1980 Summer Olympics / Riding

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Riding at the
1980 Summer Olympics
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information
venue Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Moscow
Competition venue Bitza-Park , equestrian complex of the unions
Nations 11
Athletes 68 (59 Mars symbol (male), 9 Venus symbol (female))
date July 25 to August 1, 1980
decisions 6th
← Montréal 1976

At the XXII. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , as in 1976, a total of six horse riding competitions were held.

Hardly any other sport suffered from the boycott of the top nations, as in addition to the complete lack of athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA , athletes from other countries such as Great Britain , France and also from neutral Switzerland did not participate. Only riders from eleven nations competed in Moscow.

The so-called international festivals were held on three consecutive weekends in August 1980 as substitute competitions for the boycotting nations and athletes .

Venues

The equestrian competitions were organized in the south of Moscow, in the Bitza equestrian complex at Bitza Park . In addition to stables, accommodation and training grounds, the equestrian complex of the unions includes a jumping and dressage arena, a riding arena and a racing track for military competitions.

The riding facility was rebuilt for the Summer Olympics. Even after the Olympic Games, the facility continues to be used for equestrian sports, and international riding tournaments are held here on a regular basis.

The jumping arena has a riding arena measuring 150 by 100 meters and ridden on grass. It is surrounded by grandstands with 12,000 seats. The dressage stadium offered space for 2,000 spectators during the games, and was surrounded by lawns and contained a dressage arena measuring 20 by 60 meters. The cross coutry phase of the military's cross country ride took place in Bitza Park.

The final competition for the individual competition for show jumpers was held in the Lenin Central Stadium.

dressage

The dressage competitions were probably hardest hit by the boycott. The dressage riders, judges and trainers represented there met at the CHIO Aachen 1980 and, after a discussion, unanimously expressed the opinion that under the given circumstances, participation in Moscow would not be considered. In addition to the athletes from the Eastern Bloc , only 24-year-old Elisabeth Theurer ( European champion 1979) and Kyra Kyrklund from Finland, who is also at the beginning of her international career, took part in the competitions.

team

The Soviet Union was one of the leading nations in dressage riding in the 1970s and 1980s, but was in the team competition without serious competitors due to the boycott. In order to be able to carry out a team competition at all, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland each sent three riders, one of them However, most of them were not up to the required tasks. These riders had already started in advanced level dressage, but not at Grand Prix level . This led to the fact that instead of passengers trot and instead of piaffe just stopping were shown.

"To illustrate the level we faced in Moscow: In my overall grades , I gave eight out of 14 starters an average of less than 4!"

- Jytte Lemkow, dressage judge at the 1980 Olympic dressage competitions
space country Riders and horses Points
1 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Yuri Kowschow
on "Igrok"
Vera Misewitsch
on "Plot"
Viktor Ugrjumow
on "Shkwal" 		4383
2 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria Petar Mandajev
on "Stschibor" Swetoslaw
Ivanov
on "Aleko"
Georgi Gadschew
on "Vnimatelen" 		3580
3 Romania 1965Romania Romania Anghelache Donescu
on "Dor"
Petre Roşca
on "Derbist"
Dumitru Velicu
on "Decebal" 		3346

singles

Elisabeth Theurer with Mon Cherie at the 1980 Summer Olympics

12 of the 14 riders of the Grand Prix de Dressage qualified for the Grand Prix Spécial , in which the individual ranking was determined. Elisabeth Theurer won the test with Mon Chérie safely. In the higher grades, the Soviet riders were able to line up in places two to four. Kyra Kyrklund followed at a distance, all other riders kept their results below 1000 points.

space country Rider and horse Points
1 AustriaAustria AUT Elisabeth Theurer
"Mon Cherie" 		1370
2 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Juri Kowschow
on "Igrok" 		1300
3 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Viktor Ugrjumow
on "Shkwal" 		1234
4th Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Wera Misewitsch
on "Plot" 		1231
5 FinlandFinland FIN Kyra Kyrklund
on "Piccolo" 		1121

