The Netherlands Harrie Smolders (silver) Sweden's Peder Fredricson (gold) and Ireland's Cian O'Connor (bronze) stand on the podium at the Longines FEI European Championships in Gothenburg (SWE).
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Despite giving it everything they had, over three gruelling rounds, to claim team gold Ireland was not done yet. Twenty-five riders from 81 went forward to the two-round individual final. The rider’s scores from the preceding three rounds were carried forward which meant that Shane Sweetnam entered the final in third position with Cian O’Connor fourth and Denis Lynch 12th.
Sweetnam faulted in the first round of the final to drop back to fourth while a clear by O’Connor put him into silver medal position. Lynch went clear and moved up to seventh. So it was down to the very last 10-fence round for the medals.
Lynch went out of contention when he had the first fence down. Sweetnam again knocked an element of the treble to drop back to eighth.
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O’Connor and Good Luck were unlucky to have a fence on the floor but they still managed to hold on to bronze with just 6.25 penalties over the five rounds of jumping.
The Swedish Olympic silver medallist, Peder Fredricson had a fence and a time penalty in hand and finished with the five penalties to secure gold in front of 11,000 home fans with the beautiful gelding H&M All In. Silver went to Holland’s Harrie Smolders on the stallion Don VHP Z.
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Despite giving it everything they had, over three gruelling rounds, to claim team gold Ireland was not done yet. Twenty-five riders from 81 went forward to the two-round individual final. The rider’s scores from the preceding three rounds were carried forward which meant that Shane Sweetnam entered the final in third position with Cian O’Connor fourth and Denis Lynch 12th.
Sweetnam faulted in the first round of the final to drop back to fourth while a clear by O’Connor put him into silver medal position. Lynch went clear and moved up to seventh. So it was down to the very last 10-fence round for the medals.
Lynch went out of contention when he had the first fence down. Sweetnam again knocked an element of the treble to drop back to eighth.
O’Connor and Good Luck were unlucky to have a fence on the floor but they still managed to hold on to bronze with just 6.25 penalties over the five rounds of jumping.
The Swedish Olympic silver medallist, Peder Fredricson had a fence and a time penalty in hand and finished with the five penalties to secure gold in front of 11,000 home fans with the beautiful gelding H&M All In. Silver went to Holland’s Harrie Smolders on the stallion Don VHP Z.
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