European Open 2018: German-Austrian party

Brooding sun, lots of sweat and sand as far as the eye can see. For once that does not mean beach holidays. Instead of the beach holidays, the speech is from the European Open 2018 in the Austrian Ebreichsdorf on the beautiful grounds of the Magna Racino. And the Austrians took advantage of the hour and knew to convince in front of home crowd. A Gold medal in the medium team competition and the silver medal in the small team competition. In addition, Lisa Frick provided the silver medal in the Large Individual for the successful conclusion. Even though she had to share this second place with Mona Grefenstein and Qju from Germany. The brilliant winner in the Large Individual is the German upcoming talent Max Sprinz with Border Collie Bäx. There were also bright faces for the third Large Team with four womens. Anne Lenz, Ariane Wieber, Christiane Fischbach and Mona Grefenstein won the gold medal there.

With Daniel Schröder and Cashew, the gold medal in the medium tournament goes also to Germany, after favorites Silas Boogk, Martina Klimesova and Silvia Trkman made some mistakes. Silvia Trkman had to end their run prematurely, after Le injured in a fatal accident on the dogwalk. Today followed the good message from the slovenian that everything is good with Le. Just some blows. The two compatriots Sandi Okanovic with Miya and Marusa Podjed with Nai were luckier. They take second and first place in the individual small. In front of the Italian Alberto Marmo. Tournament favorites Tobias Wüst and Dörte missed 0.11 seconds to third place. Tobias Wüst stays with it, after a successful and promising Saturday without a medal. Sandi Okanovic and Marusa Podjed, along with Kristijan Koprivnik and Manca Mikec, also provided a gold medal in the Small Team competition for Slovenia.

Not only for Tobias Wüst were the European Open 2018 unsuccessful. For the Swiss national team, which remained without a medal and without a podium finish. Stefan Müller and Pip are 31st in the Large Final. Jeannine Gloor is still 13th in the Small Individual Final after a time consuming refusal. The Swiss Large team provided a bright spot with sixth place. Even if there is no medal for it, it was the best result of a Swiss team on this long and hot weekend. The European Open 2018 was a successful tournament in a great atmosphere.

Team Large
  A. Lenz, A. Wieber, C. Fischbach, M. Grefenstein
 D. Shaw, G. Derrett , M. Reid, N. Wise
  A. Bergamasco, E. Collini, N. Giraudi, V. Bustreo

Team Medium
  Laura Reinhalter, Sabina Marxer, Simone Ullrich-Pansi, Werner Goltz
  Anniina Salo, Jade Erkko, Päivi Männistö-Rahunen, Ville Liukka
  Eeva Ihatsu, Jonna Kannisto, Sami Suvanto, Ville Liukka

Team Small
  Kristijan Koprivnik, Manca Mikec, Maruša Podjed, Sandi Okanović
  Ami Koidl, Conni Raschbauer, Daniela Lubei, Nadine Friesenegger
  Anna Ivanova, Ekaterina Patskevich, Ekaterina Patskevich, Maria Metel’kova

Large
  Max Sprinz withBäx
  Mona Grefenstein with Qju
 Lisa Frick with Jack

Medium
  Daniel Schröder with Cashew
  Olga Kwiecień with Brava
   Ville Liukka with Ronja

Small
  Maruša Podjed with Nai
  Sandi Okanović with Miya
  Alberto Marmo with Dhitta