Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France are held at the Château de Versailles. There are eleven gender free events: ten individual events and one mixed team event.

Equestrian at the XVII Paralympic Games
The pictogram for para-equestrian dressage
Venue	Château de Versailles
Dates	3–7 September 2024
No. of events	11
Competitors	78 from 29 nations

Competition format

Teams are made of three athletes, all of whom are also competing for individual medals. Nations without a team can be represented by one or two individual athlete(s).

The para-dressage competition starts with the Grand Prix Test A, which serves as an individual competition and in which the first individual medals are awarded. The best first 8 (eight) riders from each grade are qualified for the individual Freestyle. The second test, the Grand Prix Test B counts as Team test which serves as team competition where the team medals will be awarded. Only nations with a team can compete in the Grand Prix test B competition. The Freestyle consist of the best 8 (eight) athletes from the Grand Prix Test A competition, where again a string of three medals in each grade will be awarded. Each athlete designs their own test for the Freestyle, which must be set to music and must contain compulsory movements.

Qualification

There are 78 spots for para-equestrian riders at the Paralympic Games. Teams in each discipline consisted of three horse and rider pairs; any NOC that qualified a team (15 in total) also received 3 entries in the individual competition for that discipline. NOCs that did not qualify teams could earn one or two individual spots in dressage. Teams qualify primarily through specific competitions (World Equestrian Games and continental tournaments), while individuals qualified through ranking. The host nation France automatically reserves a team spot.

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Team slots
2022 FEI World Championships	6–14 August 2022	Herning	7 highest ranked teams 28 athletes	Netherlands  Denmark  United States  Great Britain  Belgium  Germany  Italy
2023 FEI European Championships	4–10 September 2023	Riesenbeck	1	Sweden
FEI Para Equestrian Regional Team Ranking Allocation	1 January – 31 December 2023		Africa (1 team quota)	—
			Americas (1 team quota)	Canada
			Asia (1 team quota)	Singapore
			Oceania (1 team quota)	Australia
FEI Para Equestrian Team Ranking List Allocation			2 highest ranked teams 8 athletes	Austria  Norway
Reallocation of African regional quota				Ireland
Host country allocation	13 September 2017	Lima	4	France
Individual qualification
Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List	1 January – 31 December 2023	—	15	Latvia  Brazil  Hong Kong  Poland  Finland  Hungary  Brazil  Czech Republic  Finland  South Africa  Slovakia  Switzerland  Japan  Japan  Poland
Bipartite Commission Invitation Allocation	18 March 2024	—	3	Greece  Finland  Czech Republic
Additional spots	5 August 2024	—	3	Saudi Arabia  New Zealand  Mexico
Total			78

Officials

Appointment of officials is as follows:

Dressage

• Anne Prain (Ground Jury President)
• Kristi Wysocki (Ground Jury Member)
• Freddy Leyman (Ground Jury Member)
• Ineke Jansen (Ground Jury Member)
• Suzanne Cunningham (Ground Jury Member)
• John Robinson (Ground Jury Member)
• Katherine Lucheschi (Ground Jury Member)
• Jan Holger Holtschmit (Technical Delegate)

Events

Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Classification of events
DATE	SESSION	EVENT			GRADE
2 September 2024	08:00:00	Horse Inspection
3 September 2024	09:00:00	Individual Championship Test		Grade III
		Individual Championship Test		Grade II
		Individual Championship Test		Grade I
4 September 2024	10:00:00	Individual Championship Test		Grade IV
		Individual Championship Test		Grade V
6 September 2024	09:30:00	Team Test		Grade IV
		Team Test		Grade V
		Team Test		Grade I
		Team Test		Grade II
		Team Test		Grade III
7 September 2024	09:30:00	Individual Freestyle Test		Grade III
		Individual Freestyle Test		Grade IV
		Individual Freestyle Test		Grade II
		Individual Freestyle Test		Grade I
		Individual Freestyle Test		Grade III

Participating nations

76 athletes from 29 nations competed.

•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (4)
•  Belgium (4)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Canada (3)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Denmark (4)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (4)
•  Germany (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Italy (4)
•  Japan (2)
•  Saudi Arabia (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (4)
•  Norway (4)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Singapore (3)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  United States (4)

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	0	0	2
2	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
4	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual championship test	Grade I	Rihards Snikus on King of the Dance (LAT)	Roxanne Trunnell on Fan Tastico H (USA)	Sara Morganti on Mariebelle (ITA)
Individual freestyle test
Individual championship test	Grade II	Fiona Howard on Diamond Dunes (USA)	Katrine Kristensen on Goerklintgaards Quater (DEN)	Georgina Wilson on Sakura (GBR)
Individual freestyle test
Individual championship test	Grade III	Rebecca Hart on Floratina (USA)	Rixt van der Horst on Royal Fonq (NED)	Natasha Baker on Dawn Chorus (GBR)
Individual freestyle test
Individual championship test	Grade IV
Individual freestyle test
Individual championship test	Grade V
Individual freestyle test
Team	Open

See also

• Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics