The 2011 CHIO Aachen was the 2011 edition of the CHIO Aachen, the German official horse show in five horse sport disciplines (show jumping, dressage, eventing, four-in-hand-driving and vaulting).

In 2011 the event was also the FEI selected 2012 Olympic Qualification for Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Oceania in show jumping.

Introduction

The 2011 CHIO Aachen is held as CSIO 5* (show jumping), CDIO 5* (dressage), CICO 3* (eventing), CAIO (four-in-hand-driving) and CVIO 2* (vaulting). It Olympic Qualification is held as CSI 2*. The event is held between July 8, 2011 and July 17, 2011.

The CHIO Aachen is in show jumping and dressage the most prestigious horse show in Europe. It is also called "Weltfest der Pferdesports" (World Equestrian Festival). The competitions are held at different places at the Soers in Aachen. The show jumping competitions are held in the "Hauptstadion" of the CHIO Aachen, the dressage events are held in the "Deutsche Bank Stadion" and the vaulting competitions are held in the "Albert-Vahle-Halle". The first horse show were held 1924 in Aachen, together with a horse race. In 1927 the horse show lasted six days. The first show jumping Nations Cup was held here in 1929. Since 2007, influenced by the World Equestrian Games 2006 in Aachen, also eventing and vaulting are disciplines of the CHIO Aachen.^[1] In 2010 the 79th time a horse show is held in the Soers in Aachen.

2012 Olympic Qualification (show jumping)

The Olympic Qualification competition was a jumping competition with two rounds. It was held on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm in the driving stadium. Resulting of the result of this competition the best team from Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Oceania is qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Also the NOC of best rider from South East Asia or Oceania is qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The best competitor of this competition get a Wild card for the CSIO 5*-tour of the 2011 CHIO Aachen.

	qualified
best Group C or G team (Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania)	Ukraine
Group G competitor (South East Asia, Oceania)	Japan (because of the 10th place of Taizo Sugitani)
best competitor	Katharina Offel

Team results

	Team	Rider	Horse	Round A	Round B	Total penalties[2]	Prize €
				Penalties	Penalties
1	Ukraine	Cassio Rivetti	Verdi	0	9
		Björn Nagel	Niack de L´Abbaye	0	2
		Oleg Krasyuk	Canvas PKZ	13	14
		Katharina Offel	Vivant	0	1
				0	12	12	4,200 €
2	Turkey	Omer Karaevli	Dadjak ter Puttenen	4	18
		Burak Azak	Castelo Branco	4	2
		Çağrı Başel	Goldrush	0	14
		Gerry Flynn	Ledgepoint	0	5
				4	21	25	2,500 €
3	Poland	Andrzej Lemanski	Bischof L	8	7
		Piotr Sawicki	Caballus Z	1	24
		Aleksandra Lusina	Ekwador	1	6
		Msciwoj Kiecon	Urbane	4	14
				6	27	33	2,000 €
4	Hungary	Sándor Szász	Goldwing	0	8
		Richárd Jován	Vajk	eliminated	did not start
		Kaarlo Kovács	Cassius	8	14
		Balázs Krucsó	Nemo	0	5
				8	27	35	1,200 €
5	Azerbaijan	Patrick McEntee	Dollar Z	5	eliminated
		Francesco Franco	Loxley	5	19
		Seyid Musayev	Parodie	18	18
		Jamal Rahimov	Warrior	2	1
				12	38	50	850 €
	Russia	Vladimir Tuganov	Mats´Up du Plessis	5	eliminated
		Vadim Konovalov	Come on	9	7
		Arsentiy Shpakovskiy	Tibor P	4	10
		Vladimir Beletsky	Larkanaro	5	19
				14	36	50	850 €

(Top 6 of 8 Teams)
Grey penalties points do not count for the team result.

