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{{short description|Equestrian at the Olympics}}
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{{Infobox Olympic event
| event = Equestrian
| games = 1936 Summer
| image = Olimpiai stadion. Fortepan 8646.jpg
| caption = Show jumping at the Olympiastadion
| venue = [[Dallgow-Döberitz|Döberitz]]<br/>{{Interlanguage link multi|Mayfield, Berlin|de|Maifeld (Berlin)}}<br/>[[Olympiastadion (Berlin)|Olympiastadion]]
| dates = 12–16 August 1936
| competitors = 127
| nations = 21
| num_events = 6
| prev = [[Equestrian at the 1932 Summer Olympics|1932]]
| next = [[Equestrian at the 1948 Summer Olympics|1948]]
}}
{{Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics}}
The equestrian events at the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin Summer Olympics]] included [[dressage]], [[eventing]], and [[show jumping]]. All three disciplines had both individual and team competitions. The host country, Germany, had a stellar year, winning both individual and team gold in every equestrian event, as well as individual silver in dressage. The competitions were held from 12 to 16 August 1936. Moderately priced tickets meant huge crowds at all equestrian events, with 15,000–20,000 spectators at any time during the dressage competition, 60,000 on the endurance day of eventing, and 120,000 for the Nations Cup in jumping.<ref>{{cite sports-reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/EQU/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041920/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/EQU/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Equestrianism at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games |access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>
There were 127 riders total (133 entries) from 21 nations (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States). Seven countries (Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA) fielded 3-person teams for all three disciplines. Of those 127 riders, only two were civilians: a Dutch eventer and a jumper rider from Norway. The majority of horses were German (24/133) or French-bred (23/133), with 25 coming that were either British or Irish-bred (it is thought 17 from Ireland and 8 Britain), 8/133 US-bred (all on the US team, in addition to one French-bred horse), and the Japanese riders using 2 Japanese, 2 Australian, 1 British and 1 French-bred horse.
==Disciplines==
===Jumping===
54 riders from 18 nations competed in the jumping competition, with only 38 riders finishing the first round. Course designer August Andreae built a 1050 meter long course of 13 fences/20 jumping efforts at 1.30–1.60 meters in height. It included one double and three triple combinations and a 5-meter water jump. The jump-off course raised many fences, widened the water to 5.50 meters, and altered some of the distances between fences. Germany won its fifth equestrian gold medal in the Nations Cup. The individual medal placements required two jump-offs: the first to decide gold and silver between 2 riders who had only 1 knockdown up to that point. The second to determine bronze between 3 riders with 2 knock downs each.
===Dressage===
The dressage competition had 29 riders from 11 nations, with the youngest rider, Heinz Pollay (age 28) winning individual gold. The 17-minute test had 22 movements, and was fought out between the Germans and the French, each with their own views of correct training. Both the individual gold and individual silver medal horses, Kronos and Absinth respectively, were originally trained by Otto Lörke. The youngest horse was 7-year-old Revue, and 5 of the horses competing, including the gold-medal winner Kronos, were only 8 years of age. There were also older horses competing, including 18-year-old Csintalan.
