WEG Vaulting: Eccles And Looser Score Individual Medals in World Vaulting Championships At Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

Joanne Eccles (GBR) receives a kiss from her father John (©Nan Rawlins/Equimage®)

October 9, 2010

Lexington, KY—Joanne Eccles gave Great Britain its first-ever World Equestrian Games medal in vaulting, as she won gold in the female individual division of the Vaulting World Championships, held as part of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Patric Looser of Switzerland bested his friend and teacher, Kai Vorberg of Germany, to win the gold medal in the male individual division.

WEG Para Equestrian: Kentucky First Lady to Present Para Dressage Medals

Horsewoman and Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear, along with  Kentucky Horse Park Executive Director John Nicholson, will  present medals for para-dressage individual final competition at Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, at 12:15 p.m. Eastern time at the Alltech Covered Arena of the Kentucky Horse Park.

WEG Para Dressage: INDIVIDUAL GOLD FOR WELLS AND BRENNER - by Louise Parkes

Great Britain's Sophie Wells and Germany's Hannelore Brenner claimed the first individual gold medals in the Para Dressage Championship at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky, USA today.

Wells, who is also highly-competitive in able-bodied sport and who competed on the fifth-placed British team at the European Young Riders Championship at Kronberg in Germany this summer, scooped the Grade 4 title.  She produced a forward, flowing test with no mistakes from her chestnut gelding Pinocchio to score 71.677 which left her just over 1.5 points ahead of silver medallist Frank Hosmar from Germany while Denmark's Henrik Weber Sibbesen claimed bronze.

Sophie Wells (GBR) riding Pinocchio (Kit Houghton/FEI)

WEG Endurance Awards: Ceremony and Photos

Today's Endurance Awards Ceremony was filled with smiles all around as Medalist's mounted the podium to receive the cheering of the spectators and the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals for which they worked so hard and so richly deserved.

Team Gold for the United Arab Emirates (Kit Houghton/Fei)

After their riders finished third, sixth and seventh individually in the Endurance World Championships, presented by Meydan, the United Arab Emirates today accepted their team gold medals in the Main Stadium at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.