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Fouaad Mirza made history by qualifying for the Individual Jumping Final in his first Olympic. He finished with 59.60 penalty points to end Individual Eventing campaign. Fouaad Mirza becomes the first Indian to reach Equestrian Individual Eventing Final.
Mirza stood in 22nd position with 39.20 points before the show jumping stage. However, anything can happen at the venue as one saw in the cross country stage with Germany's double gold medalist Michael Jung. Despite a good run through the course. Chipmunk amassed penalties on the obstacles which pushed him from the summit of the standings to 10th place. Fouaad Mirza becomes the first Indian to reach Equestrian Individual Eventing Final. Seigneur Medicott also qualifies for the Finals.
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Round one : Dressage
Mirza and Medicott finished the dressage stage of equestrian eventing at the Tokyo Olympics placed ninth on Saturday. The pair had amassed 28.00 penalty points in dressage on Friday, breaking into the top 10 at sixth position. The pair eventually ended the day tied seventh with Sweden's Louise Romeike and her horse Cato 60 on points (28.00), before ending at ninth after the third and final session. In dressage, lower the penalty score, higher the rider and horse place in the standings. Mirza and Medicott placed ninth in a 62-pair field (one less than the original 63 after Austria's Katrin Khoddam-Hazrati withdrew from the event.
Round two: Cross country
After finishing the dressage phase of equestrian eventing in an impressive ninth place. Mirza and Seigneur Medicott stand in 22nd place after completing the cross country course with 11.20 points on Sunday. Mirza and Medicott finished just outside the permitted 7:45 minute mark, completing the course in 8.13 seconds to amass 11.20 penalty points at the Olympics.com. Medicott was sublime on the jumps but exceeded the time limit by 35 seconds and incurred the penalty points.