The silver was won by Switzerland's Jérôme Voutaz while Koos de Ronde of The Netherlands completed the top three, taking bronze.

Going into today's racing, Exell had to make up 1.74sec on Voutaz and decided to change his route to avoid making any mistakes like he had done the day before.

Exell drove fast and clear, securing the title, the second he has won in the Swedish city, with a score of 287.70.

“Today I was more focussed, I drove better," said Exell.

"My horses were just as good as yesterday.

"It is always difficult to deliver a good round, but today it went really well.” 

Voutaz was not among the favourites prior to the final but, after driving an impeccable round in yesterday, he finished in second on 298.04. 

One knock down prevented him from widening the gap with third placed De Ronde. 

Before the winning round, the difference between De Ronde and Voutaz was only 0,53 seconds, but the Dutchman knocked two balls down which cost him any chance at second place as he took third on 305.71.

Jozsef Dobrovitz of Hungary finished in fourth place, driving a team which he had just put together for this final, including two new horses.

Dobrovitz drove clear, but his time just wasn’t fast enough to enter the top three as he narrowly missed out on the podium on 160.13.