Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Individual dressage explained

Event:Individual dressage
Games:1936 Summer
Venue:May Field
Date:12–13 August
Competitors:29
Nations:11
Gold:Heinz Pollay
Goldnoc:GER
Silver:Friedrich Gerhard
Silvernoc:GER
Bronze:Alois Podhajsky
Bronzenoc:AUT
Prev:1932
Next:1948

The individual dressage in equestrian at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on the May Field from 12 to 13 August. German riders took the top two places, with Heinz Pollay winning the gold medal and Friedrich Gerhard the silver. The bronze was won by Alois Podhajsky of Austria.[1]

Competition format

The team and individual dressage competitions used the same results. A test was to be carried out from memory by each rider within 17 minutes, losing half a point for every second over the time limit.[2] There were 40 individual movements in the test.[3] For each movement, each judge gave a score from 0 to 10; this score was multiplied by the movement's coefficient.[4] Each judge's score was used in a point-for-place system (that is, for each judge, the top-scoring pair received 1 point, the second-scoring pair received 2 points, and so on).[4] The points from each of the five judges were summed to give a total number of points for each pair; the lowest number of points won.[4] (The point-for-place system was used only for the individual event; the team event used raw scores.)

Judges were:[5]

Results

RankRiderNationHorseScorePoints
SWE FRA AUT GER NED Total SWE FRA AUT GER NED Total
Kronos 341.5 356.5 343.5 377.5 341.0 1760.0 4 1 4 1 5 15
Absinth 346.0 333.5 345.0 376.5 344.5 1745.5 3 7 3 2 3 18
Alois PodhajskyNero 339.5 343.5 372.0 314.5 352.0 1721.5 5 4 1 7 2 19
Teresina 372.0 334.5 351.5 307.0 310.0 1675.0 1 6 2 8 9 26
Favorite 309.0 339.5 315.0 325.5 353.5 1642.5 8 5 8 4 1 26
Becaucheur 309.0 353.5 340.5 316.0 315.0 1634.0 8 2 5 6 8 29
His ex 327.5 326.0 322.5 288.5 331.5 1596.0 7 8 7 11 6 39
Ad Astra 296.5 321.5 314.0 305.5 341.5 1579.0 13 9 9 9 4 44
Nicolas 306.5 352.5 290.0 321.0 399.5 1569.5 10 3 13 5 13 44
10 Gimpel 294.5 291.5 326.5 348.5 307.5 1568.5 14 15 6 3 11 49
11 Kal xx 337.5 316.5 303.0 285.5 288.0 1530.5 6 10 11 15 16 58
12 Infant 284.5 308.0 314.0 286.0 283.5 1476.0 16 12 9 14 17 68
13 Nestor 270.5 314.0 285.5 286.5 296.5 1453.0 20 11 15 13 14 73
14 Ficsur 277.0 293.0 289.0 288.0 277.0 1424.0 18 14 14 12 18 76
15 Pergola 348.0 275.5 277.0 284.0 270.5 1455.0 2 21 20 16 21 80
15 Georgine 273.0 289.5 303.0 268.5 296.0 1430.0 19 17 11 18 15 80
17 Jaspis 299.5 270.5 284.0 279.5 304.5 1438.0 12 23 17 17 12 81
17 Tücsök 284.0 289.5 277.5 291.0 273.5 1415.5 17 17 18 10 19 81
19 Zonnetje 288.5 286.5 270.0 268.0 309.0 1422.0 15 19 21 19 10 84
20 Sorte Mand 302.0 290.0 267.5 257.0 271.5 1388.0 11 16 22 22 20 91
21 Wodan 258.5 268.0 277.5 253.5 323.5 1381.0 25 24 18 26 7 100
22 Revue 265.0 293.5 285.5 255.0 238.0 1337.0 22 13 15 24 29 103
23 Olympic 265.0 275.0 263.0 268.0 259.5 1330.5 22 22 23 19 23 109
24 Ideal 265.5 284.0 260.5 262.5 246.5 1319.0 21 20 24 21 28 114
25 American Lady 246.0 265.5 246.0 256.5 251.0 1265.0 28 25 27 23 25 128
26 Csintalan 260.0 237.0 247.5 240.5 265.5 1250.5 24 28 26 29 22 129
27 Si Murray 265.5 226.0 239.0 254.5 259.0 1233.0 26 29 29 25 24 133
28 Invictus 227.5 247.0 251.0 252.5 246.5 1224.5 29 27 25 27 26 134
29 Helios 246.5 265.0 242.0 251.0 249.5 1254.0 27 26 28 28 26 135

Notes and References

  1. Equestrianism at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Dressage, Individual . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002917/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/EQU/mens-dressage-individual.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 16 April 2020.
  2. Official Report, p. 888
  3. Official Report, p. 885
  4. Official Report, p. 889
  5. Official Report, p. 890