5 September 2022
Baborówko 2022: Germany wins both Nation Cups, Piotr Mazurek Polish Champion
The first international driving competition in Baborówko, Poland, came to an end Sunday. The cones course of Josef Middendorf was tough. Boyd Exell was the only one of all pairs and Four-in-Hands to remain double clear and won the competition.Teams
Boyd Exell managed to get more than twenty penalty points less than his competition. Austrian Daniel Schneiders came closest and finished in second place. Anna Sandmann had to settle for 13 penalty points more than Schneiders and finished third. With the results of her compatriots Markus Stottmeister and Christoph Sandmann, Germany won the Four-in-Hand team competition. Boyd Exell’s victory and Tor van den Berge’s twelfth place put Australia in second place and Poland finished third in the Nations Cup.
The eighth place of Theo Timmerman and the tenth place of Hans Heus made the Netherlands fourth of the four Nations Cup teams, with four penalty points more than the Polish team. Piotr mazurek was the best Polish with his ninth place among the international drivesr and thus won the Polish Championship.
“This was a very nice show in preparation for the World Championships in three weeks. The atmosphere here is great and we felt very welcome”, says Daniel Schneiders.
Podium Nation Cup teams
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Germany
Rens Egberink was in first place before the cones, but the differences were small. The top three, consisting of Egberink, Sandro Koalick and Carola Slater-Diener, were less than a ball away from each other. Because Rens Egberink had two balls down, he had to give up his first place to Sandro Koalick, who knocked one ball down.
One ball fell for Torsten Koalick. As Carola Slater-Diener dropped three balls, she finished fourth and Torsten Koalick third. Despite the result of Torsten Koalick not counting for the Nations Cup, but the result of Sebastian Warneck (fifth place), Germany won the Nations Cup.
Second place went to Poland and with the result of Rens Egberink and Leo van der Burgt, The Netherlands finished third of the five participating countries.
Podium Nation Cup pairs
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“It was a successful first edition of the international competition in Baborówko. We are pleased to announce that driving will become a regular part of our calendar in the future”, says the organization. Next year’s competition is scheduled from September 1 to 3, 2023 and will again be a Nations Cup for pairs and teams.
The driving competition was the last event of this season at equestrian center Baborówko. This year international competitions were organized in three different disciplines: eventing, jumping and driving.
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Sandro Koalick
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