Individual results

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Total penalties[3]	Time (s) (second rounds)	prize money
1	Katharina Offel	Vivant	0	1	1	80.14	3,200 €
2	Björn Nagel	Niack de L´Abbaye	0	2	2	81.01	2,000 €
3	Jamal Rahimov	Warrior	2	1	3	79.96	1,500 €
4	Gerry Flynn	Ledgepoint	0	5	5	77.66	1,000 €
5	Balázs Krucsó	Nemo	0	5	5	78.18	800 €
6	Burak Azak	Castelo Branco	4	2	6	81.31	500 €
7	Aleksandra Lusina	Ekwador	1	6	7	82.48	100 €
8	Sándor Szász	Goldwing	0	8	8	72.74	100 €
9	Cassio Rivetti	Verdi	4	5	9	78.41	100 €
10	Taizo Sugitani	Avenzio	4	5	9	78.47	100 €
11	Jasmin Chen	Corlando	0	9	9	79.36	100 €

(Top 11 of 37 Competitors)

Nations Cup of Germany (vaulting)

The 2011 vaulting Nations Cup of Germany was part of the 2011 CHIO Aachen and was held Sunday, July 10. It was a combined competition of three Freestyle vaulting competitions (single vaulting – Men, single vaulting – Women and team vaulting). Unlike the other disciplines nations could start with more than one team.

	Team	Vaulter	Group	Longeur	Horse	result
1	Germany I	Pia Engelberty		Alexandra Knauf	Weltoni RS von der Wintermühle	8.240
		Jannik Heiland		Lars Hansen	Dance of Gold	8.480
			RSV Neuss Grimlinghausen	Jessica Schmitz	Arkansas	8.700
						25.420
2	Germany II	Viktor Brüsewitz		Lars Hansen	Gustafsson	8.140
		Kristina Boe		Winnie Schlüter	Le Beau	8.300
			Voltigierverein Ingelsberg	Alexander Hartl	Arador	8.576
						25.016
3	Austria	Christa Kristofics-Binder		Fritz Schandl	Alonso	7.853
		Stefan Csandl		Julie Newell	Solitaire Legacy	8.260
			UVT Salzburg / Freisaal	Nina Rossin	Robin	7.398
						23.511
4	Switzerland	Simone Jäiser		Rita Blieske	Luk	7.993
		Patric Looser		Alexandra Knauf	Record RS v. d. Wintermühle	8.680
			Voltige-Club Harlekin	Rita Blieske	Apriso CH	6.736
						23.409

(Top 4 of 8 teams)^[4][5]

Prize of Europe (show jumping)

The "Preis von Europa" (Prize of Europe), a competition held since 1960,^[6] was the first main competition in show jumping at the 2011 CHIO Aachen. The sponsor of this competition was the Warsteiner Brewery. It was held on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm. The competition was a show jumping competition with one round and one jump-off, the height of the fences were up to 1.55 meters. The Prize of Europe was endowed with 60,000 €.

On a rainy day seven riders had not faults with her horses in the first round. Winner of the competition is Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum with the 18-year-old darkbay gelding Shutterfly.

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	jump-off		prize money
			Penalties	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Shutterfly	0	0	46.27	19,800 €
2	Ludger Beerbaum	Chaman	0	0	47.18	12,000 €
3	Laura Kraut	Teirra	0	0	49.92	9,000 €
4	Pius Schwizer	Carlina	0	4	47.43	6,000 €
5	Katharina Offel	Sanctos van het Gravenhof	0	4	49.08	3,000 €

(Top 5 of 52 Competitors)^[7]

Grand Prix de Dressage / Nations Cup of Germany (dressage)

The 2011 dressage Nations Cup of Germany was part of the 2011 CHIO Aachen. Unlike 2010, only the result of the Grand Prix de Dressage has count for the Nations Cup result. Each team consist of three or four team riders, three results of each team count for the Nations Cup ranking.

The sponsor of the Grand Prix de Dressage is Tesch Inkasso, the dressage Nations Cup ranking is sponsored by the Lambertz-Group.

