Name	Aachen
German name	Aix-la-Chapelle
Latin/italian name	Aquinsgrana
Art	Stadt
Image photo	KaiserKarlsGymnasium.jpg
Wappen	Stadtwappen der kreisfreien Stadt Aachen.svg
Lat deg	50 | lat_min 46 | lat_sec 31
Lon deg	6 | lon_min 4 | lon_sec 58
Lageplan	Aachen in AC (2009).svg
Bundesland	North Rhine-Westphalia
Regierungsbezirk	Köln
District	Aachen
Höhe	266
Fläche	160.83
Einwohner	257935
Stand	2008-06-30
Plz	52062–52080
Gemeindeschlüssel	05334002
Vorwahl	0241 / 02405 / 02407 / 02408
Kfz	AC
Website	www.aachen.de
Bürgermeister	Marcel Philipp
Bürgermeistertitel	Oberbürgermeister
Partei	CDU
Ruling party1	CDU
Ruling party2	Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Year	}}

Native name	''Reichsstadt Aachen''
Conventional long name	Imperial City of Aachen / Aix-la-Chapelle
Common name	Aachen
Continent	Europe
Region	Rhine
Country	Germany
Era	Middle Ages
Status	City-state
Empire	Holy Roman Empire
Government type	Republic
Today
Year start	1306
Year end	1801
Event pre	Settlement founded
Date pre	''ca'' sixth millennium BC
Event start	Gained Imp. immediacy
Event1	Otto I crowned Emperor
Date event1	936
Event2	Fire devastated city
Date event2	1656
Event3	1st Treaty endedWar of Devolution
Date event3	2 May 1668
Event4	2nd Treaty ended Warof Austr. Succession
Date event4	April – May 1748
Event end	Annexed by France
Date end
Event post	3rd Treaty handlespost-NapoleonicFrance
Date post	Oct – Nov 1818
P1
Image p1
S1	Roer (department)
Flag s1	Flag of France.svg
Capital	Aachen
Footnotes	}}

Aachen (, also known in English by its French name Aix-la-Chapelle) has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, west of Cologne. RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany's Universities of Excellence, is located in the city. Aachen's predominant economic focus is on science, engineering, information technology and related sectors. For innovation, Aachen is currently ranked 8th among cities in Germany.

History

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Since Roman times, the hot springs at Aachen have been channeled into baths. There are currently two places to "take the waters", at the Carolus Thermen complex and the bathhouse in Burtscheid.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen ''Aquis-Granum'', and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran. The name ''Granus'' has lately been identified as that of a Celtic deity.

In French-speaking areas of the former Empire, the word ''aquis'' evolved into the modern ''Aix''.

The Middle Ages

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765–6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at ''Aquis villa'' (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months. In the year of his coronation as King of Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time. He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen (since 1929, cathedral) and the palatial presentation halls. Charlemagne spent most winters between 792 and his death in 814 in Aachen, which became the focus of his court and the political centre of his empire. After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

In 936, Otto I was crowned king of the kingdom in the collegiate church built by Charlemagne. Over the next 500 years, most kings of Germany destined to reign over the Holy Roman Empire were crowned "King of the Germans" in Aachen. The last king to be crowned here was Ferdinand I in 1531. During the Middle Ages, Aachen remained a city of regional importance, due to its proximity to Flanders, achieving a modest position in the trade in woollen cloths, favoured by imperial privilege. The city remained a Free Imperial City, subject to the Emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours. The only dominion it had was over Burtscheid, a neighbouring territory ruled by a Benedictine abbess. It was forced to accept that all of its traffic must pass through the "Aachener Reich". Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power. A fire devastated the city in 1656. Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe. Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid. Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen (often referred to as ''Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle'' in English) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution. The second congress ended with the second treaty in 1748, finishing the War of the Austrian Succession. The third congress took place in 1818 to decide the fate of occupied Napoleonic France.

The nineteenth century

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialization swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place (compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his ''Ansichten vom Niederrhein'') until 1801, when Aachen became the "chef-lieu du département de la Roer" in Napoléon's First French Empire. In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century. Administered within the Rhine Province, by 1880 the population was 80,000. Starting in 1840, the railway from Cologne to Belgium passed through Aachen. The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest. In the 19th century and up to the 1930s, the city was important for the production of railway locomotives and carriages, iron, pins, needles, buttons, tobacco, woollen goods, and silk goods.

