TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Eventing Team and Individual Final

TOKYO, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —

British take group title and Krajewski grabs particular person gold for Germany

Britain’s Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen have been in a league of their very own when cruising to Eventing group gold on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Baji Koen Equestrian Park. This was their nation’s fourth group title but it surely’s been a really lengthy wait since Richard Meade, Mary Gordon-Watson, Bridget Parker and Mark Phillips stood prime of the rostrum a full 49 years in the past in Munich in 1972. Australia took the silver tonight, whereas the defending champions from France claimed the bronze.

And Germany’s Julia Krajewski has entered the equestrian historical past books because the very first feminine athlete to take the Particular person Olympic Eventing title. When the Video games final happened in Tokyo again in 1964 the USA’s Lana du Pont was the primary girl to compete within the three-day occasion, so feminine firsts and the Tokyo Olympics appear to be intrinsically linked.

Within the battle for the remaining Particular person podium locations it was Britain’s Tom McEwen who took the silver whereas Australia’s Andrew Hoy clinched the bronze. Hoy’s result’s nothing wanting sensational as a result of the three-time group gold medallist has a staggering document of participation at eight Olympic Video games courting all the way in which again to Los Angeles in 1984. He was solely 25 years previous again then, and immediately on the age of 62 he is as aggressive as ever.

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Tom McEwen paved the trail to Britain’s group victory with an outstanding spherical from Toledo de Kresker over the primary of Santiago Varela’s superbly adorned tracks tonight. Nevertheless team-mate Laura Collett had a scary second when London 52 baulked on the water tray at fence 4 and scattered poles all over the place earlier than regaining his equilibrium.

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The Particular person finale was really gripping because the top-25 slogged it out. Japan’s Kazuma Tomoto collected simply 0.4 penalties when seventh-last to go along with the beautiful Vinci de la Vigne, and when France’s Christopher Six faulted on the final of the triple mixture on the brand new course Tomoto started to maneuver up the order.

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Colletts’s bay gelding left the final two fences on the ground however when Hoy adopted with a transparent the highest three had completely no respiratory house. Final in, Krajewski might have been utterly overwhelmed however held her nerve to ship a superb spherical from the mare she calls Mandy. She would take the highest step of the rostrum and her place in equestrian historical past, forward of McEwen and Hoy in silver and bronze.

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