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Eventing Team win Silver and sensational Hoy adds Individual Bronze

 

Eventing Team win Silver and sensational Hoy adds Individual Bronze

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(L-R) Silver medalists Kevin McNab, Shane Rose and Andrew Hoy of Team Australia pose with their silver medals during the Eventing Jumping Team medal ceremony on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamesat Equestrian Park on August 02, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

EQUESTRIAN: The Eventing Team of Andrew Hoy, Shane Rose and Kevin McNab have won a sensational silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, adding to Australia's great history in the event.

And Andrew Hoy with Vassily De Lassos claimed Individual bronze, to show Hoy is as good as ever some 21 years after last winning Individual silver at Sydney 2000. The Team and Individual medal from Tokyo now take the eight-time Olympian's medal tally to six (3G, 2S, 1B). Only Australian male Olympians Ian Thorpe (9) and Grant Hackett (7) have won more medals. He is also now Australia's oldest Olympic medallist at 62.

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