The twentieth century

Aachen was heavily damaged during World War II. The city and its fortified sourroundings were encircled 13 September-16 October 1944 by the US 1st Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in conjunction with the US 2nd Armored Division and 30th Infantry Division during the prolonged Battle of Aachen, later reinforced by US 28th Infantry Division elements. Direct assaults through the heavily defended city finally forced the German garrison to surrender on 21 October 1944.. Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies. The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders. Damaged buildings included the medieval churches of St. Foillan, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, and the Rathaus (city hall), although Aachen Cathedral was largely unscathed. Only 4,000 inhabitants remained in the city; the rest had followed evacuation orders. Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city. In addition to holding the remains of its founder, it became the burial place of his successor Otto III. Aachen Cathedral has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Main sights

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps. On his death Charlemagne's remains were interred in the cathedral and can be seen there to this day. The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles. For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, Aachen Cathedral was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens.

The 14th century city hall lies between two central places, the ''Markt'' (market place) and the ''Katschhof'' (between city hall and cathedral). The coronation hall is on the first floor of the building. Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfre Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature.

The ''Grashaus'', a late medieval house at the Markt, is one of the oldest non-religious buildings in downtown Aachen. It hosts the city archive. The Grashaus was the former city hall before the present building took over this function.

The ''Elisenbrunnen'' is one of the most famous sights of Aachen. It is a neo-classical hall covering one of the city's famous fountains. It is just a minute away from the cathedral. Just a few steps in south-eastern direction lies the 19th century theatre.

Also well-known and well worth seeing are the two remaining city gates, the ''Ponttor'', one half mile northwest of the cathedral, and the ''Kleinmarschiertor'', close to the central railway station. There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible. There are even five towers left, some of which are used for housing.

There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th- and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, amongst others. The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th- and early twentieth-century manufacturing sites in the city.

Economy

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany. Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne. The airport that serves Aachen, Maastricht Aachen Airport, is located about 40 km away in Dutch territory, close to the town of Beek. Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms. Products manufactured in or around Aachen include electronics, chemicals, plastics, textiles, glass, cosmetics, and needles and pins. Its most important source of revenue, the textile industries, have been dead for almost half a century now.

Transport

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof, was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre. It serves main lines to Cologne, Mönchengladbach and Liège as well as branch lines to Heerlen, Alsdorf, Stolberg and Eschweiler. ICE high speed trains from Brussels via Cologne to Frankfurt am Main and Thalys trains from Paris to Cologne also stop at Aachen Hauptbahnhof. Four RE lines and one RB line connect Aachen with the Ruhrgebiet, Mönchengladbach, Liège, Düsseldorf and the Siegerland. The ''euregiobahn'', a regional railway system, reaches several minor cities in the Aachen region. There are four smaller stations in Aachen: ''Aachen West'', ''Aachen-Schanz'', ''Aachen-Rothe Erde'' and ''Eilendorf''. Only slower trains stop at these, but Aachen-West has developed enormous importance due to the expanding RWTH Aachen university.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 (West-East), A44 (North-South) and A544 (a smaller motorway from the A4 to the ''Europaplatz'' near the city centre). Due to the enormous amount of traffic at the Aachen road interchange, there is often serious traffic accumulation, which is why there are plans to expand the interchange in the coming years.

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf International Airport (80 km), Cologne Bonn Airport (90 km) and Maastricht Aachen Airport (40 km).

Sports

The annual CHIO (short for the French term ''Concours Hippique International Officiel'') is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis. Aachen hosted the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games and 2011 CHIO Aachen.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006. However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division. The stadium "Tivoli", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division. Today, the stadium is used by the amateurs, whilst the Bundesliga Club holds its games in the new stadium "Neuer Tivoli" – meaning New Tivoli- a couple of metres down the road. The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32.960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

In the South of the city you can find Aachen's biggest tennis club "TC Grün Weiss", which hosts the famous ATP Tournament once a year.

