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Equestrian sports were first included in the Olympic Games in the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris. They were again included in 1912, and have been included in every subsequent edition of the Games. Currently, the Olympic equestrian disciplines are dressage, eventing, and show jumping. In each discipline, both individual and team medals are awarded. Since the XV Olympiad in Helsinki in 1952, women and men compete on equal terms.
Norway competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Switzerland competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. This is a list of all of the Swiss athletes who have qualified for the Olympics and have been nominated by Swiss Olympic Association.
Norway sent a delegation of 24 competitors, to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, from September 6 to September 17, 2008.
The individual show jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between 15 and 21 August, at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Like all other equestrian events, the jumping competition was mixed gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division. There were 77 competitors from 29 nations. The event was won by Eric Lamaze of Canada, the nation's first victory in individual jumping and first medal of any color in the event since 1976. Silver went to Rolf-Göran Bengtsson of Sweden, that nation's first medal in individual jumping since 1932. American Beezie Madden, who had led through the three qualifying rounds in 2004 before a bad first final round put her in 30th overall in Athens, took the bronze medal in Beijing.
The team jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place from August 15 to 18, at the Hong Kong Sports Institute.
Kristina "Tina" Cook, is a British three-day eventing rider. She is the 2009 European Champion and a three-time Olympic medallist, winning individual and team bronze medals in 2008 and team silver in 2012. She has also won two World team golds and four European team golds.
Heike Kemmer is a German equestrian who competes in the sport of dressage. She won team gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as individual bronze in 2008. She also won medals at the German Dressage Championships and European Dressage Championships, as well as assisting the German team to gold at the 2006 World Equestrian Games. Kemmer retired Bonaparte 67, upon whom she had won most of her international medals, in 2011.
Stein Endresen is a Norwegian show jumping competitor.
Geir Gulliksen is a Norwegian show jumping competitor.
Tony Andre Hansen is a Norwegian show jumper and musician.
Mac Cone is a Canadian citizen who competes in show jumping.
Jill Henselwood is a Canadian Equestrian Team member who competes in show jumping.
Christina Liebherr is a German-born Swiss equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Steve Guerdat is a Swiss equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Pius Schwizer is a Swiss Olympic-level equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Niklaus Schurtenberger is a Swiss equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping. He won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in team jumping following the disqualification of Norwegian rider Tony André Hansen.
Switzerland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Swiss athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except when they boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Swiss Olympic Association sent a total of 103 athletes to the 2012 Games, 72 men and 31 women, to compete in 18 sports.
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- ↑ "Morten Djupvik". Beijing Olympics. Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved 2008-08-18.
- ↑ "Norway stripped of equestrian bronze, Swiss move up". CBC News. 2008-12-22.
- ↑ "Equestrians grab some glory". Aftenposten . 2008-08-18. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
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