Team GB claim first Olympic medal in individual dressage as Lottie Fry wins bronze in the…


  • Lottie Fry produced a brilliant ride on Glamourdale on Sunday to win bronze
  • The Team GB star held off a nervous late finish to have her title confirmed
  • Charlotte Dujardin would likely have been amongst the favourites in the event 

Team GB have claimed another Olympic medal in dressage as Lottie Fry produced a brilliant ride in the individual freestyle on Glamourdale on Sunday.

Her ride collects a title in the event that Charlotte Dujardin would have been amongst the favourites to take gold in prior to her withdrawing from the Games in shocking circumstances.

Footage had emerged of Dujardin whipping a horse in training four years ago that prompted fierce scrutiny of the sport, with demands from some quarters for it to be banned from the Olympics.

Fry held of a nervy final wait to have her bronze medal confirmed with Denmark’s Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour the last competitor to ride in the event, but only managing fifth-place.

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Lottie Fry produced a brilliant ride in the individual dressage freestyle on Glamourdale on Sunday to win Olympic bronze

More to follow. 



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