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British dominate in Eventing Cross-Country at Sea Forest
On a thrilling day at Sea Forest cross-country course, Team Great Britain scorched home with three clear rounds to stretch the advantage they established in the Dressage phase of Eventing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. And both leaderboards had another good shake-up when Germany plummeted from second place to sixth, while Australia and France leap-frogged New Zealand to slot into silver and bronze going into tomorrow’s final Jumping phase.
Second to go out over Derek di Grazia’s glorious course early this morning, world number one, Britain’s Oliver Townend showed exactly how it should be done with the brilliant Ballaghmor Class. And when defending Olympic champion and overnight individual leader, Germany’s Michael Jung, collected 11 penalties for triggering a frangible device with Chipmunk it was his team-mate, Julia Krajewski who rose to silver medal spot in the individual rankings with her mare Amande de B’Neville.
In individual bronze is Britain’s Laura Collett with London 52, while New Zealand’s Tim Price lies fourth with Vitali. And the hosts from Japan have plenty to be excited about with Kazuma Tomoto (Vinci de la Vigne) holding fifth spot place of the third member of the British team, Tom McEwen (Toledo de Kerser) in sixth.
The action returns to Baji Koen Equestrian Park tomorrow where both team and individual medals will be decided.