Show jumping

The effects of the boycott were also clearly noticeable among the show jumpers: apart from the states of the Eastern Bloc, only Mexico provided a team. None of these teams were among the top ten teams in the world in show jumping at the time. Two individual riders from Finland and Guatemala completed the field of 26 riders.

team

Olympic Summer Games 1980: Award ceremony of the team competition show jumping (left the Polish, in the middle the Soviet team)

The Nations Cup in show jumping aroused a lot of criticism, where numerous riders from inexperienced nations were overwhelmed in the filled field of participants and recorded dozens of error points. The fourth to sixth placed teams got scores of 124 to 159.50 penalty points. The most extreme result was recorded by Andras Balogi, who scored 73.75 penalty points for the Hungarians in the first round.

space country Riders and horses Penalty points
1 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Viktor Asmajew
on "Reis"
Nikolai Korolkow
on "Espadron"
Viktor Pogdanowski
on "Topski"
Vyacheslav Tschukanow
on "Gepatit" 		16.00
2 Poland 1944Poland Poland Janusz Bobik
on "Szampan"
Wiesław Hartman
on "Norton"
Jan Kowalczyk
on "Artemor"
Marian Kozicki
on "Bremen" 		32.00
3 MexicoMexico Mexico Jesús Gómez Portugal
on "Massacre"
Joaquín Pérez
on "Alymony"
Gerardo Tazzer Valencia
on "Caribe"
Alberto Valdés Lacarra
on "Lady Mirka" 		39.25

singles

Jan Kowalczyk with Artemor at the 1980 Summer Olympics

In the individual competition on the final day of the Olympic Games, the 16 remaining riders had to overcome two more laps with their horses. Six starters managed to collect 16 or fewer penalty points. The result was 12 penalty points for the Mexican Perez de las Heras and the Guatemalan Mendez Herbruger, who were tied for third place after two laps. In this case, the rules stipulated a jump-off for the bronze medal. In the jump-off course they both received four penalty points, but Joaquín Perez de las Heras was a fraction of a second faster at the finish.

space country Rider and horse Penalty points
1st round 2nd round total Sting
1 Poland 1944Poland POLE Jan Kowalczyk
on "Artemor" 		4.00 4.00 8.00
2 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Nikolai Korolkow
on "Espadron" 		4.00 5.50 9.50
3 MexicoMexico MEX Joaquín Pérez
on "Alymony" 		8.00 4.00 12.00 4.00
(in 43.23  s )
4th GuatemalaGuatemala GUA Oswaldo Mendez Herbruger
on "Pampa" 		8.00 4.00 12.00 4.00
(in 43.59 s)
5 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Wiktor Pogdanowski
on "Topski" 		4.00 11.50 15.50
6th Poland 1944Poland POLE Wieslaw Hartmann
on "Norton" 		4.00 12.00 16.00

versatility

28 riders from six nations competed in the military . Individual and team ratings were determined in a competition.

On the day off, a good 29 kilometers had to be covered, 12,100 meters of which was accounted for by the Cross Courty phase. The floor of the Cross Courty route through Bitza Park was deep and muddy, but the obstacles were invitingly built. Overall, the requirements of the courses were significantly reduced compared to the 1976 Games. Eight riders were eliminated in the Cross Courty, three more gave up or did not start in jumping.

team

Anna Casagrande, member of the Italian military team, with Daleye during the final jump

Despite the lack of the dominant nations in the military (especially Great Britain), seven nations came together for the team classification. Three of them finished the test with fewer than three riders. India, at the start of an Olympic military for the first time, had to accept the elimination of all four riders in the field.

