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Qualification for Kentucky,
Normandy, and Barcelona UAE Riders
Show Jumping to “World Ranking”
Through “The Nations Cup”
In 2010, the first edition of the the seventh edition, an achievement
President’s Cup and the Nations achieved by the UAE team riders for
Cup for Show Jumping was held in the second year respectively.
the grass field at Ghantoot Racing The UAE team’s qualification process
and Polo Club, and it was the first continued to participate in the
time that the Nations Cup being held Barcelona final in 2019 through the
outside Europe and America since its eighth edition, but the team’s interest
first launch in 1909. It witnessed the and quest to participate in the Tokyo
UAE riders qualify to participate for 2020 Olympics distracted it from
the first time with a team in The World participating in the Barcelona 2019
Equestrian Games held in Kentucky, final, and the UAE team qualified
USA, 2010 through the ninth edition to the final
The UAE Riders also qualified through of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations
the third edition of the Nations Cup Cup™.
to participate in the World Equestrian Last year, UAE team missed the
Games in Normandy, France in 2014, Nations Cup round in Abu Dhabi,
and in the sixth edition, the UAE which qualifies for the Longines
team had been qualified for the first FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ final in
time to the final of the Nations Cup - Barcelona due to the repercussions
Barcelona 2017, as well as through of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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