Bronze for Nick Skelton

Nick Skelton won the individual bronze medal at the European SJ Championships in Madrid which concluded yesterday (18th September 2011). After he had knocked down one fence, it was thought his medal chance had gone, but the final dutch rider Gerco Schroder, having not had a rail down all Championships, had 2 down to knock him out of the medals, and enable Nick to win bronze.  If Nick had gone clear, he would have won gold, but this went to Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengtsson riding Ninja La Silla, while Silver went to Germany’s Carsten-Otto Nagel riding his mare Corradina.