Musician Tom Hunt's Olympic hopes are fulfilled

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You might be interested in the sport, but what about the music? Tom Hunt is a sought after composer of music for dressage and is celebrating some top results from the Tokyo Olympics.

Lancashire based musician and composer Tom Hunt had a very special reason for watching the Olympics this week.

He felt sheer jubilation as the British equestrian star Charlotte Dujardin won bronze in the individual grand prix freestyle dressage finals yesterday, claiming her sixth Olympic medal.

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For Tom, who lives near Garstang, had written the music for Charlotte and the music for all of the Great Britain team members taking part in the Tokyo Olympics' freestyle dressage contests.

Composer and musician Tom HuntComposer and musician Tom Hunt
Composer and musician Tom Hunt

Tom, who also composed the music for Charlotte's Gold Medal win in the Rio Olympics five years ago, revealed that preparing for this year's Olympcis had been a close run race against time.

He explained that an eleventh hour decision was made for Charlotte to change her horse. But as Tom writes his music taking into account both the rider, the horse and the sequence of moves he had to move swiftly to prepare new music.

It meant that Charlotte's success on Wednesday was especially pleasing, coming the day after the Great Britain team also won bronze in the team dressage event.