Olympic Games: Christopher Burton pipped to gold by Germany's Michael Jung in dramatic individual eventing final

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Olympic Games: Christopher Burton pipped to gold by Germany's Michael Jung in dramatic individual eventing final

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Chris Burton has ridden to an unexpected individual eventing silver for Australia at Chateau de Versailles -- on a loaned British horse he's only been riding for five months. The 42-year-old Queenslander had ditched his show jumping speciality for another shot at eventing this year, and his switch paid off handsomely as he expressed his disbelief at steering new partner Shadow Man to second place. Toowoomba's Burton, now based in the UK, was third overnight after the dressage and cross country but moved into the silver position after Monday morning's show jumping qualifying round when they had a clear round fractionally outside the time limit.
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