Holland’s Dinja van Liere Rides Hermès to Personal Best Score to Win Amsterdam World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle

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Dinja van Liere and Hermès. File photo. © Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 28, 2023–Holland’s Dinja van Liere rode Hermès to a personal best score to win the World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle Saturday and a likely start in the Final in Omaha while Isabell Werth on Emilio was runner-up to put her at the top of a group of Germans battling for an invitation to the championship.

Dinja and the 11-year-old KWPN stallion scored a personal best 87.055% for the Western European League win that was popular before the home crowd. The 2022 world championship bronze medal duo won the Grand Prix a day earlier.

Isabell and Emilio, 17-year-old Westfalen gelding, were runners-up on 86.595% as they were in the Grand Prix. The most successful equestrian rider in history earned enough points to give her the lead among German riders battling for one of two possible places–Jessica von Bredow-Werndl on TSF Dalera BB fills one place for Germany as the defending champion.

Isabell won the inaugural World Cup qualifier in Omaha on Weihegold OLD as the first in a run of three titles and a return to the American Midwestern city would be her 23rd start at a World Cup Final over the past three decades.

The results Saturday moved Isabell ahead of compatriot Ingrid Klimke, an Olympic gold medal event rider, who placed fourth on the 15-year-old Hanoverian stallion Franziskus with a personal best score of 84.960%.

Denmark’s Nanna Skodborg Merrald placed third on Blue Hors Zack also with a personal best score, 85.220%, to extend the rider’s lead as the top Dane.

The next World Cup qualifier in Western Europe is in Neumünster, Germany Feb. 16-19.

Results:

World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle

Judges: Maarten Van der Heijden Peter Storr Mariette Sanders – Van Gansewinkel Susanne Baarup Ulrike Nivelle
Place Score Nation Athlete Horse E H C M B Spectators
1. 87.055 NED Dinja van Liere Hermès N.O.P. 87.650 86.825 87.700 86.400 86.700 85.717 (1)
2. 86.595 GER Isabell Werth Emilio 107 86.050 87.225 87.225 86.150 86.325 82.255 (4)
3. 85.220 DEN Nanna Skodborg Merrald Blue Hors Zack 84.175 84.925 86.675 85.125 85.200 82.809 (3)
4. 84.960 GER Ingrid Klimke Franziskus FRH 85.025 86.000 83.475 84.900 85.400 83.321 (2)
5. 82.645 SWE Patrik Kittel Touchdown 82.775 81.325 81.725 82.225 85.175 81.256 (5)
6. 81.970 NED Hans Peter Minderhoud Glock’s Dream Boy N.O.P. 80.750 80.550 84.450 82.350 81.750 80.976 (6)
7. 81.640 NED Emmelie Scholtens Desperado N.O.P. 81.600 80.350 81.925 82.100 82.225 80.931 (7)
8. 80.240 DEN Daniel Bachmann Andersen Zippo M.I. 79.875 82.475 78.950 81.875 78.025 78.822 (9)
9. 80.230 GER Helen Langehanenberg Annabelle 110 79.550 81.100 79.950 80.175 80.375 78.188 (10)
10. 80.135 NED Kirsten Brouwer Foundation 79.775 80.175 80.400 80.175 80.150 80.297 (8)
11. 78.335 GBR Charlotte Fry Lars van de Hoenderheide 77.675 77.300 77.975 79.450 79.275 77.490 (11)
12. 77.220 NED Marieke van der Putten Tørveslettens Titanium RS2 78.150 73.025 77.875 78.250 78.800 76.668 (12)
13. 74.150 GBR Laura Tomlinson Fallatijn 73.500 72.575 74.150 75.275 75.250 72.130 (13)
14. 73.625 BEL Charlotte Defalque Botticelli 74.650 74.250 75.800 71.625 71.800 71.093 (15)
15. 72.170 BEL Larissa Pauluis First-Step Valentin 72.550 70.750 74.175 70.225 73.150 71.867 (14)