Morocco Qualifies First-Ever Olympic Equestrian Team for Tokyo 2021

7 December 2020 – byJérôme · 1 min read

Next year, Morocco will participate as a team for the first time in its equestrian history at the Tokyo Olympic Games. The events will take place from July 24 to August 7, 2021 at the Setagaya Equestrian Park.

The iconic Abdelkebir Ouaddar, winner of the 2016 Hermès Grand Prix, will lead the Moroccan team in 2021, qualified collectively for the first time for the Olympic Games. Thus, four years after Morocco’s participation in the Olympic Games on an individual basis with Abdelkebir Ouaddar and Quickly de Kreisker, next year the Kingdom will send a complete show jumping team to Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics.

The qualification obtained by the Moroccan team last year during the CSIO in Rabat was confirmed last weekend, when Samy Colman, Ali Al Ahrach, Ghali Boukaa and Abdelkebir Ouaddar obtained the key during the Sunshine Tour in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain.

Under the direction of the Belgian Philippe Lejeune, world individual champion in 2010, the "green jackets with red collars" finished seventh out of seventeen participating nations, at the end of the Nations Cup on Saturday. In addition, Morocco is qualified individually for the dressage events.

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