Beautiful first round of Pas de Deux

It was a pleasure to watch the first round of Pas de Deux at the ECCO FEI World Championships.

Lights, music, action. The Pas de Deux in vaulting had their first round at the World Championships in Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning. And we sang along to Grease, was dazzled by the black and white graphics and held our breath through the beautiful routines.
Seven pairs did their absolute best to show us new moves and choreographies. And then we had the Highlight at the end.

Highlight carried through
Germanys Justin van Gerven and Chiara Congia came in last, but finished first, after a routine with lots and lots of stunning moves, giving them a final score of 8.863. But their moves was not the only Highlight.
“We're pretty happy with our round. It's our first competition with our horse, Highlight, this season. And she did such a good job in the arena”, Justin said after the round, giving praise to their horse lunged by Alexandra Knauf.

Chiara continued:
“It was amazing. This arena, this audience. And then Highlight doing such a great job. We're really happy”.

Germany second and Italy third
It was a great first round for Germany, with their Pad de Deux finishing as number one and two. Even though the music told us, there was no sunshine, Diana Harwardt and Peter Künne, brought the sun out with their beautifully choreographed routine on the horse Sir Laulau lunged by Henrik Falk, and they scored 8.625.

For Rebecca Greggio and Davide Zanella from Italy, who came in third with 8.198. They invited us in to the “House of Gucci”, with a routine of high difficulty, but very well carried out.

Host country Denmark was also represented in the Pas de Deux by Freja Linde and Maria Thinggaard. They came in fifth and are ready to eliminate the minute mistakes from today, when we have the final in the Pas de Deux on Wednesday.

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