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Tears and cheers as von Bredow-Werndl takes individual gold

Everything about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been a journey into the

unknown. But there was a ring of familiarity combined with a spirit of great

sport when Germany's Jessica von Bredow-Werndl claimed the Individual Dressage

title with the lovely mare TSF Dalera at Baji Koen Equestrian Park tonight

where compatriot Isabell Werth had to settle for silver and Great Britain's

Charlotte Dujardin took the bronze. It was the perfect end to four fabulous

days of competition in this first of the three Olympic equestrian disciplines.

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The new champion was always on song, throwing down the biggest score in the

opening Grand Prix and then setting a new Olympic record in yesterday's Grand

Prix Special to secure the team title for her country. Tonight she produced

another performance that oozed such class and elegance that once she left the

arena, with a score of 91.732 on the board, it seemed impossible she could be

beaten.

Longtime legend

Werth is a longtime legend with more Championships and Olympic medals in her

trophy cabinet than any other equestrian athlete. Never the shrinking violet,

she is not used to playing second fiddle to her own team-mates and with her

much-loved mare Bella Rose she produced one of her typically spellbinding

performances that kept onlookers glued to every move. However when her score of

89.675 was posted Von Bredow-Werndl burst into tears and fled back to the

stables, overcome by the possibility that Olympic gold was now within reach.

Second-last to go was defending double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin from

Great Britain, but not with the now-retired superstar Valegro with whom she

dominated the sport in recent years but instead with a 10-year-old gelding who

knows nothing about the world. Dujardin's little chestnut, Gio, had previously

only ever competed at one international show, at Hagen in Germany in April.

Unaware of the level of exposure he was now getting however, the little

chestnut gave his all for a score of 88.543 which put him in bronze medal

position.

Only the last of the German riders, Dorothee Schneider, could change the podium

places now and under normal circumstances she might well have ensured it was an

all German one but it didn't happen when her horse, Showtime, was right off

form.

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