Olympic showjumping person qualifier – what came about?

The Paris 2024 Olympic showjumping person qualifier is now entire and it wasn’t with out drama. There have been 73 starters on this magnificence with handiest 30 ultimate spots up for grabs and whilst some riders described the path as more straightforward than the workforce legs, it surely stuck a couple of most sensible riders out.

Let’s make amends for all of the tales from Versailles…

Harry Charles and Romeo 88 were given issues off to a really perfect get started for Britain and jumped an confident transparent spherical to breeze into day after today’s ultimate

Scott Brash clinched Britain’s 2nd transparent spherical to make sure he’s in with an opportunity of every other medal with Jefferson

Ben Maher and Dallas Vegas Batilly had to deal with a heart-stopping second throughout their spherical

There used to be redemption for Sweden’s Henrik von Eckermann, who got here into those Video games as a favorite to take house gold

There have been additional highs and lows in the second one block of competition in nowadays’s qualifier

A fast French rider completed most sensible of nowadays’s leaderboard, however some giant names overlooked out on qualification

The US’s Karl Prepare dinner utilises an enchanting last-minute approach to get essentially the most out of his horse, Caracole De L. a. Roque

Clear of showjumping, we came upon extra about probably the most horses who took section within the dressage at those Video games, having handiest began on this self-discipline two years in the past

And one among H&H’s journalists at the floor in Paris shared some extra ideas from the 2024 Video games

Keep tuned for extra motion from Paris with simply at some point to move…

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Gemma is an skilled journalist, having been a part of the H&H workforce since 2014, who’s keen about all equestrian sports activities, together with racing and point-to-pointing. She has loved using out for most sensible running shoes Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and participated in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting skills have taken her to a large number of five-star occasions round Britain and Europe, in addition to Eu championships.