Team result

	Team	Rider	Horse	Score
1	Germany	Anabel Balkenhol	Dablino	did not start (horse was not fit to compete)
		Christoph Koschel	Donnperignon	73.362 %
		Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	77.830 %
		Matthias Alexander Rath	Totilas	82.149 %
				233.341 %
2	Great Britain	Richard Davison	Hiscox Artemis	68.894 %
		Charlotte Dujardin	Fernandez	71.383 %
		Emile Faurie	Elmegardens Marequis	66.681 %
		Laura Bechtolsheimer	Mistral Hojris	80.596 %
				220.873 %
3	Netherlands	Marlies van Baalen	Phoebe DVB	67.106 %
		Hans Peter Minderhoud	Tango	70.128 %
		Edward Gal	Sister de Jeu	71.489 %
		Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	77.340 %
				218.957 %
4	United States	Jan Ebeling	Rafalca	66.574 %
		Todd Flettrich	Otto	66.851 %
		Guenter Seidel	U II	68.532 %
		Steffen Peters	Ravel	77.191 %
				212.574 %
5	Sweden	Charlotte Haid-Bondergaard	Lydianus	63.553 %
		Cecilia Dorselius	Lennox	67.617 %
		Patrik Kittel	Toy Story	67.681 %
		Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven	Favourit	72.745 %
				208.043 %
6	Denmark	Anne van Olst	Clearwater	67.553 %
		Sune Hansen	Romanov	67.234 %
		Andreas Helgstrand	Marron	57.936 %
		Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein	Digby	71.915 %
				206.702 %
7	Spain	Beatriz Ferrer-Salat	Faberge	68.553 %
		Claudio Castilla Ruiz	Jade de MV	61.723 %
		Jordi Domingo Coll	Prestige	65.957 %
		Juan Manuel Muñoz Díaz	Fuego	72.106 %
				206.616 %
8	Belgium	Ronny Coenraerds	Calypso van het Goorhof	65.064 %
		Johan Zagers	Question de Liberte	63.511 %
		Philippe Jorissen	Le Beau	67.638 %
		Jeroen Devroe	Apollo van het Vijverhof	68.191 %
				200.893 %

(grey penalties points do not count for the team result)^[8]

Individual result

	Rider	Horse	Score	prize money (€)
1	Matthias Alexander Rath	Totilas	82.149 %	6,500 €
2	Laura Bechtolsheimer	Mistral Hojris	80.596 %	4,000 €
3	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	77.830 %	3,000 €
4	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	77.340 %	2,000 €
5	Steffen Peters	Ravel	77.191 %	1,000 €

(top 5 of 37 competitors)^[9]

FEI Nations Cup of Germany (show jumping)

The 2011 FEI Nations Cup of Germany in show jumping was part of the 2011 CHIO Aachen. It was the fifth competition of the 2011 FEI Nations Cup.

The 2011 FEI Nations Cup of Germany was held on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 7:30 pm (second round under floodlight). The competing teams was: Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France.

The competition was a show jumping competition with two rounds and optionally one jump-off. The height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters. The Nations Cup was endowed with 220,000 €. Mercedes-Benz is the sponsor of this competition.

	Team	Rider	Horse	Round A	Round B	Total penalties	Jump-off		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalties	Penalties		Penalties	Time (s)
1	Netherlands	Eric van der Vleuten	Utascha SFN	4	0
		Jur Vrieling	Bubalu	8	17
		Gerco Schröder	New Orleans	4	4
		Jeroen Dubbeldam	Simon	0	0
				8	4	12			72,000 €	10
2	Ireland	Shane Breen	Carmena Z	8	0
		Shane Sweetnam	Amaretto d´Arco	0	4
		Denis Lynch	All Inclusive NRW	4	0
		Billy Twomey	Tinka´s Serenade	8	5
				12	4	16			34,333 €	6
	Great Britain	Guy Williams	Titus	4	4
		Nick Skelton	Carlo	8	8
		Scott Brash	Intertoy Z	0	4
		Michael Whitaker	Amai	0	4
				4	12	16			34,333 €	6
	Germany	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	4	8
		Janne Friederike Meyer	Lambrasco	0	4
		Carsten-Otto Nagel	Corradina	0	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	4	8
				4	12	16			34,333 €	6
5	France	Pénélope Leprevost	Mylord Carthago	0	8
		Olivier Guillon	Lord de Theize	0	4
		Kevin Staut	Silvana	4	4
		Michel Robert	Kellemoi de Pepita	4	8
				4	16	20			18,000 €	4
6	United States	McLain Ward	Antares F	4	16
		Margie Engle	Indigo	12	16
		Laura Kraut	Cedric	4	4
		Beezie Madden	Coral Reef Via Volo	4	0
				12	20	32			12,000 €	3
7	Denmark	Andreas Schou	Uno's Safier	8	16
		Charlotte Lund	Cartani	eliminated	did not start
		Rikke Haastrup Pedersen	Luganer	16	21
		Torben Frandsen	Alcamo Vogt	12	12
				36	49	85			9,000 €	2
8	Belgium	Philippe Le Jeune	Vigo D Arsouilles	4	8
		Rik Hemeryck	Challenge van de Begijnakker	11	eliminated
		Judy-Ann Melchior	As Cold as Ice Z	21	12
		Jos Lansink	Valentina van´t Heike	17	retired
						eliminated			6,000 €	1

