Rolex, Geneva, 12 December 2022 – The 2022 Rolex Grand Prix on the CHI Geneva was received by McLain Ward from the USA of America, using HH Azur. Second place went to Martin Fuchs, Switzerland, using Leone Jei, and third place to Eire’s Shane Sweetnam using James Kann Cruz.
The American former World No. 1 produced an skilled efficiency on the ultimate day of the CHI Geneva aboard his Olympic crew silver medal-winning mare, HH Azur, and in doing so, received his very first equestrian Main, changing into the brand new Rolex Grand Slam of Present Leaping dwell contender going into 2023.
A complete of 40 entries took on the exceptionally testing 5* course, fastidiously curated by course designer Gérard Lachat, the place 13 mixtures made it by to the jump-off. Daniel Deusser was second to go within the jump-off and the primary to go clear, setting the usual for many who adopted. Martin Fuchs, the 2019 and 2021 CHI Geneva Rolex Grand Prix back-to-back winner, didn’t disappoint, utilizing his expertise to chop beneath the main time held by Eire’s Shane Sweetnam, putting him within the lead with two riders to go. USA’s McLain Ward rose to the problem, using the tightest strains and the sharpest angles, beating Fuchs by simply over a second to be named champion of the CHI Geneva Rolex Grand Prix 2022.
The Rolex Grand Prix on the CHI Geneva was the ultimate equestrian Main of 2022, which along with the Rolex Grand Prix at The Dutch Masters, the CSIO Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Match, and CHIO Aachen type the Rolex Grand Slam of Present Leaping, thought-about to be the game’s most demanding problem.
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