Denmark Wins World Championship Gold for 1st Time, Great Britain Silver, Germany Bronze–USA 6th
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By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
HERNING, Denmark, Aug. 7, 2022–Denmark, led by Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour riding Vamos Amigos to a personal best score, won the world dressage championships Saturday for the first time. Great Britain took silver and Germany bronze. USA placed sixth to qualify a team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Cathrine and the 10-year-old Westfalen gelding, No. 3 in the world, scored 81.864% following Britain’s Charlotte Fry on Glamourdale posting a personal best 80.838% as the leading combination for Great Britain that took silver.
Germany took bronze, followed by Sweden in fourth and the Netherlands fifth.
Steffen Peters on Suppenkasper were the top scoring combination for the United States that overcame unexpected issues to place sixth and earn one of the six nations in these championships to qualify a team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In a nail-biting finish before the overflow crowd packed into the 10,000-seat stadium, Denmark’s team scored 235.451 points, just 1.228 points ahead of Britain on 234.223 points. Germany was on 230.791, Sweden at 227.142, Netherlands on 225.621 and the United States at 220.000.
Top individual placings were Cathrine and Vamos Amigos 81.864%, Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale 80838%, Dinja van Liere and Hermes of the Netherlands 78.835%, Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and the nine-year-old Imhotep in only their third Big Tour Grand Prix at 77.407% and Isabell Werth of Germany on DSP Quantaz 77.127%. The complete individual results are HERE.
Cathrine and Vamos Amigos were runners-up at the World Cup Final in Leipzig in April, the first championship for the partnership and three months later swept the CDIO5* Nations Cup in Aachen, Germany, the most prestigious horse show in the world.
She said heard the results of Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale while warming up on Vamos Amigos.
“I was a bit nervous,” she said. “I am always nervous. But today I calmed Nathalie (zu Sayn Wittgenstein) and Kyra (Kyrklund, her coaches) and told them; we can do this. My horse was nothing short of amazing. I feel so immensely proud for what my team members have done. We are all so proud of our achievement.”
She competed Bohemian at the Tokyo Olympics and is ranked No. 2 in the world behind Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB. Jessica is expecting her second child any day and skipped these championships.
Charlotte Fry described as Glamourdale as “incredible.” She rode the horse to world seven-year-old championship in 2018 and began Big Tour in April last year.
“He loved that arena from the first second he came in,” she said. “. We did a personal best and that is typical for Glamourdale, he gives it all every time. It is such an honour to ride for your country, this is super special to be here.”
