Mario Walter overjoyed: win in the BW-Bank Indoor Championship

Stuttgart – A win every day for Mario Walter – yesterday he won the equestrian triathlon then late Thursday evening it was the BW-Bank Indoor Championship. In front of a 7,100 crowd, the 48-year-old local rider came out on top in the class for riders from the federal state of Baden Württemberg at the 39th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show. In the 10-rider jump-off, he again went clear in the fastest time when stopping the clock in 35.01 – a time his rivals could not get close to. In the saddle on his nine-year-old Holstein gelding Mufasa he relegated Pia-Luise Baur into second. Though faultless atop the eight-year-old Oldenburg mare, she needed 35.48 seconds for the round. Third in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle was the Canadian Nikolaus Leckebusch-Peters, who competes for a club in the region, on the mare Toulonia Blue S (0/36.41).


“I’ve tried to win here so many times and always came close, but today’s finally my day. Brilliant,” commented the winner. “Unique, this cup in Germany, thanks a lot to BW-Bank,” continued “Super-Mario”. Norvin Graf Leutrum von Ertingen, the Chairman of the BW-Bank, stressed, “Watching Baden-Württemberg’s riders here is something quite special.”

Only the top 25 riders at the four qualifying classes at the Ichenheim, Donaueschingen Immenhöfen, Bietigheim-Bissingen and Bisingen horse shows were given the right to compete in the final.

The federal state’s best jumpers have been competing in the BW-Bank Indoor Championship – the unofficial federal championships under a roof – in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle ever since 1986. In the meantime, the long-established event counts as one of the biggest attractions at the STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS whereby the local fans all meet up and enjoy a giant party.

During the day, 2,400 spectators were in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle watching the two jumping classes for the Prize of Bardusch GmbH & Co. KG as well as the final of the iWEST Dressage Cup.


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