Ludo Philippaerts of 9 and a team rank of 7. He competed at the World Equestrian Games twice before, in 1998 and 1990. He was the BP Cup Champion in Spruce Meadows in 2006 and the 2006 winner of the Global Champions Tour. In 2005, his fourth consecutive year of competition in the Show Jumping World Cup, Philippaerts ranked 9th. He ranked 15th at the 1989 European Championships in Rotterdam. Philippaerts was born into an equestrian family. His brother, Johan Philippaerts, and his two older children are also show jumping riders. He and his wife Veronique have four children: Ludo Philippaerts Ludo
European Individual Chess Championship European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (absolute and women's), another object of this tournament is to determine a number of players who qualify for the FIDE World Cup and the knockout Women's World Championship. The tournament is held separately for men and women as a Swiss system tournament, with a varying number of rounds. The only exception was the first Women's Championship tournament in 2000, which