2010 World Cup # 1 - Playa del Carmen, Mexico - Men's Final - Riding

You can picture the start list of riding by checking previous post, starting from last to first in standings after fencing. It wasn't a smooth riding session in Playa del Carmen, even though we had 7 flawless rides. Here the important is to not lose points, then we had 10 pentathletes scoring less than 1100 points (4 less than 1000) that missed a chance of fighting for better positions in the World Cup 1.

Standings - Riding
Code:
position. Name (Country) points
1. Daniel (AUT) 1200
2. Lee (KOR) 1200
3. Zadneprovskis (LTU) 1200
4. Weale (GBR) 1200
5. Woodbridge (GBR) 1200
6. Nofal (EGY) 1200
7. Moiseev (RUS) 1200
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8. Carbajal (MEX) 1188
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9. Gebhardt (GER) 1180
10. Omar El-Geziry (EGY) 1180
11. Gheorghe (GUA) 1180
12. Tibolya (HUN) 1180
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13. Motsios (GRE) 1168
14. Riker-Fox (CAN) 1168
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15. Panin (UKR) 1164
16. Sacksen (USA) 1164
17. Svoboda (CZE) 1164
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18. Marosi (HUN) 1160
19. Inzunza (MEX) 1160
20. Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy (UKR) 1160
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21. Amro El-Geziry (EGY) 1140
22. Sedeckly (CZE) 1140
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23. Frolov (RUS) 1128
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24. Pavlo Kirpulyanskyy (UKR) 1120
25. Karyakin (RUS) 1120
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26. Hernandez (MEX) 1112
27. Cooke (GBR) 1092
28. Kollner (GER) 1088
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29. Brady (USA) 1072
30. Dietz (GER) 1072
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31. Mordasov (UKR) 1060
32. Polivka (CZE) 1028
33. Burtsev (RUS) 952
34. Bowsher (USA) 952
35. Soto (MEX) 844
36. Dvorak (CZE) 620

Polivka (CZE)was the biggest upset in riding, and ended missing a place in the men's final A combined event. Last year's silver medal in his country home, Soto, was also surprised by a bad ride and Burtsev from Russia was another one that had an unlucky ride that spoiled his chances of a good finish in World Cup. Zadneprovskis, Omar El-Geziry and Lee did great and kept in the top of standings for the combined event start. Svoboda, Marosi, Karyakin and D. Kirpulyanskyy managed at least to not lose too much points and start the combined event in a good position.

Maximum: 1200 points (7 pentathletes)
1st Quartile: 1180 points (4 pentathletes)
Median (18th): 1160 (3 pentathletes)
Minimum: 620 - difference from the leader: 580 points.