Britain prepares for battle at European jumping championships
The FEI European Showjumping Championships start next week (13-18 September) in Madrid and the full list of teams and individual riders has now been announced.
The Great Britain squad consists of Scott Brash (Intertoy Z), Guy Williams (Titus II), John Whitaker (Peppermill), Nick Skelton (Carlo) and Ben Maher (Tripple X III).
Ireland’s line up is Nicola Fitzgibbon (Puissance), Denis Lynch (Lantinus) Shane Sweetnam (Amaretto Darco), Niall Talbot (Nicos De La Cense) and Billy Twomey (Tinka’s Serenade).
The remaining participants are:
Austria: Stefan Eder, Christian Fries, Thomas Fruhmann and Christian Schranz
Belgium: Dirk Demeersman, Jos Lansink, Philippe Le Jeune, Judy-Ann Melchior and Gregory Wathelet
Czech Republic: Jiri Luza and Zuzana Zelinkova
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Denmark: Camilla Enemark, Torben Frandsen, Emilie Martinsen, Andreas Schou and Christian Schou
Spain: Sergio Alvarez Moya, Manuel Anon, Julio Arias, Pilar Lucrecia Cordon and Antonio Marinas Soto
France: Simon Delestre, Olivier Guillon, Penelope Leprevost, Michel Robert and Kevin Staut
Germany: Ludger Beerbaum, Marcus Ehning, Marco Kutscher, Janne-Friederike Meyer and Carsten-Otto Nagel
Hungary: Balazs Krucso, Sandor Szasz and Attila Tecsy
Italy: Fabio Brotto, Natale Chiaudani, Emanuele Gaudiano, Giulia Martinengo Marquet and Luca Marziani
Liechtenstein: Nicholas Hochstadter
Luxembourg: Christian Weier
Netherlands: Jeroen Dubbeldam, Gerco Schroder, Eric Van Der Vleuten, Maikel Van Der Vleuten and Jur Vrieling
Norway: Nina Braaten, Morten Djupvik Stein Endressen, Geir Gulliksen and Nicholai Lindbjerg
Poland: Msciwoj Kiecon, Andrzej Lemanski, Piotr Sawicki, Antoni Tomaszewski and Lukasz Wasilewski
Portugal: Luciana Diniz, Marina Frutuoso De Melo, Luis Sabino Goncalves and Joao Mota
Russian Federation: Arsentiy Shpakovskiy
Switzerland: Clarissa Crotta, Steve Guerdat, Beat Mandli, Werner Muff and Pius Schwizer
Slovakia: Patrik Majher
Sweden: Angelica Augustsson, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, Rolf-Goran Bengtsson, Henrik Von Eckermann and Svante Johansson
Ukraine: Oleg Krasyuk, Bjorn Nagel, Katharina Offel and Cassio Rivetti
Keep up to date with all the action from Madrid with our regular online reports, blogs, via twitter and facebook and full report and pictures in 22 September issue of H&H.
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