the young tulip Sanne Thijssen (23 years old) is seen to be enjoying herself in Spain. In February she signed up for one of the Sunshine Tour tournaments in Vejer, and now he wins the jackpot of the International Jumping Competition in Madrid, the 100,000 euros for the winner of the Longines Global Champions Tour, the most important event in the program of this 111 CSI5* in Madrid. As in February, he flew in the jump-off on an impressive course riding the veteran Holsteiner horse, “With Quidam RB”.
The young rider flew in a spectacular and vertiginous course without fail in 39’15 seconds, beating the Darragh Kenny from Ireland and Marlon Módolo Zanotelli from Brazil, who until then led the provisional classification tied with a time of 39’91 seconds, an unusual case in equestrian sport.
The test was disputed by 33 of the 35 groups that achieved the classification in the preliminary test, 10 being those who passed the route designed and built by the trail boss Santiago Varela Ullastres, from13 obstacles, with a double vertical-bottom and a triple bottom-bottom-vertical; a vertical plank that closed the layout was the biggest problem that the participants encountered.
Also in the jump-off was the Spanish Olympic rider Eduardo Álvarez Aznar with “Bentley de Sury”, but the French chairman was cold at the beginning of the barrage, knocking down his first two obstacles, which made him lose all chances of victory.
With Darragh Kenny and Marlon Módolo Zanotelli tied for second and third place, fourth place went to Germany’s Katrin Eckermann with “Cala Mandia” and fifth place to Britain’s Jodie Hall McAteer with “Salt’n Peppa”.
The winner, the young Dutch rider Sanne Thijssen, received the Longines Global Champions Tour Madrid 2022 Grand Prix trophy from the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.