![Kimberly and Cassidy Palmer performing a Pas de Deux freestyle test on Saturday at CHIO Aachen (barnysphotoshop.eu)](/images/articles/4466/chio2013_15808.jpg)
Kimberly and Cassidy Palmer performing a Pas de Deux freestyle test on Saturday at CHIO Aachen (barnysphotoshop.eu)
On Saturday the pair, vaulting on Wolfgang Renz’s Leon 364 and lunged by Wolfgang Renz, finished their first freestyle test with a score of 6.658. That score was good for a fifth place finish. On Sunday the Palmer’s improved upon that score, earning a 7.302, and finished one place better in fourth place.
Those two efforts earned them a fourth place overall finish.* Winning the Pas de Deux were Austria’s Stefan Csandl and Theresa Thiel.
Complete results are available at www.chioaachen.de.
*Pas de Deux total scores are an average of two freestyles scores.
Individual Competition
While the Pas de Deux teams were just getting started Saturday, individual vaulters were wrapping up their efforts.
![Alicen Divita led the U.S. individual vaulting effort in Aachen (barnysphotoshop.eu)](/images/articles/4468/chio2013_25865.jpg)
Alicen Divita led the U.S. individual vaulting effort in Aachen (barnysphotoshop.eu)
The U.S.’s top freestyle effort came from Elizabeth Ioannou (Saratoga, CA). On Emma Seely’s Jarl, lunged by Lasse Kristensen, Ioannou earned a 7.961 and took seventh place. She finished in twelfth place overall. Mary Garrett, the third and final U.S. individual female competitor, finished in fourteenth place overall. Garrett (Seal Beach, CA) vaulted on Wolfgang Renz’s Leon 364 and was lunged by Wolfgang Renz.
Kristian Roberts (Moss Beach, CA), the sole U.S. individual male vaulter in Aachen, also vaulted on Leon 364 and was lunged by Wolfgang Renz. Roberts finished fourteenth with a three round average score of 5.586.
Great Britain’s Joanne Eccles won the individual female competition and Erik Oese of Germany was the top placed individual male.
Click here for final individual female standings.
Click here for final individual male standing.
Follow the U.S. Vaulting Team here.
*Individual competition consists of three phases, compulsory, technical, and freestyle. Overall score is determined by averaging the three.