Fifteen teams will line up tonight with the world’s best riders joining forces in a high octane contest at the 12th leg of the Longines Global Champions Tour.
The thrilling Team Competition will play out over fences set at 1.55m / 1.60m in the sweeping grass arena in Valkenswaard and will be preceded by a stunning opening ceremony.
Teams will ride under the names of the 2015 Tour calendar destinations in the two-round competition. The combined scores will be added up, and the top eight teams will go through to the next round to battle it out for the final positions in this dramatic and exciting format. With the likes of Rolf-Göran Bengtsson & Harrie Smolders competing together under the name of Team Madrid, Gregory Wathelet & Christian Ahlmann of Team Cascais, the all female team of Tiffany Foster and Luciana Diniz for Team Cannes, and Ludger Beerbaum and Kevin Staut for Team London, it’s set to be an exhilarating evening of show jumping sport.