This year is the first time that there are specific finals and medals for Young Riders at the World Championships for Icelandic Horses. They started out with the adults in the preliminary rounds and obviously felt better in the final of T2 (tölt on loose rein) when they were among themselves.
Gústaf Ásgeir Hinriksson on Björk frá Enni. Photo: Tina Pantel.
At 17, Gústaf Ásgeir Hinriksson from Iceland made top position in his age group in yesterday’s mixed preliminaries. His mare, Björk frá Enni, danced with magnificent movements on the track.
In the afternoon the Young Riders’ final took place. The level now was so equal that an evaluation could not have been easy for the judges.
Gústaf scored the highest points in slow tölt, his mare was calm with an engaged hindquarter. However, the judges were not as pleased with their performance of fast tempo tölt and so Gústaf and Björk frá Enni finished last in the final result.
The performance of young Dane Thomas Vilain Rörvang was noteworthy. His horse Ylur frá Hvítanesi went calmly through the test and had no reason to complain about its rider, unlike Merkur vom Birkenlund.
The horse of the new World Champion of Young Riders, Johanna Beuk, constantly indicated discomfort with its tail, perhaps because of the rider’s stiff seat or her driving her legs into its loins.
Thomas Vilain Rörvang on Ylur frá Hvítanesi. Photo: Henk Peterse.
Here you can find a detailed video of the Young Riders’ final on hestafrettir.is.
And here are the overall results with the separate scores of the five judges from isibless.de:
185 Johanna Beuk [YR] [DE] – Merkur von Birkenlund [DE2001134877] 7,57
TÖLT 7,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 – 7,0 – 7,0 = 7,17
TROT 8,0 – 8,0 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 8,0 = 8,00
WALK 7,0 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 8,5 – 7,5 = 7,67
CANT 7,5 – 7,5 – 7,5 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,50
TÖLT 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,50
02: 060 Thomas Vilain Rørvang [YR] [DK] – Ylur frá Hvítanesi [IS2003184614] 7,53
TÖLT 7,5 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,50
TROT 8,0 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,67
WALK 7,5 – 8,0 – 8,0 – 8,5 – 8,0 = 8,00
CANT 7,5 – 7,0 – 7,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,33
TÖLT 8,0 – 7,5 – 6,5 – 7,0 – 7,0 = 7,17
03: 135 Oda Ugland [YR] [NO] – Hárekur frá Vindási [IS1999184949] 7,27
TÖLT 7,5 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,5 – 7,0 = 7,50
TROT 7,0 – 6,5 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,5 = 7,33
WALK 6,5 – 7,0 – 7,0 – 7,5 – 6,5 = 6,83
CANT 7,0 – 7,0 – 7,5 – 8,0 – 7,0 = 7,17
TÖLT 7,5 – 7,0 – 7,5 – 7,5 – 7,5 = 7,50
04: 001 Arna Ýr Guðnadóttir [YR] [IS] – Þróttur frá Fróni [IS2001101022] 6,63
TÖLT 6,5 – 7,0 – 6,5 – 7,0 – 6,5 = 6,67
TROT 6,5 – 6,0 – 6,0 – 6,5 – 6,0 = 6,17
WALK 6,5 – 6,5 – 7,0 – 6,5 – 7,0 = 6,67
CANT 6,0 – 5,5 – 6,5 – 6,0 – 5,5 = 5,83
TÖLT 7,5 – 8,0 – 8,0 – 8,5 – 7,5 = 7,83
05: 008 Gústaf Ásgeir Hinriksson [YR] [IS] – Björk frá Enni [IS2003258442] 6,37
TÖLT 8,0 – 8,0 – 8,5 – 8,0 – 7,5 = 8,00
TROT 7,0 – 6,5 – 6,5 – 6,5 – 6,5 = 6,50
WALK 5,5 – 4,5 – 4,5 – 5,0 – 5,0 = 4,83
CANT 7,0 – 6,5 – 6,5 – 6,0 – 6,5 = 6,50
TÖLT 6,0 – 6,0 – 6,0 – 5,5 – 6,0 = 6,00
Dagmar Trodler reports for Iceland Review from Berlin.
