The World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen has again been elected as best international outdoor event of the year by the dressage riders and four-in-hand drivers. In the course of the horse show in Dutch Maastricht
, the coveted awards, given by the magazine L’Année Hippique, have recently been handed over to Frank Kemperman, General Manager of the CHIO-organiser Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein (ALRV), and to Helen Rombach, Authorised Representative of the ALRV.
“We are happy that our team’s work is appreciated by the athletes in such a way”, said Kemperman. “But now we will not at all settle back cosily, but will instead carry on investing into the quality of the CHIO Aachen, just like we did in the past years.” In 2008, the CHIO Aachen will be carried out from June 27th until July 6th.
For the tenth time, the L’Année Hippique Award has been bestowed by the dressage riders in 2007, and for the tenth time Aachen is far ahead in the favour of the athletes with 340 points, followed by Wiesbaden (145 points) and Rotterdam (135 points). Also among the drivers, the CHIO Aachen has been highly appreciated during the last years: The traditional tournament has won the fifth election -for the fifth time in series- with 265 points in front of Beekbergen/Niederlande (170) und Riesenbeck (100). In both disciplines, more than half of all athletes that cast their ballots have decided in favour of the CHIO. The L’Année Hippique Awards for jumping and eventing tournaments will, according to the awards’ rotation principle, be bestowed again in 2008. In the fifth CHIO-discipline vaulting, there is no election of the athletes.
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