{"id":28914,"date":"2023-04-16T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/hannah-akerblom-and-chodec-win-the-csi3-1-50m-grand-prix-presented-by-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-at-spring-met-iv-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T06:26:29","slug":"hannah-akerblom-and-chodec-win-the-csi3-1-50m-grand-prix-presented-by-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-at-spring-met-iv-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/hannah-akerblom-and-chodec-win-the-csi3-1-50m-grand-prix-presented-by-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-at-spring-met-iv-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah \u00c5kerblom and Chodec win the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort at Spring MET IV 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden\u2019s Hannah \u00c5kerblom and Chodec spoiled a Spanish party\u00a0at the Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain as the second week of Spring MET IV 2023 concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0\u00c5kerblom\u00a0\u2013 who is a regular at Oliva Nova \u2013 this victory\u00a0was extra special. \u201cThis is my first win\u00a0at\u00a0this level,\u201d she said. \u201cI love Oliva Nova, this is my favourite show, that is why I have been coming back here year after year since the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eleven horse-and-rider-combinations out of the\u00a053 pairs at start cleared the first-round track set by Spain\u2019s Isabel Fernandez De Ca\u00f1ete and joined the deciding jump-off, where\u00a0\u00c5kerblom and Chodec (Guidam Sohn x Centgraf) were the quickest. As the first pair out in the jump-off, the Swedish duo stopped the clock on 41.89 \u2013 a time that the other riders had to chase with such risk that none of those that were faster managed to leave all the fences intact.\u00a0Mariano Martinez Bastida (ESP) and Elixir de Hus (L Arc de Triomphe\u00a0x Fergar Mail) took the runner-up position with a clear round in\u00a042.56, while his compatriot Santiago\u00a0Nu\u00f1ez Riva\u00a0(ESP) and Valentino de Hus Z (Vivaldi du Seigneur x Trophee du Rozel) placed third in\u00a043.72.\u00a0Cyril Cools\u00a0(BEL) and Cloe Gp Z (Corrdino x Takashi Van Berkenbroek) had to settle for the fourth place finish after one down in\u00a040.57, while Tim Gredley\u00a0(GBR) and Medoc de Toxandria (Der Senaat 111\u00a0x Kelvin de Sainte Hermelle) finished fifth with one down in\u00a043.58.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were quite a few riders through to the jump-off, so I was a little bit unsure to begin with,\u201d the happy winner said about her plan for the jump-off, where she was the first to go. \u201cI was thinking about different plans\u2026 But my horse is very, very big and he has a huge stride, so in the end I just decided to go for it \u2013 see how fast we can gallop and how fast we can turn, and see how far that goes! That was basically my plan; just trying to be as fast as we could, because I knew I had so many good riders behind me. I did not do the inside turn to the combination; I went around, but I galloped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a 14-year-old gelding, and I have had him since he was six,\u201d \u00c5kerblom said about her horse Chodec. \u201cHe is an amazing jumper! We have competed up to 1.60m level and done Nations Cups for Sweden as well. This is my first show of the year, and the first time I jump him since December \u2013 except for\u00a0the qualifier on Thursday. I have not trained him at home, I just took him straight in here, so I had no idea how this was going to go. I don\u2019t really have a plan for the season yet; I wanted to see how he was going to be here. I would want to try to ride as many big shows as I can and hopefully do some Nations Cups for Sweden as well \u2013 that is what I really like to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have five horses with me here,\u201d \u00c5kerblom continued. \u201cThree young horses and two of them are really green, doing the first show of their life right now. Then I have one pretty good 7-year-old, and another horse for the 1.45m classes and\u00a0she is doing good, but she is not as good as Chodec \u2013 at least not yet!\u201d<\/p>\n

Spring MET IV 2023 continues next week with competitions up to CSI3* level and concludes on April 23rd.<\/p>\n

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Sweden\u2019s Hannah \u00c5kerblom and Chodec spoiled a Spanish party\u00a0at the Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain as the second week of Spring MET IV 2023 concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort. For\u00a0\u00c5kerblom\u00a0\u2013 who is a regular at Oliva Nova \u2013 this victory\u00a0was extra special….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28916,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions\/28916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}