2010 CDI-W Sopot Aims to Attract Top Riders for Outdoor World Cup Qualifier

Fri, 05/07/2010 - 11:09
Polish Dressage News

From 9 to 13 June 2010 an amazing World Cup Qualifier will take place in Sopot, Poland. This international dressage competition CDI-W is part of the Central European League World Cup and will coincide with the Nations' Cup show jumping competition CSIO. 

Participant entries can be submitted by national federations. E-mail address for entries: cdiw@skj-sopot.pl

The ground jury consists of Zofia Gorska (POL), Wojciech Markowski (POL), Peter Holler (GER), Sandy Philips (GBR), Maja Stukelej (SLO), and Waclaw Pruchniewicz (POL). 

The provisional time schedule is as following:

Wednesday 9 June 2010

  • Prix St Georges
  • Intermediaire II
Thursday 10 June 2010
  • Intermediaire I
  • Grand Prix
Friday 11 June 2010
  • Intermediaire I kur to music
Sunday 13 June 2010
  • Grand Prix kur to music

The Sopot Riding club (Sopocki Klub Jezdziecki) is the organizer of the event and wants to welcome all competitors and spectators. Sopot is a seaside tourist city with a renowned health resort. Together with the city of Gdansk and Gdynia it creates three-city agglomeration called Trojmiasto. Every year Sopot welcomes over two million tourists; most of them visit the city's longest wood constructed pier in Europe. The clean sandy beach is 4,5 km long.