Individual Dressage
Four riders qualified with over 80 points, led by Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Germany). In the final, Steffan Peters (United States) took the early lead with an 80.968 ahead. Carl Hester (Great Britain) would take the lead from him scoring 81.818 with a large artistic score. Sabine Schut-Kery (United States) was able to go ahead with an 84.300. Caroline Dufour (Denmark) took the lead with a total of 87.507 with an artistic score of 93.086. von Bredow-Werndl set an incredible score of 91.732. Isabell Werth (Germany) could not quite match her teammate scoring 89.657. Dujardin scored 88.543 on young horse Gio.
🥇Jessica von Bredow-Werndl 🇩🇪
🥈Isabell Werth 🇩🇪
🥉Charlotte Dujardin 🇬🇧
Team Dressage
The qualification event saw Germany take a big lead, scoring 7911.5 led by 2717 of Jessica von Bredow-Werndl. Britain was in second behind a strong Charlotte Dujardin score with Denmark, led by Caroline Dufour, in third. In the final Adrienne Lyle was the first to go over 2500 for the United States. Carl Hester followed with a 2577.5 but Germany took the lead with 2652. In round two and Hans Peter Mindehoud scored 2505.5 but the US went into the lead with a 2558.5 by Steffen Peters. Carina Kruth scored 2537 leaving Denmark second. Charlotte Fry scored 2528 but Isabell Werth scored 2740.5 leaving Germany 286 ahead of Great Britain who led the United States by 40 points. In the final round it was Edward Gal scored 2628.5 leaving the Netherlands with a total of 7479.5. Dufour put Denmark ahead of them with a total of 7540. Sabine Schut-Kery scored 2684.5 to a total of 7747 for the Americans. Charlotte Dujardin was next but could only score 2617, leaving the British total as 7723, not enough to beat the USA. Bredow-Werndl scored a massive 8178 to put Germany miles clear in the gold medal position.
🥇Germany 🇩🇪
🥈United States 🇺🇸
🥉Great Britain 🇬🇧
Individual Eventing
Michael Jung (Germany) took the lead after the dressage phase with a score of 21.10. Oliver Townend (Great Britain) scored 23.60 and occupied the medal positions with Alex Huan Tian (China) on 23.90. There were fourteen total riders with scores under 30 following the dressage round. Oliver Townend was strong in the cross country, not amassing any penalty points. Laura Collett (Great Britain) managed the same, leaving her on 25.80 and Tom McEwan (Great Britain) made it a full house of clean rounds to finish on 28.90. They were joined by four others under a total of 30. Julia Krajewski (Germany) added 0.4 to sit on 25.60. Tim Price was fourth on 26.80, Kazuma Tomoto (Japan) on 27.50 and Andrew Hoy (Australia) in seventh on 29.60. The first contender to go in the first jumping round was McEwan who scored a clear round. Jung would be the next contender up, doing the same. Collett would amass four penalty points, leaving her behind McEwan. Tomoto would also collect four penalty points. Krajewski went round perfectly. It was a poor round for Price, who picked up 12 points. Hoy kept himself in a dangerous position with a clear round. Townend would drop four points. Heading into the final round Krajewski led on 25.60 ahead of Townend on 27.60, McEwan on 28.90 with Hoy and Collett next. With those five to go, it was Tomoto leading on 31.90. Collett hit the final two fences to rule herself out of the medals. Hoy went clear to finish on 29.60 and put the pressure on the other three. McEwan would find a clear round with a 0.40-time penalty leaving him on 29.30. Townend got too close to the second fence and cost himself a medal. Krajewski knew what she needed for gold and the round was perfect.
🥇Julia Krajewski 🇩🇪
🥈Tom McEwan 🇬🇧
🥉Andrew Hoy 🇦🇺
Team Eventing
The competition was fiercer this year as teams were no longer allowed to drop a score. Britain took the lead after the dressage stage with no weak scores. Germany was 2.10 behind with Australia a further 6 behind. At the end of the cross country, Britain had taken a big lead after scoring no penalty points. They had 17.9 points over Australia with France a further 0.9 back. Germany had fallen back to sixth, behind New Zealand and the United States. The six remained in that order following the first round of jumping. Both Australia and France would drop points closing the gap back to New Zealand. Although Great Britain dropped four points, with one rider remaining they held an advantage of 17.90. Of the six contenders, Germany was first up, with a perfect round to leave them an outside chance of a medal. The United States had lost touch with the Germans in the previous round and dropped further behind with 4.40 penalties scored. The poor score from Tim Price knocked New Zealand behind Germany. It was a clear round from France guaranteeing them at least bronze. Australia guaranteed themselves at least silver with a clear round from Hoy. Townend dropped four points meaning Britain took the victory by a massive margin.
🥇Great Britain 🇬🇧
🥈Australia 🇦🇺
🥉France 🇫🇷
Individual Jumping
In order to make the jumping final, riders had to have a clear round. Ben Maher (Great Britain) led with the fastest time ahead of Darragh Kenny (Ireland) and Ashlee Bond (Israel). Steve Guerdat (Switzerland) and Kent Farrington (United States) were the two most notable names to not make the final. Henrik von Eckermann (Sweden) was the first to complete a clear round. Behind him on time but also clear were Peder Fredricson (Sweden), Malin Bayard-Johnsson (Sweden) and Daisuke Fukushima (Japan). Maikel van der Vleuten (Netherlands) would set the fastest time with Ben Maher (Great Britain) only tenths behind. Scott Brash (Great Britain) and Cian O’Connor (Ireland) were both unfortunate to miss the time limit by 0.45 seconds. Fukushima, ranked outside the top 600 in the world went into first place with a clear first round with a 43.76. Outside the top 200 is Bayard-Johnsson and she would set a time of 40.76. Fredricson would go even faster with a time of 38.02. Maher took the lead with a 37.85 to guarantee himself a medal. Von Eckermann went into third with a 39.71. Final ride van der Vleuten could not do enough to overcome Maher, but instead, finish third.
🥇Ben Maher 🇬🇧
🥈Peder Fredricson 🇸🇪
🥉Maikel van der Vlueten 🇳🇱
Team Jumping
Sweden clearly held a good hand going into the final having had three of the top six in the individual event. In qualification, they went clear, without a single penalty. They also had the quickest overall time. Behind them were Germany and Belgium tied on four penalty points. In the final, Sweden and United States led after clear rounds, ahead of France who had scored one penalty point and Belgium on four. France would lead at the end of the second round with France only on two points, for two-time penalties with the United States, Belgium and Sweden all on four penalty points. In the final round, France would have a chance to seal gold but would not complete a round. Both Sweden and United States would score four penalty points, to leave them going to a jump-off. All three riders would go clear in the jump-off, leaving it coming down to times. Sweden had a 1.3-second gap to win the gold.
🥇Sweden 🇸🇪
🥈United States 🇺🇸
🥉Belgium 🇧🇪
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