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FIRST-CLASS SPORT IN A UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE
Tennis has Wimbledon, football has Wembley and the equestrian sport has Aachen. Here at the traditional showgrounds, the top equestrian athletes in the world meet up to contest against each other in the five disciplines: jumping, dressage, eventing, four-in-hand driving and vaulting. They are cheered on every year by around 350,000 visitors, who come to Aachen to enjoy the world-class sport as well as the spectacular supporting programme.
And Aachen is also a festival for the crowd, a folk festival, famous for its exceptional atmosphere, which is lent a very special touch on Sunday evening: Namely, when the final competition has been decided, both the spectators and the participants pull out their white handkerchiefs to wave goodbye to each other and promise to meet up again at next year’s event. Here at the Aachen Soers, the Wimbledon, the Wembley of the equestrian world.
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Compulsory Test Female
- V1
- Individual Female Competition
- The competition consists of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Compulsory Test Male
- V2
- Individual Male Competition
- The comptition consists of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Squad Competition
- V3
- Squad Competition
- The competition consits of a compulsory test and a free test
- The starting order for the compulsory test will be drawn
- The starting order for the free test ist the reverse order of the results of the compulsory test
- The results from the two tests are added and divided by two
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Technical Test Female
- V1
- Individual Female Competition
- The competition consists of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Technical Test Male
- V2
- Individual Male Competition
- The competition consists of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Pas de Deux
- V4
- A Pas de Deux consists of two vaulters, either female/female, male/male or female/male
- The competition comprises of two rounds, in both rounds, the vaulters have to absolve a free test
- The final mark is the average of the two rounds
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Squad Competition
- V3
- Team competition (all teams are allowed to participate), the competition consists of a compulsory round and a free test round
- For the total results, the marks out of the two rounds are added and divided by two
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Free Test to Music Female
- V1
- Individual Female Competition
- The competition consits of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Free Test to Music Male
- V2
- Individual Male Competition
- The competition consits of a compulsory test, a technical test and a free test
- The results from the three tests are added and divided by three
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Pas de Deux
- V4
- Pas de Deux Competition
- A Pas de Deux consists of two vaulters. Any combination of gender is allowed.
- The competition consists of two free tests
- The results from the two tests are added and divided by two
Vaulting
Prize of Sparkasse | Nations Official Team Competition
- V5
- Nations Official Team Competition
- A team consists of a female, a male and a team per nation
- The best 8 nations according to the results of V1, V2 and V3 are qualified
- If a nation qualifies with two teams, both teams are allowed to start
- The competition consists of a free test of all three team members
- The team will start last
- The addition of the three results is the final result
Jumping
Warm-Up presented by STAWAG
Jumping
STAWAG Opening Jumping Competition
- S1
- Jumping competition penalties/time
- The rider with the least number of penalty points and the fastest time wins
- Obstacle height up to 1.45 m
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Jumping
German U25 Trophy of the Stiftung Deutscher Spitzenpferdesport, Prize of Family Müter- Qualifier
- SN1
- Part of National U25 Trophy - Rating competition
- for riders under 25 years
- penalties/time
- The rider with the least penalties and fastest time wins
- Length of competition approx. 1 hour
Jumping
Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup
- S2
- Jumping competition for young horses according to penalties and time
- Part of the Youngsters-Tour, every team is allowed to bring 3 extra horses and every individual rider is allowed to bring one extra horse
- 1st Qualifier for the Youngsters-Cup-Final
- Age of the horses: 7 and 8 year-olds
- Obstacle height up to 1.40 m (for 7 years old horses), up to 1.45 m (for 8 years old horses)
- Length of competitions approx. 2 hours
Jumping
Prize of Handwerk
- S3
- Jumping competition penalties/time
- The rider with the least number of penalty points and the fastest time wins
- This competition belongs to the so called Speed-Tour; every team and every rider is allowed to enter an extra horse in this competition
- Obstacle height up to 1.45 m
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
German U25 Trophy of the Stiftung Deutscher Spitzenpferdesport, Prize of Family Müter - Final
- SN2
- Final of National U25 Trophy
- for riders under 25 years of age
- Jumping competition with jump-off
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first round are qualified for the jump-off
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
Prize of StädteRegion Aachen in memory of Landrat Hermann-Josef Pütz
- S4
- Jumping competition in two phases
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first phase are qualified for the second phase
- The second phase starts directly after the first phase
- If a rider has penalties in the first phase, his round end after the first phase
- The penalties and time from the second phase count for the final result
- Obstacle height up to 1.50 m
- Special trophy for the best placed German rider in the "Prize of StädteRegion Aachen” ) presented by the Gemeinschaft der Starter-, Ziel- und Hindernisrichter "Der Pferdeschwanz" (The Horse Tails).
