IMG_5645Christian Ahlmann still tops the Longines Ranking for the 7th month in a row now. While the Olympic Silvermedal-rider Gerco Schröder is down from rank two to three, Kevin Staut takes in his second position. Elizabeth (Beezie) Madden continues with a fourth place coming from the sixth position. The GCT-lady, Edwina Tops-Alexander has gone from rank seven to five while Steve Guerdat is down to rank six after being the number four last month. The German toprider Ludger Beerbaum is back in the top 10 as rank seven (last month 12). Further Nick Skelton and Rolf-Göran Bengtsson have switched places, with Nick now being rank eight. The top ten is completed by Germany's Marcus Ehning. But let us also have a look on who's climbing on the new list... The French rider, Roger-Yves Bost and his collegue Hans Dieter Dreher made an impressive climbing getting dangerously close to the top 10. Also the leading GCT-lady, Laura Kraut, jumped up some ranks from 23 to 16. But it is STX-rider Daniel Deusser who makes an impressive climb going from rank 44 to 27! Further Nicola Philippaerts (70 to 57), Luca Maria Moneta (77 to 60), Marc Bettinger (77 to 65), Carsten-Otto Nagel (93 to 67), Martin Fuchs (87 to 74), David Will (101 to 80), Kristaps Neretnieks (100 to 81) and Natalia Simonia (111 to 86) are all also jumping upwards on the ranking. © equnews.com/ FEI