Miami Beach, Florida, USA – April 04, 2024 – It’s showtime for showjumping at the 2024 Longines Global Champions Tour of Miami Beach CSI 5* & CSI 2*. Five-star riders are ready to take to the skies with their flying beasts as major competition gets underway this Thursday. After back-to-back wins in the last two €300,000 Longines Global Champions Tour Grands Prix of Miami Beach CSI 5*, Katrin Eckermann (GER) & Cala Mandia are back in pursuit of the unprecedented three-peat!

They face a fierce challenge from the host nation and an international field that includes the likes of: Kent Farrington (USA), Laura Kraut (USA), Jessica Springsteen (USA), Ben Maher (GBR), Christian Ahlmann (GER), Daniel Deusser (GER), Simon Delestre (FRA), Darragh Kenny (IRL), Michael Pender (IRL), Shane Sweetnam (IRL), Maikel van der Vleuten (NED), Edwina Tops-Alexander (AUS), Malin Baryard-Johnsson (SWE), Emanuele Gaudiano (ITA), Max Kuhner (AUT), amongst others….

The **list of riders set to compete in the CSI 5* classes is the following:

AUSTRALIA
1) Edwina Tops-Alexander

AUSTRIA
2) Max Kuhner

BELGIUM
3) Gilles Thomas
4) Thibeau Spits
5) Nicola Philippaerts

BRAZIL
6) Eduardo Pereira de Menezes
7) Luiz Felipe Neto de Azevedo
8) Luiz Felipe Cortizo Gonçalves de Azevedo Filho
9) Luiz Francisco de Azevedo

CHILE
10) Jorge Matte Capdevila

CZECH REPUBLIC
11) Sara Vingralkova

DENMARK
12) Andreas Schou

EGYPT
13) Mouda Zeyada

FRANCE
14) Simon Delestre
15) Julien Anquetin
16) Olivier Robert

GREAT BRITAIN
17) Jack Whitaker
18) Ben Maher

GERMANY
19) Daniel Deusser
20) Christian Ahlmann
21) Katrin Eckermann
22) Philipp Schulze Topphoff
23) *Christian Kukuk

IRELAND
24) Michael Duffy
25) Michael Pender
26) Denis Lynch
27) Shane Sweetnam
28) Darragh Kenny
29) Jack Ryan

ISRAEL
30) Ashlee Bond

ITALY
31) Lorenzo de Luca
32) Giacomo Casadei
33) Emanuele Gaudiano

MEXICO
34) Fernando Martinez Sommer

NETHERLANDS
35) Maikel van der Vleuten
36) Sanne Thijssen

NORWAY
37)Johan-Sebastian Gulliksen

PORTUGAL
38) Duarte Seabra

SPAIN
39) Eduardo Alvarez Aznar

SWEDEN
40) Malin Baryard-Johnsson

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
41) Laura Kraut
42) Natalie Dean
43) Spencer Smith
44) Jessica Springsteen
45) Kristen Vanderveen
46) *Margie Goldstein-Engle
47) Mimi Gochman
48) Aaron Vale
49) Kent Farrington

*Riders listed on the LGCT entry list but not yet on the starting list of the official timekeeper.

**Subject to changes due to late entries, withdrawals, etc……

Sources: LGCT – Longines Global Champions Tour & Longines Timing

Text: Jumper News, no reproduction without permission.

Photo: © LGCT / Stefano Grasso

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