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was obstacle driving and he won the last event, with a faultless dri- ve-off.

The great chance came in 1980, when the World Championship was organized in Windsor. He helped the team up the rostrum’s highest position. At the World Championship in Apeldoorn in 1982 he was among the runner-ups again: he came

fourth, and was one of the best in the British team which got the bronze.

George Bowmann, in the whole, has been in the world’s lead for ten years, one of the steadiest drivers in the international field. In May 1984 he was second in the Windsor competition.

He won the dressage as usual — and was so very good in the Marathon that he could afford to make one mistake with the obstacles.

The result: he snatched the title of world champion from György Bárdos, which meant victory for his team as well.

Velstra also continued his good performances last year: in 1983 there was nobody better at five international competitions. Velstra got off to an excellent start in 1984. He won the Deurne international tournament in April, and came first before Bowman and Bárdos at the international competition of Windsor in May.

Bernhard Duen (Federal Republic of Germany )

When you want to compile a list of West Germany’s carriage drivers, Bernhard Duen’s name will be definitely among the first to be mentioned. The near-fifty-year-old sportsman is an agruculturist by profession, owns, and manages a wonderful riding school.

Duen is prone to have troubles during the Marathon: over the past few years he has had the shafts or one of the wheels broken at not less than four world events. That is why he could not be there among the first three in the individuals. His greatest success he archieved in 1976, he won a silver

in Apeldoorn as a nember of the FRG team. In 1981 and 1982 he won one of the most prestigious international tournaments of the Continent, the Aachen Talbot Trophy The latest victory came in Hamburg at the end of May 1984, where those who had the luck to witness, say he did the best job ever in his life, eleganty overtaking a field of nearly thirty competitors.

Zygmunt Waliszewski ( Poland)

The best Pole on the box: Zygmunt Waliszewski. He is a rather strong rival: he knows just about everything that can be known about this difficult sport. Polish carriage driving has improved a lot over the last decade, which is shown by four bronzes won at World Championships, three silver and three bronze medals that Poles have been awarded at European Championships during this period. Waliszewski took the lion’s share all along in the fight for those ten medals, and now his collection is glittering with everything except gold.

The fight at the 1976 Apeldoorn World Championship, which is still an event to be remembered, brought him a bronze: running up just behind Bárdos of Hungary and Jung of the FRG, he gained a bronze for the team, too. At the European Championship in 1977 he won second place in the team events. At the World Championship in Kecskemét in 1978 he had a promising start — he came second in dressage — but in the last event, the obstacle driving, he mixed the tracks up and was eliminated which set Poland’s team back from the second to the seventh position. He made up wonderfully for that failure next year, at the Európáén Championship is Haras du Pin: he did not make one single mistake, narrowly snatching the bronze before Ferenc Muity, who failed but one. Ninth at the 1980 World Championship but third in the team events. In 1984 he had a clear victory at the inter national competition in Sierekow.

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