OLYMPIC champion Michael Jung with stood the pressure put on by Wiltshire-based rider Tim Price as he added another major title to his considerable collection on Sunday when he won the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in Lincolnshire.

Jung became the first German in Burghley's 54-year history to win the event after jumping a clear showjumping round on his London 2012 gold medallist La Biosthetique-Sam.

And it served as ideal preparation for the FEI European Championships at Blair Castle in Scotland later this week, when Jung will defend the individual title he captured in Malmo two years ago.

The 33-year-old delivered a showjumping clear round under intense pressure, knowing that as last to go, he could afford no mistakes.

New Zealander Tim Price, based at Mildenhall, upped the ante by going clear aboard Ringwood Sky Boy, and he would have claimed the £63,000 top prize had Jung come unstuck, but the only rider in eventing history to hold Olympic, world and European titles simultaneously, was not to be denied.

Price had to settle for second spot ahead of Australian Christopher Burton, whose 2015 Gatcombe British Open winner TS Jamaimo finished on a score of 45.0 penalties for third spot, five penalties adrift of Jung.

Burton completed an impressive weekend's work by finishing fourth on his other ride Haruzac, with Price's wife Jonelle taking fifth on Classic Moet and Badgerstown-based former double Olympic champion Mark Todd sixth with Leonidas II.

Tina Cook, the 2009 European individual gold medallist, was leading British rider in eighth place on Star Witness, two positions above six-time Burghley champion William Fox-Pitt on four-star debutant Fernhill Pimms.

Attention now turns to Blair Castle, starting next Thursday, when Jung and Germany will be favourites for European individual and team gold, but a strong British challenge is set to be made by a 12-strong squad that includes the likes of Fox-Pitt, Nicola Wilson, Oliver Townend and Pippa Funnell.