America’s Jessica Springsteen and Don Juan van de Donkhoeve at the 2nd Horse Inspection at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. © FEI/Christophe Taniere

Stage set for Olympic Team Jumping battle 

Following Wednesday night’s thrilling Individual Jumping Final in which Great Britain’s Ben Maher and Explosion W claimed gold, all of the horses presented at last night’s 2nd Jumping Horse Inspection were accepted, and the stage is now set for the Team competition tonight.

Tune in to EQ Life’s live chat show with Roger Fitzhardinge and Olympian James Paterson-Robinson tonight at 5:30pm AEST, where they review the Jumping Individual Final and preview the Jumping Team Qualifier, courtesy of Barastoc.

Tune in via our Live TV page and Facebook.

Coverage of the Jumping Team Qualifier will be streaming on 7Plus from 8:00pm AEST.

Further changes may be made before the competition begins, but to date the confirmed pre-competition changes are as follows:

For Argentina, Fabian Sejanes is out and Matias Albarracin comes in 

For Belgium, Niels Bruynseels is out and Pieter Devos comes in

For Brazil, Yuri Mansur is out and Pedro Veniss comes in

For China, You Zhang is out and Yaofeng Li comes in

For Czech Republic, Kamil Papousek is out and Ondrej Zvara comes in

For Egypt, Abdel Said is out and Mohamed Talaat comes in

For France, Mathieu Billot is out and Simon Delestre comes in

For Great Britain, Scott Brash is out, his horse was withdrawn and therefore not presented, Holly Smith comes in

For Germany, Christian Kukuk is out and Maurice Tebbel comes in

For Ireland, Cian O’Connor is out, his horse was withdrawn and therefore not presented, Shane Sweetnam comes in

For Morocco, Ali Ahrach’s horse USA de Riverland is out and will be replaced by Golden Lady

For Mexico, Manuel Gonzalez Dufrane is out and Patricia Pasquel comes in 

For New Zealand, Uma O’Neill is out and Tom Tarver-Priebe comes in

For Switzerland, Beat Mandli is out and Bryan Balsiger comes in

For USA, Kent Farrington is out and McLain Ward comes in.

A total of 19 teams will compete in the first Team competition and the order of go is as follows: 

1, Czech Republic; 2, China; 3, Japan; 4, Israel; 5, Mexico; 6, Argentina; 7, Morocco; 8, New Zealand; 9, Ireland; 10, Egypt; 11, France; 12, Sweden; 13, USA; 14, Great Britain; 15, Brazil; 16, Switzerland; 17, Belgium; 18, Germany; 19, Netherlands.

The best 10 teams will qualify for Saturday evening’s Jumping Team Final.

More details here. 

Source: By Louise Parkes/FEI media release, with edits by Equestrian Life 

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