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Kumar, serving with the President's Body Guards (PBG), gave a fine show of horsemanship producing two clear rounds to win the competition-II — the second tier of the world event. This helped him keep the penalties to the lowest in the two-tier event and pip favourite Major Deep Ahlawat of Remount Training School and Depot, Saharanpur to the second spot. The final tally marked a great recovery for the PBG man, who took the second position behind Ahlawat in competition-I. On Saturday, Ahlawat had won the first two rounds on superior timing after the two were tied on four penalties. In the third round on Tuesday, Ahlawat was in comfortably ahead — the first phase of competition-II — Tuesday as he recorded the fastest timing riding his favourite horse Mirza and also came out with a clean round. The jumping course in the third round had a length of 420 metres and had 11 fences with two combinations. Ahlawat, who represented the country winning the `eventing' team bronze in the Busan Asiad, preformed to his strength completing the drill in the least time — 67.21 seconds which was much below the limit of 72. The final round — which was much easier compared to the third having a smaller course of 350 metres and with only one combination — set the Saharanpur combination as the best bet. But Mirza's hesitancy at approaching combinations — which became apparent in competition-I too, proved Ahlawat's undoing as the horse tripped at the first jump in the combination at the fifth fence and incurred four penalties. On the other hand, Kumar stole the show in the final round as Fariyad rose to the occasion clearing all the hurdles with perfect jumps and reproduced yet another clear round to ensure the title for PBG. Rathore, who too had four penalties after competition-I, found his horse refusing to jump once at the fifth hurdle in the third round. The `refusal' invited 9.5 penalties as he incurred a double blow faulting both on time and the jump, which virtually pushed him out of contention. Though he had no faults for clear round in the final phase but a total of 13.50 penalties in the first three rounds pushed Rathore, who represented 61st Cavalry, far beyond in the title race. Saharan, who had carried over 12 penalties from competition-I, gave a better show in competition-II incurring just four faults but a total of 16 deficit points could only place him fourth in a field of 13 riders who completed the four rounds. All these individual scores of the top four riders will now be tallied to determine the overall positions in the world ranking. Important results: Overall medal positions: 1. Dfr. Sajjan Kumar on Fariyad (PBG) — 4.00 (competition-I 4.00/Competition-II 0.00); 2. Maj. Deep Ahlawat on Mirza (RTS&D, Saharanpur) 8.00 (4/4); 3. Maj. S.S. Rathore on New Fortune (61st cavalry) 13.50 (4.00/9.50); 4. Lt. Saurabh Saharan on Tipsy (2nd Lancers) 16.00 (12.00/4.00).
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