May 16, 2024
Qualifying around the globe for the 2025 World Cup Final began at Budapest’s Pilisjászfalu event Thursday with Poland’s Katarzyna Milczarek on Guapo winning the CDI-W Grand Prix.
Katarzyna and the 13-year-old Portuguese Sport Horse Guapo scored 69.869% for the win in the first of 13 qualifiers in the Central European League. Katarzyna competed in the 2012 Olympics, three world championships and three World Cup Finals.
Hungary’s Jazmin Yom Tov on the nine-year-old KWPN stallion Konfucius scored 69.174% for runner-up.
The Freestyle to decide points is scheduled for Friday.
This is the first of 13 qualifiers scheduled in Central Europe for two combinations from the region to earn a start at the Final in Basel, Switzerland next April 2-6.
The North American League with eight qualifiers in the United States and one in Mexico begins in Devon, Pennsylvania Sept. 24-29. The FEI database lists one qualifier at TerraNova near Sarasota, Florida Oct. 17-20, three in Wellington during the Global Dressage Festival in 2025 and three in California–two at Thermal and one in Del Mar to decide on three places at the Final.
The Western European league has 11 events on the schedule.
Results:
| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Katarzyna Milczarek (POL)
Guapo
|
69.869% | 71.630 | 70.000 | 68.043 | 71.196 | 68.478 |
| 2. |
Jazmin Yom Tov (HUN)
Konfucius
|
69.174% | 72.065 | 66.196 | 68.261 | 69.674 | 69.674 |
| 3. |
Anikó Komjáthy-Losonczy (HUN)
Dior S
|
66.717% | 68.152 | 65.978 | 66.739 | 66.848 | 65.870 |
| 4. |
Rotem Jale Ibrahimzadeh (TUR)
Hexagon’s Double Dutch
|
63.587% | 64.239 | 62.391 | 62.826 | 63.913 | 64.565 |
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| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Ilona Janas (POL)
Dark Knight
|
65.935% | 67.935 | 66.522 | 63.478 | 67.174 | 64.565 |
| 2. |
Anikó Komjáthy-Losonczy (HUN)
Cristall 8
|
65.022% | 65.761 | 67.174 | 59.239 | 68.587 | 64.348 |
| 3. |
Shruti Vora (IND)
Magnanimous
|
63.544% | 64.783 | 60.326 | 62.283 | 63.478 | 66.848 |
| 4. |
Pavlina Révész (HUN)
Floren
|
61.565% | 60.978 | 61.957 | 60.435 | 65.109 | 59.348 |
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