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Australian Olympic Dressage Selection Criteria Announced Amidst Continuing Caronavirus Pandemic

SYDNEY, April 14, 2021–Australia’s Olympic dressage team qualifying criteria was announced Wednesday with a score of 69% or better at Grand Prix from at least two international level competitions required going back to Jan. 1, 2019. There have been no qualifying CDIs in Australia for well over a year because of coronavirus restrictions.

Under the selection criteria announced by Equestrian Australia for a team of three for the Tokyo Games, combinations must achieve an overall score of at least 69% in at least two Grand Prix tests at a CDI3* or above between Jan. 1 2019 and June 21 2021, with at least one FEI 5* judge on the ground jury. At least one of the scores of 69% or higher must have been achieved in 2020 or 2021.

Germany-based Simone Pearce, 29 years old, on Destano is the highest ranked combination to meet the criteria with at least four Grand Prix scores ranging as high as 76.261% in the past 10 months.

Mary Hanna, at 66 years of age seeking to go to her sixth Olympics, has fulfilled the requirements with Calanta and MH Syriana.

Kelly Layne on Samhitas, based in Wellington, Florida, has met the requirements with results of 71.935% in a CDI3* and 71.326% in a CDI4* at the Global Dressage Festival this year. She is entered in the CDI4* at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in two weeks.

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