Equestrian sport at the Olympic Games.

The Olympic programme

There are six equestrian medal events at the Summer Olympics: a team and an individual competition in each of dressage, eventing and jumping. Men and women compete against each other on equal terms, which the Olympic Federation of Ireland notes makes equestrian one of the few Olympic sports where that happens. At Tokyo 2020 teams had three riders, and Paris 2024 had 200 riders from 49 nations (both per Wikipedia). How each discipline is scored is explained on the dressage, eventing and show jumping pages. Para dressage, at the Paralympics, has its own page: para dressage events.

A short history

According to Wikipedia, the 1900 Paris Games held five equestrian events, including a high jump and a long jump that never returned. Count Clarence von Rosen of Sweden proposed an equestrian programme at the 1906 IOC session, and dressage, eventing and jumping first appeared at Stockholm 1912 (Olympic Federation of Ireland). Until 1952 the events were open only to military officers; Helsinki 1952 admitted civilian men and, in dressage, women. Wikipedia records women entering Olympic jumping in 1956 and eventing in 1964, the 1956 equestrian events being held in Stockholm rather than Melbourne because of Australia's horse quarantine rules, and the dressage freestyle arriving at Atlanta 1996. The full story is on equestrian sport at the Olympics.

Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021)

Postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic, the equestrian events ran from 24 July to 7 August 2021 at Baji Koen (Equestrian Park), with eventing cross country at Sea Forest (Wikipedia). The medal lists below follow Wikipedia; where another source confirms the order, it is named.

The team members, per Wikipedia: dressage gold Germany (von Bredow-Werndl, Dorothee Schneider, Werth); eventing gold Great Britain (Laura Collett, Tom McEwen, Oliver Townend); jumping gold Sweden (Henrik von Eckermann, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, Peder Fredricson). Wikipedia's medal table has Germany on three golds, Great Britain two and Sweden one.

A disputed listing. Krajewski was the first woman to win Olympic individual eventing gold, as NBC, Eurosport and Wikipedia report it. One results site, sport-histoire.fr, lists McEwen as the gold medallist instead. NBC, Eurosport and Wikipedia all put McEwen second, and we follow them.

Paris 2024

The equestrian events ran from 27 July to 6 August 2024 in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles (Wikipedia; Olympics.com for the venue). Again, the medal lists follow Wikipedia, with the confirming source named.

• Eventing team: Ros Canter (Lordships Graffalo), Tom McEwen (JL Dublin) and Laura Collett (London 52) won Great Britain's first gold of the Paris Games, as Olympics.com reported.
• Jung's third individual title: Olympics.com said Michael Jung became the first rider in eventing history to win three Olympic individual titles.
• Jumping team: Ben Maher (Dallas Vegas Batilly), Harry Charles (Romeo 88) and Scott Brash (Jefferson) rode for Great Britain (Wikipedia).
• Dressage team: Frederic Wandres, Isabell Werth and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl rode for Germany; Becky Moody, Carl Hester and Charlotte Fry for Great Britain (Wikipedia). Von Bredow-Werndl kept the individual title she won in Tokyo.
• Germany's individual sweep: Olympics.com described Kukuk's win as completing a clean sweep of the three individual titles for Germany.

Two things that changed the line-ups. Charlotte Dujardin withdrew on 23 July 2024 and was provisionally suspended by the FEI, which said it had received a video on 22 July showing conduct contrary to horse welfare principles; British Equestrian mirrored the suspension and Becky Moody took her team place (Eurodressage, 23 July 2024; British Dressage statement). Separately, Wikipedia records that Belgium was removed from the team eventing result after a banned-substance test on Tine Magnus's horse; we could not confirm that on an FEI page.

Records after Paris 2024

• Guinness World Records lists Isabell Werth as holder of the most Olympic dressage golds, eight, the eighth won in the Paris team event on 3 August 2024.
• Olympedia, counting after Paris 2024, gives Michael Jung (Germany) and Charles Pahud de Mortanges (Netherlands) four Olympic eventing golds each.

Los Angeles 2028

LA28 keeps the six medal events and 200 quota places of Paris, and all equestrian events will be at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, which also hosted the 1984 Olympic equestrian events (Horse Sport, 12 November 2025), though the Chronicle of the Horse (15 April 2025) notes that eventing's endurance day in 1984, including cross country, was held at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe. The timetable was published as provisional and subject to change.

Horse Sport names Alec Lochore (Great Britain) as eventing course designer and Alan Wade (Ireland) for jumping. Reports summarised in search results mention restrictions on competing between noon and 3pm for climate reasons; we have not read that in a primary source. Team places earned at the 2026 World Championships are on the 2026 World Championships page.

The 2026 Asian Games (finished)

The equestrian events of the 20th Asian Games, hosted by Aichi-Nagoya, were held at Baji Koen Equestrian Park in Tokyo and ended on Sunday 4 October 2026 with individual jumping (Korea JoongAng Daily; QNA).

• Individual dressage (27 September): gold Nam Dong-heon (Korea) 75.190, silver Yu Jiayi (China) 75.050, bronze Aleksandra Maksakova (listed as PLE) 74.935 (Korea JoongAng Daily).
• Team eventing: gold Thailand 109.90, silver Japan 115.20, bronze Korea 143.50. Individual eventing: gold Alex Hua Tian (China), silver Woraphat Sittiju (Thailand) (Time Out Bangkok, 28 September 2026).
• Individual jumping ran in two height categories. At 1.40 to 1.50 m, Faleh Al Ajami (Qatar) won on Qapella ahead of Abdulla Almheiri (UAE) and Abdulrahman Almobty (Saudi Arabia); at 1.55 m, Ramzy Al Duhami (Saudi Arabia) won ahead of Abdulrahman Al Rajhi (Saudi Arabia) and Bassem Mohammed (Qatar) (Qatar Tribune, 5 October 2026).
• Team jumping: search summaries give Saudi Arabia gold, the UAE silver and Japan bronze; we could not open the report, so this is unconfirmed.