Source: FEI News Release/Louise Parks


Please find below corrected final results for the Eventing Championship at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky which finished yesterday with Great Britain taking the team title and Germany's Michael Jung securing an all-the-way individual win with La Biosthetique Sam.

ALLTECH FEI WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES™ - EVENTING, FINAL RESULT
Team: Great Britain 139.40; 2, Canada 151.50; 3, New Zealand 154.50; 4, USA 160.30; 5, Germany 200.70; 6, Belgium 227.10; 7, Ireland 236.50; 8, France 245.70; 9, Japan 334.10.

Individual: 1, La Biosthetique Sam NRW (Michael Jung) GER 33.00; 2, Cool Mountain (William Fox-Pitt) GBR 42.00; 3, Nereo (Andrew Nicholson) NZL 43.50; 4, Gazelle de la Brasserie (Karin Donckers) BEL 44.40; 5, Redesigned (Pippa Funnell) GBR 45.50; 6, Imperial Cavalier (Mary King) GBR 46.20; 7, Clifton Promise (Jonathan Paget) NZL 46.40; 8, Vettori (Stuart Tinney) AUS 47.60; 9, Port Authority (Stephanie Rhodes-Bosch) CAN 48.20; 10, Neville Bardos (Boyd Martin) USA 49.50.

MORE Facts and Figures about the Eventing Championship:

Michael Jung is Germany's first-ever individual eventing World Champion
The German team, which finished fifth, were defending champions at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™
Michael Jung, age 28, is the youngest rider to take the individual title since Lucinda Prior-Palmer in 1982.
Great Britain holds the record for the biggest number of World Team titles - 1970, 1982, 1986, 1994 and 2010.
Both Mary King and Tina Cook were also on the winning British team at The Hague in 1994.
Two riders in the Eventing Championship were following in their father's footsteps - Buck Davidson's (USA) father, Bruce Davidson, and Sam Watson’s (IRL) father John Watson won individual gold and silver in 1978 at Kentucky.
Newly-crowned individual champion Michael Jung holds the Pferdewirtschafts Meister qualification. This is a issued to top-level trainers in Germany. Michael competes at a high level in both dressage and jumping, as well as eventing.
Before Great Britain's Nicola Wilson went into jump in the final phase of the Eventing Championship yesterday her husband, Alastair, was at a concession stand and was approached by an American spectator who pressed a dime into his hand and said "this is for luck for you and your horse!".

Full results and startlists at www.alltechfeigames.com

JUMPING BEGINS TODAY.....

The first qualifying competition for the Jumping World Championship is underway at the The Horse Park in Kentucky this morning. Riders form 41 nations are competing.

There was a weekend attendance of almost 80,000 spectators and over 262,000 people have visited The Kentucky Horse Park since the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ began 10 days ago.