The U.S. Dressage Team has won silver at the 2020 Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first time the United States team has collected a team silver in dressage since the 1948 London Olympic Games.
The team competition saw eight nations vie for the three coveted podium positions in the Grand Prix Special, with Germany taking gold, the U.S. earning the silver, and Great Britain awarded the bronze medal.
Adrienne Lyle and Salvino received a 76.109% from the panel, while Steffen Peters and Suppenkasper, finished the competition with a 77.766%, a personal best for the combination. Sabine Schut-Kery and Sanceo anchored the team and received a career-high 81.596% from the judges as one of the final rides of the evening.
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The World Equestrian Center Dressage III CDI3 continued on Saturday, April 17, with the highlight class of the week, the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle CDI3 . With a bright routine set to the music of the television show “Glee” that received a score of 75.065%, Shelly Francis (USA) and Danilo landed atop the podium out of 13 entries in the class. In Small Tour, Kevin Kohmann (GER) and Five Star made it two in a row, winning the FEI Intermediate 1 CDI3 . The World Equestrian Center Dressage III CDI3 concludes on Sunday, April 18, 2021.
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Francis and Danilo, a 17-year-old Hanoverian gelding by De Niro 6 x Andiamo 28 owned by Patricia Stempel, helped the U.S. Dressage Team take the bronze medal at the 2019 Nations Cup CDIO5 in Aachen, Germany in 2019 and competed at the 2018 FEI World Cup Dressage Final in Paris. The pair took the 2020 competition year off not only due to COVID, but also because Danilo was recovering from injury.