According with the final entries, the CSIO Rome Piazza di Siena – d’Inzeo Master ‘centenary’ edition will perform a top-class event

Seventy-six riders are competing, with 190 horses representing twenty nations, will take the scene in Rome’s most famous arena from Thursday 28th until Sunday 31st May - clik HERE for the masterlist.

Among them, a third (25 riders) are women, making this a distinctly lady-led edition. Like France’s Nina Mallevaey for example, ranked sixth in the world and the top-ranked female rider.

The French rider was among the stars of the last edition of the CSIO in Rome, with her two clear rounds in both the Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup and the Rolex Grand Prix Rome, where she finished third on her debut.

Aged 26, born on 3 January 2000, Nina Mallevaey is one of the most accreditated support for the French national team, which is looking forward with confidence to the Nations Cup at Piazza di Siena – a competition the ‘Blues’ have won twenty times in the event’s history – fielding, among others, two lady riders Marie Demonte and Megane Moissonnier.

The winners of the prestigious team competition in 2025 (their sixth victory) were the USA, who this year fielded a team – would you believe it – made up entirely of women, led by a champion of the calibre of Laura Kraut (ranked 11th). Joining Kraut in defending the ‘stars and stripes’ are Marilyn Little, Callie Schott and Natalie Dean.

Sweden, meanwhile, fielded three ‘terrible girls’ – Linda Heed, Wilma McMahon and Angelie Van Hessen – with champion Peder Fredricson as their team leader. Great Britain also relies on Jessica Mendoza, another top-ranked lady rider (26th).

Germany will probably be the ‘one to beat’ team in the Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup. Having secured victory in Rome in 2024 (their eleventh time), the Germans arrive in Rome with what has being described as a ‘star-studded squad’, composed by the reigning European Champion and world number three, Richard Vogel, Christian Ahlmann, and two highly competitive lady riders named Sophie Hinners and Jorne Sprehe.

Belgium and Brazil are also teams to watch.

Belgium fields Emile Conter alongside three-quarters of the European Champion team from La Coruña 2025 – Nicola Philippaerts, Thibeau Spits and Gilles Thomas (European individual runner-up; 5th in the rankings), whilst Brazil features crowd favourite Rodrigo Pessoa, Yuri Mansur – winner of the Rolex Grand Prix Rome 2025 – and Stephan de Freitas Barcha, winner of the Loro Piana Trophy, the second most important individual class at the same CSIO... Quite a line-up… 

Ireland is not to be underestimated. The Eireannachs took the Nations Cup in Rome only once in 2023. Denis Lynch was in the team in that occasion and will be back this year alongside Cian O’Connor and the 21-year-old Tom Wachman.

Mexico, that won the competition back in time in 1948, is also competing in the Nations Cup this year.

Among the ladies, Greece’s Ioli Mytilineou and Australia’s Edwina Tops-Alexander – who is particularly fond of Piazza di Siena – stand out, whilst there will be seven Italian ladies competing in Rome.

Leading the squad there is Giulia Martinengo Marquet. She was part of the team in 2018 when Italy secured its second consecutive Nations Cup victory in Rome. Among the Italian ladies there are alco young Elisa Chimirri, Antonia Vita Pinardi, Francesca Ciriesi and three ‘debs’: Beatrice Guidi, Clara Pezzoli and the young rider Greta Lepratti.



In the pictures:
Nina Mallevaey (FRA) - ph. CSIO Rome/M.Argenziano
Laura Kraut (USA) - ph. SeS/F.Mezzelani