Awards

Since 1950, a committee of Aachen citizens annually awards the Karlspreis (German for ‘Charlemagne Award’) to personalities of outstanding service to the unification of Europe. The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union. In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal’, which was awarded for the first time ever. Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank. He was acknowledged for his critical role in the stability of the euro despite the economic crises that prevailed in many economic powers.

Geography

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north. Aachen has the hottest springs of Central Europe with water temperatures of 74°C(165°F). The water contains a considerable percentage of common salt and other sodium salts and sulphur.

Culture

In 1372, Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen.

The Scotch-Club in Aachen was the first discothèque since October 19, 1959. Klaus Quirini as DJ Heinrich was the first DJ ever.

The local specialty of Aachen is an originally stonehard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called ''Aachener Printen''. Unlike gingerbread (''''), which is sweetened with honey, ''Printen'' are sweetened with sugar. Today, a soft version is sold under the same name which follows an entirely different recipe.

Notable residents

King Ethelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great was born in Aachen. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and the last director of the Bauhaus during its period in Dessau and Berlin was born in Aachen as well.

Education

RWTH Aachen University, established as Polytechnicum in 1870, is one of the Germany's Universities of Excellence with strong emphasis on technological research, especially for electrical and mechanical engineering, computer sciences, physics, and chemistry. The university clinics attached to the RWTH, the Klinikum Aachen, is the biggest single-building hospital in Europe. Over time, a host of software and computer industries have developed around the university. It also maintains a botanical garden (the Botanischer Garten Aachen).

FH Aachen, Aachen University of Applied Sciences (AcUAS) was founded in 1971. The AcUAS offers a classic engineering education in professions like Mechatronics, Construction Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering. German and international students are educated in more than 20 international or foreign-oriented programs and can acquire German as well as international degrees (Bachelor/Master) or Doppeldiplome (double degrees). Foreign students accounts for more than 21% of the student body.

The German Army's Technical School (''Technische Schule des Heeres und Fachschule des Heeres für Technik'') is in Aachen.

International relations

Aachen is twinned with: Liège, Belgium; since 1955. Reims, France; since 1967. Halifax, England, United Kingdom; since 1979. Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain; since 1985. Ningbo, China; since 1986. Naumburg, Germany; since 1988. Arlington County, Virginia, United States; since 1993. Cape Town, South Africa; since 1999. Kostroma, Russia; since 2005. Rosh HaAyin, Israel; since 2007. Baltimore, Ireland; since 2010.

See also

Aachen (district)

Aachen tram

Aachener

Aachener Bachverein

List of mayors of Aachen

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Notes

External links

City of Aachen (partly available in English)

Aachen-emotion.com – photos, interviews, stories, audio files and video clips featuring Aachen – presented by Aachen City Council. (in German and English)

ASEAG (public bus transport) (in German)

RWTH Aachen University (in German and English)

Fachhochschule Aachen (Aachen University of Applied Sciences)

Google Earth placemark with official image overlays

Panorama pictures of landmarks and places of interest

''The Spirit of Aachen'' – documentary film by SportsQuest International

Einhard's Annals: first mention of ''Aquis villa'', 765

Aachen Zoo at Zoo-Infos.de

Article on Aachen's historic buildings

Map of the Aachen Area in 1789

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birth date	1962
birth place	Moruya, New South Wales
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William "Bill" Woods (born 1962 in Moruya, New South Wales) is an Australian television broadcaster. He is currently the co-host of Network Ten's ''Ten News at Five'' in Sydney, alongside Deborah Knight.

Career

Television career

Woods has been with Ten since 1989. He was the anchor for Ten's National Basketball League coverage in the mid-1990s, as well as acting as play-by-play commentator for Sydney Kings home games. Woods was also the regular weekend presenter on Ten's Sports Tonight from 1996 to 2005, as well as acting as a back-up presenter on weeknights.

While Woods has been a constant face on Ten's sports coverage, it was during the ill-fated 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race that he rose to national prominence. With Ten being the official TV broadcaster of the race, he delivered regular news updates from Hobart (along with yachting commentator Rob Mundle) on the unfolding tragedy brought about by severe gale-force winds and sea swells reaching several metres in height. Five competing boats were sunk and six people died.

