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TOKYO, Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Stage set for Olympic Team Jumping battle

Following last night's thrilling Individual Jumping Final in which Great

Britain's Ben Maher and Explosion W claimed gold, all of the horses presented

at this evening's second Jumping Horse Inspection were accepted, and the stage

is now set for the Team competition to begin tomorrow night.

Further changes may be made before the competition begins, but to date the

confirmed pre-competition changes are as follows:

For Argentina, Fabian Sejanes is out and Matias Albarracin comes in.

For Belgium, Niels Bruynseels is out and Pieter Devos comes in.

For Brazil, Yuri Mansur is out and Pedro Veniss comes in.

For China, You Zhang is out and Yaofeng Li comes in.

For Czech Republic, Kamil Papousek is out and Ondrej Zvara comes in.

For Egypt, Abdel Said is out and Mohamed Talaat comes in.

For France, Mathieu Billot is out and Simon Delestre comes in.

For Great Britain, Scott Brash is out, his horse was withdrawn and therefore

not presented, Holly Smith comes in.

For Germany, Christian Kukuk is out and Maurice Tebbel comes in.

For Ireland, Cian O'Connor is out, his horse was withdrawn and therefore not

presented, Shane Sweetnam comes in.

For Morocco, Ali Ahrach's horse USA de Riverland is out and will be replaced by

Golden Lady.

For Mexico, Manuel Gonzalez Dufrane is out and Patricio Pasquel comes in.  

For New Zealand, Uma O'Neill is out and Tom Tarver-Priebe comes in.

For Switzerland, Beat Mandli is out and Bryan Balsiger comes in.

For USA, Kent Farrington is out and McLain Ward comes in.

A total of 19 teams will compete in the first Team competition and the order of

go is as follows:

1, Czech Republic; 2, China; 3, Japan; 4, Israel; 5, Mexico; 6, Argentina; 7,

Morocco; 8, New Zealand; 9, Ireland; 10, Egypt; 11, France; 12, Sweden; 13,

USA; 14, Great Britain; 15, Brazil; 16, Switzerland; 17, Belgium; 18, Germany;

19, Netherlands.

The competition will begin at 19.00 local time and the best 10

teams[https://inside.fei.org/sites/default/files/Media%20Hub%20only/Jumping%20fo

rmat%20infographic.pdf] will qualify for Saturday evening's Jumping Team Final.

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