The team
eventing in
equestrian
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Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
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at the
1948 Olympic Games in
London
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was held in the town of
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and at the
Tweseldown Racecourse
Tweseldown Racecourse southeast of Fleet, Hampshire was originally a National Hunt steeplechasing venue and the home of the equestrian dressage and eventing competitions in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Until 2012 the venue hosted Point to point ra ...
from 10 to 13 August.
The
American
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team of
Charles Anderson,
Frank Henry
Frank Sherman Henry (December 15, 1909 – August 25, 1989) was an American equestrian. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in team eventing and silver medals in individual eventing and team dressage, becoming th ...
and
Earl Foster Thomson
Lieutenant Earl "Tommy" Thomson (August 14, 1900 – July 1971) was an Olympic equestrian who won 5 medals during his international career. He was born in Cleveland.
Biography
Graduating from West Point in 1922, Thomson earned the Si ...
won the gold medal.
Sweden
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won the silver medal and
Mexico
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took bronze.
Competition format
The team and individual eventing competitions used the same scores. Eventing consisted of a dressage test, a cross-country test, and a jumping test. Team eventing final scores were the sum of the three individual scores for riders from the same NOC.
Results
Standings after dressage
Standings after cross-country
Final standings after jumping
References
Sources
*Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948)
The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad p. 342. ''
LA84 Foundation
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''. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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Equestrian events at the 1948 Summer Olympics