Date | 29 July – 4 August 1996 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Georgia International Horse Park, Conyers, Georgia | |
Participants | 82 from 24 countries | |
Format | Three rounds of qualifying advanced the top 25 riders to a single final round, maximum of three riders per nation advanced. |
The event was changed with qualifying consisting of three rounds, with the top 25 advancing to the final, with no more than three riders from any nation in the final. The final was again two rounds with the total score for both rounds to count. Linda Allen designed the courses, the first woman to do so at the Olympics.
The course for the first round of the final was not difficult as 10 riders went clear, and the other 15 missed only a single obstacle, for four faults. The second round was a bit harder, but six riders still had clean rides, although there were some time penalties for three of them. German Uli Kirchhoff was the only rider with clean rides in both rounds, although he incurred 1.00 time penalties in the second round, but this still brought him the gold medal.
The other medals involved a complicated seven-way tie for second and a seven-rider jump-off. In the jump-off Switzerland’s Willi Melliger and France’s Alexandra Ledermann both had clean rides, the only two of the jump-off, with Melliger winning the silver medal on time, 38.07 to 41.46.
Within three weeks, Kirchhoff’s horse, Jus de Pommes would tragically die from circulatory collapse after a severe intestinal disorder.
Three rounds. Total score for all rounds determined placement. Top 25 riders advanced to the final round, maximum of three riders per nation.
Single final round.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Horse | Faults | J-OF | |||
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1 | Uli Kirchhoff | ![]() | Jus de Pommes | 1.00 | – | |||
2 | Willi Melliger | ![]() | Calvaro V | 4.00 | 0.00 | |||
3 | Alexandra Ledermann | ![]() | Rochet M | 4.00 | 0.00 | |||
4 | Hugo Simon | ![]() | E.T. | 4.00 | 4.00 | |||
5 | Urs Fäh | ![]() | Jeremia | 4.00 | 4.00 | |||
6 | Geoff Billington | ![]() | It's Otto | 4.00 | 4.00 | |||
7 | Jan Tops | ![]() | Top Gun | 4.00 | 8.00 | |||
8 | Doda | ![]() | Aspen | 4.00 | 16.00 | |||
=9 | Rodrigo Pessoa | ![]() | Tomboy | 4.25 | – | |||
=9 | John Whitaker | ![]() | Welham | 4.25 | – | |||
=11 | Anton-Martin Bauer | ![]() | Vesuve Paluelle | 8.00 | – | |||
=11 | Fernando Sarasola | ![]() | Ennio | 8.00 | – | |||
=11 | Peter Charles | ![]() | Beneton | 8.00 | – | |||
=11 | Jos Lansink | ![]() | Carthago Z | 8.00 | – | |||
=11 | Beat Mändli | ![]() | City Banking | 8.00 | – | |||
=11 | Leslie Burr-Howard | ![]() | Extreme | 8.00 | – | |||
17 | Hervé Godignon | ![]() | Viking du Tillard | 9.00 | – | |||
18 | André Johannpeter | ![]() | Calei | 12.00 | – | |||
19 | Jerry Smit | ![]() | Constantijn | 12.25 | – | |||
=20 | Ludo Philippaerts | ![]() | King Darco | 16.00 | – | |||
=20 | Lars Nieberg | ![]() | For Pleasure | 16.00 | – | |||
=20 | Anne Kursinski | ![]() | Eros | 16.00 | – | |||
23 | Nick Skelton | ![]() | Showtime | 16.25 | – | |||
24 | Rutherford Latham | ![]() | Sourire d'Aze | 16.50 | – | |||
25 | Helmut Morbitzer | ![]() | Racal | 29.00 | – |