Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro have lost their ‘world number one’ title for the first time since November 2013.
Proud
The new leaders on the FEI World Dressage Ranking are Germany’s Kristina Bröring-Sprehe and Desperados FRH. They have been enjoying great form recently and currently have a 68-point lead over Charlotte and Valegro.
Kristina, who won team gold and individual bronze at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 with Desperados FRH, represented dressage riders from around the world last November when International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach visited the FEI’s Headquarters in Lausanne.
She told Thomas Bach how proud she was to be a female Olympic athlete.
Special
“Equestrian is the only Olympic sport where men and women compete against each other for medals in all the disciplines,” said Kristina. “It’s only when you get a bit older that you realise just how special this is, and it’s one of the many reasons why equestrian sport is so popular with women of all ages.”
Fellow German and four-time team gold Olympic medallist Isabell Werth is third place with Don Johnson FRH.