Mannheim - Germany's equestrian team is still excellent. Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum won the German Championship and for the fourth consecutive singles victory ensured. With outstretched hand, the 37-year-old from Thedinghausen born in Mannheim on Sunday rode through the target from the error in five rounds gelding Shutterfly.
"He just jumped fantastic," exults Michaels-Beerbaum. With 1.54 penalty points they won in front of Jos Lansink (Belgium) and Cumano and Ludger Beerbaum (Riesenbeck) with Gold Fever. Caused a stir on the final day of the discovery of a positive doping test in the horse Maike living in Germany Irish Jessica Kurten.
For in-law Ludger Beerbaum, the hope of a third European title in the first round of the final day was over. Cursing and gesticulating wildly to the 43-year-old rode out of the Westphalian Riesenbeck with his stallion Gold Fever out of the course. A movable TV camera he did for the dropping on the penultimate oxer responsible.
"Because he's scared," raged tree. He had withdrawn before the obstacle Gold Fever ", this is the camera in front of the horse was: The shock looked" like a whip. " Beerbaum admitted after the initial excitement, however: "The conditions were indeed the same for everybody." After a flawless ride in the second round came the single European champion in 1997 and 2001, but still a medal.
Had a difficult start on Sunday Jessica Kuerten, since shortly before a positive A-sample from the doping test at the tournament in La Baule was made public. "It was a matter of which we have never heard anything," said her husband Eckardt Kuerten Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Sunday.
The case was turned over to a Swiss lawyer to appeal to appeal. The 37-year-old Irish woman Jessica Kurten, who lives in the Rhenish Hünxe and is number four in the world rankings, had won the Super League tournament in May with the great mare Maike 100,000 euro prize.
