Germany won the dressage team competition at the 2020 Olympic Games, giving Isabell Werth her seventh Olympic title on Tuesday in Tokyo, making her the gold standard in the specialty.
The Germans were ahead with a total of 8178.0 points the United States (7747.0 pts) and Great Britain, winner of the event in 2016 in Rio (7723.0 pts), while the Netherlands had to settle for 5th place (7479.5 pts).
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This is Germany's 14th success in this team event since joining the Olympic program in 1928. “
Each of my medals has its own story, it was a dream for me to come to Tokyo, I I am very proud that everything has worked out as I expected,
”said Werth after the team competition.
Werth, 52, participates in Tokyo in his seventh Olympic Games, 29 years after his Olympic debut in Barcelona in 1992, and has won a total of eleven medals, including seven in gold and four in silver. The German rider can expand her collection of medals from Wednesday with the individual event of these Olympics, the Grand Prix Freestyle on Wednesday. In the event of a title, she would equal Birgit Fischer, the most successful German sportswoman at the Olympic Games in history with eight medals in canoeing in a row.