New world ranking: World Champion Henrik von Eckermann remains at the top
The FEI has published the new world ranking list: And a lot has changed. The World Champion Henrik von Eckermann is still at the top of the world ranking list, followed by the Swiss Martin Fuchs. The fast Frenchman Julien Epaillard has now fought his way up to third place. The Dutch rider Harrie Smolders climbed from seventh to fourth place. Conor Swail had to give up this position and is now in fifth place. Olympic champion Ben Maher is still in sixth place, ahead of Brazilian Marlon Modolo Zanotelli, who made up ground from eleventh to seventh.
Maikel van der Vleuten also moved up in the world rankings to eighth place. Peder Fredricson, who was third in the world ranking so far, slipped down to ninth place. Frenchman Kevin Staut also made it into the top ten, from 13th to the new number ten. Daniel Deusser also made up five places on his way back into the top ten. DoubleD climbed from 18th to 13th place. The second best German in the ranking is Marcus Ehning in 19th place. Christian Ahlmann had to give up one place and is now in 21st place. European Champion André Thieme is in 26th place, Christian Kukuk climbed from 45th to the new 39th place. David Will dropped from 30th to 42nd place. Hans-Dieter Dreher made a huge leap up from 69th to 51st place. Philipp Weishaupt also climbed from 60th to the new 56th position.
