Ridecamp: [RC] FWD: U.S. Dressage Team Takes Silver at WEG

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From: Equestrianinfo <equestrianinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:00:57 -0400

The United States Dressage Team won the Silver Medal in Team Dressage
Competition at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera,
Spain, on Thursday, ending with a combined score of 5527.  Germany won the
Gold Medal with a score of 5642 and Spain took the Bronze Medal with a score
of 5403.  

The U.S. Team consisted of Sue Blinks riding Flim Flam (Hanoverian: Wilhelm
Tell x Cilia), owned by Fritz Kundrun and Dressage Sponsor Corporation,
Debbie McDonald riding Brentina (Hanoverian: Brentano II x Lieselotte),
owned by Perry and Peggy Thomas, Guenter Seidel riding Nikolaus 7
(Westphalian: Weinberg x Elise), owned by Dick and Jane Brown, and Lisa
Wilcox riding Relevant (Oldenburg: Rubinstein I x Havanna), owned by Gundula
Vorwerk and Dr. Claus Crone-Munzebrock.  All four riders finished in the top
25 and will move on to Friday's Grand Prix Special, the next round of the
individual competition.  

Alan F. Balch, president of USA Equestrian, the National Federation for the
United States, commented, "I know I speak for all our 80,000 members, and
for lovers of equestrian sport throughout the country, in congratulating
those wonderful riders and horses who represented the whole country so well
in Spain.  We are all particularly appreciative of the horse owners also,
for their commitment.  Everyone in the sport's framework contributes to
making this kind of success possible, from the grass roots to all those
volunteers and donors who contributed time or money to the effort, to the
United States Olympic Committee for financial support, to the breeders,
coaches, riding clubs, affiliates, organizations, and competitions which
encourage Dressage, and to the team coach, Klaus Balkenhol, and the United
States Equestrian Team staff and administration as well."

For complete results of all the events taking place at the World Equestrian
Games, visit USA Equestrian's web site at http://www.equestrian.org. 

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