Germans reign supreme in Sopot

Otto Becker’s German team won the exciting third leg of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ 2021 series at Sopot in Poland this afternoon.

On a day when Marcus Ehning and Funky Fred produced an uncharacteristic drop-score for the German side, victory was sealed by double-clear performances from Maurice Tebbel with Don Diarado, Christian Kukuk with Mumbai and Andre Thieme partnering DSP Chakaria.

Thieme’s second clear piled all the pressure on Belgian anchorman Niels Bruynseels who needed to provide a foot-perfect run from Delux van T&L in order to maintain a zero scoreline for his country also, thus forcing a jump-off against their German rivals.

However two down put paid to Belgian chances, and they lined up second carrying just four faults while Ireland, Norway and Great Britain all collected 16 faults to fill the next three places ahead of France, USA, Morocco, Poland and Italy.

Result here