Individual dressage at the 2011 European Dressage Championships

The individual dressage at the 2011 European Dressage Championships in Rotterdam, The Netherlands was held at Kralingen-Crooswijk from August 17 and August 21, 2011.

The Netherlands's Adelinde Cornelissen won the gold medal in the Grand Prix Special and the Grand Prix Freestyle. Carl Hester representing Great Britain won a silver medal the Grand Prix Special and silver in the Grand Prix Freestyle. Laura Bechtolsheimer of Great Britain won a bronze in the Special and Patrik Kittel of Sweden won bronze in the Freestyle. In the Grand Prix Great Britain won the golden team medal, while Germany won the silver medal and The Netherlands bronze.

Competition format

The team and individual dressage competitions used the same results. Dressage had three phases. The first phase was the Grand Prix. Top 30 individuals advanced to the second phase, the Grand Prix Special where the first individual medals were awarded. The last set of medals at the 2011 European Dressage Championships was awarded after the third phase, the Grand Prix Freestyle where top 15 combinations competed, with a maximum of the three best riders per country.

Judges

The European Dressage Championships was assessed by seven judges.

• Ghislain Fouarge (Ground Jury President)
• Mary Seefried (Ground Jury Member)
• Evi Eisenhardt (Ground Jury Member)
• Maribel Alonso de Quinzanos (Ground Jury Member)
• Wojtek Markowski (Ground Jury Member)
• Stephen Clarke (Ground Jury Member)
• Jean-Michel Roudier (Ground Jury Member)
• Gary Rockwell (Reserve judge)

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 17 August 2011	09:30	Grand Prix (Day 1)
Thursday, 18 August 2011	09:30	Grand Prix (Day 2)
Saturday, 20 August 2011	12:30	Grand Prix Special
Sunday, 21 August 2011	13:00	Grand Prix Freestyle

Results

Rider	Nation	Horse	GP score	Rank	GPS score	Rank	GPF score	Rank
Carl Hester	Great Britain	Uthopia	82.568	1 Q	81.682	Q	84.179
Adelinde Cornelissen	Netherlands	Parzival	81.155	2 Q	82.113	Q	88.839
Matthias Alexander Rath	Germany	Totilas	79.453	3 Q	77.039	4 Q	81.696	5
Charlotte Dujardin	Great Britain	Valegro	78.830	4 Q	76.548	6 Q	79.357	9
Laura Bechtolsheimer	Great Britain	Mistral Hojris	77.280	5 Q	79.256	Q	83.018	4
Patrik Kittel	Sweden	Watermill Scandic	76.474	6 Q	76.771	5 Q	83.429
Isabell Werth	Germany	El Santo NRW	75.213	7 Q	76.533	7 Q	80.536	7
Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz	Spain	Fuego de Cardenas	73.404	8 Q	73.155	11 Q	80.982	6
Victoria Max-Theurer	Austria	Augustin OLD	72.812	9 Q	68.899	20
Valentina Truppa	Italy	Eremo Del Castegno	72.143	10 Q	70.193	16 Q	73.054	13
Christoph Koschel	Germany	Donnperignon	71.444	10 Q	73.750	10
Nathalie Zu-Sayn Wittgenstein	Denmark	Digby	71.383	12 Q	75.060	9 Q	78.804	10
Siril Helljesen	Norway	Dorina	71.261	13 Q	68.036	23
Helen Langehanenberg	Germany	Damon Hill NRW	71.079	14 Q	75.283	8 Q	80.446	8
Hans-Peter Minderhoud	Netherlands	Exquis Nadine	70.912	15 Q	70.997	14 Q	76.589	11
Sander Marijnissen	Netherlands	Moedwill	70.578	16 Q	69.792	17
Edward Gal	Netherlands	Sisther de Jeu	70.517	17 Q	69.211	18
Emile Faurie	Great Britain	Elmegardens Marquis	70.426	18 Q	68.557	21
Jordi Domingo Coll	Spain	Prestige	70.334	19 Q	69.167	19
Emma Kanerva	Finland	Sini Spirit	70.198	20 Q	EL	30
Lisbeth Seierskilde	Denmark	Jonstrupgaardens Raneur	69.970	21 Q	70.551	15 Q	72.268	14
Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven	Sweden	Favourit	69.939	22 Q	71.771	12 Q	70.500	15
Beata Stremler	Poland	Martini	69.650	23 Q	71.637	13 Q	74.446	12
Jeroen Devroe	Belgium	Apollo van het Vijverhof	69.559	24 Q	67.143	26
Gonçalo Carvalho	Portugal	Rubi	69.362	25 Q	66.979	27
Katarzyna Milczarek	Poland	Ekwador	68.967	26 Q	68.482	22
Anne van Olst	Denmark	Clearwater	68.632	27 Q	65.997	29
Mikaela Lindh	Finland	Skovlunds Más Guapo	68.450	27 Q	67.247	24
Terhi Stegars	Finland	Axis TSF	68.131	29 Q	67.217	25
Rose Mathisen	Sweden	Bocelli 1044	68.024	30 Q	66.786	28
Michal Rapcewicz	Poland	Randon	67.888	31
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat	Spain	Faberge	67.842	32
Philippe Jorissen	Belgium	Le Beau	67.751	33
Sune Hansen	Denmark	Romanov	67.660	34
Peter Gmoser	Austria	Cointreau	67.492	35
Maria Caetano	Portugal	Xiripiti	67.173	36
Claudio Castilla Ruiz	Spain	Jade de MV	66.900	37
Cecilia Dorselius	Sweden	Lennox	66.763	38
Marcela Krinke-Susmelj	Switzerland	Smeyers Molberg	66.550	39
Renate Voglsang	Austria	Fabriano 58	66.474	40
Lillann Jebsen	Norway	Pro-Set	66.292	41
Susanna Bordone	Italy	Dark Surprise	66.246	42
Anna Merveldt	Ireland	Coryolano	66.231	43
Hans Staub	Switzerland	Warbeau	66.216	44
Elisabeth Eversfield-Koch	Switzerland	Rokono N	66.155	45
Anne-Sophie Serre	France	Le Guerrier	65.152	46
Robert Acs	Hungary	Weinzauber 2	65.061	47
Tatyana Makarova	Russia	Fatinitza	65.030	48
Arnaud Serre	France	Helio II	65.030	48
Claudia Fassaert	Belgium	Donnerfee	64.818	50
Markus Graf	Switzerland	Ronaldo II	64.696	51
Luis Principe	Portugal	World Performance Washington	64.620	52
Sergey Puzko	Ukraine	Komlipment	64.590	53
Cathrine Rasmussen	Norway	Orlando III	63.906	54
Tatiana Dorofeeva	Russia	Khorovod	63.450	55
Sebastien Duperdu	France	Passe Partout	63.374	56
Judy Reynolds	Ireland	Remember 143	62.614	57
Johan Zagers	Belgium	Question de Liberte	62.584	58
Ester Soldi	Italy	Harmonia	61.292	59
Gaston Chelius	Luxembourg	Flamenco R	61.261	60
Grete Ayache	Estonia	O.Hot Chocolate	60.380	61
Camilla Kalseth	Norway	Carte d´Or	60.243	62
Alexandra Malmström	Finland	MD Waterford	59.681	63
Yulia Vinnitskaja	Russia	Vodevil	55.699	64
Catherine Henriquet	France	Paradieszauber	WD	65