Canadian showjumper Eric Lamaze is celebrating after rising to number one slot in the Rolex World Rankings.
The 43-year-old rider knocks French rider Kevin Staut off the top spot and now holds the position for the third time in his career.
Eric’s back-to-back Grand Prix wins at La Baule and Rome on stallion Hickstead have put him 111 points ahead of 31-year-old Kevin — who had topped the Rolex Rankings since 1 August 2010.
Eric, who won individual gold at the 2008 Olympics, shot to the top of the Rolex Rankings on 1 January 2009 and stayed there for three months. He was back in the number one slot for a second time in July 2010, the month in which he won the Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen with a broken foot.
European champion Kevin Staut is now in second place ahead of Billy Twomey, Sweden’s Rolf-Göran Bengtsson fourth and Irish rider Denis Lynch in fifth.
