One of the competitions in equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics was the individual eventing. The rules only allowed military officers to join the competition. From the results of the individual eventing, a team event was compiled.[1]
| Individual eventing at the Games of the VIII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir | |||||||||
| Dates | 21–26 July | |||||||||
| Competitors | 44 from 13 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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Individual event
editThe individual eventing was divided into three parts: dressage (10% of the total score), field (70%) and jumping (20%). The field was again divided into public road, steeple chase (4 km) and cross country (8 km).
In the first event, dressage, the Dutch riders were the best, and they took the top four spots. Colenbrander ranked first, followed by Adolph van der Voort van Zijp.
The field competition was chaotic. After the race, the Dutch team saw that Van der Voort van Zijp was ranked 27th, and they complained. The organisation then discovered that they had mixed up the scores, and that Van der Voort van Zijp had actually finished second in the field competition. In the overall competition, he was now leading.
In the jumping competition, Van der Voort van Zijp made no mistakes, so he kept the first position and won the event.[2]
Results
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References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Equestrianism at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Three-Day Event, Individual". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Description of the individual eventing Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
Sources
edit- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009.