The Dressage horses came before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Ground Jury yesterday morning in the sunshine at the majestic Versailles (FRA) venue.
Under the watchful eye of Ground Jury President Raphaël Saleh and team, a total of 75 horses, including alternates, from 30 countries stepped out at the first Dressage Horse Inspection.
Returning for re-inspection on Tuesday morning (30 July) at 8.00am local time will be Love Me (Zaneta Skowronska-Kozubik - POL), Amplemento (Christian Schumach - AUT) and Malagueno LXXXIII (Jose Daniel Martin Dockx - ESP).
A total of 15 teams and 15 individual competitors are set to compete in Olympic Dressage.
Dressage has the distinction of fielding the oldest athlete, not just in equestrian sport, but at the entire Paris 2024 Olympic Games - 65-year-old Spanish star and Athens 2004 silver medallist Juan Antonio Jiménez Cobo is ready to wow Versailles fans with 15-year-old grey stallion Euclides Mor.
Draw
The draw for the team medal-deciding Grand Prix, running over two days (Tuesday 30 July - Wednesday 31 July) with 30 combinations each day, is now live.
First into the arena at 11.00am local time on 30 July will be Austrian team member Stefan Lehfellner with Roberto Carlos Mt, followed by Denmark’s World Championship team gold medallist Nanna Skodborg Merrald with Zepter.
Great Britain’s Charlotte Fry, reigning individual World Champion, will lead the way with Glamourdale on day two (31 July), when the team action begins an hour earlier, at 10.00am.
Each day, athletes will compete in three groups of 10, with Tokyo 2020 double gold-medallists Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and brilliant mare Dalera last to go in Wednesday’s final group.