Great Britain drawn 5th for 1st leg of Nations Cup Final in Barcelona
Thursday 03 October 2019
Great Britain, riding under the sponsor banner of Team NAF, will be the fifth team to jump in the Olympic arena of Real Club de Polo de Barcelona in the first round of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final this afternoon, 3rd October, at 14.00h local time at the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona.
The best eight qualified teams will access to Sunday’s big final of the the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final, last competition of the 108th edition of the CSIO Barcelona. Before that, the partipating nations will compete tomorrow in the qualificative round which was drawn this evening. The first team to jump will be Brazil and the last team will be Italy.
Seven of the eighteen teams present in Barcelona also compete for the last pass for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. At the end of the competition the best of these seven teams will get its ticket for Tokyo. Great Britain have already secured their Olympic ticket when they won Team Bronze at the European Championships in Rotterdam this summer.
CSIO Barcelona’s 108th edition will start tomorrow at 9:30h with the Negrita Cup.
Complete starting order:
1. Brazil
2. France
3. Mexico
4. Sweden
5. Great Britain
(Amanda Derbyshire, Emily Moffitt, Ellen Whitaker, Holly Smith)
6. Japan
7. Spain
8. Ireland
9. Portugal
10. United States of America
11. Colombia
12. Norway
13. Netherlands
14. Egypt
15. Switzerland
16. Belgium
17. Germany
18. Italy
For more information on the event visit www.csiobarcelona.com
