2011 European Show Jumping Championship

It was the 31st edition of the European Show Jumping Championships, only in the 19th time team medals were awarded.

In April 2009 the FEI chose the Spanish capital Madrid to host the 2011 European Show Jumping Championship.

It was the second time in European Show Jumping Championship history – after 1993 in Gijón – that Spain held this sports event.

After this competition the calculated seconds are converted into point for the European Championship individual ranking.

The teams of German, Sweden, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Belgium follow with a distance of less than eight points.

[5] In individual ranking the second placed rider from the first day, Stefan Eder, had 16 penalty points – now he is 37th.

[8] Individual ranking: At the last day of the event the riders had to ride a show jumping competition with two different rounds.

After the rides of Nagel and Skelton (bouth had again four penalty points) the Swedish rider Rolf-Göran Bengtsson was in the lead.

The only riders who were clear in both rounds was Jeroen Dubbeldam with Simon und Henrik von Eckermann with Coupe de Coeur.

[9] The collection and data communication of the result was performed, as already at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, by Dutch company Sport Computer Graphics (SCG).

The main competition of the CSI 3*-horse show is the traditional Kings Cup (Gran Premio – Copa S.M.