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

It was a tough course even though the height of obstacles was adapted to the circumstances, so the riding skills were really tested, and luck at the horses draw had a role as always. Anyway, most of the pentathletes scored high and only a few had their chances ruined by a bad riding (watching it live and not being much familiar with the rules really makes it tense). When points are tied and positions are not leveled, I'm using the still unofficial data from UIPM, so ask/blame them, I'm just copying it (be careful with my typos by the way!), I'm displaying the results in points groups anyway - like in fencing. I guess the tie-break is the time.

Riding Standings - WC1 Playa del Carmen

Code:
position. Name (Country) points
1. Schöneborn (GER) 1200
1. Isaksen (USA) 1200
3. Helyer (GBR) 1200
3. Cseh (HUN) 1200
5. Vakalis (CAN) 1200
5. Martinez (MEX) 1200
7. Struchtukova (RUS) 1200
8. Medany (EGY) 1200
8. Toth (HUN) 1200
10. Camacho (MEX) 1200
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11. Coyle (IRL) 1196
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12. Oliver (MEX) 1192
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13. El-Midany (EGY) 1188
13. Stevens (CAN) 1188
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15. Tereshuk (UKR) 1184
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16. Grolichova (CZE) 1180
16. Fell (GBR) 1180
18. Trautmann (GER) 1180
18. Herrarte (GUA) 1180
20. Gretchichnikova (RUS) 1180
21. Kohlmann (GER) 1180
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22. Murray (GBR) 1172
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23. Vega (MEX) 1148
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24. Trujillo (MEX) 1144
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25. Knack (GER) 1136
26. Dianova (CZE) 1136
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27. Valencia de la Torre (MEX) 1132
28. Lebedeva (RUS) 1120
29. Ponce (MEX) 1112
30. Guerra (MEX) 1064
31. Garzo (GUA) 1016
32. Arceo (MEX) 984
33. McCann (CAN) 960
34. Farfan (MEX) 892
35. Feshchenko (RUS) 748
36. Rublevska (LAT) 504
37. Vazquez (MEX) 0

The riding settled the start list for the final event, the combined run+shooting, again it was split in two finals, A and B, featuring the top 19 and the last 18. Enough of points, let's display the handicap time (you can see that there were no changes at all until 6th place in the order of the ranking):

Final A
Code:
position. Name (Country) time behind (positions moved)
1. Struchtukova (RUS) 0" (=)
2. Medany (EGY) 14" (=)
3. Schoneborn (GER) 17" (=)
4. Toth (HUN) 18" (=)
5. Gretchichnikova (RUS) 27" (=)
6. Fell (GBR) 29" (=)
7. Isaksen (USA) 31" (=1)
8. Helyer (GBR) 34" (-1)
9. Kohlmann (GER) 40" (+1)
10. Cseh (HUN) 48" (+3)
11. Grolichova (CZE) 55" (+3)
12. Trautmann (GER) 55" (+3)
13. Knack (GER) 1'00" (-2)
14. Murray (GBR) 1'08" (+3)
15. El-Midany (EGY) 1'19" (+4)
16. Coyle (IRL) 1'19" (+4)
17. Vakalis (CAN) 1'22" (+4)
18. Camacho (MEX) 1'24" (+4)
19. Martinez (MEX) 1'26" (+4)

Final B

Code:
position. Name (Country) (positions moved)
1. McCann (CAN) (-13)
2. Lebedeva (RUS) (-3)
3. Trujillo (MEX) (+3)
4. Dianova (CZE) (+1)
5. Herrarte (GUA) (+2)
6. Tereshuk (UKR) (+2)
7. Vega (MEX) (+2)
8. Stevens (CAN) (+4)
9. Arceo (MEX) (+1)
10. Ponce (MEX) (+3)
11. Oliver (MEX) (+7)
12. Feshchenko (RUS) (-15)
13. Valencia de la Torre (MEX)(+4)
14. Guerra (MEX) (+2)
15. Garzo (GUA) (-1)
16. Rublevska (LAT) (-23)
17. Farfan (MEX) (-2)
18. Vazquez (MEX) (-7)

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.