2011 Global Champions Tour

The 2011 Global Champions Tour was the 6th edition of the Global Champions Tour (GCT), an important international show jumping competition series. The series was held mainly in Europe, three competitions was held outside of Europe. All competitions was endowed at least 285000 €. All GCT events was held as CSI 5*.

The competitions was held between March 17, 2011 and November 12, 2011. There was no final. At the end of the season the best 18 riders in the final overall standings had got a bonus prize money.[1]

Contents

Competitions

All competitions was held as competition over two rounds against the clock with one jump-off against the clock.

1st Competition: Global Champions Tour of Qatar

March 17, 2011 to March 19, 2011 – Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club, Doha,  Qatar
Competition: Saturday, March 19, 2011 – Start: 6:45 pm, prize money: € 475,000[2][3]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto Ashleigh Drossel Dan 0 - 0 - 0 42.53 40
2 Pius Schwizer Carlina 0 - 0 - 4 43.35 37
3 Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum Shutterfly 0 - 0 - 4 45.13 35

(Top 3 of 47 competitors)

2nd Competition: Global Champions Tour of Spain

May 6, 2011 to May 8, 2011 – Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia,  Spain
Competition: Saturday, May 7, 2011 – Start: 5:00 pm, prize money: € 285,000[4]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Billy Twomey Je t'aime Flamenco 0 - 0 - 0 39.18 40
2 Ludger Beerbaum Gotha FRH 0 - 0 - 0 40.04 37
3 Maikel van der Vleuten Verdi 0 - 0 - 0 45.99 35

(Top 3 of 49 competitors)

3rd Competition: Global Champions Tour of Germany

June 2, 2011 to June 5, 2011 – Hamburg (German show jumping and dressage derby),  Germany
Competition: Saturday, June 4, 2011 – Start: 1:40 pm, prize money: € 285,000[5]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Casall 0 - 0 - 0 46.97 40
2 Ludger Beerbaum Chaman 0 - 0 - 0 47.93 37
3 Janne Friederike Meyer Lambrasco 0 - 0 - retired 35

(Top 3 of 49 competitors)

4th Competition: France I

June 9, 2011 to June 11, 2011 – Cannes,  France
Competition: Saturday, June 11, 2011 – Start: 6:00 pm, prize money: € 285,000[6]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Edwina Alexander Itot du Château 0 - 0 - 0 39.30 40
2 Sergio Alvarez Moya Action-Breaker 0 - 0 - 0 42.37 37
3 Ludger Beerbaum Gotha FRH 0 - 0 - 0 43.23 35

(Top 3 of 47 competitors)

5th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Monaco

June 23, 2011 to June 25, 2011 – shore at the marina „Port Hercule“, Monte Carlo,  Monaco
Competition: Saturday, June 25, 2011 – Start: 6:00 pm, prize money: € 285,000[7]

Course designer of the competition was fourth time in 2011 season Frank Rothenberger. The Monaco horse show was held on a provisional sand jumping arena at the shore of the Boulevard Albert 1er.

In the first round of the competition 12 riders had not faults. The second round was much more difficult, only three riders with her horses are clear in this round. Only Rolf-Göran Bengtsson was clear in both round, so he win the competition without a jump-off.

Charlotte Casiraghi was honorary president of the Monaco horse show.[8] The congratulations at the prize giving ceremony of the Global Champions Tour competition was given by Albert II, Prince of Monaco.

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Casall 0 - 0 59.79 40
2 Christian Ahlmann Taloubet Z 0 - 1 60.95 37
3 Rodrigo Pessoa Let's Fly 4 - 0 54.14 35

(Top 3 of 47 competitors)

6th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Portugal

June 30, 2011 to July 2, 2011 – Hipódromo Manuel Possolo, Cascais near Estoril,  Portugal
Competition: Saturday, July 2, 2011

Frank Rothenberger was again the course designer of the competition. In the first round nine riders had not faults. The second round are no problem for most of the now 18 riders, more than the half of them had not faults. In total six riders are faultless in both rounds – they was qualified for the jump-off.

