Three years after an unexpected elimination at the Tokyo Olympics with her gelding Tribiani, Caroline Chew will have another chance after she secured a Paris 2024 dressage individual quota for Singapore, pending official ratification by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.
On Dec 29, the 31-year-old London-based lawyer finished 10th with stallion Zatchmo in the Mechelen, Belgium leg of the Grand Prix Freestyle to Music competition with a personal best score of 75.975, which translates to 2391 Olympic ranking points.
The Olympic qualification ranking takes into account the best four scores in 2023. The two highestranked athletes from five groups north-western Europe; southwestern Europe; central and eastern Europe and central Asia; Africa and Middle East; and south and east Asia and Oceania - earn one individual quota each for their national Olympic committee.
Altogether, Chew rode in six qualifiers in Europe. Other than her Mechelen results, her top scores included strong performances in London (75.665 for 236 Olympic ranking points), Madrid (74.310 for 223 points) and Wroclaw, Poland (73.530 for 215 points).
Her total of 913 points puts her second in the south and east Asia and Oceania group behind New Zealand's Melissa Galloway, who tallied 1,023 points with her gelding Windermere J'obei W.
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