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DORTMUND, Germany, Mar. 9–Kristina Sprehe and Desperados FRH repeated as Meggle Champions when the German Olympic team silver medal pair won the Grand Prix Special at the Dortmund CDI4* Saturday.

The 26-year-old rider who claimed the title a year ago and Desperados were awarded a score of 80.333 per cent, with four of the five judges scoring them above 80 per cent but all placing the pair at the top.

The Olympic team mates of Anabel Balkenhol and Dablino placed second on 76.417 per cent with fellow German Nadine Capellmann and Girasol in third place on 73.536 per cent, the same order of finish as in the Grand Prix Friday.

Kristina and the 12-year-old Hanoverian stallion (De Niro x Wie Musik x Wolkenstein II) won the Grand Prix, the first victory for the pair since the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany last July.

The Meggle Champion series has become one of the most important at Grand Prix in Germany with top riders from 10 qualifying events invited to the Final in Dortmund with prize money of €75,000 (US$97,500) in the Grand Prix Special and €10,000 (US$13,000) in the Grand Prix.

In the five years since it was launched, Matthias Alexander Rath and Sterntaler-Unicef won in 2009 and 2010, Isabell Werth and El Santo NRW in 2011 and Kristina Sprehe and Desperados FRH in 2012 and 2013. The event is not restricted to German riders, however, and combinations from the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden started in this year’s Grand Prix.

Victory as Meggle Champion by the partnership of Kristina and Desperados a year ago was their biggest win to that time coming after a successful run in the Under-25 division and that put them on the path to becoming members of the German team that won the silver medal at last summer’s Olympics in London.

Kristina and the 12-year-old Hanoverian stallion (De Niro x Wie Musik x Wolkenstein II) scored 78.489 per cent in what was their 14th start since their last victory, at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany last July.

RESULTS: GRAND PRIX SPECIAL							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	176	Desperados FRH	Sprehe, Kristina	GER		20000 EUR	381.0	389.0	389.5	384.0	384.5	1928.0 Punkte
	R 12-j.H v.De Niro/M.v.Wolkenstein II/HANN/GER45347/B: Gestüt Sprehe GmbH,						79.375 %	81.041 %	81.145 %	80.000 %	80.104 %	80.333 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	406	Dablino FRH	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		15000 EUR	364.5	380.0	362.0	367.0	361.5	1835.0 Punkte
	DF 13-j.W v.De Niro 6/M.v.Wanderbursch 10/HANN/GER41335/B: Balkenhol, Klaus						75.937 %	79.166 %	75.416 %	76.458 %	75.312 %	76.458 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	221	Girasol	Capellmann, Nadine	GER		12000 EUR	352.0	351.0	356.5	348.5	357.5	1765.5 Punkte
	F 12-j.S v.Gribaldi/M.v.Landioso/WÜRTT/102UM07/B: Capellmann,Nadine						73.334 %	73.125 %	74.271 %	72.605 %	74.480 %	73.563 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
4.	370	Uzzo	Meer, Patrick van der	NED		10000 EUR	341.0	341.5	344.0	348.5	345.0	1720.0 Punkte
	B 12-j.H v.Lancet/M.v.C-Indoctro/KWPN/NED40460/B: Meer,Patrick van der						71.042 %	71.146 %	71.667 %	72.605 %	71.875 %	71.667 %
							5.	4.	5.	3.	4.
5.	167	D’Agostino	Lütkemeier, Fabienne	GER		6000 EUR	352.0	340.5	347.5	329.0	343.0	1712.0 Punkte
	F 13-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Shogun xx/HANN/GER42139/B: Capellmann-Lütkemeier,Gina						73.333 %	70.937 %	72.395 %	68.541 %	71.458 %	71.333 %
							3.	5.	4.	7.	5.
6.	210	Forward Looking	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		4500 EUR	339.5	331.0	337.5	348.0	335.0	1691.0 Punkte
	B 12-j.S v.Fidermark I/M.v.Dinard L/WESTF/102UG96/B: Kippert,Gabriele						70.729 %	68.958 %	70.312 %	72.500 %	69.791 %	70.458 %
							6.	8.	6.	5.	7.
7.	496	Blom’s Wynton	Witte-Vrees, Madeleine	NED		4000 EUR	327.5	338.0	331.0	339.0	341.0	1676.5 Punkte
	R 10-j.H v.Jazz/M.v.Matador II/KWPN/NED42384/B: N.F. Witte						68.229 %	70.416 %	68.958 %	70.625 %	71.041 %	69.854 %
							8.	6.	7.	6.	6.
8.	395	Don Androsso	Birkenholz, Katharina	GER		3500 EUR	329.0	333.5	328.0	328.5	322.5	1641.5 Punkte
	F 14-j.W v.St.Ludwig’s Donnerschlag/M.v.Akzent 33/WÜRTT/GER42209/B: Birkenholz, K						68.542 %	69.479 %	68.333 %	68.438 %	67.188 %	68.396 %
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