In the jump-off the half of the six riders had no faults, Christian Ahlmann won the competition. The second round and the jump-off were held under floodlight.[9]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Christian Ahlmann Taloubet Z 0 - 0 - 0 45.21 40
2 Luciana Diniz Winningmood 0 - 0 - 0 47.32 37
3 Ludger Beerbaum Chaman 0 - 0 - 0 48.85 35

(Top 3 of 45 competitors)

7th Competition: France II

July 22, 2011 to July 24, 2011 – Chantilly Racecourse, Chantilly,  France
Competition: Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Course designer at the GCT Grand Prix of Chantilly was Uliano Vezzani from Italy. Six riders with their horses had not faults in the first round. Also four riders had only time fauls in this round. In the second round of the Grand Prix nine rider had not faults. In total three riders are faultless in both rounds – they was qualified for the jump-off.[10]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Edwina Alexander Itot du Château 0 - 0 - 0 41.88 40
2 Luciana Diniz Lennox 0 - 0 - 0 41.91 37
3 Pénélope Leprevost Mylord Carthago 0 - 0 - 0 44.16 35

(Top 3 of 46 competitors)

8th Competition: Global Champions Tour of the Netherlands

August 12, 2011 to August 14, 2011 – Valkenswaard,  Netherlands
Competition: Saturday, August 13, 2011

Second time in this GCT season Uliano Vezzani was the course designer of a GCT Grand Prix. In the first round of this Grand Prix twelve riders had no penalty points. In the second round six riders with their horses had not faults. In total four riders are faultless in both rounds. This riders were qualified for the jump-off. Winner of the competition was US-american rider Beezie Madden.[11]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Beezie Madden Cortes'C' 0 - 0 - 0 38.38 40
2 Denis Lynch Lantinus 0 - 0 - 0 38.92 37
3 Jur Vrieling Bubalu 0 - 0 - 4 39.52 35

(Top 3 of 49 competitors)

9th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Brazil

September 2, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – equestrian facility of the Sociedade Hípica Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro (Athina Onassis International Horse Show),  Brazil
Competition: Saturday, September 4, 2011 – Start: 4:00 pm[12]

The Grand Prix of Rio de Janeiro is with a prize money of € 1,000,000 the highest endowed show jumping Grand Prix in 2011 – in front of the Grand Prix of Calgary (with a purse of C$ 1,000,000) and the Grand Prix of Saugerties (US$ 1,000,000 prize money).[13] Course designer of this competition is Luc Musette from Belgium.

According to the prize money the course was built very sophisticated. In round one only two riders had no faults, five riders had retired in the show-jumping course. The second round was easier for the riders, ten of 18 riders with their horses had no faults. The only rider with a double clear round was Gerco Schröder with the Belgian stallion London, so a jump-off was not necessary.[14]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Gerco Schröder London 0 - 0 72.02 40
2 Edwina Alexander Itot du Château 4 - 0 64.87 37
3 Philipp Weishaupt Monte Bellini 4 - 0 66.68 35

(Top 3 of 38 competitors)

10th Competition: Global Champions Tour of the United Arab Emirates

November 24, 2011 to November 26, 2011 – Al-Forsan International Sports Resort, Abu Dhabi,  United Arab Emirates
Competition: Saturday, November 26, 2011 – Start: 3:45 pm[15]

First time ever a Global Champions Tour competition was held in the United Arab Emirates. The show jumping course was built again by Italian Uliano Vezzani. The competition had a purse of € 400,000.

In the first round 13 riders had no faults, three other riders had only time faults. Ludger Beerbaum, who had ridden Chaman, had big problems in a triple combination and retired after eight penalties. After this ride it was clear that Edwina Tops-Alexander had won the 2011 Global Champions Tour ranking. But also Tops-Alexander had eight penalties, so she was not qualified for the second round of this competition.