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Jumping
Turkish Airlines-Prize of Europe
- S5 - Jumping competition over two rounds
- Competition in the evening under floodlight
- The best 25% of riders of the first round are qualified for the second round
- Qualifier for S16 Rolex Grand Prix
- Obstacle height up to 1.55 m
- Length of competition approx. 3 hours
Dressage
Prize of VUV - Vereinigte Unternehmerverbände Aachen
- D1
- FEI Prix St. Georges
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Dressage
Prize of Family Tesch
- D3
- Grand Prix CDIO5*
- 1st Rating competition for the individual and team classification
- The starting order within the team is to be decided by the Chef d'Equipe, the starting order of the nations will be drawn, the individual riders will be drawn in between the team riders
- Length of competition approx. 8 hours
Driving
Prize of Martello Immobilienmanagement GmbH & Co. KG
- F1
- Dressage test for four-in-hand drivers
- Dressage Test 3*B HP4
- 1st rating competition for the individual and team classification
- Length of competition approx. 5 hours
Jumping
Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup
- S6
- Jumping competition for young horses according to penalties/time
- Part of the Youngsters-Tour, every team is allowed to bring 3 extra horses and every individual rider is allowed to bring one extra horse
- 2nd Qualifier for the Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup-Final
- Age of the horses: 7 and 8 year-olds
- Obstacle height up to 1.40 m (for 7 years old horses) and up to 1,45 m (for 8 years old horses)
- Length of competitions approx. 2 hours
Jumping
STAWAG-Prize
- S7
- Jumping competition penalties/time
- The rider with the least number of penalty points and the fastest time wins
- Obstacle height up to 1.50 m
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
Mercedes-Benz Nations´ Cup
- S8
- Jumping competition with two (identical) rounds under floodlight
- A team consits of 4 riders
- The best 8 teams qualifier for the second round
- The best 3 results per team are counting
- The team with the lowest penalty points after both round wins
- One jump-off in case of equality of penalties for the first place, with one athlete per team
- „Prize of the City of Aachen“for a personality who has rendered outstanding services to the CHIO Aachen, presented by the Major of the City of Aachen, Sibylle Keupen to Mr. Christian Graf von Plettenberg.
