Order to go in this afternoon’s Team Qualifier
Less than an hour to go before today’s Olympic Team Qualifier kicks off at 12:00 CET. You’ll be able to follow all the action through Discovery Plus and we’ll of course be here to provide you with a post-competition report including imagery by our colleague on the spot Dirk Caremans. The order to go has been published by the Olympic officials and can be found here. In total 57 combinations will enter the ring at Tokyo Equestrian Park, representing 19 different nations.
Up to two hours before the start of the qualifier, the teams were allowed to call for a substitute, either for welfare or tactical reasons. And oh, they did. A whopping 13 changes were made to the original team’s composition, including some big names stepping out and coming in. Here’s a quick overview of what changes to your startlist you can expect:
- Argentina: Fabian Sejanes is replaced by Matias Albarracin
- Belgium: Niels Bruynseels is replaced by Pieter Devos
- Brazil: Yuri Mansur is replaced by Pedro Veniss
- China: You Zhang is replaced by Yaofeng Li
- Czech Republic: Kamil Papousek is replaced by Ondrej Zvara
- Egypt: Abdel Saïd is replaced by Mohamed Talaat
- France: Mathieu Billot is replaced by Simon Delestre
- Great Britain: Scott Brash is replaced by Holly Smit. Scott Brash has decided to withdraw his horse from further competing due to welfare reasons.
- Germany: Christian Kukuk is replaced by Maurice Tebbel
- Ireland: Cian O’Connor is replaced by Shane Sweetnam. O’Connor has decided to withdraw his horse from competing due to welfare reasons.
- Israel: Dani Waldman was supposed to substitute one of the Isreali riders, but this was changed back after her horse was withdrawn from competing further due to welfare reasons.
- Morocco: Ali Ahrach has replaced bis horse USA de Riverland for Golden Lady
- Mexico: Manuel Gonzalez Dufrane is replaced by Patricia Pasquel
- New Zealand: Uma O’Neill is replaced by Tom Tarver-Priebe
- Switzerland: Bean Mandli is replaced by Bryan Balsiger