Woods has also been the face of Ten's motorsport coverage since 2000, serving as the studio anchor for its V8 Supercars broadcasts, as well as hosting the magazine programme ''RPM'' and the Australian Grand Prix in 2003 In 2004 Bill was a commentator in the V8 Supercar Championship Series on Network Ten alongside regular Commentator Neil Crompton.

Since early 2006, Woods began co-hosting ''Ten's Early News'', currently presenting on Wednesday to Friday. In 2007, Woods permanently took over ''Ten's Weekend News'' replacing Tracey Spicer. In late 2007, Woods headed Ten's coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France.

In January 2009, Woods replaced Ron Wilson as anchor of Ten's 5pm Newshour in Sydney. Also in 2009, Woods began hosting Thursday Night Live on One HD.

In June 2010 Woods took long service leave, Ron Wilson filled in for him. Woods returned on 2 August 2010.

Radio

During the summer of 2007-2008, Bill Woods occasionally filled in as a stand-in on the nightly 2UE sports program, Sports Today.

Author

In his time away from television commitments, he has written a book, ''Legends of Speed''. This book is about Australia's great race drivers. His second book, ''El Magic: The Life of Hazem El Masri'', a biography of rugby league player Hazem El Masri, was released in 2007.

References

External links

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Laura Kraut (born November 14, 1965 in Camden, South Carolina) is an American show jumping competitor and Olympic champion.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Kraut won the gold medal as part of the United States team with her horse Cedric in team jumping, together with McLain Ward, Will Simpson, and Beezie Madden.

In 2010 Kraut was featured in the television series ''A Rider's Story'' along with fellow Olympian McLain Ward.

Her accomplishments by year:

2009

150,000 euro Grand Prix of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1st/Anthem
2010 Grand prix of Chantilly. Cedric. 2011 Finale Grand Prix Florida. Cedric

2008

US Olympic Trials, Wellington, FL, 1st/Cedric
Beijing Olympics, Hong Kong, Team Gold/Cedric
$500,000 Grand Prix of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 1st/Anthem
Masters Class, Antwerpen, Belgium, 1st/Miss Independent
Brussels Grand Prix, Brussels, Belgium, 1st/Miss Independent
Credit Suisse Grand Prix, Geneva, Switzerland, 1st/Miss Independent
Olympia, London, England, 1st/Miss Independent

2007

CSIO *****Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1st/Anthem
CSIO ***** Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1st/Anthem
CSI *** Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1st/Anthem
CSI*** Hachenburg, Hachenburg, Germany, 1st/Cedric

2006

World Equestrian Games Team Silver, Aachen, Germany Miss Independent
Samsung Super League Team Silver, Miss Independent

2005

$75,000 Cosequin Florida Open, Wellington, FL, 1st/Miss Independent
$60,000 Lincoln Idle Dice Classic, Wellington, FL, 1st/Anthem
Samsung Super League Team Member, Baule, France, Aachen, Germany, team 1st
Rome, Italy, Hickstead, England, team 2nd/Anthem & Miss Independent
$100,000 Washington International President’s Cup, 1st/Anthem

2004

$75,000 Grand Prix of Tampa CSI-W, Tampa, FL 10th/Allegiance
$25,000 WEG Challenge Cup Round 8, Tampa, FL 10th/Allegiance
$50,000 Samsung Nations Cup, Wellington, FL 2nd/Allegiance
$60,000 Idle Dice Challenge, Wellington, FL 6th/Allegiance
$25,000 WEF Challenge Series, Wellington, FL 6th/Allegiance
$25,000 National Speed Stake, Wellington, FL 4th/Liberty
Super League Team Member

