Fouaad Mirza Equestrian Olympics 2021 Individual Cross-Country: India loses place in top 10 after Eventing

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That's all for today.

Mirza has one more event to go which is the jumping event. All he has to do is finish in the top 25 to qualify for the Eventing Individual Jumping final.

It will be a slow day for fans as there will not be many Indian athletes in action today. Next up will be Satish Kumar who faces the defending champion Bakhodir Jalolov at 9:36 am.

So until then, take care and goodbye.

Fouaad Mirza takes 13th place

Mirza has moved down to 13th place as finish the cross country. His total is now 39.20.

Mirza is down on time, so he might lose his place in the top 10 rank. The stipulated time to complete the jump is 7:45. But he is already in the seventh minute and there is a lot of jumping to do.

Mirza comes to the four-minute mark as he and Medicott continue to cross the obstacles.

Fouaad Mirza talks about his aim for Olympics

Mirza scored a double silver with Seigneur at the most recent Asian Games in Team and Individual, and having worked under Germany’s Sandra Auffarth, he’s looking to make a significant impact.

“I’m a competitive person,” he told FEI.org. “I’m not interested in just making up the numbers. I came here to do well. My horse is in really good form.

“Everyone wants to finish No.1. We’ll try our very, very best and who knows what we can achieve. It might just be enough to finish among the top few.”

Mirza begins his exercise

Laura Collett and London 52 take the bronze medal position after a brilliant run in the course. She finishes the course in less than eight minutes.

Participants in action

Three more participants before Fouaad Mirza takes the course.

Still Confused about Equestrian?

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Explaining Eventing:

Eventing consists of dressage, jumping and a cross country component that requires horses and riders to navigate a 6-kilometre obstacle course of fences, water jumps and hedges as fast as possible.

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Explaining Jumping:

Jumping requires riders and their horses to jump a variety of obstacles with points deducted for any obstacles knocked down or if a horse refuses to jump an obstacle.

Explaining Dressage:

Just like the component of figure skating, dressage sees riders perform a series of predetermined movements. Judges award points on the quality of the execution of each movement with zero awarded for an incomplete execution, while 10 for an "excellent" execution.

What is Equestrian?

Equestrian became part of the Olympics programme in 1912. There are three components to it: dressage, jumping and eventing with individual and team competitions in each.

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India's Fouaad Mirza will be in action in the second event of the sport -- The Cross-Country. Seigneur Medicott end dressage placed ninth and would like to finish in the top 10 once again to inch closer to the final round.

The aim is to finish in top 25 after the end of three events -- Dressage, Cross-Country and Jumping.

He will be in action soon, so take a seat and enjoy.