2012 Piazza di Siena

The 2012 Piazza di Siena – CSIO Rome was the 2012 edition of the CSIO Rome, the Italian official show jumping horse show, at the Piazza di Siena in Rome. It was held as CSIO 5*.

In 2012 the Piazza di Siena horse show celebrates its 80th anniversary. In 1922, the first horse show were held at the Piazza di Siena. Since the year 1926 it is an international horse show. Two years later, in 1928, the horse show was first time the location of the Italian official show jumping horse show (CSIO = Concours de Saut International Officiel).[1]

The 2012 edition of the CSIO Rome was held between May 24, 2012 and May 27, 2012. Main sponsor of the 2012 Piazza di Siena horse show was Fixdesign.

FEI Nations Cup of Italy

The 2012 FEI Nations Cup of Italy is part of the 2012 Piazza di Siena horse show. It was the second competition of the 2012 FEI Nations Cup and was held at Friday, May 25, 2012 at 3:15 pm. The competing teams were: Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and France. Also an Italian team as host nation had the chance to start in the competition.[2]

The competition was a show jumping competition with two rounds and optionally one jump-off. The height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters. All teams were allowed to start in the second round. The competition is endowed with 200,000 €.

Winner of the competition was the German team. It was the first victory of Germany in the Italian Nations Cup since 2000. Before this a German team had won in Rome in 1931, 1932, 1933, 1940, 1958, 1971 and 1993.[3]

	Team	Rider	Horse	Round A	Round B	Total penalties	Jump-off		Prize money	scoring points
				Penalties	Penalties		Penalties	Time (s)
1	Germany	Marco Kutscher	Cornet Obolensky	0	4
		Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	4	0
		Marcus Ehning	Copin van de Broy	0	0
		Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	0	did not start
				0	4	4			64.000 €	10
2	Switzerland	Paul Estermann	Castlefield Eclipse	0	0
		Janika Sprunger	Uptown Boy	4	8
		Simone Wettstein	Cash and Go	4	0
		Clarissa Crotta	West Side van Meerputhoeve	4	0
				8	0	8			40.000 €	7
3	Belgium	Ludo Philippaerts	Challenge van de Begijnakker	0	22
		Olivier Philippaerts	Cabrio van de Heffnink	0	4
		Nicola Philippaerts	Carlos V.H.P.Z.	12	4
		Jos Lansink	Valentina	4	0
				4	8	12			32.000 €	6
4	Italy	Juan Carlos Garcia	Bonzai van de Warande	8	0
		Francesca Capponi	Stallone	0	0
		Luca Marziani	Wivina	12	4
		Natale Chiaudani	Almero	4	4
				12	4	16			23.000 €	-
5	France	Patrice Delaveau	Ornella Mail	4	16
		Marc Dilasser	Obiwan de Piliere	4	4
		Roger-Yves Bost	Nippon d'Elle	0	8
		Kevin Staut	Silvana	12	0
				8	12	20			15.000 €	5
6	Netherlands	Harry Smolders	Regina Z	4	4
		Marc Houtzager	Voltaire	4	8
		Jur Vrieling	Bubalou	0	8
		Gerco Schröder	New Orleans	4	4
				8	16	24			8,500 €	3,5
	Great Britain	William Funnell	Billy Angelo	9	12
		Tina Fletcher	Hello Sailor	4	4
		Scott Brash	Sanctos	0	0
		Peter Charles	Vindicat	4	12
				8	16	24			8.500 €	3,5
8	Sweden	Helena Persson	Bonzai H	12	12
		Angelica Augustsson	Mic Mac du Tillard	0	eliminated
		Lisen Bratt Fredricson	Matrix	8	4
		Henrik von Eckermann	Allerdings	0	4
				8	20	28			5.000 €	2
9	Ireland	Shane Sweetnam	Amaretto D'Arco	0	8
		Niall Talbot	Nicos de la Censes	eliminated	did not start
		Cian O'Connor	Blue Loyd	20	4
		Billy Twomey	Tinka's Serenade	0	0
				20	12	32			4.000 €	1

(grey penalties points do not count for the team result)[4]

Grand Prix “Città di Roma”

The Grand Prix “Città di Roma” was the major competition of the 2012 Piazza di Siena horse show. The sponsor of this competition is again Loro Piana. It is held at Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 2:15 pm.[5]

The competition is a show jumping competition with two rounds, the height of the fences was up to 1.60 meters. It is endowed with 200,000 €.[6]

	Rider	Horse	Round 1	Round 2		prize money
			Penalties	Penalties	Time (s)
1	Ludger Beerbaum	Gotha FRH	0	0	43.10	50,000 €
2	Christian Ahlmann	Taloubet Z	0	0	44.58	40,000 €
3	Marc Dilasser	Obiwan de Piliere	0	0	45.10	30,000 €
4	Marco Kutscher	Cornet Obolensky	0	0	45.59	20,000 €
5	Janika Sprunger	Palloubet D'Halong	0	0	45.67	14,000 €

References

1. "history". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
2. Starting List 2012 FEI Nations Cup of Italy, Round A
3. Nach zwölf Jahren wieder deutscher Nationen-Preis-Erfolg in Rom, Dieter Ludwig, May 25, 2012 (German)
4. "result 2011 FEI Nations Cup of Italy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
5. "timetable". Archived from the original on 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
6. result 2012 Grand Prix “Città di Roma”

External links

• Official website
• 2012 results