British dressage team through to final: all three riders qualify to contest individual medals

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Charlotte Dujardin and Gio on their way helping the British team qualify for the grand prix special
Britain's Charlotte Dujardin and the KWPN gelding Gio win team and individual bronze at the Tokyo Olympics
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Britain’s dressage team are in with a shout of the medals after qualifying easily for Tuesday’s final. The grand prix special will take place on Tuesday 27 July for the top eight teams from the Olympic grand prix competition which has been taking place over the weekend.

Charlotte Dujardin and Gio (Pumpkin) produced a personal best grand prix score of 80.963% in the sixth and final heat. Her energetic and mistake-free test complemented excellent results from both Lottie Fry (Everdale), who topped her group on 77.096% and Carl Hester (En Vogue), fourth in a hot group with 75.124%. All three riders have qualified for the individual final, to be held on Wednesday (28 July).

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.