Summer Olympics 2020 / Riding / Qualification

Equestrian competitions at the 2020 Olympics
qualification
Dressage riding
singles	team
Show jumping
singles	team
Eventing riding
singles	team

The 200 starting places for the equestrian competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are divided between the three disciplines (75 for show jumping, 65 for eventing and 60 for dressage).

A maximum of three riders per nation can compete in each team competition. Each nation that qualified for a team competition (20 teams in show jumping and 15 each in eventing and dressage) received three starting places for the respective individual competitions. Riders whose nations do not have a team still had the opportunity to secure a single starting place, of which there were 15 in the competitions in show jumping and dressage and 20 in eventing. The teams qualified through various tournaments, while the riders for the individual competitions qualified through a ranking list. As the host nation, Japan is entitled to a starting place in every team competition.

Overview

nation	singles			team			Athletes
	dressage	Leap	versatility	dressage	Leap	versatility
Egypt		3			X		3
Argentina		3			X		3
Australia	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Belgium	1	3	1		X		5
Bermuda	1						1
Brazil	1	3	3		X	X	7th
Chile		1	1				2
China		3	3		X	X	6th
Chinese Taipei		1					1
Denmark	3	1	1	X			5
Germany	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Dominican Republic	1	1					2
Finland	1						1
France	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Great Britain	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Hong Kong		1	1				2
India			1				1
Ireland	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Israel		3			X		3
Italy		1	3			X	4th
Japan	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Jordan		1					1
Canada	3	1	2	X			6th
Colombia		1					1
Latvia		1					1
Luxembourg	1						1
Mexico	1	3			X		4th
Morocco	1	3			X		4th
New Zealand	1	3	3		X	X	7th
Netherlands	3	3	2	X	X		8th
Norway	1	1					2
Austria	3		1	X			4th
Pakistan			1				1
Poland			3			X	3
Portugal	3	1		X			4th
Puerto Rico			1				1
Olympic athletes from Russia	3		2	X			5
Sweden	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Switzerland	1	3	3		X	X	7th
Spain	3	1	1	X			5
South Africa	1		1				2
South Korea	1						1
Syria		1					1
Thailand			3			X	3
Czech Republic		3	2		X		5
Ukraine	1	1					2
United States	3	3	3	X	X	X	9
Belarus	1		2				3
Total: 48 NOKs	60	75	65	15th	20th	15th	200

Dressage riding

team

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified teams
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan
World Equestrian Games 2018	September 11-23, 2018	Tryon	6th	Germany
				United States
				Great Britain
				Sweden
				Netherlands
				Spain
World Equestrian Games 2018 Group G	September 11-23, 2018	Tryon	1	Australia
Qualification event group C	June 20-23, 2019	Moscow	1	Olympic athletes from Russia
Pan American Games 2019 Group D / E	July 26th -11th August 2019	Lima	2 1	Canada
				Brazil MER
European Championships 2019 Group A / B	August 19-25, 2019	Rotterdam	3	Denmark
				Ireland
				Portugal
Qualification event group F	24.-27. October 2019	Exloo	1 0	South Africa MER
Redistribution of quota places	December 31, 2019	-	2	Austria
				France
total			15th	15th

Footnotes:

^MERIn order to be able to start a dressage team in Tokyo, in addition to the qualification, the Minimum Eligibility Requirements (MER) by three riders was required. This percentage qualification criterion requires that these riders achieved a result of at least 66 percent at a Grand Prix de Dressage at least twice in 2019 . A 5 * dressage judge from another nation must have judged these tests. Brazil and South Africa did not succeed. However, both were awarded a quota place in their regional group individually. Thus, the two team starting places were awarded to the two nations that had not yet qualified, whose placements of their three best riders in the Olympic qualification rankings resulted in the lowest total. These were Austria (through Ulrike Prunthaller , Victoria Max-Theurer and Stefan Lehfellner ) and France (through Morgan Barbançon , Anne-Sophie Serre and Alexandre Ayache ).

singles

Qualifying competition	Places	Qualified riders
Qualified through the team competition (3 riders per nation)	45	Japan (3)
		United States (3)
		Sweden (3)
		Germany (3)
		Spain (3)
		Netherlands (3)
		Australia (3)
		Great Britain (3)
		Olympic athletes from Russia (3)
		Canada (3)
		Denmark (3)
		Ireland (3)
		Portugal (3)
		Austria (3)
		France (3)
Qualification via the ranking list
Group A (North West Europe)	2	Finland (1), qualification place by Henri Ruoste
		Norway (1), qualification place by Ellen Birgitte Farbrot
Group B (South West Europe)	2	Luxembourg (1), qualification place by Nicolas Wagner
		Switzerland (1), qualification place through Birgit Wientzek Pläge
Group C (Central and Eastern Europe, Asia)	2	Ukraine (1), qualification place by Inna Logutenkowa
		Belarus (1), qualification place by Hanna Karasiowa
Group D / E (America)	4th	Dominican Republic (1), qualification place by Yvonne Losos de Muñiz
		Bermuda (1), qualification place by Annabelle Collins
		Mexico (1), qualification place through Bernadette Pujals
		Brazil MER (1), qualification place by Pedro Manuel Tavares de Almeida
Group F (Africa and Middle East)	2	South Africa MER (1), qualification place by Tanya Seymour
		Morocco (1), qualification place by Ismail Jilaoui
Group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania)	2	New Zealand (1), qualifying place through Wendi Williamson
		South Korea (1), qualification place by Young-Shik Hwang
Wildcard	1	Belgium (1), qualification place by Laurence Roos
total	60	60

Show jumping

team

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified teams
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan
World Equestrian Games 2018	11-23 September 2018	Tryon	6th	United States
				Sweden
				Germany
				Switzerland
				Netherlands
				Australia
Qualification event group C1	26.-30. June 2019	Moscow	1	Israel
Qualification event group C2		Budapest	1	Czech Republic A
Pan American Games 2019 Group D / E	July 26th -11th August 2019	Lima	3	Brazil
				Mexico
				Argentina
Qualification event group G	12-13 August 2019	Valkenswaard	2	New Zealand
				China
European Championships 2019 Group A / B	August 19-25, 2019	Rotterdam	3	Belgium
				Great Britain
				France
Qualification event group F	10-13 October 2019	Rabat	2	Egypt
				Morocco B
Nations Cup Final 2019	3rd-6th October 2019	Barcelona	1	Ireland
total			20th	20th

Footnotes:

^A.At the qualifying event Group C2, Ukraine achieved a team starting place. Since only René Tebbel of the riders starting for the Ukraine was able to show the necessary individual successes by the end of 2019, the Ukraine lost the starting place again. Instead, the Czech Republic moves up as a team.

^B.At the qualifying event for Group F, Ali bin Chalid Al Thani and Bassem Hassan Mohammed tested positive for carboxy-THC, a cannabis breakdown product. Due to a decision by the FEI against the riders, the Qatari team lost the team starting place they had won in Rabat. Instead, Morocco got the team's Olympic starting place.

singles

Qualifying competition	Places	Qualified nation
Qualified through the team competition (3 riders per nation)	60	Japan (3)
		United States (3)
		Sweden (3)
		Germany (3)
		Switzerland (3)
		Netherlands (3)
		Australia (3)
		Czech Republic (3)
		Israel (3)
		Brazil (3)
		Mexico (3)
		Argentina (3)
		New Zealand (3)
		China (3)
		Belgium (3)
		Great Britain (3)
		France (3)
		Ireland (3)
		Egypt (3)
		Morocco (3)
Pan American Games 2019	4th	Colombia (1)
		Dominican Republic (1)
		Chile (1)
		Canada (1)
Qualification via the ranking list
Group A (North West Europe)	2	Denmark (1), qualification place for Emil Hallundbæk
		Norway (1), qualification place through Geir Gulliksen
Group B (South West Europe)	2	Italy (1), qualification place through Emanuele Gaudiano
		Portugal (1), qualification place by Luciana Diniz
Group C (Central and Eastern Europe, Asia)	2	Latvia (1), qualification place through Kristaps Neretnieks
		Ukraine (1)
Group F (Africa and Middle East)	2	Syria (1), qualification place by Ahmad Saber Hamcho
		Jordan (1), qualification place through Ibrahim Hani Bisharat
Group G (Southeast Asia and Ocean bees)	2	Chinese Taipei (1), qualification place for Jasmine Chen
		Hong Kong (1), qualification place by Kenneth Cheng C
Wildcard	1	Spain (1), qualification place through Eduardo Álvarez Aznar
total	75	75

Footnotes:

^C.In the course of drawing up the qualification lists for the Olympic Games, protests were raised against Mathilda Karlsson's qualification over the individual starting places of the group G. Karlsson had achieved the necessary successes mainly at three tournaments in Villeneuve-Loubet in December 2019. At these tournaments there were very few riders at the start due to the announcement. After checking, the FEI determined that at each tournament of these tournaments two tests had been added after the entry deadline, which counted for the Olympic ranking list. Although originally approved by the FEI, these tests were declared inadmissible due to the FEI rules and regulations and therefore canceled. With that Mathilda Karlsson lost ranking points, her starting place was given to the now better placed Kenneth Cheng for Hong Kong.

Eventing riding

team

Qualifying competition	Date	place	Places	Qualified teams
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan
World Equestrian Games 2018	September 11-23, 2018	Tryon	6th	Great Britain
				Ireland
				France
				Germany
				Australia
				New Zealand
Qualification event group C	May 23-26, 2019	Baborówko	1	Poland
Qualification event group F / G	May 23-26, 2019	Saumur	2	China
				Thailand
Nations Cup 2019	May 23 - October 13, 2019	-	1	Switzerland
Pan American Games 2019 Group D / E	July 26th - August 11th 2019	Lima	2	Brazil
				United States
European Championships 2019 Group A / B	August 28 - September 1, 2019	Luhmühlen	2	Sweden
				Italy
total			15th	15th

singles

Qualifying competition	Places	Qualified riders
Qualified through the team competition (3 riders per nation)	45	Japan (3)
		Great Britain (3)
		Ireland (3)
		Germany (3)
		France (3)
		New Zealand (3)
		Australia (3)
		Poland (3)
		China (3)
		Thailand (3)
		Brazil (3)
		United States (3)
		Sweden (3)
		Italy (3)
		Switzerland (3)
Qualification via the ranking list
Group A (North West Europe)	2	Netherlands (1), qualification place by Tim Lips
		Netherlands (1), qualification place through Merel Blom
Group B (South West Europe)	2	Belgium (1), qualification place by Karin Donckers
		Spain (1), qualifying place for Francisco Gaviño Gonzalez
Group C (Central and Eastern Europe, Asia)	2	Olympic athletes from Russia (1), qualification place for Aleksander Markow
		Olympic athletes from Russia (1), qualification place by Valeri Martischew
Group D (North America and the Caribbean)	2	Canada (1), qualification place by Karl Slezak
		Canada (1), qualification place through Colleen Loach
Group E (Central and South America)	2	Chile (1), qualification place through Carlos Lobos Muñoz
		Puerto Rico (1), qualifying place through Lauren Billys
Group F (Africa and Middle East)	2	South Africa (1), qualification place by Victoria Scott-Legendre
		Pakistan (1), Usman Khan qualifies
Group G (Southeast Asia and Ocean bees)	2	India (1), qualification place through Fouaad Mirza
		Hong Kong (1), qualification place by Thomas Heffernan Ho
Wildcard	6th	Czech Republic (1), qualification place by Miloslav Příhoda Jr
		Belarus (1), qualification place by Alexander Zelenko
		Belarus (1), qualification place through Aljaksandr Faminou
		Denmark (1), qualification place by Peter Flarup
		Czech Republic (1), qualification place by Miroslav Trunda
		Austria (1), qualification place by Lea Siegl
total	65	65

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russia takes Tokyo 2020 Ticket at Exciting Olympic Qualifier in Moscow , eurodressage.com, June 24, 2019, accessed on June 29, 2019
2. ↑ South Africa clinches Final Olympic team Dressage slot at 2019 CDI Exloo , eurodressage.com, October 26, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019
3. ↑ The Olympic Curtain Falls for Brazil and South Africa, Austria and France Get Team Spot , eurodressage.com, December 28, 2019
4. ↑ Qualification System - Games of the XXXII Olympiad - Tokyo 2020: Equestrian - Dressage , Update 17 February 2020, fei.org (PDF)
5. ↑ Result Competition No 17, CSIO2 *, Longines FEI Nations Cup ™ of Russia, Special Olympic Qualifier for Group C (PDF)
6. ↑ CSI 3 * -W Budapest, qualification event group C 2 (PDF)
7. ↑ Pan-American Games 2019, final result team competition show jumping
8. ↑ Doping: No Olympics for Canada, Argentina moves up , spring-reiter.de, December 17, 2019
9. ↑ CSI 1 * Valkenswaard, result Olympic Group G qualification (PDF)
10. ↑ CSIO4 * -W Rabat - Road to Tokyo Ranking
11. ↑ Czech Republic instead of Ukraine at Olympic Games , globalquestriannews.com, January 8, 2020
12. ↑ ^{a b} FEI admits: There were mistakes in the Olympic qualifying tournaments for show jumpers , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, February 17, 2020
13. ↑ ^{a b} Qualification System - Games of the XXXII Olympiad - Tokyo 2020: Equestrian - Jumping , Update 17 February 2020, fei.org (PDF)
14. ↑ Show jumping rider Mathilda Karlsson - With the child ID card to Tokyo: The FEI , Gabriele Pochhammer / Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 6, 2020 , is currently investigating whether money flowed
15. ↑ Team classification CCIO4 * -L Baborówko 2019, qualification event Group C (PDF)
16. ↑ Qualification System - Games of the XXXII Olympiad - Tokyo 2020: Equestrian - Eventing , Update 17 February 2020, fei.org (PDF)