(grey penalties points do not count for the team result)^[10]

Grand Prix Spécial (dressage)

The Grand Prix Spécial was one of the most important dressage competitions at the 2011 CHIO Aachen. A Grand Prix Spécial is the competition with the highest definite level of dressage competitions.

It was held on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 8:30 am. The Meggle AG was the sponsor of this competition.

	Rider	Horse	Score	prize money (€)
1	Matthias Alexander Rath	Totilas	83.083 %	8,600 €
2	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	79.771 %	5,200 €
3	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	78.292 %	3,900 €
4	Laura Bechtolsheimer	Mistral Hojris	77.229 %	2,600 €
5	Steffen Peters	Ravel	76.708 %	1,800 €

(top 5 of 30 competitors)^[11]

CICO 3* (eventing)

The CICO 3* was the official eventing competition of Germany. It was held as two-day-event. The first part of this competition, the dressage phase, was held on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 8:30 am. The second phase, the show jumping phase, was held on the same day at 5:30 pm. The final phase, the cross country phase, was held on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10:30 am.

The sponsor of this competition was DHL.

team result

	Team	Rider	Horse	Converted dressage score	Show jumping score	Cross country score	Total score
1	Great Britain	William Fox-Pitt	Neuf des Coeurs	42.10	0.00	0.00	42.10
		Mary King	Imperial Cavalier	42.90	0.00	0.00	42.90
		Polly Stockton	Westwood Poser	48.10	0.00	1.60	49,70
		Nicola Wilson	Opposition Buzz	49.80	0.00	0.00	49.80
							134.70
2	New Zealand	Clarke Johnstone	Orient Express	43.50	0.00	1.60	45.10
		Caroline Powell	Lenamore	44.60	0.00	2.80	47.40
		Andrew Nicholson	Nereo	44.40	6.00	0.00	50.40
		Jonathan Paget	Clifton Promise	52.50	0.00	0.00	52.50
							142,90
3	Sweden	Sara Algotsson-Ostholt	Wega	42.50	5.00	0.00	47.50
		Christoffer Forsberg	Grafman	43.70	4.00	7.20	54.90
		Malin Petersen	Piccadilly Z	50.80	4.00	2.00	56.80
		Katrin Norling	Pandora Emm	57.50	0.00	9.20	66.70
							159.20
4	Australia	Lucinda Fredericks	Flying Finish	41.00	0.00	6.80	47.80
		Clayton Fredericks	Bendigo	38.70	6.00	6.00	52.70
		Sam Griffiths	Happy Times	37.10	16.00	7.60	60.70
		Christopher Burton	Leilani	47.30	7.00	6.80	61.10
							161.20
5	Germany	Andreas Dibowski	FRH Fantasia	43.10	0.00	0.80	43.90
		Michael Jung	Leopin	44.00	4.00	0.00	48.00
		Andreas Ostholt	Franco Jeas	43.80	6.00	30.80	43.80
		Kai Rüder	Leprince des Bois	36.30	12.00	38.00	36.30
							172.50
6	France	Didier Dhennin	Must des Sureaux	50.40	0.00	6.00	56.40
		Pascal Leroy	Minos de Petra	50.20	3.00	4.40	57.60
		Eddy Sans	Mayland de Brunel	57.30	4.00	47.20	108.50
		Fabrice Lucas	Nero du Jardin	52.30	0.00	eliminated	eliminated
							222.50
7	Belgium	Karin Donckers	Charizard	39.60	4.00	4.40	48.00
		Joris van Springel	Lully des Aulnes	51.90	4.00	38.80	94,70
		Sarah van Hasselt	Artic Fox Too	53.10	4.00	38.40	95.50
		Lara de Liedekerke	Nooney Blue	eliminated			eliminated
							238.20
8	Italy	Stefano Brecciaroli	Apollo van de Wendi Kurt Hoeve	34.80	5.00	1.60	41.40
		Marco Biasia	Gandalf the Grey	58.80	4.00	23.20	86.00
		Stella Benatti	Miss Wanted Fast	61.00	8.00	57.20	61.00
							253.60

