Equestrian 2016 Rio Olympic Review

Individual Dressage

Charlotte Dujardin (Great Britain) led the Grand Prix stage with an 85-point performance, ahead of Kristina Bröring-Sprehe (Germany) and Dorothee Schneider (Germany). It was a different German, Isabell Werth (Germany) who led the second stage ahead of Dujardin and Schneider. In the final, all the scores improved, with Dujardin leading the field by scoring over 93. Behind her was Werth on 89.

🥇Charlotte Dujardin 🇬🇧

🥈Isabell Werth 🇩🇪

🥉Kristina Bröring-Sprehe 🇩🇪

Team Dressage

The scores from the first two stages of the individual competition were used for the team competition. Germany qualified for the final in the lead, ahead of Great Britain, who were boosted by the performance of Dujardin. Germany improved their score in the final, while Dujardin’s second-round struggles meant Britain had no chance to compete. Led by Laura Graves, the United States pulled away from the Netherlands to win bronze.

🥇Germany 🇩🇪

🥈Great Britain 🇬🇧

🥉United States of America 🇺🇸

Individual Eventing

Four riders began with scores under 40 in the dressage. William Fox-Pitt (Great Britain) led Chris Burton (Australia), Mathieu Lemoine (France) and Ingrid Klimke (Germany). Only three riders incurred no time penalties in the cross country, with Burton leading Michael Jung (Germany) and Astier Nicolás (France). In the first jumping round, Burton added eight points of penalties onto his time with Jung, Nicholas, Clarke Johnstone (New Zealand) and Sam Griffiths (Australia) all putting in strong clear rounds. Jung put another clear round in the second jumping phase to take gold. Griffiths also went clear but had lost too much time to sneak into a medal place.

🥇Michael Jung 🇩🇪

🥈Astier Nicolás 🇫🇷

🥉Phillip Dutton 🇺🇸

Team Eventing

Germany edged France after the dressage round by 0.2 points. Behind them, Australia were just ahead of Great Britain. The Australian team only took 9.6 points worth of penalties in the cross country, slightly ahead of New Zealand. France swapped places with Germany, but that only put them into third with both teams struggling with their lesser riders. Australia picked up 25 penalty points in jumping with France only getting nine, which put them in the lead.

🥇France 🇫🇷

🥈Germany 🇩🇪

🥉Australia 🇦🇺

Individual Jumping

In the qualification rounds, only one rider went through without any penalties; Eric Lamaze (Canada) with Kent Farrington (United States), Peder Fredricson (Sweden) and Maikel van der Vleuten (Netherlands) on one penalty point. Thirteen riders had a perfect first ride in the final, but only six followed it up in the second round, with Jeroen Dubbeldam (Netherlands) only missing out by one penalty point. Only two men went clear in the ride off with the first man down, Nick Skelton (Great Britain) finishing quicker than Fredricson. Two riders actually went quicker than Skelton, but Lamaze knocked down a barrier, whilst Farrington knocked down two.

🥇Nick Skelton 🇬🇧

🥈Peder Fredricson 🇸🇪

🥉Eric Lamaze 🇨🇦

Team Jumping

Four teams went through round one with perfectly clear rounds. Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and the United States led with those performances, while France had one penalty point. France only had two penalty points in the second round, totalling their points at three. Brazil, buoyed by the home crowd just missed out on the top three, after getting 13 penalty points. Canada and Germany tied on eight, but Germany produced a clear round in the jump-off to get bronze.

🥇France 🇫🇷

🥈United States 🇺🇸

🥉Germany 🇩🇪