2011 European Eventing Championship

At the 2008 FEI-General Assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Germany was chosen as the country to host the 2011 European Eventing Championship.

Before the 2011 Luhmühlen Horse Trials, two months before the European Championship, the show ground of the course was completely rebuilt.

Patroness of the event was German federal minister Ursula von der Leyen.

This task is performed by German eventing rider Anna Siemer with her horse Charlott.

Here the horses of a Spanish and of a Polish team rider were deemed "not fit to compete", so they were eliminated.

Klimke, now eleventh in the final ranking, comment time with the words "Sechs um - so schlecht ist er noch nie gesprungen" (six down - so bad he had never jumped before).

He hold his result form the dressage phase the whole competition, so he won the individual gold medal.

Jung is now the third (after Virginia Leng and Zara Phillips) who is the current world and European eventing champion at the same time.

The German team was because of the large gap of penalty points also after the show jumping phase in the lead.

Bronze was won by Frank Ostholt - he benefited by a refusal of the horse of his wife Sara Algotsson-Ostholt in show jumping.