The show jumping at the world triathlon championships is as intense as the cross-country! In a minute and a half athletes manage to lose the champion title, become winners, standing in the Kiss&Cry zone, and climb to the second step of the podium, taking only 12th place in the dressage riding.

About it all in order. Italian course-designer Ugliano Vezzani had set 13 obstacles on the competition course, the height of 130 cm, the athletes had to perform 16 jumps.
Sunday, in contrast to the first three days of the competition, it was cloudless and sunny, so hundreds of people who came to cheer on the triathletes, with great pleasure were seated on the stands and in the free accommodation areas.

There were 68 pairs of athletes who reached the show jumping, and athletes who did not qualify for the top 10 appeared in the first warm-up. The afternoon decided the fate of the gold medals in individual and team championships.
The British team, leading in the dressage riding and finishing second after the cross-country, earned 20 s.p.m. and remained fourth, giving way to the team of New Zealand in the top three.
The U.S. athletes retained second place, scoring less than 23 s.p.h. in show jumping, with the German team taking the win. Julia Krajewski and Christoph Wahler handled the course on the third day without a lapse, Michael Jung made only two mistakes. The German team won the world title for the third time.

The individual championships are the basis for the screenplay of a thriller! Reigning Olympic champion Julia Krajewski and British rider Yasmin Ingham finished without mistakes and saved 26 and 23.2 penalty points respectively, Oliver Tound, who was in fourth place after the cross, made four falls and moved down to 16th place in the overall standings. Bronze medal contender Tamra Smith of the U.S. had two failures and finished ninth. Michael Jung, who was leading by a margin of one point, brought in eight penalty points and moved up from first to fifth place. The victory went to the World Championships debutant, twenty-five-year-old British representative Yasmin Ingham.

Julia Krajewski got the second place. British athlete Roz Canter and New Zealand rider Tim Price had the same number of penalty points. Tim’s time in the cross-country was closer to optimal, so the rider took third place.

Would the German team be able to maintain its form for two years? Will the British trainers learn from the mistakes made at the World Championships? We will find out in 2024 during the Olympic Games in Paris!