Days 5-6: Germans Take Olympic Dressage Team Gold

August 14, 2008

Germany continues to dominate the Olympic equestrian team events, taking team gold in dressage. After 46 rides in the Grand Prix round, Germany took gold, Netherlands silver, and Denmark bronze. The US finished a close fourth.

The top 25 riders will now move on to the first round of individual competition, the Grand Prix Special. The scores from the Grand Prix test are scrapped, and the qualifying riders will start fresh for the individual competition. The riders with the best 15 scores (including any ties for 15th), will move on to the Grand Prix Freestyle round. The scores from the Special and the Freestyle will be averaged to determine the winners.

The dressage riders moving on to the individual dressage competition, in order based on their Grand Prix scores, are as follows:

1 Isabell Werth (Germany)
2 Anky Van Grunsven (Netherlands)
3 Heike Kemmer (Germany)
4 Emma Hindle (Great Britain)
5 Imke Schellekens-Bartels (Netherlands)
6 Kyra Kyrklund ( Finland)
7 Courtney King-Dye (USA)
8 Nathalie Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (Denmark)
9 Nadine Capellmann (Germany)
10 Steffen Peters (USA)
11 Hans Peter Minderhould (Netherlands)
12 Bernadette Pujals (Mexico)
13 Jan Brink (Sweden)
14 Andreas Helgstrand (Denmark)
15 Alexandra Korelova (Russia)
16 Michal Rapcewicz (Poland)
17 Anne Van Olst (Denmark)
18 Patrik Kittel (Sweden)
19 Ashley Holzer (Canada)
20 Hubert Perring (France)
21 Marc Boblet (France)
22 Juan Manuel Munoz (Spain)
23 Silfven Tinne (Sweden)
24 Laura Bechtolsheimer (Great Britain)
25 Kristy Oatley (Australia)

The second round for individual competition, the Grand Prix special will be held Saturday evening, August 16 in Hong Kong. It will air live on NBC online here in the US on Saturday morning at 7:15. Or, it will be televised on MSNBC Saturday, August 16 between 5:00am-5:00 pm.

The dressage final, the Grand Prix Freestyle, is Tuesday evening in Hong Kong. It will play live online on NBC Tuesday morning at 7:15 am and will be aired on TV on Oxygen from 6:00-8:00 pm Tuesday.

Be sure to catch the show jumping competition on the days in between.

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