Olympic showjumping medallists celebrated in London

Contemporary from their glittering good fortune on the Paris 2024 Video games, all 4 of the Olympic showjumping gold medallists will probably be competing at this week’s Longines World Champions Excursion (LGCT) in London (16-18 August), the place they’ll be celebrated with a distinct rite.

Nice Britain’s crew gold medal-winning trio of Scott Brash, Harry Charles and Ben Maher will probably be in motion along Germany’s newly topped particular person Olympic champion Christian Kukuk.

This quartet of heroic gold medallists will probably be joined in a distinct rite via bronze crew medallist Simon Delestre of France and the Dutch particular person bronze medallist Maikel van der Vleuten.

The medallists’ rite will happen in the primary ring all the way through the LGCT display at Royal Medical institution Chelsea on Saturday, 17 August at 1.15pm forward of the beginning of the day’s five-star motion. The grooms and riders will probably be given items and there will probably be a are living Q&A.

In 2021, the newly topped Olympic champion Ben Maher was once celebrated in identical taste with an Olympic medallists’ parade on the London LGCT display.

15 Olympians to look at

A complete of 15 riders from Paris 2024 will head directly to London together with the LGCT total rating chief Max Kuhner, plus Edwina Tops-Alexander and Richard Vogel.

Different world showjumping stars heading to the capital are Malin Baryard-Johnsson, Olivier and Nicola Philippaerts and Christian Ahlmann.

Main British showjumpers

A number of the main British names bidding for good fortune on house soil on the twelfth leg of the LGCT sequence in London are John Whitaker, newly topped younger rider Ecu champion Olli Fletcher and Hickstead’s fresh King George V Gold Cup winner Donald Whitaker, with cousins Jack Whitaker and Robert Whitaker additionally finishing the line-up from the well-known showjumping dynasty.

Remaining 12 months’s winner of the LGCT of London grand prix was once USA rider Jessica Springsteen.

H&H will probably be preserving you recent with the entire motion from the three-day display on-line, with a bumper file in subsequent week’s Horse & Hound mag, within the retail outlets on Thursday, 22 August.

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H&H showjumping editor

Jennifer is passionate at showjumping and her function as H&H’s showjumping editor has taken her around the globe reporting from presentations and interviewing riders, connections and the ones concerned at the back of the scenes. Since becoming a member of H&H from BBC Recreation in 2005, she has written on each matter around the equestrian sphere — from turnout rugs to solid control — and has interviewed gold medallists, global champions and winners galore. She additionally has first-hand revel in of operating within the equestrian trade as a using teacher and backyard supervisor.