The Jumping test was performed on the second day of Eventing. Dressage was performed last. The Olympic Equestrian Eventing competitions made its debut in Originally it was limited to members of the military.
However, at the Helsinki Games of , the competition was broadened to include civilian riders. The Basics The Eventing competition takes places over four days. As with all three Equestrian disciplines on the Olympic programme, the competition features both Individual and Team events, and men and women compete against each other on equal terms. Dressage fills the first two days of the Eventing competition.
Each horse and rider performs a dressage test in front of a panel of judges. Day 3 is given over to the cross-country test, held over a beautiful but tough course in Greenwich Park containing up to 45 jumps. The Eventing competition gets a grandstand finish on Day 4 with the jumping tests. Once again, riders and horses are given penalty points for jumping errors and time penalties, which are added to their previous dressage and cross-country scores to determine the overall rankings.
Eventing is a gruelling sport that requires human and horse to posses good stamina and concentration, as well as flair and jumping prowess. Horse and rider need to be all-rounders. They will need the skills to excel at dressage and showjumping, but also will need to be super-fit and utterly fearless if they want to make it round the cross-country course.
Dujardin and year-old Valegro scored 13 perfect 10s during the Freestyle: 2 for trot half-pass right, 1 for trot half-pass left, three for extended trot, three for two-tempi changes, 1 for 1-tempi changes and three for musical interpretation. The Dutch came third, and a bronze was enough to make Anky van Grunsven the most successful equestrian athlete in Olympic history with nine medals in total.
She also became the first Dressage athlete to feature at seven Games. As for the Individual event, another long barren spell was ended when Steve Guerdat clinched gold for Switzerland on Nino Des Buissonets.
Alphonse Gemeseus and Lucette in Jung, celebrating his 30 th birthday, was partnered by the legendary Sam and set a new record in equestrian sport by becoming the first event rider to hold Olympic, European and World titles at the same time.
Great Britain achieved a record haul of 11 medals five gold, five silver and 1 bronze taking their overall tally since to an impressive 44 medals 23 gold, 13 silver and 8 bronze.
You can read more about Olympic history and its champions in a richly illustrated new book that conveys all the excitement and drama of high-profile international equestrian competitions! This unique anthology tells the story of more than a hundred years of equestrian sports, focusing on the three official disciplines of Dressage, Jumping, and Eventing. Featuring every major event since , when the sport first appeared in the modern Olympic Games, the book gives a decade-by-decade breakdown of individual and team medal-winners, and reveals fascinating, behind-the- scenes anecdotes that bring these hard-fought contests to life.
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Meanwhile, its proximity to Stratford will enable athletes to stay in the village. It's novel for us to be in the middle of a big city for an event, and so far everything seems to have gone very smoothly," said the double Olympic gold medallist Mark Todd, a New Zealander.
Not everyone in the equestrian world has been so positive. But Richard Davison, captain of the Team GB dressage team, said the pluses would far outweigh the minuses.
It's going to be a beautiful venue," said Davison. They are way out in the sticks. This is phenomenal. So far, every international observer or rider has said it's amazing.
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