(grey penalties points do not count for the team result)^[12]

individual result

	Rider	Horse	Converted dressage score	Show jumping score	Cross country score	Total score
1	Michael Jung	Sam FBW	32.30	0.00	2.40	34.70
2	Stefano Brecciaroli	Apollo van de Wendi Kurt Hoeve	34.80	5.00	1.60	41.40
3	William Fox-Pitt	Neuf des Coeurs	42.10	0.00	0.00	42.10
4	Mary King	Imperial Cavalier	42.90	0.00	0.00	42.90
5	Andreas Dibowski	FRH Fantasia	43.10	0.00	0.80	43.90

(Top 5 of 42 Competitors)^[13]

Combined individual classification (four-in-hand-driving)

The combined individual classification is held separated from the team competition. Only the marathon phase was held together with the team competition.

The first part of this competition, the driven dressage, was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2011 at 1:00 pm. The second competition, the obstacle cone driving, was held on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 9:00 pm. The final phase, the marathon, was held on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm.

	Driver	driven dressage score	obstacle cone driving score	marathon score	Total score	prize money (€)
1	Boyd Exell	35.97	0.00	90.76	126.73	5,000 €
2	IJsbrand Chardon	37.76	3.00	92.97	133.73	3,000 €
3	Chester Weber	37.25	0.00	100.51	137.76	2,250 €
4	Georg von Stein	51.20	0.00	99.11	150.31	1,500 €
5	Zoltán Lazar	47.74	6.43	96.59	150.76	750 €
6	Theo Timmerman	47.10	0.00	103.95	151.05	500 €
7	Michael Brauchle	62.08	2.56	89.36	154.00	280 €
8	Daniel Würgler	48.26	0.00	106.58	154.84	220 €
9	Werner Ulrich	57.73	0.00	97.54	155.27	150 €
10	Fredrik Persson	49.15	0.00	107.76	156.91	150 €

(top 10 of 25 competitors)^[14]

Best of Champions

The "Best of Champions" was a show jumping competition with two rounds and a joker obstacle after the second round.^[15] The height of the fences will be up to 1.50 meters. It will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 8:30 pm.

The competition was held in 2011 in a new mode without a horse change. Up to 2010 it was a special show jumping competition with a horse change of the four competitors.

Since 2011 the best six women and the best six men in the FEI World Ranking have the permission to start in this competition. Also the best placed German men and women in the World Ranking can start in this competition.

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Joker after Round 2	Total Penalties		prize money
						Penalties	Time of the Round 2 (s)
1	Janne Friederike Meyer	Holiday by Solitour	0	0	-4	-4	44.29	18,000 €
2	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Carusso	0	0	-4	-4	47.52	13,000 €
3	Denis Lynch	Lord Luis	4	0	-4	-4	41.53	8,000 €
4	Beezie Madden	Amadora	4	0	-4	-4	41.88	5,000 €
5	Laura Kraut	Dona Evita	0	0	0	0	41.97	4,000 €

(Top 5 of 14 Competitors)^[16]

Grand Prix Freestyle (dressage)

The Grand Prix Freestyle (or Grand Prix Kür), also called the "Großer Dressurpreis von Aachen" (Grand dressage price of Aachen) was the final competition of the CDIO 5* at the 2011 CHIO Aachen.

A Grand Prix Freestyle is a Freestyle dressage competition. The level of this competition is at least the level of a Grand Prix de Dressage, but it can be higher than the level of a Grand Prix Spécial.

The Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDIO 5* (2011 CHIO Aachen) was held on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 10:00 am. The Deutsche Bank was the sponsor of this competition.

	Rider	Horse	Score	prize money (€)
1	Matthias Alexander Rath	Totilas	82.825 %	30,000 €
2	Steffen Peters	Ravel	82.000 %	18,000 €
3	Adelinde Cornelissen	Parzival	81.775 %	13,500 €
4	Laura Bechtolsheimer	Mistral Hojris	79.825 %	9,000 €
5	Christoph Koschel	Donnperignon	79.700 %	5,000 €

(top 5 of 15 competitors)^[17]

Nations Cup of Germany (four-in-hand-driving)

The four-in-hand-driving nations cup was the official four-in-hand-driving competition of Germany.

The first part of this competition, the driven dressage, was held on Thursday, May 14, 2011 at 10:00 am. The second competition, the marathon, was held on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm. The final phase, the obstacle cone driving, was held on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 10:00 am.

	Team	Driver	driven dressage score	marathon score	obstacle cone driving score	Total score	prize money (€)
1	Netherlands	IJsbrand Chardon	38.91	92.97	0.00
		Koos de Ronde	59.52	104.08	3.00
		Theo Timmerman	45.82	103.95	3.00
						284.65	5,600 €
2	Germany	Michael Brauchle	55.42	89.36	6.91
		Christoph Sandmann	43.65	118.49	0.94
		Georg von Stein	48.51	99.11	5.55
						287.12	3,500 €
3	Switzerland	Felix Affrini	58.37	129.51	16.52
		Werner Ulrich	48.51	97.54	0.00
		Daniel Würgler	46.34	106.58	0.00
						298.97	2,500 €
4	Hungary	Jozsef Dobrovitz	52.35	102.57	16.73
		Jozsef Dobrovitz junior	52.99	121.48	0.86
		Zoltán Lazar	45.18	96.59	7.34
						304.89	2,000 €
5	Sweden	Tomas Eriksson	53.25	101.34	2.22
		Axel Olin	82.82	118.92	14.05
		Fredrik Persson	49.92	107.76	10.34
						324.83	1,800 €
6	United Kingdom	Georgina Hunt	54.27	228.61	15.28
		Daniel Naprous	71.04	eliminated	21.67
		Robert Wilkinson	57.22	140.30	12.63
						508.31	1,600 €

(grey penalties points do not count for the team result)^[18]

Großer Preis von Aachen (show jumping)

The "Großer Preis von Aachen", the show jumping Grand Prix of Aachen, was the mayor show jumping competition of the 2011 CHIO Aachen. It was held on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 3:00 pm. The competition was a show jumping competition with two round and one jump-off, the height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters.

The main sponsor of the "Großer Preis von Aachen" was Rolex. The Grand Prix was endowed with 350,000 €.

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2		Jump-off		prize money
				Penalties	Time (s)	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Janne Friederike Meyer	Lambrasco	0	0	74.14			110,000 €
2	Kevin Staut	Silvana	4	0	70.28			80,000 €
3	Andreas Kreuzer	Chacco-Blue	0	4	70.77			50,000 €
4	Luciana Diniz	Winningmood	0	4	72.89			28,000 €
5	Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	4	0	73.64			19,000 €

(Top 5 of 40 Competitors)^[19]

Sport farewell of successful horses

At Saturday evening Jos Lansink and the audience in Aachen say goodbye to the Gold-winning horse of the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the grey Holsteiner stallion Cumano.^[20]

Also another horse hero of the 2006 World Equestrian Games had to say goodbye at the 2011 Aachen. After the victory in the "Preis von Europa" Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum decided that the sport farewell of her dark bay Shutterfly. The Hanoverian gelding say goodbye to the audience in Aachen after the showjumping Grand Prix.^[21]

Television / Live Video

The German TV stations (WDR, ARD and ZDF) had broadcast more than 15 hours from the 2011 CHIO Aachen, most of them live.^[22] Across Europe Eurosport broadcast a two-hour summary programme of the 2011 CHIO Aachen (Show jumping nations cup and show jumping Grand Prix).

Much of the competition are streamed live by the German IPTV-channel ClipMyHorse.

References

• de:CHIO Aachen

External links

• official website
• 2011 results
• Live stream of much competitions