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Darren
Chiacchia Named USET Athlete of the Month for October
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Gladstone, NJ—November 3, 2003—Darren Chiacchia of Springville,
NY, was named the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Athlete
of the Month for October after he won the individual Gold Medal
in the Pan American Eventing Championship at the 2003 Fair Hill
International Festival in the Country.
Chiacchia clinched the Gold with a penalty-free show jumping round
to finish with a three-phase score of 52.4 penalties on Windfall
2. Karen O’Connor of The Plains, VA won the individual Silver
with a score of 59.0 on Joker’s Wild and Jan Thompson of
Purcellville, VA won the Bronze with a score of 62.4 on Shared
Dreams.
“I
have a great horse and a lot of confidence in his ability to do
well,” said Chiacchia who won the USET Eventing Spring Championship
at Foxhall last April. “He has continued to develop and get
stronger in all three phases. I’m thrilled with what he did
here.”
No eventing competition was held at the Pan American Games in
Santo Domingo earlier this year and the International Equestrian
Federation (FEI) decided to hold the Pan American Eventing Championship
in conjunction with the Fair Hill International CCI***.
U.S.
Equestrian was formed through the combination of USA Equestrian
and the United States Equestrian Team. The vision of U.S. Equestrian
is to provide leadership for equestrian sport in the United States
of America, promoting the pursuit of excellence from the grass
roots to the Olympic Games, based on a foundation of fair, safe
competition and the welfare of its horses, and embracing this
vision, to be the best national equestrian federation in the world
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