Denmark finally secured their first Olympic medal when the dressage team took bronze
Denmark was aiming for seven medals at this year’s Olympics and things were looking grim until the Danish
dressage team took bronze on Thursday.
Andreas Helgstrand, Anne Van Olst and Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
came in third behind gold-medal winners Germany and the Netherlands in second place.
The victory celebrations
should not forget the horses Don Schufro, Clearwater and Digby who played an important part for the Danish team.
Princess Nathalie, the niece of Queen Margrethe II, was surprised to be awarded her medal by her uncle King Constantine
of Greece.
She came out top of the three Danish riders, being awarded 70.417 percent of the possible points for
her round on Digby, in her first Olympic Games.
Head of the Danish Olympic Committee Niels Nygaard offered hearty
congratulations to the Danes.
'It was very exciting right up until the end, but luckily the team managed to
take the bronze medal out of reach of the Americans.'
This is the first Olympic medal for a Danish equestrian
team. The last individual equestrian medal went to Anne-Grethe Jensen when she took silver in the 1984 Los Angeles games.
The Copenhagen Post
