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at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in

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was held at the

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. There were eleven gender free events taking place: ten individual events and one mixed team event. The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the

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. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Qualification

Qualification was held from 1 January 2018 to 31 January 2020. *An NPC is allowed to have a maximum of four qualification slots: ** One eligible team of four athletes and minimum of three or maximum of four per individual events can contest. ** At least one athlete must be eligible to be in sport classes grade I, grade II or grade III.

Officials

Appointment of officials is as follows: ;Dressage * Marco Orsini (Ground Jury President) * Jeannette Wolfs (Ground Jury Member) * Anne Prain (Ground Jury Member) - replaced Alison Pauline King * Kjell Myhre (Ground Jury Member) * Katherine Lucheschi (Ground Jury Member) * Marc Urban (Ground Jury Member) - replaced Suzanne Cunningham * Sarah Leitch (Ground Jury Member) * Hanneke Gerritsen (Technical Delegate)

Medal table

Medalists

References

External links

Results book
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