One of the competitions in
equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics
The equestrian events at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1924 Paris Olympics included eventing (individual and team medals), show jumping (individual and team medals) and dressage (individual medals). Vaulting was not included this year. The competiti ...
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.
Individual event
The 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
Adolf van der Voort van Zijp (1 September 1892 in Klambir Lima, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies – 8 March 1978 in Monaco) was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Born ...
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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.
Description of the individual eventing
Results
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Eventing
Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...