Show jumping

Kühner second in Rome ++ Puck & Petschenig top ten

Max Kühner on Elektric Blue P(Bild: APA/OEPS/STEFANO GRASSO)

Two months before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, Austria's show jumpers presented themselves in excellent form at the CSIO5* in Rome! 

After sixth place in the Nations Cup, Max Kühner on Elektric Blue P finished second in the Grand Prix, which carries prize money of 500,000 euros. Gerfried Puck in fifth and Peter Petschenig in tenth also achieved top ten places. Kühner managed two clear rounds, in the jump-off the 50-year-old was 1.31 seconds behind the victorious US rider Karl Cook. Puck also went clear twice on Equitron Naxcel V, while Petschenig, who lives in the USA, entered the jump-off on Ennebel van het Posthuijs without a knockdown, in which one fault occurred.

"We had a lot of fun here as a team!"
"I'm delighted with second place, even though I would have liked to have won," said Kühner, who is ranked seventh in the world. "Elektric had a lot of fun for four rounds, i.e. in the Nations Cup and the Grand Prix. We as a team also had a lot of fun here: all three Austrians with confident rounds in the jump-off, plus the performances in the Nations Cup," said the team leader, highlighting the performances of the entire team.