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Australia and Japan Qualify Dressage Teams for the 2008 Olympic Games
Nov 30, 2009

Qualification for Olympic Groups F and G (Africa-Middle East and South East Asia-Oceania) took the form of assessments conducted by a highly experienced Ground Jury which travelled to three different locations to evaluate the three teams – Japan, Australia, and New Zealand – vying for Olympic qualification. The two teams to secure their Olympic slot in Dressage are Australia (teams score 196.167) and Japan (194.792).This qualification is an historical highlight for Australia as it is the first time in Olympic history that the country qualifies an Olympic Dressage team, apart, of course, from the 2000 Olympic Games, when the Australian team was granted a place as representatives of the host country....