On the first day of the Jumping competition, our two Australian individual riders competed against the world's finest at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park.
The discipline of Jumping is an impressive test of precision, athletic ability and speed, with combinations tackling a course of 12-15 knock-able obstacles.
Seventy-three combinations lined up to contest the individual qualifier with only the top 30 advancing to the final on Wednesday night.
Edwina Tops-Alexander led the charge for Australia riding her horse Identity Vitseroel, competing in a record fourth Olympic Games in Tokyo, the only Australian Jumping athlete to achieve the milestone.
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