Britain has topped the final medal table at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
British athletes won an extraordinary nine gold medals, seven silvers and three bronzes — 19 in total. Germany finishes second with 14 medals, five of them gold.
Sophie Wells was the final British athlete to add to the tally today, adding paradressage grade IV freestyle gold to her individual gold earlier in the week.
Australia made a late climb up the table today with Boyd Exell’s driving success, while the Netherlands strengthened its position with team gold and the USA added a team vaulting top spot to its two reining golds from the start of the Games.
Final reports from WEG in H&H out next week, 14 October issue.
FINAL WEG MEDAL TABLE
Place | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
1 | Britain | 9 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
2 | Germany | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
3 | Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
4 | America | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Belgium | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
6 | UAE | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
7 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
8= | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
8= | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
10 | Denmark | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
11 | France | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
12 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
13 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
14 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
15= | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
15= | Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
15= | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15= | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |