Japan’s Akane Kuroki, pictured here at Rio 2016.
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By Equestrian Life
Japan has won gold in the team dressage event at the 2018 Asian Games, which was held at the Jakarta International Equestrian Park (JIEP) Pulomas, Jakarta.
The Japanese equestrian dressage team, coached by Christoph Koschel, secured the gold medal with a total score of 69.499%. The team included Shunsuke Terui, Akane Kuroki, Kazuki Sado and Masanao Takahashi. Riding his horse, Fabriano 58, Takahashi scored the highest individual score of 69.823% for the team.
Masanao Takahashi and Fabriano.
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Equestrian was first contested at the Asian Games IX New Delhi in 1982, and the team dressage event was held for the eighth time at this year’s Games. Japan was the highest ranked Asian NOC in team dressage at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games where they finished in 11th place. As the host nation at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan will have a dressage team at the 2020 Olympics.
You can view the results of the team dressage event here.
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