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The equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were run from 27 July to 6 August at the Palace of Versailles, featuring 200 riders across three disciplines for both individual and team competitions, namely dressage, eventing, and jumping. [1] Men and women compete together on equal terms.
The Summer Olympics have included 2,129 equestrian participants, including 1,751 men and 378 women, from 69 countries. [1] [note 1], of which 564 won a medal. As of the 2008 Olympics, 395 medals have been awarded to 31 NOCs.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Japan won the bronze medal in equestrian team eventing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Team member Yoshiaki Oiwa posed for a selfie with his horse, MGH Grafton Street, afterward.
The 48-year-old Brewster equestrian now has five Olympic medals — two gold and three silvers.
The team show jumping event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 1–2 August 2024. [1] The event was won by the Great Britain team of Scott Brash, Harry Charles and Ben Maher, the third gold medal for Great Britain in the event.
2008 Olympics: the equestrian events were held in Shatin, Hong Kong, rather than Beijing, the capital, due to the high levels of equine disease in Beijing. [14] Hong Kong was chosen as the alternate site because it had high standards for quarantine of horses, and was therefore considered safe for the equine athletes. [ 15 ]
The 2024 Summer Olympics will be hosted by Paris July 26-August 11, spread over 16 cities across France. The magnificent grounds of the Palace of Versailles is the equestrian venue.