Consistency lasts: Christine von Oldershausen

The kur to Music was the determinable test for an individual medal and honorary metal was withing reach as the overall top ten laid so closely together. It was last year's winner, Christine von Oldershausen who won the gold as she rode a highly intelligent, fluent and correct test with, for instance, flying changes and pirouettes on a serpentine. Nicole Giesen and Astrid Buer were too tensed and made some mistakes in the flying changes, which pushed them back to a final fourth and fifth place.

Annemiek van der Vorm struck back. "In the individual test he [Incredible] was a bit tired. I missed the flying changes because those are usually correct and I didn't expect anything else to happen, it's my own mistake," Van der Vorm said. However, in the freestyle Incredible's changes were correct and the canter part of her freestyle was very nice. Even though there was some loss of tact in the trot, she eventually scored 73.94% and became reserve champion. Marlies van Baalen, who rode right to the music, missed a change in the series every four strides and lost some impulsion in one of her pirouettes. Nevertheless was the performance of the 19-year-old student of Johan Hinnemann good for a 72.51% and the bronze medal.

"The kur was completely new for us," Holger Schmezer said. "It's obvious that the Dutch were better at it. We are behind them in music and choreography."

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