7 things you need to know about today’s Olympic eventing finals: history makers, an ‘unbelievable horse’ and a ‘rollercoaster career’

The Olympic eventing showjumping phase of the competition at the Tokyo Games is complete, as is the whole eventing competition, and what an exciting finish it was. Here are even things you need to know about how today’s action unfolded…

Olympic eventing showjumping news and results

For the first time since 1972, the British team won gold, and by a very comfortable margin, too.

• Hear what the team had to say about their victory

Tom McEwen, also representing Great Britain, jumped two fabulous clear showjumping rounds on the final day to pick up individual silver with Toledo De Kerser.

• Read Tom’s thoughts on his result with his “unbelievable” horse

Meanwhile, Germany’s Julia Krajewski, who was riding Amande De B’Nevill, became the first woman in history to win individual Olympic eventing gold.

• Find out what Julia had to say about what she described as her “rollercoaster career”

Andrew Hoy proved that, at 62, age is just a number when picking up individual bronze for Australia riding Vassily De Lassos.

• Find out why Andrew said this horse “helps keeps him young”

Horse & Hound’s rider of the day is Japan’s Kazuma Tomoto, who trains with and is based at William Fox-Pitt’s yard in Dorset. Kazuma broke Japanese records to finish fourth individually.

• Read about Kazuma’s thoughts on his horse’s performance and hear what William had to say about this rider, who took up eventing just five years ago

Horse & Hound’s horse of the day is Julia’s individual gold medal-winning mare, Amande De B’Nevill.

• Find out what Julia had to say about her “princess and queen”, ‘Mandy’

The showjumping course proved to be incredibly influential, too.

• Hear from some of the world’s top riders about what they thought of the “cleverly designed” first round course

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Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.