A champions edition

Jumping Verona will boast a stellar cast once again this year. The finest pairs in world show jumping will compete in the only Italian stage of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™, from nineteen different countries – all ready to ensure great performances in the Pala RAM for the CSI5*-W competitions.
Starting with three reigning champions.
German rider Christian Kukuk, Olympic Champion in Paris 2024, his compatriot Richard Vogel, who won the European title this year in La Coruña, and the current Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final Champion, French rider Julien Epaillard.
Vogel (world number 5) is competing for the first time in Verona and Kukuk (world number 4) for the second – but both boast an amazing series of victories on the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ circuit.
Another ace completes an exceptional trio for Germany: Daniel Deusser, who won the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ in Verona in 2018 riding Calisto Blue.
Julien Epaillard (world number 12) was already in the forefront of Jumping Verona in 2009 and 2023 and won the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final in Basel last April.
Simon Delestre from France is a ‘regular guest’ in Verona – he began competing here while still very young, riding ponies – and is a fearsome opponent for everyone. The French rider boasts two Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ wins at Jumping Verona in 2015 and 2021, both in the saddle of Hermes Ryan, the only one to have achieved this feat so far, together with Dutch rider Albert Zoer (2005 and 2007 riding Okidoki).
British rider Ben Maher also returns to the Veneto (n. 2 in the world). He won the Verona Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ in 2023 riding Dallas Vegas Batilly.
Other previous winners in Verona in the starting line-up this year also include Irish rider Bertram Allen, who came out on top in 2014 at only 19 years old riding Molly Malone V.
The field for Jumping Verona also boasts two other champions: Austrian rider Max Kühner, the Frenchman Kevin Staut, the Belgian Pieter Devos, the Irishman Denis Lynch, the Dutchman Willem Greve and Swiss rider Martin Fuchs.
Jane Richard is also from Switzerland and is the Longines Ambassador of elegance, joining Australian Edwina Tops-Alexander and Italian star Giulia Martinengo Marquet for a ‘trio’ of lady riders well worth following very carefully.