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Historic day for British dressage

Aug 9, 2012

You could hardly have scripted it better as Great Britain’s Dressage riders scooped Olympic team gold today. Yesterday the equestrian venue at Greenwich Park resounded to the wild roars of the home crowd as their jumpers topped the team podium for the first time in 60 years. Today it was the turn of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin to bring spectators to their feet in celebration of the first-ever British Dressage medals in the history of the Games – and, even better, they were also golden ones.They began the day with a narrow lead over Germany, whose fantastic record includes team gold at the previous seven Olympic and, once in front, the London 2012 host nation riders just wouldn’t let go. And the star of the show was 26-year-old Dujardin who burst onto the Dressage scene just 18 months ago and who sealed today’s result with another fabulous ride on the 10-year-old Valegro.

Germany had to settle for silver while The Netherlands took bronze.

1 DUJARDIN C VALEGRO 83.286 Q
2 CORNELISSEN A PARZIVAL 81.968 Q
3 HESTER C UTHOPIA 80.571 Q
4 LANGEHANENBERG H DAMON HILL 78.937 Q
5 BECHTOLSHEIMER L MISTRAL HOJRIS 77.794 Q
6 SCHNEIDER D DIVA ROYAL 77.571 Q
=7 PETERS S RAVEL 76.254 Q
=7 SPREHE K DESPERADOS 76.254 Q
9 ZU SAYN - WITTGEN. DIGBY 75.730 Q
10 GAL E UNDERCOVER 75.556 Q
11 MUNOZ DIAZ JM FUEGO 75.476 Q
12 VAN GRUNSVEN A SALINERO 74.794 Q
13 CARVALHO G RUBI 74.222 Q
14 KITTEL P SCANDIC 74.079 Q
15 VILHELMSON SILFVEN DON AURIELLO 74.063 Q
16 KASPRZAK A DONNPERIGNON 73.794 Q
17 MAX-THEURER V AUGUSTIN 73.619 Q
18 TRUPPA V EREMO DEL CASTEGNO 73.127 Q