BERMUDA Olympic showjumper Jill Terceira jumped the highest she has even gone last weekend in Alzburg, Austria when she and her mount Chaka won the High Fly Finale-Puissance Class at CSI four star at a sellout indoor stadium.

Jumping before hundreds of cheering spectators, Terceira and Chaka, who was the Bermudian's horse in Hong Kong at the Olympics in the summer, cleared a massive 2.20 metres ¿ 7 feet 4 inches ¿ on the way to winning the title.

"I have never jumped so high in my life," Terceira said this week.

"The wall was at least two feet higher than any of the Olympic jumps in Hong Kong! It was very exciting and thrilling to jump so high and Chaka was full of confidence and keen to jump THE BIG WALL.

"It was definitely the highest I have ever jumped! I couldn't even touch the top of the wall from the ground with my arms stretched high!"

Terceira said that the class consisted of four jumps in the first round ¿ the first an oxer, the second a vertical, the third a triple bar and the fourth the wall.

"If you clear all obstacles then you continue to the next round," she said,

"In the second round the jumps go higher and only the triple bar and the wall are jumped. Again if you have a fault you do not continue to the next round.

"We were clear in every round ¿ there is an FEI four-round maximum."

Terceira and Chaka were the only combination to clear the wall in the fourth and final round.

"I believe the Indoor World Record is 7 feet 7 inches which I think was set by Mario Delauriers of Canada back in the 1990's and I believe the Outdoor World Record was set back in 1949 at 2.47m (8 feet 1¼ inches)."

That outdoor record was set by Faithful ridden by Chilean Captain Alberto Larraguibel who set the high-jump world record on February 5, 1949, by jumping 2.47 meters (8 feet 1¼ inches), in Viña del Mar, Chile, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history.

Terceira, who is competing in the indoor season in Europe, says she will now be competing at the CSI two star in Linz and CSI four star in Vienna in Austria next month.

Of the show in the historic city of Vienna, she said: "The show is held at Wiener-Stadthalle in the middle of the city. It was my favourite show last year."

Other shows she is hoping to compete in this indoor season are the CSI four star in Maastricht, Holland, the CSI two star in Neeroeteren, Belgium, the CSI five star in Geneva, Switzerland and the CSI five star at the London Olympia in England.

"I also hope to return to Bermuda for Christmas to visit family and friends," she said.

At times Terceira has hosted a young Bermudian show jumper at her base in Holland but she said: "At the moment there is no one here from Bermuda although there is always space for a dedicated, hard working show jumper to come over to Europe to train and compete!"

Competing at Beijing Olympics in the summer certainly made the Bermudian want to compete in further Games.

She said after those Games: "I will definitely try for London (in 2012) and hope Bermuda can get the funding and the support to have a team compete at the Pan American Games (in 2011) to then try to qualify for London 2012. The Pan Am Games are our only chance to qualify a team and/or individual."