Eric Lamaze hits the number one slot in the Rolex World Rankings
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.
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