Status: 07/28/2021 2:27 p.m.
Dressage rider Jessica von Bredow-Werndl won her second Olympic gold. The 35-year-old also prevailed in the individual after winning with the team. Silver went to Isabell Werth, bronze went to the British Charlotte Dujardin.
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl was able to celebrate her second Olympic gold when the last ride in the Baji Koen Equestrian Park in Tokyo was not yet over. The 35-year-old dressage rider from Tuntenhausen, Bavaria, also prevailed in the individual freestyle competition with her mare Dalera one day after her victory with the team, leaving her former teacher Isabell Werth behind, who had to be content with silver. The British Charlotte Dujardin landed in third place with Gio.
Von Bredow-Werndl also showed the best performance in the third test in Tokyo to the music of the film La-La-Land. The couple danced to the next gold one day after their victory with the team without a mistake. The two were so dominant that it was already clear during Dorothee Schneider’s final ride that the gold was safe.
“I am very happy,” commented the winner. “Sometimes I felt like I was doing a bit of a fire dance, on the knife edge,” said the 35-year-old. “But it all worked out.” The rider, trained by Werth for a few years after her junior years, also delighted with music in the freestyle after the Grand Prix and Special. The tension was much greater for them than in the team competition.
Werth missed a record
Werth not only missed victory, but also an Olympic record. With another gold medal, the 52-year-old from Rheinberg would have drawn level in the German medal ranking with canoeist Birgit Fischer, who has eight gold and four silver medals in her Olympic record and is still in first place ahead of Werth. Team Olympic champion Dorothee Schneider from Framersheim was 15.
But the medals in Tokyo are far from over for them. “It’ll be a few more days,” said Werth. “I still feel young. We’ll wait and see how long the road will be in international and Olympic sport.” She still enjoys it tremendously “to develop horses into the sport, from a young horse to a top horse”.
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