Jessica von Bredow-Werndl & TSF Dalera BB Win Paris Olympic Individual Gold Day After Team Gold, Repeating Tokyo Result
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By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
PARIS, Aug. 4, 2024–Jessica von Bredow-Werndl on TSF Dalera BB claimed the Olympic dressage individual gold medal Sunday following team gold a day earlier and repeating the German partnership performance at the Tokyo Games.
Isabell Werth on Wendy took silver to bring her Olympic medal count to 14 while Great Britain’s Charlotte “Lottie” Fry on her World Championship mount Glamourdale took bronze.
The medal count of eight gold and six silver for Isabell from Olympics beginning in 1992 will likely move her within the top five of all time medalists in more than a century of the modern games, though Paris is still going on and that may change.
“We (Team Germany) had luck on our side yesterday, the Danish team also could have won, and today I’m really happy with the result because at the end it’s a lucky punch for Jessie and a bit unlucky for me, that’s how it goes. But both horses were fantastic, we had such a high standard in the competition. The first starter had 80% already so I think it was just fantastic. And for me, with this horse, and in this atmosphere, I don’t feel that I lost anything!”
Jessica said after her ride for a score of 90.093% that she couldn’t handle the emotions to say this was going to be our last dance so she plans to compete Dalera two or three more times then hopes to get the mare, now aged 17, pregnant. She has ruled out competing at next year’s European Championships.
After Saturday’s team competition when Jessica and Dalera incurred some errors, she said, “I woke up this morning and I had a very good feeling and I thought it’s all about trust now. She’s enough, I’m enough, we are enough and we can do it. And it sounds easier than it is because especially yesterday entering the arena as the last one to go is super difficult. And today I have the feeling that it’s all about love and joy and trust, because we have proven it so often that we can do it,
“t was not about trying to fix anything, it was just doing what we can do and this is what makes it so emotional because we managed to fight back to our base and to our heart even though there was so much pressure from the outside and this makes me very emotional about her because she is mirroring me and when I’ve got everything together like today, she’s got everything together.”
Retiring Dalera, she said, is “difficult, because I don’t know if I will ever have this feeling again, but I think I am able to do it, I am able to produce another superstar. Isabell (Werth) shows how it works. And she (Dalera) is special, and she will always be that when I will have a horse like her again. But I will work for it.“
All three were exuberant about the spectacular venue overlooking the historic Chateau de Versailles
“I don’t think we can ever have such an arena again,” Jessica said. “This is the most incredible place to perform, the most incredible dance floor in this world, probably, and I am overwhelmed, extremely grateful for being able to have performed there. This is a once in a lifetime experience.”
Isabell, who has competed in seven Olympics from 1992 to this year, said: “I have to say, never before we had a more beautiful venue with this view and castle and to come here in this atmosphere was really fantastic. There is only one similar experience I had in my life, 35 years, was Aachen 2006 in the stadium, but here today I’m so happy and I’m so proud of our sport and I think it’s really really necessary to have this atmosphere today. The whole competition already and the whole day I think we saw a fantastic sport, we had a fantastic atmosphere, emotions, a lot of really enthusiastic and empathetic people around and spectators. I think it was at the right time, the right competition, the right performances.”
Lottie Fry said, “I think the support from the public today was absolutely incredible and, yeah, I’ve never experienced anything quite like that throughout the test and in the prize giving. It was unbelievable, that feeling. And I think that’s absolutely incredible for our sport that it was completely sold out and every single person there was loving it as much as we were. To ride in an arena like that is really, like they say, a once in a lifetime moment and yeah, it was an incredible feeling.”
Results:
Total %Score |
|---|
| 1 |  GER | von BREDOW-WERNDL Jessica
| TSF DALERA BB | 90.093 |
| 2 | GER | WERTH Isabell
| WENDY | 89.614 | |
| 3 |  GBR | FRY Charlotte
| GLAMOURDALE | 88.971 | |
| 4 |  NED | van LIERE Dinja
| HERMES | 88.432 | |
| 5 |  DEN | LAUDRUP-DUFOUR Cathrine
| FREESTYLE | 88.093 | |
| 6 | GBR | HESTER Carl
| FAME | 85.161 | |
| 7 | DEN | BACHMANN ANDERSEN Daniel
| VAYRON | 84.850 | |
| 8 | GBR | MOODY Becky
| JAGERBOMB | 84.357 | |
| 9 | DEN | SKODBORG MERRALD Nanna
| ZEPTER | 83.293 | |
| 10 |  NOR | FREESE Isabel
| TOTAL HOPE OLD | 83.050 | |
| 11 | NED | SCHOLTENS Emmelie
| INDIAN ROCK | 81.750 | |
| 12 |  FIN | KANERVA Emma
| GREEK AIR | 81.607 | |
| 13 | GER | WANDRES Frederic
| BLUETOOTH OLD | 81.350 | |
| 14 |  SWE | KITTEL Patrik
| TOUCHDOWN | 80.854 | |
| 15 |  POL | SYSOJEVA Sandra
| MAXIMA BELLA | 80.075 | |
| 16 |  FRA | BASQUIN Pauline
| SERTORIUS DE RIMA Z | 79.118 | |
| 17 |  AUT | MAX-THEURER Victoria
| ABEGGLEN FH NRW | 75.375 | |
| 18 | SWE | NILSHAGEN Therese
| DANTE WELTINO OLD | 74.714 |
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