Successfully held the new event of HEF TRM - BALATON HELLAS Development Tournament 2017

MarKopoulo, October 3, 2017

Press release

 The TRM - BALATON HELLAS Development Tournament, which took place at the Kalamata Equestrian Club last weekend 29 - 30 September and 1 October, was successful held beyond all expectations.

This tournament is a new organization of HEF that starts this year and is specially designed to further develop and spread horse sport across Greece and support the clubs / members in the region.

On Friday, an extraordinary License was held with impressive participation of 25 candidate athletes from Kalamata, Pyrgos, Patras and Ioannina, all of whom were allowed to participate in jumping and dressage competitions. The emergence of new athletes in the province is one of the primary goals of this tournament and the great participation confirms the importance of this event. 

On Saturday morning, veterinary check was carried out on horses, followed by the dressage competition.  After the competition a clinic on flatwork was held  for all the athletes, young and old, by the judges Rosemary and Nikos Georgopoulos.

On Sunday, the jumping competition was held with two events of 0.80 and 1.00m. Judge in jumping was Mrs Irini Englezaki. Representative of HEF was Mr. Stathis Panagakis, Member of the Board and head of the new organization.

The competition was attended by many people. The society of Kalamata embraced the organization and the presence of local sponsors and the media was impressive, reinforcing one of the primary goals of the tournament, which is the penetration of athletic riding and horses into their natural development area in the province.

The 2nd copmpetition of the TRM - BALATON HELLAS Development Tournament, will take place on October 6-8, at the facilities of the Triathlon Equestrian  Club and the Sesklo Riding Center in Volos.

From the Press Office

of the Greek Equestrian Federation