- Length of competition approx. 3,5 hours
Driving
Prize of Fa. Horsch, Der Entsorger "Top Score"
- F2
- Top score driving competition
- Each obstacle is allotted 10 to 120 points according to difficulty
- The competitor is credited with the allotted number of points per obstacle he has driven correctly
- In a maximum allowed time (3 minutes) the Athlete may pass all the obstacles he wishes in any order
- Winner is the competitor who has obtained the highest number of points. In case of equal points, the fastest time decides
Jumping
NetAachen-Prize
- S17
- Jumping Competition for Young Riders (CSI1*)
- 20 riders with two horses each
- Jumping competition according to penalties and time
- Height of obstacles: up to 1,40m
- Duration of competition: appr. 1,5 hours
Jumping
VBR-Prize
- S9
- Jumping competition in two phases
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first phase are qualified for the second phase
- The second phase starts directly after the first phase
- If a rider has penalties in the first phase, his round ends after the first phase
- The penalties and time from the second phase count for the final result
- Height of obstacles: up to 1,50 m
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Jumping
RWE Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia
- S10
- Jumping competition with jump-off
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first round are qualified for the jump-off
- Qaulifier for the Rolex Grand Prix for riders who did not start in the Mercedes-Benz Nations' Cup
- Obstacle height up to 1.55 m
- “Prize of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia”: Special trophy for the winning rider in the "RWE Prize", presented by the Prime Minister of North-Rhine-Westphalia Mr. Henrik Wüst
- Length of competition approx. 2, 5 hours
Jumping
Prize of Soers
- S11
- Hunting competition over ditches and banks
- Part of the Speed-Tour, every team and individual rider is allowed to bring one extra horse
- The special characteristic of this competition is that the natural obstacles like e.g. the “Pulvermann´s Grab” or the lake are included in the course, spectacular through the combination of speed and natural obstacles
- Jumping faults are converted into penalties
- The rider with the fastest time wins
- Obstacle height up to 1.40 m
Dressage
Prize of the Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation
- D4
- Young Rider Individual Test
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Dressage
Lindt-Prize
- D5
- Grand Prix Spécial CDI4* under floodlight
- Open to the best 10 riders of the Grand Prix that decided to ride the Grand Prix Spécial
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Eventing
SAP-Cup
- C1c
- Cross Country test
- Cross-country course Soers
- Length of course max. 3.990 metres
- About 25 obstacles (35 efforts to jump)
- Speed: 570m/min.
- "Prize of the Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia": Special prize for the winning rider in the "SAP Cup" given by the Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ms. Ursula Heinen-Esser, MdL
Jumping
NetAachen-Prize
- S19
- Jumping Competition for Young Riders
- Final
- Jumping Competition with jump-off
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first round are qualified for the jump-off
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
SAP-Cup
- C1c
- Cross-Country test
- Starts at 10.00h
- Cross-country course Soers
- Length of course max. 3.990m
- About 25 obstacles (35 efforts to jump)
- Speed: 570m/Min.
Jumping
Allianz-Prize
- S12
- Jumping competition with one round and winning round
- 32 athletes are qualified for this competition: Best 8 from comp. S4 (Turkish Airlines-Prize of Europe), best 4 from comp. S5 (Prize of StädteRegion), best 4 from S7 (STAWAG-Prize), best 8 from comp. S10 (Prize of North-Rhine-Westphalia), best 8 from the first round of comp. S8 (Nations' Cup)
- The ten best athletes from the 1st round will qualify for the winning round (in any case all clear rounds).
- In the winning round all athletes start with 0 penalties. Athletes in the winning round are placed according to penalties and time of the winning round. Possible further placements will be done acc. to penalties and time in the 1st round.
- Obstacle height up to 1.55 m
- Length of competition approx.1,5 hours
Driving
Prize of schwartz Group
- F3
- In the cross-country course Soers
- 2nd rating competition for the individual and team classification
- The competition consists of:
- - Phase A: approx. 7.500 metres, free pace
- - Phase B: approx. 9.000 metres, free pace, obstacle course
- In Phase B there will be 8 obstacles. Decisive for the result will be the driven time inside the obstacles
- Length of competition approx. 3 hours
Dressage
MEGGLE-Prize
- D6
- Grand Prix Spécial CDIO5*
- 2nd rating competition (individual and team)
- Qualified are the best 6 best teams from comp. D3 and a minimum of 6 best individual riders from comp. D3
- Length of competition. approx. 6 hours
Dressage
Prize giving ceremony: Lambertz Nations' Cup
- D8
- The best 3 team riders of comp. D3 and the best 3 team riders of comp. D6 count for the result in the Nations´ Cup
- The team with the highest score wins
Dressage
WOTAX-Prize
- D9
- Intermediate I
- Length of competition approx. 2 hours
Dressage
FUNDIS-Prize
- D10
- Grand Prix Freestyle to Music CDI4* under floodlight
- Open to the best 10 riders of the Grand Prix that decided to ride the Grand Prix Freestyle
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup - FINAL
- S13
- Jumping competition with one round and jump-off
- Qualified are the 30 best riders from qualifying compt. S2 and S6
- All riders with 0 penalties in the first round are qualified for the jump-off
- Age of horses: 7 and 8 years
- Obstacle height up to 1.45 m (7 years old), up to 1.50 m (8 years old)
- Special prize (a foal) for the winner of the overall ranking in the Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup, presented by the Sparkasse.
