Semmieke Rothenberger wins the Piaff Förder-Prize competition for the Liselott Schindling Foundation prize

(pbb) The 23-year-old Semmieke Rothenberger from Bad Homburg won the Piaff-Förderpreis evaluation test for the prize of the Liselott Schindling Foundation on Monday, the penultimate day of the 59th Mannheim Maimarkt Tournament. The Piaff-Förderpreis is a stepping stone for talented dressage riders up to the age of 25 into Grand Prix sport.

The 2021 European U25 champion in Hagen had saddled her 13-year-old chestnut gelding Farrington in Mannheim, and the pair received 73,410 percentage points for their performance. She was ahead of Helen Erbe (Krefeld), the overall winner of 2022 sat on the 16-year-old Rhineland gelding Carlos FRH (72,564). Third place went to Alina Schrader (Hamburg) with the 14-year-old Oldenburg mare Paola OLD (72.077). The Piaff sponsorship award for Germany's best U25 dressage riders is now in its 23rd season. The series is named after the stallion Piaff, who wrote Olympic history in Munich in 1972 with Liselott Linsenhoff in the saddle. Back then, Liselott Linsenhoff was the first woman to win individual gold in dressage at the Olympics. The Piaff-Förderpreis was made possible from the start by the Liselott-Schindling-Foundation for the promotion of dressage, Schindling was the maiden name of the Olympic champion. The Maimarkt tournament is traditionally the season opener for the piaff series, the next stations are the German championships in Balve (June 8th to 11th), Verden (August 3rd to 6th) and Ludwigsburg (September 21st to 24th). ). The final will take place at the STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle (November 15th to 19th).