Olympic points loose 25% value, To 10 shaken up
Ludger Beerbaum firmly keeps his position as leader of the FEI/Gandini World Jumping Rankings. This month, the points awarded at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney lost 25% of their value, which caused some significant variation in the Top Ten. The Olympic Champion Jeroen Dubbeldam (NED) was kicked off the Top Ten and went down from 10th to 15th place.

Ludo Pilippaerts (BEL), stole the runner-up spot from Willi Melliger (SUI), thanks to his points awarded at the Nations Cup Final in Madrid, where he proudly received the trophy of the Samsung Nations Cup Leading Rider. He also earned about 150 points in CSIO Spruce Meadows (CAN) and in CSI-A Aach (GER). Not all Belgian riders were so fortunate. Fellow countryman Jos Lansink dropped from the Top Ten and is now 11th.

Rolf Göran Bengtsson (SWE) confirmed his good progression by moving from 12th to 9th place. The first lady rider is now Margie Godstein-Engle (USA) at 20th place, who is also the best North American rider.

The next FEI/Gandini World Jumping Riders will be published the first week of November. All riders will have to earn as many points as possible until 18 November, the set date for the selection of the 10 riders who will participate in the first FEI/Gandini Top Ten World Final on 8 December 2001 in Geneva (SUI).

FEI/BCM WORLD DRESSAGE RIDERS RANKINGS

Ulla Salzgeber (GER) leads the rankings for the 8th consecutive month with an unchanged score of 79.639. But there are changes in the immediate runners-up: Isabell Werth (GER) gained one place and is now 2nd, followed by Nadine Capellmann (GER) who went up one place. The Olympic champion Anky van Grunsven (NED) dropped down from 2nd to 5th place.

As in Jumping, one year has passed since the Olympic Games: the Olympic scores, that could be taken into account twice the first year if better than the other scores are only counted once the second year, until the next World Championship, i.e. 2002 World Equestrian Games, when they will be dropped.