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===Eventing===
50 riders from 19 nations contested the eventing competition, but only 4 of the 14 nations fielding a team would finish, some with incredibly high penalty points. Germany won both individual and team gold medals, and there is some speculation as to whether, as the home nation, they knew some of the pitfalls of the cross-country course that the other teams did not. Three obstacles on the course designed by August Andreae would have been removed under today's standards of competition, especially after the heavy rain that fell the day before the endurance phase. Germany won with 676 points, Poland finishing second with 991 points. Britain finished third with 9,195 points, after one of their riders fell on cross-country and his horse had to be caught (the penalty clock continued to run, and with no time limit, the team just continued to rack up penalty points). Czechoslovakia finished fourth with 18,952 points, after Capt Kawecki fell (breaking 2 ribs) and his loose horse had to be caught, and Otomar Bureš took nearly 3 hours to complete the course resulting in him accruing 18,130.70 penalty points.<ref name="Wallechinsky">{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |title=The Complete Book of the Olympics |date=1984 |publisher=Penguin Books |___location=England |isbn=0140066322 |pages=220 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/otomar-bures-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003047/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/otomar-bures-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Otomar Bureš Olympic Results |accessdate=20 August 2025}}</ref>
The dressage test was 13 minutes in length. The 36 km endurance course included a 7 km Roads and Tracks (Phase A) to be completed in 29 min 10 sec, followed by a 12-obstacle, 4 km steeplechase (6 min 40 sec optimum time), then Phase C (15 km Roads and Tracks in 62 min, 30 sec). The cross-country (Phase D) was an 8 km, 35-obstacle course with an optimum time of 17 min and 46 seconds. Phase E was a 2 km gallop in 6 minutes. The jumping phase had obstacles with a maximum height of 1.15 meters, width of 1.50 meters, and a water jump 3.5 meters wide.
==Controversy==
The 1936 Olympics produced controversial results, with the Germans winning all 6 gold medals, the only time in Olympic history where one team has made a clean sweep. One incident occurred on the cross-country course in the eventing competition, where the 4th fence, a 3 ft post-and-rail dropping into a pond, produced a great number of falls. The landing was much deeper than anticipated and the footing underneath did not hold up well.
It should also be of note that future Lieutenant Colonel (and 1932 Olympic gold medal holder) [[Takeichi Nishi]] participated in this event, but Nishi fell off his horse ''Uranus'' mid-course. There is speculation the accident was concocted for the benefit of host country Nazi Germany, with whom Japan would sign the 1940 [[Tripartite Pact]], forming the [[Axis powers]]. Lieutenant Colonel Nishi would go on to command a tank regiment in the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]. ''Uranus'' remained alive throughout the war, but his fate is unknown.<ref>Ōno Kaoru, オリンポスの使徒「バロン西伝説はなぜ生れたか」 (Disciple of Olympus: Why was the legend of Baron Nishi born?), Bungei Shunju, 1984, ASIN B000J74FDC</ref>
==Medal summary==
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
|-valign="top"
| Individual dressage<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Individual dressage}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Heinz Pollay]] <br> on ''Kronos''|GER|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Friedrich Gerhard]] <br> on ''Absinth''|GER|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Alois Podhajsky]] <br> on ''Nero''|AUT|1936 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Team dressage<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Team dressage}}
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}}<br>[[Heinz Pollay]] <br> on ''Kronos'' <br> [[Friedrich Gerhard]] <br> on ''Absinth'' <br> [[Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski]] <br> on ''Gimpel''
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|FRA|1936 Summer}}<br>[[André Jousseaume]] <br> on ''Favorite'' <br>[[Gérard de Ballorre]] <br> on ''Debaucheur'' <br> [[Daniel Gillois]] <br> on ''Nicolas''
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|SWE|1936 Summer}}<br>[[Gregor Adlercreutz]] <br> on ''Teresina'' <br> [[Sven Colliander]] <br> on ''Kål XX'' <br> [[Folke Sandström]] <br> on ''Pergola''
|-valign="top"
| Individual eventing<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Individual eventing}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ludwig Stubbendorf]] <br> on ''Nurmi''|GER|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Earl Foster Thomson]] <br> on ''[[Jenny Camp]]''|USA|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Hans Lunding]] <br> on ''Jason''|DEN|1936 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Team eventing<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Team eventing}}
|{{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}}<br> [[Ludwig Stubbendorf]] <br> on ''Nurmi'' <br> [[Rudolf Lippert]] <br> on ''Fasan'' <br> [[Konrad Freiherr von Wangenheim]] <br> on ''Kurfürst''
|{{flagIOCteam|POL|1936 Summer}}<br> [[Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz|Henryk Roycewicz]] <br> on ''Arlekin III'' <br> [[Zdzisław Kawecki]] <br> on ''Bambino'' <br> [[Seweryn Kulesza]] <br> on ''Tóska''
