With 12 riders at the Balkan Dressage CH

Markopoulo, June 27, 2017

Press release

With 11 amazons and 1 rider, Greece will participate in this year's Balkan Dressage Championship, which will be held this weekend in Zagreb, Croatia, in the Hippodrom Center. National Sponsor, METKA is sponsoring the transfer of National Team horses, who left Greece on Sunday and are expected to arrive in Zagreb today.

Greece will take part with complete teams of 4 riders in the Seniors and Juniors classes and with 2 riders in the classes of Young Horses and Children respectively. More specifically in the Seniors class Stelios Stavroulakis with Baiao, Fedra Xanthopoulou with Flavio Go, Christina Sachinoglou with Rafaello 4 and Evangelia Koupenou with Ihor will take part. In the YR class Nina Isabella Raviini with Djonas Figaro and Elisabeth Mika with Sir Kavalier will participate. Lavinia Makropoulou with Widoc Timbre, Eleni Retsou with Fairytale, Raphaelia Georgoulea with Cassian 006 and Myrto Kouvatsi with Grossino M. will take part in the Juniors Class. Finally, the first two Champions, Maria Eleni Tourkomani with Dj and Irene Dimitrijevic with Escordio will take part.

A total of 62 riders and horses from seven countries, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Slovenia will take part.

Group chef d'equipe is Ms. Efi Koumbetsou.

From the Press Office of the HEF