A golden day for Britain, fierce battle for medals and a string of personal bests: seven highlights from the second day of team competition at the Tokyo Paralympics

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Sophie Wells riding Don Cara M at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics dressage
Sophie Wells GBR riding Don Cara M competing in the Equestrian Individual Test Grade V at the Equestrian Park. Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan, Thursday 26 August 2021. Photo: OIS/Joe Toth. Handout image supplied by OIS/IOC
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Britain remains unbeaten in Paralympics dressage team competition after securing gold in a nail-biting conclusion to today’s competition at the Tokyo Paralympics. Find out what happened on the fourth day of action at Baji Koen Equestrian Park…

It went down to the wire in the team competition, with the Brits securing gold by just 0.6% over the Netherlands. The Grade IV champion, Dutch rider Sanne Voets, produced an outstanding test under pressure, but the three Brits had done enough to take the gold.

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
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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.