Kai Vorberg and Sissi Jarz win the 2nd Freestyle round

At the World Equestrian Games, CHIO Aachen 2007, the vaulting competitions in the Prize of the Sparkasse also came to an excellent close. "We weren't expecting this victory at all. We had two strong competitors and we didn't even know in the run-up to the event whether we would be able to compete.

Namely, our horse Cepin was ill for a long time, he had a bad lung infection and was in the clinic for four weeks. Things went up and down for a while and we also missed the first qualifier for the European Championships. Aachen was our first international competition after the victory at the Rhineland Championships. We are extremely happy that we were able to win here," commented the lunger Jessica Schmitz, who herself won the World Championships three times, the European Championship title twice and was German Champion six times. The team achieved an overall score of 8.591 points to take first place ahead of VV Ingelsberg, who scored 8.534, followed by Team Wintermühle der Jugendgruppe Köln with 8.42. This team is trained by Kai Vorberg, who went into the lead in the men's individual competition after the second round.

The trainee professional rider from Cologne went on to win the combined classification with Picasso RS von der Wintermühle. "Vaulting at the CHIO is both a challenge and a must for us. We are very pleased that our plan came off," the individual World Champion of 2006 explained. Second place went to the Swiss vaulter, Patric Looser, who lives in Cologne and is also trained by Kai Vorberg. Looser was awarded an overall score of 8.391. Gero Meyer/Zeit for Robinson ranked third with 8.31, followed by Dennis Peiler/Massimo who comes from Hamm (8.086).

In the ladies' competition the Austrian vaulter, Sissi Jarz, triumphed with a score of 8.463 followed by Nicola Ströh/Hamburg on Lanson (8.394) and Marion Graf/Switzerland on Lanson (8.353). The 26-year-old Sissi Jarz had already won the European Championship qualifier in Brno. Nicola Ströh (26), who has a degree in the Science of Sports, won gold at the World Championships in 2004 and was German Champion in 2004 and 2006.