Blenheim to host eventing European Championships in 2025

The eventing European Championships will happen in Britain subsequent yr, on the Agria Blenheim Horse Trials in Oxfordshire, from 18-21 September 2025.

Britain’s host duties for the eventing European Championships appear to run on a 10-year cycle – Blenheim Palace beforehand ran the European Championships in 2005 and that is the primary senior eventing championship to be hosted in Britain because the occasion was held at Blair Fortress in Scotland in 2015.

“It’s a nice honour to be bringing the FEI Eventing European Championship again to Britain,” mentioned Katrina Midgley of organisers Steady Occasions.

“Blenheim is such a becoming backdrop, with the Palace and the spectacular parkland cross-country course, and we sit up for welcoming the groups and their supporters for a really memorable event. Thanks should go to the groups at British Equestrian, FEI, British Eventing, Agria and UK Sport who’ve been instrumental in securing this thrilling fixture.”

UK Sport’s head of main occasions Esther Britten added: “Delivering main occasions like this continues to show the UK’s repute as one of many world’s main hosts, creating extraordinary sporting moments that attain, unite and encourage the nation.

“We sit up for working collaboratively with the groups at Blenheim and the FEI on this thrilling occasion which is able to showcase the perfect British athletes on dwelling soil.”

This would be the thirty seventh operating of the bi-annual eventing European Championship, which began in 1953, the twelfth event that Nice Britain has been the host nation, and the thirty fifth anniversary of the primary worldwide horse trials at Blenheim.

Britain has dominated the eventing European Championships since its inception, accumulating a complete of 20 gold medals within the particular person class in addition to 24 crew golds. One of many particular person winners was Zara Tindall (then Phillips), who took the title on the final Europeans at Blenheim in 2005 on Toytown, whereas Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo have been the newest champions, at Haras du Pin in 2023. Britain additionally took the crew title on each these events.

“Blenheim is lengthy established as a well-liked and delightful eventing venue and we’re very a lot trying ahead to the FEI Eventing European Championship happening there,” mentioned FEI eventing director Catrin Norinder.

Subsequent yr shall be Agria’s first as title sponsor of Blenheim.

“Might there be a extra thrilling approach to have fun the third UK birthday of our game-changing lifetime equine insurance coverage than by turning into Blenheim’s title sponsor for the 2025 Agria FEI Eventing European Championships?” mentioned Vicki Wentworth, chief government of Agria UK.

“Agria celebrates one other birthday subsequent yr – the one hundred and thirty fifth because it was based in Sweden – and we are able to’t wait to host the perfect riders in Europe, plus house owners and horse followers from far and broad at Blenheim on its thirty fifth anniversary. It’s a superb occasion that at all times produces a memorable competitors.”

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