All 8 USA Olympic Short Listed Combinations to Compete Against Each Other at Hagen CDI3* June 6-9
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May 15, 2024
All eight United States Olympic short listed combinations are entered in the CDI3* in Hagen, Germany June 6-9 for a head-to-head competition in the final stages of the campaign for one of the three places and a reserve on the team at the Paris Olympics at the end of July.
This will be the first and likely only occasion that the six combinations based in Florida and two in California will compete against each other in qualifying events that began last October that led to formation of the short list.
The U.S. federation confirmed the entries for Hagen at Hof Kasselmann.
It is an official U.S. Observation Event along with Le Mans, France CDI4* May 30-June 2 and Rotterdam CDIO5* Nations Cup June 2023.
The Americans must compete in at least one other CDI before the team for Paris is selected to meet the U.S. Olympic Committee’s deadline of June 25.
The short list comprises:
1. Steffen Peters of San Diego, California, and Suppenkasper, 16-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Four Winds Farm and Akiko Yamazaki, Tokyo Olympics and 2018 World Equestrian Games team silver;
2. Adrienne Lyle of Wellington, Florida, and Helix, 12-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Heidi Humphries’ Zen Elite Equestrian Center of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida;
3. Adrienne and Lars van de Hoenderheide, 13-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding also owned by Zen Elite Equestrian Center;
4. Endel Ots of Wellington and Zen Elite’s Bohemian, 14-year-old Westfalen gelding also owned by Zen Elite Equestrian Center;
5. Anna Buffini of Rancho Santa Fe, California and Fiontini, 14-year-old Danish Warmblood mare, owned by Anna;
6. Anna Marek of the Ocala area community of Dunnellon, Florida and Fire Fly, 14-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Janet Simile;
7. Katherine Bateson-Chandler of Wellington and Haute Couture, 12-year-old KWPN mare owned by Katherine and Jennifer Huber;
8. Marcus Orlob, of Loxahatchee, Florida and Jane, 10-year-old KWPN mare owned by Alice Tarjan.