15	29		44
25	Charlie Jayne	Uraya	18	14	32	19	DNS
26	Ljubov Kochetova	Aslan	2	24	26	22
27	Francie Steinwedell-Carvin	Taunus	9	15	24	23
28	Benas Gutkauskas	Lascar	8	11	19	25
29	Emilie Martinsen	Carisma	5	11	14	28
30	Luiz Francisco de Azevedo	Special	21	RET
	Ludo Philippaerts	Kassini Jac	14	RET
	Pedro Junqueira Muylaert	Ducati	7	RET
	Dermott Lennon	Hallmark Elite	4	RET
34	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	12	DNS
	Michelle Spadone	Uwwalon	6	DNS
	Tiit Kivisild	Cinnamon	3	DNS
37	Yuya Ninomiya	Willem	ELI

ELI = eliminated
DNS = did not start
RET = retired

Grand Prix (CSI 3*)

Also a CSI 3* is held at the “Indoor Brabant“ 2012. The Grand Prix of this show jumping horse show was held at Saturday, April 21, 2012 (9:30 pm). It was a show jumping competition with one jump-off, the fences will be up to 1.55 meters. The competition was endowed with € 100.000, the sponsor was the Rabobank.

Result:^[7]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1		Jump-off
			Penalties	Time (s)	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Marc Houtzager	Opium	0	-	0	29.18
2	Ali bin Khaled Al Thani	Casanova	0	-	0	29.30
3	Richard Spooner	Apache	0	-	0	30.03
4	Ludger Beerbaum	Chiara	0	-	0	30.16
5	Marco Kutscher	Satisfaction FRH	0	-	0	30.36

(Top 5 of 29 Competitors)