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Great Britain win a record-breaking fifth team gold medal at the Paris Olympics

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Tom McEwen and JL Dublin. Credit: British Equestrian/Jon Stroud Media

It was all to play for as Team GB entered the final phase of the Olympic eventing competition in Versailles this morning

Spectators filled Versailles’ Olympic stadium to watch all the action in the team showjumping competition this morning. Jumping to decide on the team medals, Great Britain were sitting in gold medal position just 4.7 penalties (one fence in hand) ahead of France going into the final phase, after Rosalind Canter had 15 penalties added to her cross-country score yesterday.

First to go for Great Britain, Rosalind and the 12-year-old gelding Lordships Graffalo (Walter) entered the showjumping arena on a score of 38.40. She followed France’s Nicolas Touzaint who had two fences down, but Rosalind jumped a super round, just tapping fence six to finish with one fence down on a score of 42.40. Commenting on her round, Ros said: “Team orders are always to go for the clear round and do the best we can, but I didn’t quite pull it off. In trying to be quick, I just cut a corner. I know Walter has a bit of a right drift and I just didn’t manage it around that one corner, but the rest of it I am absolutely delighted with.”

A cool and collected looking Tom McEwen with JL Dublin (Dubs) jumped an incredible showjumping clear round to finish the competition on their dressage score of 25.80. With just Laura Collett left to jump for Britain, Team GB supporters were on the edge of the seats as Britain’s chances of a team gold was increasing.

Leading after the cross-country, Germany’s Michael Jung couldn’t quite make it a double clear in the showjumping adding four penalty points to finish the competition on a score of 21.80. Michael’s round saw him go into, and stay at, the top of the leaderboard as the riders prepare for this afternoon’s individual medal placings.

The penultimate competitor, France’s Stephane Landois riding Chaman Dumontceau, finished his round adding 4.40 penalties to finish on a score of 31.60, meaning Great Britain had four fences in hand as our final rider got ready to jump. It looked set to be a super clear round for Laura Collett and London 52 (Dan) but sadly they knocked the last fence, giving Great Britain team gold but moving Laura down to individual bronze position ahead of this afternoon’s final round. A delighted Laura said: “We brought it home! There are no words to describe the atmosphere of being here over all three days. I rode into the arena today with so much pressure but luckily my teammates had done such a good job. It’s just unreal.”

Laura Collett and London 52. Credit: British Equestrian/Jon Stroud Media

The top 25 riders will battle it out for the individual medals this afternoon. All the action begins at 2pm British time.

The final team medal placings are…

Gold – Great Britain

Silver – France

Bronze – Japan – their first ever medal in this sport

The individual standings going into this afternoon’s performance are…

  1. Micheal Jung (Germany) – 21.80
  2. Christopher Burton (USA) – 22.40
  3. Laura Collett (Great Britain) – 23.10
  4. Tom McEwen (Great Britain) – 25.80
  5. Yoshiaki Oiwa (Japan) – 25.90
  6. Felix Vogg (Switzerland) – 26.10
  7. Kazuma Tomoto (Japan) – 27.40
  8. Tim Price (New Zealand) – 28.50
  9. Stephane Landois (France) – 31.60
  10. Janneke Boonzaaijer (Netherlands) – 31.90
  11. Julia Krajewski (Germany) – 32.10
  12. Boyd Martin (USA) – 32.10
  13. Frida Andersen (Sweden) – 33.30
  14. Karim Florent Laghouag (France) – 33.60
  15. Elizabeth Halliday (USA) – 34.80
  16. Clarke Johnstone (New Zealand) – 34.90
  17. Lara de Liedekerke-Meier (Belgium) – 35.60
  18. Karin Donckers (Belgium) – 37.80
  19. Evelina Bertoli (Italy) – 38.20
  20. Nicolas Touzaint (France) – 38.40
  21. Austin O’Connor (Ireland) – 39.70
  22. Shane Rose (Australia) – 41.80
  23. Rosalind Canter (Great Britain) – 42.40
  24. Louise Romeike (Sweden) – 44.10
  25. Alex Hua Tian (China) – 44.20

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