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TOKYO, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- British take team title and Krajewski grabs individual gold for Germany

    Britain's Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen were in a league of

their own when cruising to Eventing team gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

at Baji Koen Equestrian Park. This was their country's fourth team title but

it's been a very long wait since Richard Meade, Mary Gordon-Watson, Bridget

Parker and Mark Phillips stood top of the podium a full 49 years ago in Munich

in 1972. Australia took the silver tonight, while the defending champions from

France claimed the bronze.

    And Germany's Julia Krajewski has entered the equestrian history books as

the very first female athlete to take the Individual Olympic Eventing title.

When the Games last took place in Tokyo back in 1964 the USA's Lana du Pont was

the first woman to compete in the three-day event, so female firsts and the

Tokyo Olympics seem to be intrinsically linked.

    In the battle for the remaining Individual podium places it was Britain's

Tom McEwen who took the silver while Australia's Andrew Hoy clinched the

bronze. Hoy's result is nothing short of sensational because the three-time

team gold medallist has a staggering record of participation at eight Olympic

Games dating all the way back to Los Angeles in 1984. He was only 25 years old

back then, and today at the age of 62 he's as competitive as ever.

   Team

   Tom McEwen paved the path to Britain's team victory with a superb round from

Toledo de Kresker over the first of Santiago Varela's beautifully decorated

tracks tonight. However team-mate Laura Collett had a scary moment when London

52 baulked at the water tray at fence four and scattered poles everywhere

before regaining his equilibrium.

    Individual

    The Individual finale was truly gripping as the top-25 slogged it out.

Japan's Kazuma Tomoto collected just 0.4 penalties when seventh-last to go with

the lovely Vinci de la Vigne, and when France's Christopher Six faulted at the

last of the triple combination on the new course Tomoto began to move up the

order.

    Colletts's bay gelding left the last two fences on the floor but when Hoy

followed with a clear the top three had absolutely no breathing space. Last in,

Krajewski could have been completely overwhelmed but held her nerve to deliver

a fabulous round from the mare she calls Mandy. She would take the top step of

the podium and her place in equestrian history, ahead of McEwen and Hoy in

silver and bronze.

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