- Length of competitions approx. 1,5 hours
Jumping
CHIO-Cup
- S14
- Combined jumping, eventing and driving competition
- A team of one jumping riders, one eventing rider and one four-in-hand driver enters the arena together
- The eventing athlete starts first and jumps a course of approx. 12 XC type obstacles (2-3 knockable obstacles). When he/she crosses the finish line the jumping athlete of the team starts and jumps a course of 8 obstacles
- In the meantime the eventing rider dismounts his/her horse and the horse is brought outside of the arena by the groom. The eventing rider walks on foot to the finish line of the jumping course.
- As soon as the jumping rider has crossed the finish line the eventing athlete runs to the drivers’ waiting area and mounts the carriage.
- The carriage driver must then drive an obstacle course with cones and Marathon-type obstacles.
- The time is taken from the moment the first athlete crosses the starting line until the driver passes the finishing line
- Penalty seconds occurred by the eventing athlete are added to the total time of the team before the jumping rider starts.
- The team with the fastest time wins (conversion of penalties into seconds – 2 seconds for a knock-down / 6 seconds for a disobedience)
- Length of competition approx. 1 hour
Dressage
Deutsche Bank Prize
- D11
- Dressage Grand Prix of Aachen
- Individual Final Grand Prix Freestyle to Music
- Qualified are the best 18 riders/horses from compt. D 6
- Max. 3 riders per country
- Length of competition approx. 3 hours
Driving
FINAL Rating Competition - Individual & Team
- F4
- Obstacle driving competition with winning round
- The best 8 drivers acc. to penalties and time are qualified for the winning round. In the winning round all athletes start with zero penalties
- 3rd rating competition for the individual and team classification
Jumping
Röwer & Rüb Prize
- S15
- Jumping competition penalties/time
- Obstacle height up to 1.45 m
- Length of competition approx. 1,5 hours
Driving
Prize giving ceremony: Prize of Family Richard Talbot
- F5
- Individual Classification of Combined Driving Competition
- Based on the added results of competitions F1, F3 and F4
Driving
Prize giving ceremony: Boehringer Ingelheim Nations‘ Cup
- F6
- Team Classification of Combined Driving Competition
- Based on the added results of competitions F1, F3 and F4
- The two best results within the team of three are counting
Jumping
Rolex Grand Prix
- S16
- The Grand Prix of Aachen
- Jumping competition over two rounds and jump-off
- 40 competitors start in the first round, the 18 best riders of the first round qualify for the second round
- In the case of equality of penalties after two rounds a jump-off is decisive, the rider with the least number of penalty points and the fastest time in the jump-off wins
- Part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping
- Obstacle height up to 1.60 m
- „Challenge Trophy of the City of Aachen“ Special trophy for the winning rider in the „Rolex Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Aachen“ presented by the City of Aachen.
- „Prize of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany“ Style Trophy for the rider with the best style in the „Rolex Grand Prix“ donated by the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Olaf Scholz, presented by the Federal Minister of the Interior and Community, Mrs. Nancy Faeser.
- „Prize of the Federal Minister of the Interior and Community“ Special trophy for the best placed jumping rider of the entire show according to the point system presented by the Federal Minister of the Interior and Community, Mrs. Nancy Faeser.
- "Halla Challenge Trophy” for the owner of the most successful horse in the classical jumping competitions of the event presented by Mrs. Jytte Winkler.
- Length of competition approx. 3 3/4 hours

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Rolex Grand Prix
Part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, The Grand Prix of Aachen
Jumping competition with two rounds & jump-off
Side Events
Farewell to the Nations
A tradition since 1953: The emotional closing ceremony of the CHIO Aachen. Accompanied by the sounds of the German folk song "Muss I denn" and waving with white handkerchieves, participants and spectators say good-bye to each other.