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Team GBR, gold medallists. Image credit: FEI/EFE/Kai Försterling

1. It has been an Olympic sport since 1912.

2. The top 25 will qualify for the Individual Jumping Final which will take place after the Team Jumping Final on 29 July.

3. Horses can be substituted for the team competition, and a horse/athlete combination may be substituted by a reserve combination for medical/veterinarian reasons in any of the three tests after the start of the competition. Substitution incurs a penalty for the team of 20 points. One substitution per team is permitted.

4. A drawn starting order will be used for the dressage and cross-country, but in the final jumping test horse/athlete combinations will go in reverse order of merit.

5. 27 countries taking part

6. 16 teams

7. 65 horse/athlete combinations

8. 11 countries represented by individuals

9. Australia, Germany, Great Britain and USA share the biggest number of team victories in Olympic Eventing history with four each.

10. Australia holds the record for consecutive wins –three team titles in a row – at Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000.

Matt Ryan and Kibah Sandstone en route to Team Gold at the Sydney 2000 games. Image credit: FEI/Jacques Toffi

11. Team GB are the defending Olympic team champions.

12. Sweden have won three team golds, the last at Helsinki in 1952.

Nils Stahre, part of the gold medal-winning Swedish team at the 1952 Helsinki games. Image credit: FEI/Proudet

13. France and The Netherlands have claimed the team title twice.

14. Italy has won team gold once, at Tokyo in 1964

Italian Mauro Checcoli and Surbean on their way to team and individual gold at Tokyo 1964. Image: FEI

15. Germany holds the record for most individual Olympic Eventing titles with a total of five.

16. The first German athlete to take the top step of the podium was Ludwig Stubbendorf who rode Nurmi to victory in Berlin in 1936.

17. German riders have won all of the last four Olympic individual titles – Hinrich Romeike, riding Marius, at Beijing in 2008, Michael Jung and Sam at London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and Julia Krajewski riding Amande de B’Neville at Tokyo 2020.

18. When the Olympic Games were last staged in Paris in 1924, The Netherlands claimed team and individual gold.

19. Team USA’s Lana du Pont was the first woman to compete in an Olympic three-day-event in Tokyo in 1964.

20. Julia Krajewski made history as the first-ever female athlete to claim the Olympic individual Eventing title when coming out on top at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

21. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games a total of 23 female riders (31.51%) will compete in Eventing alongside 42 (68.49%) male athletes.

22. Germany’s Michael Jung is one of three back-to-back individual Olympic Eventing champions. The first was Dutch rider Charles Pahud de Mortanges who rode Marcroix to victory at Amsterdam in 1928 and again at Los Angeles in 1932.

23. Kiwi legend, Sir Mark Todd, was back-to-back champion with Charisma in Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988.

24. Jung recorded his back-to-back double in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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