Germany’s Isabell Werth Top of World Rankings for 7th Straight Month, Becky Moody Moves to 7th for 1st Time in Top 10
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Feb. 3, 2025
Success for Isabell Werth on Wendy de Fontaine last year kept the German superstar at the top of the world rankings for the seventh straight month while Becky Moody moved to seventh for the British rider’s first time in the top 10.
The 55-year-old Isabell, who took over as No. 1 during the Paris Olympics in July, at 2079 points as of the end of January remained slightly ahead of Denmark’s Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour unchanged in second on 2072.
Charlotte “Lottie” Fry, a double winner on Glamourdale in the Amsterdam World Cup qualifier a week ago, remained in third place from a month earlier, as did Dinja van Liere of the Netherlands in fourth. Danes Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Nanna Skodborg Merrald swapped places to fill fifth and sixth, respectively.
Becky Moody, a last-minute selection on her home-bred Jagerbomb for Britain’s Olympic team and high placings at World Cup events in London and Amsterdam in the past two months, climbed to seventh, her highest ever ranking and first time in the top 10.
Norway’s Isabel Freese moved up one place o eighth while Frederic Wandres, a team mate of Isabell Werth on the Pairs Games gold medal team, dropped one place to ninth with Patrik Kittel of Sweden staying in 10th.
Adrienne Lyle of USA was 23rd, up from 31 at year’s end, while fellow Americans Marcus Orlob moved to 31st from 36th and Anna Marek, with first place results in events at Ocala and Wellington in Florida, went to 33rd from 41st. Kevin Kohmann jumped to 44th from 69th based on also competing successfully in the first month of the winter-long Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, .