space country Riders and horses Minus points
1 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Alexander Blinow
on Galzun
Sergei Rogozhin
on "Gelespont"
Juri
Salnikow on "Pinzet"
Valeri Wolkow
on "Tschketi" 		457.00
2 ItalyItaly Italy Anna Casagrande
on "Daleye"
Mauro Roman
on "Dourakine 4"
Federico Roman
on "Rossinan"
Marina Sciocchetti
on "Rohan de Lechereo" 		656.20
3 MexicoMexico Mexico David Bárcena
on "Bombona"
Manuel Mendívil
on "Remember"
José Luis Pérez Soto
on "Quelite"
Fabián Vázquez
on "Cocaleco" 		1172.85

singles

Two riders, who four years earlier were among the ten best riders in the individual ranking of the Olympic Games in Montreal / Bromont, also competed in Moscow. Federico Roman, ninth in 1976, won the gold medal with a lead of 12.2 minus points. Yuri Salnikow, who came eighth in 1976, secured the individual bronze medal at the Moscow Games. Apart from Roman, only silver medalists Blinow and Tsvetan Donchev, who only came in fifth due to many time errors, did not get any obstacle errors in the Cross Courty.

space country Rider and horse Minus points
dressage Racetrack Cross Courty Leap total
1 ItalyItaly ITA Federico Roman
on "Rossinan" 		54.4 0.0 49.2 5.0 108.6
2 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Alexander Blinow
on "Galzun" 		64.4 2.4 54.0 0.0 120.8
3 Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Yuri
Salnikow on "Pinzet" 		53.0 1.6 92.0 5.0 151.6
4th Soviet UnionSoviet Union URS Valery Volkov
on "Chketi" 		54.0 4.0 121.6 5.0 184.6
5 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria BUL Tsvetan
Donchev on "Medisson" 		66.4 0.0 114.4 5.0 185.8
6th Poland 1944Poland POLE Mirosław Szłapka
on "Yerevan" 		52.4 1.6 182.8 5.0 241.8
7th ItalyItaly ITA Anna Casagrande
on "Daleye" 		61.2 0.0 190.0 15.0 266.2
8th ItalyItaly ITA Mauro Roman
on "Dourakine" 		63.4 0.0 218.0 0.0 281.4

Web links

Commons : 1980 Summer Olympics / Horse Riding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Games of the XXII Olympiad, Moscow (URS), July 19 - August 3, 1980 , history.fei.org, accessed on March 25, 2018
  2. ↑ for example CCI1 * / CIC2 * / CIC3 * Moscow, Bitsa, August 15 to 19, 2018 in the FEI tournament calendar
  3. ↑ Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Volume 2, Organization , pages 105–111: Trade Unions' Equestrian Complex (PDF)
  4. ↑ Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Volume 3, Participants and Results , pages 214 ff .: Equestrian Sports (PDF)
  5. ↑ Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Volume 2, Organization , page 234: Equestrian Sports (PDF)
  6. ↑ An Affair to Remember: the 1980 Olympic Games - Three Perspectives: Christine Stückelberger's point of view , eurodressage.com, February 17, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2018
  7. ↑ An Affair to Remember: the 1980 Olympic Games - Three Perspectives , eurodressage.com, February 17, 2015, accessed March 25, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Results dressage, Olympic Summer Games 1980 , history.fei.org, accessed on March 25, 2018
  9. ^ A b 1980 The Sport , history.fei.org, accessed March 25, 2018
  10. ↑ a b Results show jumping, 1980 Olympic Summer Games , history.fei.org, accessed on March 25, 2018
  11. ^ Equestrianism at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Mixed Jumping, Individual Round Two , sports-reference.com, accessed March 25, 2018
  12. ↑ Max E. Ammann: History of equestrian sport: jumping, military, dressage, driving . Special edition, Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1983, ISBN 3-570-09074-4 , p. 225 .
  13. ↑ a b Results Military (Eventing), 1980 Olympic Summer Games , history.fei.org, accessed on March 25, 2018
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