|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|1936 Summer}}<br> [[Alec Scott (equestrian)|Alec Scott]] <br> on ''Bob Clive'' <br> [[Edward Howard-Vyse]] <br> on ''Blue Steel'' <br> [[Richard Fanshawe (equestrian)|Richard Fanshawe]] <br> on ''Bowie Knife''
|-valign="top"
| Individual jumping<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Kurt Hasse]] <br> and ''Tora''|GER|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Henri Rang]] <br> and ''Delfis''|ROU|1936 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[József von Platthy]] <br> and ''Sellő''|HUN|1936 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
|Team jumping<br />{{DetailsLink|Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Team jumping}}
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}}<br> [[Kurt Hasse]] <br> and ''Tora'' <br> [[Marten von Barnekow]] <br> and ''Nordland'' <br> [[Heinz Brandt]] <br> and ''Alchimist''
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|NED|1936 Summer}}<br> [[Johan Greter]] <br> and ''Ernica'' <br> [[Jan de Bruine]] <br> and ''Trixie'' <br> [[Henri van Schaik]] <br> and ''Santa Bell''
|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|POR|1936 Summer}}<br> [[José Beltrão]] <br> and ''Biscuit'' <br> [[Domingos de Sousa]] <br> and ''Merle Blanc'' <br> [[Luís Mena e Silva]] <br> and ''Fossette''
|-
|}
==Participating nations==
A total of 127 horse riders from 21 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
{{div col|colwidth=15em}}
* {{flagIOC|AUT|1936 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|BEL|1936 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|BUL|1936 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|TCH|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|DEN|1936 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|FIN|1936 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|FRA|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|GER|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|GBR|1936 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|HUN|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|ITA|1936 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|JPN|1936 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NED|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|NOR|1936 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|POL|1936 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|POR|1936 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|ROU|1936 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|SWE|1936 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|SUI|1936 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|TUR|1936 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|1936 Summer|8}}
{{div col end}}
==Medal table==
{{Medals table
| caption =
| host =
| flag_template = flagIOCteam
| event = 1936 Summer
| team =
| gold_GER = 6 | silver_GER = 1 | bronze_GER = 0
| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 0
| gold_NED = 0 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 0
| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 0
| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 1 | bronze_ROU = 0
| gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 0
| gold_AUT = 0 | silver_AUT = 0 | bronze_AUT = 1
| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 0 | bronze_DEN = 1
| gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 0 | bronze_GBR = 1
| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1
| gold_POR = 0 | silver_POR = 0 | bronze_POR = 1
| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 1
}}
==Officials==
Appointment of officials was as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fei.org/history/olympic-games/1936-berlin-ger |title = Olympic Games 1936 {{!}} FEI.org}}</ref>
;Dressage
* {{flagicon|SWE}} Cl. von Cederström (Ground Jury President)
* {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Albert-Eugène-Édouard Decarpentry]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|NED}} Jhr. Karel F. Quarles van Ufford (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}} [[Maximilian von Poseck]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|AUT}} A. von Henikstein (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Guy Vernor Henry]] (Ground Jury President)
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kohei Yusa]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|POR}} Col. Latino (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Cuthbert Lucas]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagIOCteam|HUN|1936 Summer}} [[Lajos von Malanotti]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}} August Andrese (Course Designer)
;Eventing
* {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Gaston de Trannoy]] (Ground Jury President)
* {{flagIOCteam|GER|1936 Summer}} Gustav Rau (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|ITA}} Piero Dodi (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Michał Antoniewicz]] (Ground Jury Member)
* {{flagicon|SUI}} Albert Mylius (Ground Jury Member)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee medal database]
* Bryant, Jennifer O. ''Olympic Equestrian, A Century of International Horse Sport''. Lexington, KY: Blood-Horse Publications, 2008
{{EventsAt1936SummerOlympics}}
{{Equestrian at the Summer Olympics}}
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[[Category:Events at the 1936 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Equestrian events at the Summer Olympics|1936]]
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