2003

Presidents Cup Grand Prix, Washington, DC 2nd/Quickstar II Z
Budweiser Grand Prix de Penn National, Harrisburg, PA 2nd/Anthem
Grand Prix of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1st, 2nd/Wet Paint
$25,000 New Albany Classic, New Albany, Ohio 1st/Quickstar II Z
$150,000 Prudential Financial Grand Prix, Bridgehampton, NY 7th/Allegiance
$25,000 Sally Hansen Grand Prix, Bridgehampton, NY 2nd/Quickstar II Z
Russell Fortune Grand Prix, Zionsville, IN 1st/Quickstar II Z
$40,000 Kentucky Classic Grand Prix, Lexington, KY 3rd/Milano
$25,000 Lexington Classic, Lexington, KY 5th/Milano
$100,000 American Jumping Classic, Kings Mills, OH 4th/Anthem
BMO Financial Group Nations Cup, Calgary, Canada 3rd/Anthem
Pan American Games Selection Trial 4 4th/Anthem
$50,000 Commonwealth Grand Prix, Lexington, KY 4th/Anthem
$100,000 U.S. Open CH CSIO****, Wellington, FL 4th/Allegiance
$75,000 Florida Open CSI***/W, Wellington, FL 8th/Anthem
$75,000 Zada Enterprises Grand Prix CSI***, Wellington, FL 2nd/Anthem
$25,000 WEF Challenge Series, Wellington, FL 2nd/Allegiance
$50,000 Idle Dice Classic, Wellington, FL 5th/Anthem
$25,000 Kilkenny WEF Challenge Cup, Wellington, FL 3rd/Allegiance
$25,000 WEF Challenge Cup II CSI, Wellington, FL 4th/May
$25,000 WEF Challenge Cup I CSI**, Wellington, FL 6th/Liberty
7th/Anthem
USOC Jack Kelly Fair Play Award
World Cup Final, Las Vegas, NV Tie 5th/Anthem

2002

World Cup Final, Leipzig, Germany 17th/Anthem
Grand Prix, Rome, Italy 2nd/Anthem
Bank of Montreal Nations Cup, Calgary, Canada 1st/Anthem
Pennsylvania Big Jump, Harrisburg, PA 1st/Allegiance
Grand Prix of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 1st/May
$200,000 Atco Power Queen Elizabeth ll Cup, Spruce Meadows,Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2nd /Liberty
Samsung Nations Cup, Lucerne, SUI 1st (tie)/Liberty
$105,705 Loro Piana Grand Prix, Rome, Italy 2nd/Anthem
Samsung Nations Cup, Wellington, FL Team 1st
$25,000 Jaguar/Land Rover WEF Challenge Cup 1st/Anthem
$200,000 Budweiser American Invitational, Tampa, FL 2nd/Anthem
$25,000 WEF Challenge IV, Wellington, FL 1st/Anthem

2001

Samsung Nations Cup, Royal Winter Fair-Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1st/Anthem
Budweiser Grand Prix de Penn National, Harrisburg, PA 1st/Anthem
$50,000 Budweiser Grand Prix of Indianapolis, Zionsville, IN 1st/Liberty
$100,000 Cosequin US Open Jumper Championship, Wellington, FL 1st/Liberty
$75,000 American Jumping Classic, Kings Mills, OH 1st/Anthem
$50,000 Commonwealth Grand Prix, Lexington, KY 1st/Liberty

2000

Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia Team 6th/Liberty
$125,000 Budweiser Grand Prix of New York, New York, NY 3rd/Anthem
$50,000 Budwesier Grand Prix De Penn National, Harrisburg, PA 1st/Anthem
$100,000 Rolex/U.S. Show Jumping Championship, Gladstone, NJ 1st/Liberty
$100,000 Cosequin Wellington Finale CSI-W, Wellington, FL 2nd/Liberty
Olympic Selection Trials, Gladstone, NJ, the Oaks/Blenheim & Del Mar, CA 3rd/Liberty
$100,000 Mayor’s Jewelers U.S. Open Jumper Championship, Miami, FL 2nd/Liberty
$50,000 Mary Rena Murphy Grand Prix, Lexington, KY 1st/Simba Run
$30,000 Kentucky Grand Prix, Lexington, KY 1st/Athletico

1998

Nortel Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Calgary Alberta, Canada 1st/Simba Run

1997

$30,000 Motor City Grand Prix, Detroit, MI 1st/Classified

1996

$50,000 Budweiser Indianapolis Grand Prix 1st/Simba Run

1995

$35,000 North American Grand Prix 1st/Felix
$30,000 Kentucky Spring Classic, Lexington, KY 1st/Simba Run

1992

Alternate, Olympic Games, Barcelona, Spain/Simba Run

1988

$50,000 Sweet Charity Farm Grand Prix, Carmel, IN 1st/Athletico

References

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