ROLEX AND EQUESTRIANISM / ROLEX und der PFERDESPORT / Rolex grand slam magazine rolex et les sports équestres Furthermore, Rolex sponsors three legendary competitions on the eventing calendar, as Title Sponsor of the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event and Official Timekeeper for the Badminton and Burghley Horse Trials. The brand actively supports excellence in the discipline through the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing – an award presented to the rider who wins consecutively at these three prestigious and challenging yearly events. Behind the Scenes Behind the scenes, Rolex participates in the development of equitation through its patronage of the Jumping Owners Club, an organization that brings together and supports the world’s leading horse owners involved in the discipline. The brand also partners the International Jumping Riders Club, a group comprised of the top-ranked riders that promotes the image of jumping in equestrian sport and organizes the Rolex IJRC Top 10 Final. Testimonees Rolex has also cultivated close relationships with equestrianism’s exceptional competitors, counting among its Testimonees Brazilian show jumper Rodrigo Pessoa, an Olympic and World Championship gold medallist; German rider of American origin Meredith Michaels Beerbaum, the first woman to be ranked World No. 1 in jumping and three-time winner of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Final; Canada’s Eric Lamaze who won a gold medal in the individual show jumping event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and became World No. 1 for the first time in 2009; European jumping champion Kevin Staut, from France, who won a team silver medal at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Kentucky; and Swiss rider Steve Guerdat, the individual jumping gold-medallist at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In eventing, Rolex supports British equestrian Zara Phillips, team silver medal winner at the 2012 London Olympics and the individual champion in 2006 at the FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen; and Britain’s Pippa Funnell, the first and only rider ever to have won the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. And in dressage, Rolex Testimonee Isabell Werth – world record holder for most titles won in her discipline – has the unique honour of having represented Germany at four Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000 and 2008), winning team and individual medals at each. A realm reserved for true champions, horsemanship requires a passion for excellence and perfection. Bound by these shared values, Rolex – a true partner of the sport – continues to make a unique and lasting contribution to equestrianism around the world. COMUNICATION genius Hans Wilsdorf equipped swimmer Mercedes Gleitze with a Rolex Oyster when she swam the English Channel. KOMUNIKATIONSGENIE hans Wilsdorf stattete die Schwimmerin Mercedes Gleitze mit einer Rolex Oyster aus, als diese den Ärmelkanal durchschwamm. hans Wilsdorf, véritable génie DE LA COMUNICATION équipa la nageuse Mercedes Gleitze d’une Rolex Oyster lorsque celle-ci traversa la Manche à la nage. 22
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