| Versailles, France – The U.S. Paralympic Dressage Team continued to make their mark in history at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, securing their second consecutive Paralympic team medal – this time standing atop the podium with a historic team gold. The team combinations comprised of Rebecca Hart and Floratina (Grade III), Fiona Howard and Diamond Dunes (Grade II), and Roxanne Trunnell and Fan Tastico H (Grade I) each produced incredibly competitive scores, all at the 77% mark or above, in the FEI Grand Prix Test B to solidify the team’s impressive finish and collect the first team gold in program history. Their final combined score of 235.567 is the highest Paralympic team score ever recorded in the para-equestrian discipline. “This is the completion of a long-timed, well-planned dream, going back to Tryon 2018, where we started to actually make changes. In Tokyo, when we won bronze, I had a clear plan and strategy in place, and in my mind, to earn that team medal. I just knew it had to be gold in Paris for us,” said Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline. “It has been three years of very hard work, planning, logistics, competition strategies, both for Europe and in the U.S. The horsepower, the coaches, and the whole program had to be revamped to get to this point. It’s a funny thing to think – it’s what I expected – but you never want to talk about it openly. I had it in mind that this was our goal and here we are. This feels like such an amazing accomplishment for everyone who has been involved with this program over the years.” |
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