Olympic eventing champion injured in cross-country fall

Olympic champion eventer Michael Jung will be out of action for a while after a fall during the young horse World Championships at Le Lion d’Angers on Saturday (20 October).

Michael was in the lead after the dressage in the seven-year-olds class on Choclat, with a score of 25 penalties, when the Hanoverian gelding fell after an open ditch on the cross-country.

Choclat was unharmed in the fall but Michael was taken to hospital, where it was found he had broken his humerus and “broken a piece out of the socket of his shoulder joint”.

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Article written by: Eleanor Jones