In the second round elven of eighteen riders with their horses had no faults. Eight riders in total was clear in both rounds, they was qualified for the jump-off. The winner of the competition was Frech rider Roger-Yves Bost, who used as only rider of the jump-off a shortcut, so he had the fastest time in the jump-off.[16]

Rider Horse Round 1 Round 2 Jump-off scoring
points
Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)		 Penalties Time
(s)
1 Roger-Yves Bost Ideal de la Loge 0 - 0 - 0 41.14 40
2 Khaled Al-Eid Presley Boy 0 - 0 - 0 42.08 37
3 Álvaro de Miranda Neto Ashleigh Drossel Dan 0 - 0 - 0 42.20 35

(Plätze Eins bis Drei von insgesamt 38 Teilnehmern)

Final standings

Rider 1st
Competition		 2nd
Competition		 3rd
Competition		 4th
Competition		 5th
Competition		 6th
Competition		 7th
Competition		 8th
Competition		 9th
Competition		 10th
Competition		 Total
scoring
points		 prize money
(bonus)
1 Edwina Tops-Alexander 28 (27) 30 40 30 (0) 40 33 37 (0) 238 € 300,000
2 Ludger Beerbaum 19.5 37 37 35 23 35 (0) (0) 32 (0) 218.5 € 180,000
3 Álvaro de Miranda Neto 40 26 32 (19) (6) (0) 21 29 27 35 210 € 120,000
4 Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (0) 20 40 12 40 30 (0) (0) 30 33 205 € 80,000
5 Luciana Diniz 33 (0) 20 30 29 37 37 (6) (0) 12 198 € 60,000
6 Denis Lynch 32 32 24 32 0 21 (0) 37 — 19 197 € 33,750
7 Philipp Weishaupt 27 — 8 29 26 26 (0) 20 35 (8) 171 € 33,750
8 Clarissa Crotta — — — 33 24 32 25 22 — 31 167 € 20,000
9 Marco Kutscher (0) (8) 31 (8) 11 31 31 30 8 22 164 € 20,000
10 Christian Ahlmann (8) 10 11 (6) 37 40 23 28 — 11 160 € 20,000
11 Pius Schwizer 37 — — 24 31 27 — 0 26 10 155 € 20,000
12 Billy Twomey 11 40 21 11 19 22 — (7) — 24 148 € 10,000
13 Judy-Ann Melchior 0 (0) 33 22 22 — 10 (0) 31 28 146 € 10,000
14 Kevin Staut 25 19 — 26 25 25 (0) 11 12 (0) 143 € 10,000
15 Rodrigo Pessoa — 21 — 10 35 8 29 0 33 — 136 € 10,000
16 Gerco Schröder 30 25 28 0 0 — 0 (0) 40 (0) 123 € 7,500
17 Laura Kraut — 33 9 (0) 0 — 33 12 25 6 118 € 7,500
18 Marcus Ehning — 31 0 21 32 0 0 32 (0) — 116 € 7,500

Seven results count for the final standing.[17]

References

  1. ^ 1 million euro bonus for Top 18 GCT ranked riders of the 2010 season, announcement at www.globalchampionstour.com
  2. ^ Provisional time table GCT of Qatar 2011
  3. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Qatar
  4. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour – Gran Premio de Espana
  5. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of Germany
  6. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour Cannes
  7. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of Monaco
  8. ^ Global Champions Tour: Welcome to Monte-Carlo
  9. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of Portugal
  10. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour Chantilly
  11. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of the Netherlands
  12. ^ start list Global Champions Tour of Brasil
  13. ^ exchange rate at the beginning of September 2011: € 1 equals approximately C$ 1,40 / US$ 1,40
  14. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of Brazil
  15. ^ timetable CSI 5* Abu Dhabi
  16. ^ result 2011 Global Champions Tour of the United Arab Emirates
  17. ^ 2011 GCT ranking
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