Britain's Ben Maher and Explosion crowned Tokyo Olympic Showjumping Champions

Ben Maher and Explosion retained Olympic Individual Showjumping Gold Medal for Great Britain today at the Tokyo Olympics.

He was always well-fancied to take the title and tonight Great Britain’s Ben Maher more than lived up to expectations when taking Individual Jumping gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Baji Koen Equestrian Park.

Just six of the 30 starters in today’s thrilling medal-decider jumped clear to qualify for the second-round jump-off against the clock and, third to go, Sweden’s Peder Fredricson set a serious target when clear again with All In in 38.02 seconds.

But Maher followed with a sensational run from the aptly-named Explosion W to break the beam in 37.85 seconds and that couldn’t be bettered. Fredricson and his brilliant 16-year-old gelding took their second Olympic silver medal in the row and bronze went to the last man into the ring, The Netherlands’ Maikel van der Vleuten with Beauville Z.

Enjoy today's round up of the Individual final with the Press Association's Andrew Baldock.

Ben Maher 

"There' been a lot of pressure the last few weeks."

"Peter Charles and Scott Brash were watching for me and they said 'you've just got go - do what you've done on him in the past'. As I was going through the gate, I knew I didn't want to be the person who came fourth. I wasn't going to leave anything on the table"

The Full Course Showjumping Podcast is thrilled to bring you daily round ups throughout the week of showjumping at Tokyo, each of the podcast's is supported by Zebra Products, Tucci Boots and Veredus Horse Wear.

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