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SANTIAGO, Oct. 23, 2023–The United States won Pan American Games team gold Monday, Brazil earned silver and Canada bronze. The results qualify both Brazil and Canada for a start at the 2024 Paris Olympics, joining USA that earned its berth at the 2022 world championships.

Gold was the ninth for USA since the first Pan Ams in 1951 while this was the second silver for Brazil, the other being in 1979.

Final standings of the two-days of team competition: 1. United States 450.670; 2. Brazil 443.343; 3. Canada 431.937; 4. Chile 423.672; 5. Argentina 405.950; 6. Mexico 405.890; 7. Colombia 397.793; 8. Ecuador Elim.

The order of the medals was in doubt until the last ride of the competition, by Brazil’s João-Victor Marcari Oliva on Feel Good VO whose score 75.362%, boosted to 78.362% by the addition of 3% Big Tour bonus moved Brazil into the silver medal spot ahead of Canada.

João-Victor, based in Portugal, and the 11-year-old Westfalen stallion Feel Good, was the highest overall individual rider and horse combination.

USA’s Sarah Tubman, based in Wellington, on First Apple, 2019 Pan Am individual gold and team silver medal pair, were second.

Julio Mendoza Loor of Ecuador on Jewel’s Goldstrike was third. Julio, based in Columbus, North Carolina, and the 12-year-old KWPN gelding was the only Big Tour combination on Ecuador’s team,  but he is seeking to earn a start at Paris Olympics as an individual.

Christian Simonson on Son of a Lady got the U.S. team off to standout start for the second day by leading the Small Tour standings with a personal best 74.971% in the Intermediate 1 after the first day’s lead in the Prix St. Georges.

Christian, based in Wellington, Florida, and the 12-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding that were this year’s U.S. Intermediate 1 champions, was ranked sixth overall in the standings although there were no bonus points for Small Tour.

“We’re just so fortunate to have each other as a team,” Sarah Tubman said. “This is a very young team to represent the U.S. and we really brought it.

“Apple was fantastic today and he really gave me everything in there. It’s another personal best for us and I’m just so proud of the way he’s continued to rise to the occasion for me.”

The Intermediate 1 and Grand Prix Freestyles for individual medals will be on Wednesday.

Results:

Pan American Games Grand Prix Special

Rank	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Julio Mendoza Loor (ECU) Jewel’s Goldstrike	78.617%	75.213	73.936	75.000	75.426	78.511
2.	João-Victor Marcari Oliva (BRA) Feel Good VO	78.362%	75.532	73.191	75.319	75.000	77.766
3.	Sarah Tubman (USA) First Apple	76.872%	75.000	72.234	73.723	73.936	74.468
4.	Renderson Silva de Oliveira (BRA) Fogoso Campline	74.936%	72.447	72.128	69.894	72.234	72.979
5.	Camille Carier Bergeron (CAN) Sound of Silence 4	74.511%	72.128	68.723	72.447	70.957	73.298
6.	Anna Marek (USA) Fire Fly	74.489%	71.277	69.574	70.000	72.660	73.936
7.	Yvonne Losos de Muñiz (DOM) Aquamarijn	73.277%	69.043	69.468	70.957	68.404	73.511
8.	Svenja Grimm (CHI) Doctor Rossi	72.340%	69.681	67.234	69.149	69.574	71.064
9.	Naïma Moreira Laliberté (CAN) Statesman	72.021%	68.936	68.936	70.213	67.021	70.000
10.	Codi Harrison (USA) Katholt’s Bossco	71.957%	67.234	67.872	69.149	70.957	69.574
11.	Mathilde Blais Tétreault (CAN) Fedor	71.128%	67.128	67.447	69.468	68.511	68.085
12.	Virginia Yarur (CHI) Ronaldo	71.000%	67.340	66.915	67.553	67.979	70.213
13.	Micaela Mabragaña (ARG) Bradley Cooper	70.447%	66.809	67.553	67.660	67.553	67.660
14.	Manuel Rodrigues Tavares De Almeida Neto (BRA) Rosa Belle	68.894%	67.234	66.915	64.043	67.128	64.149
15.	Paulo Cesar Dos Santos (BRA) Fidel Da Sasa JE	68.638%	64.468	64.681	65.213	66.064	67.766
16.	Patricia Ferrando (VEN) Honnaisseur SJ	68.553%	65.766	63.745	66.191	65.660	66.404
17.	Gabriel Martin Armando (ARG) San Rio	68.447%	64.894	64.043	65.851	65.851	66.596
18.	Maria Viktorovna Ugryumova Mikhailova (MEX) Impaciente PH	67.596%	66.383	63.085	64.255	63.511	65.745
19.	Fiorella Mengani (ARG) Assirio D Atela	65.447%	59.787	62.447	65.426	62.660	61.915
20.	Carolin Mallmann (URU) Grison	62.766%	60.447	59.277	59.596	59.596	59.915
21.	Marcos Santiago Ortiz Diez (MEX) Gentil	62.447%	58.000	58.745	60.872	58.745	60.872
22.	José Ramón Beca Borrego (URU) Darro Do Sobral	60.468%	57.553	56.809	55.106	57.979	59.894
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Pan American Games Intermediate I

Rank	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Christian Simonson (USA) Son of a Lady	74.971%	74.118	75.882	75.294	74.118	75.441
2.	Beatrice Boucher (CAN) Summerwood’s Limei	70.471%	70.588	70.000	71.471	69.118	71.176
3.	Mario Vargas (CHI) Kadiene	70.412%	71.324	68.676	69.118	70.735	72.206
4.	Carolina Cordoba Wolf (MEX) Johnny Cash	68.441%	68.382	68.235	68.235	69.853	67.500
5.	Maria Alejandra Aponte Gonzalez (COL) Lord Of The Dance	67.294%	68.529	67.353	66.471	68.382	65.735
6.	Andrea Vargas (COL) Homerus P	67.235%	66.765	68.824	67.941	67.647	65.000
7.	Carlos Maldonado Lara (MEX) Frans	66.971%	67.059	67.500	67.794	66.618	65.882
8.	Maria Jose Granja (ECU) Emiliano AP	66.382%	66.176	66.324	66.912	65.882	66.618
9.	Carlos Fernandez (CHI) Heroe XXV	66.147%	66.324	66.029	65.588	67.500	65.294
10.	Juliana Gutierrez Aguilera (COL) Flanissimo	66.059%	64.559	65.000	68.235	66.176	66.324
11.	Santiago Cardona (COL) Dostojewski	65.206%	66.471	65.882	65.294	64.853	63.529
12.	Maria Florencia Manfredi (ARG) Hands Up Chaparrita Z	63.529%	62.353	64.853	63.676	62.647	64.118
13.	Stephanie Engstrom Koch (DOM) Resperanzo	62.794%	65.000	63.824	62.941	61.324	60.882
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