Austria is sending a junior team + U21 individual riders to the Eventing European Championships in Hartpury! – Equestrian sport worldwide | Equestrian sport worldwide
versatility – Great news for all eventing fans: in Hartpury (GBR) not only dressage riders will start at the European Junior Championships at the end of July! For the first time since 2015, Austria can again send a complete team to the European Junior Championships and take part in the team competition. In the Young Riders, Robin Erking (Lower Austria) will represent Austria as an individual rider.
In addition to the junior and young rider team of dressage riders, five Austrian eventing riders will also travel to Hartpury (GBR) and take part in the European Championships! This has been fixed since July 11, when the OEPS announced the following pairings:
juniors
Jana Aigner (ÖÖ) – Sunday gold
Amy Rose Fruehwirth (Upper Austria) – Gin and tonic 150
Helena Worms (ÖÖ) – InnsbruckM
Magdalena Zellhofer (Lower Austria) – Highlight RZ
young riders
Robin Erkinger (Lower Austria) – Highlight 9
This competitive team of five young riders was created by the eventing talent team and the efforts of eventing consultant Thomas Tesch and Judith Eisnecker:
“Since 2020/21, when responsibility for the talent team was assigned to the Federal Department of Eventing, we have tried to change over in a similar way to the general class,” declared federal consultant Tesch in the EQWO.net interview.
Above all, joint training and support from individual experts for the whole team were the key to success. So could Harald Siegl (ÖÖ)successful trainer and father of the former Talente team member Lea Siegl (ÖÖ), as an experienced trainer who tries to complement the work of the respective personal trainer in the community. In addition, Andreas Grafenhofer as a sports teacher and Judith Eisecker in the theory area made the young people fit. Proof of success: All EM participants are Talente team members!
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Our chances in the motherland of versatility
Thomas Tesch sees the team as competitive, even if the demands in Hartpury, the motherland of eventing, should not be underestimated: “The European Championships will not be decided in dressage in England”is he sure “Amy is already experienced when it comes to competing and WILL be a haven for the newcomers to the championship. Jana, Helena and Magdalena have all shown solid and especially outstanding off-road performances, so that the participation in the European Championships is a logical next step in their young careers. Robin as a single starter in the Young Riders is an extremely experienced jockey in the field.”
The goal: to get the performance peak of the season at the European Championships, a solid placement in the team and individually.
With Harald Siegl as trainer, Matthias Baumann (Olympic champion from 1988) as Chef d’Equipe and team veterinarian, the five riders are well looked after, even if the speaker Thomas Tesch, who does the job on a voluntary basis, is busy due to the preparations for the World Championships in Pratoni (ITA) and the Nations Cup in Haras du Pin (FRA).
It starts on Monday, July 25th, 2022!
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