PR90897

TOKYO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Germans untouchable for Team gold once again by Louise Parkes

    Tonight's victory for Germany in the Dressage team event at the Tokyo 2020

Olympic Games will go down in the history books. For the last 27 years, the

country that has long been the cradle of classical horsemanship has been all

but unbeatable at this level of the sport, and they reigned supreme once again

ahead of Team USA in silver and Great Britain in bronze.

    Germany's Jessica von Bredow-Werndl stole the show with the new Olympic

Grand Prix Special score of 84.666 with the mare Dalera, and team-mate Isabell

Werth posted 83.298 with a beautiful performance from her beloved Bella Rose

after Dorothee Schneider and Showtime set out the German stall when putting

80.086 on the board. However, a relatively unknown American produced the

third-best score of today's super-hot competition that decided the fate of the

team medals.

    Set for silver

    Great Britain looked set for silver in the early stages after Carl Hester

and En Vogue posted 78.344, while it seemed Denmark and the USA were locked

into a game of cat-and-mouse for the bronze. But the Americans couldn't have

been more rock solid, Adrienne Lyle's 76.109 with Salvino giving them a firm

basis on which to build before Steffen Peters and Sussenkasper backed that up

with 77.766.

    Cathrine Dufour and Bohemian were the last pair to go for Denmark, but

77.720 wouldn't be enough to keep her country in the race, especially when

America's Schut-Kery followed with an incredible 81.596. That just knocked the

Danes right out of contention and suddenly the British were under threat for

their silver medal spot too. It would take a big score from Charlotte Dujardin

and Gio to keep Britain out in front after Lottie Fry's 76.894 with Everdale.

    Facts and Figures:

    Germany first won team gold at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam (NED) in 1928.

    Germany were defending champions coming to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and

two of tonights winning team members were in the side that reigned supreme at

the Rio 2016 Games -. Dorothee Schneider riding the same horse, Showtime and

Isabell Werth riding her other great mare Weihegold.

    Results here (https://tokyo2020.live.fei.org/)

    READ MORE (https://inside.fei.org/media-updates)

    Images

    Images available on FEI Flickr

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery_fei/albums/72157708780958282) for

editorial use only.

    FEI Social Media

    Facebook, (https://www.facebook.com/the.fei/) Instagram

(https://www.instagram.com/fei_global/?hl=en), Twitter

(https://twitter.com/FEI_Global), FEI-YouTube

(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb3uedNKWKG7gGDYQJ1VsWg)

    #EquestrianDressage #Dressage #Equestrian #Tokyo2020 #Olympics

    Video content

    All video footage is available at https://fei.broadcast-content.tv/ with

the following login details: media@fei.org Password: FEI2018

    Media Toolkit

    View the FEI Equestrian Media Toolkit here

(https://inside.fei.org/system/files/EQUESTRIAN MEDIA TOOL KIT_TOKYO2020.pdf)

    Follow all media updates (https://inside.fei.org/fei/your-role/media) and

competition results (https://tokyo2020.live.fei.org/) throughout the Games.

    Click here (https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/sports/equestrian/)for more

information on Equestrian at the Olympic Games

(https://olympics.com/en/sports/equestrian/)

    About FEI (https://inside.fei.org/fei/about-fei)

    Media contact:

    Shannon Gibbons

    FEI Media Relations & Media Operations Manager

    Shannon.gibbons@fei.org

    +41 78 750 61 46

    Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1578235/Logo.jpg

    Photo:

https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1583036/German_Dressage_Team_Olympic_2020.jpg

    Source: FEI