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<\/span><\/span>Charlotte Dujardin became Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympian by winning the bronze medal in a tense individual dressage event at Tokyo 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n Dujardin, 36, faced a nervous wait to see whether Dorothee Schneider would surpass her mark of 88.543% in the final run of the day but the German rider could not deny her a sixth Olympic medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dujardin’s haul of three gold medals, one silver and two bronze moves her clear of the five medals won by British rower Katherine Grainger and tennis player Kathleen McKane Godfree.<\/span><\/p>\n But her run of successive Olympic titles from 2012 and 2016 came to an end, as Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl scored 91.732% to beat compatriot Isabell Werth into silver on 89.657%.<\/span><\/p>\n Had Schneider overtaken Dujardin she would have secured an all-German podium in the event for the first time since 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n Gold medallist Von Bredow-Werndl executed a masterful display on her Olympic debut, guiding her horse TSF Dalera meticulously to the soundtrack of hit 2016 film ‘La La Land’.<\/span><\/p>\n Dujardin’s success at previous Games had come aboard the now-retired Valegro, a horse immortalised with a statue in Dujardin’s hometown of Newent in Gloucestershire.<\/span><\/p>\n Her new mount – named Gio but nicknamed ‘Pumpkin’ after arriving in her stable around Halloween – stood up admirably to the challenging Tokyo heat and the pressure of an Olympic event.<\/span><\/p>\n BBC Sport equestrian expert Bobby Hayler said: “This will mean an awful lot to Charlotte Dujardin. She will be incredibly proud of such a young horse, but a very, very capable young horse.”<\/span><\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/onesport\/cps\/624\/cpsprodpb\/6467\/production\/_119630752_cdj.jpg\")
<\/span><\/span>Gio delivers for Dujardin<\/h3>\n