The Equestrian events included three disciplines: dressage, eventing, and show jumping, and were held at the Deodoro Military Club.
The competition is broken down into an individual and team competition for each discipline, for a total of 42 medals awarded. There are three members per team and one reserve rider in the dressage, and up to 4 team members in the eventing competition with only the top 3 member's scores taken for the final results.
The dressage team riders complete a test at Prix St. George level, and the individual riders complete a PSG and Intermediate I level test, with the top 15 competitors moving on to ride for medals in an Intermediate I Freestyle test.
Appointment of Dressage judges was as follows:[1]
Mariette Withages (Ground Jury President)
Jane Weatherwax (Ground Jury Member)
Salim Nigri (Ground Jury Member)
Marian Cunningham (Ground Jury Member)
Stephen Clarke (Ground Jury Member)The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in dressage.
| Medal | Athlete | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too Christopher Hickey / Regent | 68.633% | |
| Silver | Tom Dvorak / Beaumarchais Diane Creech / Wiona Andrea Bresee / Raffles | 67.250% | |
| Bronze | Rogério Clementino / Nilo Vo Renata Costa / Monty Luiza Almeida / Samba | 64.933% | |
| 4th place | Cristobal Egerstrom / Ferro Jose Luis Padilla / Lohengrin Patrick Burssens / Dark Secret | 63.533% | |
| 5th place | Sandra Mith / Oceano Do Top Gabriel Armando / Euclid Vera Protzen / Kadirmo | 61.233% | |
| 6th place | Silvia Regina Roesch / Perla Sylvia Luna / Westerberg Christa Dauber / Serafino | 60.367% | |
| 7th place | Roberto Gomez / Tiziano Oscar Coddou / Bridge Mario Vargas / Tejas Verdes Montse | 60.000% |
| Medal | Athlete [2] | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 70.725 | ||
| Silver | 69.925 | ||
| Bronze | 69.50 | ||
| 4th place | 69.45 | ||
| 5th place | 68.02 | ||
| 6th place | 67.67 | ||
| 7th place | 66.92 | ||
| 8th place | 66.67 | ||
| 9th place | 65.50 | ||
| 10th place | 64.55 |
The eventers complete a 3-star level dressage test, stadium, and cross-country course. 5 teams competed in the eventing competition: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States.
After the dressage test, the United States led with 143.40 penalty points, closely followed by Canada with 159.90 penalties, then host country Brazil with 173.20 in third, Argentina in 4th, and Chile in 5th.
The cross-country course was designed by Sue Benson of Great Britain. Run over 10 minutes, the 5,700-meter course had 27 obstacles and a total of 41 jumping efforts. After the cross-country phase, the Americans were in the gold medal position, with 154.80 penalties, followed by Canada with 177.10 penalty points, and bronze-medal placed Brazil with 192.60. Of the 26 horses which began cross-country, 21 finished. The teams from Argentina and Chile were eliminated during the cross-country phase.
All 21 horses made it through Sunday jog, moving on to the stadium course. Designed by Brazilian Guilherme Jorge, it was composed of 12 jumps with 15 obstacles, over 490 meters. Rails were quite common, with only 4 horses finishing without jump penalties and only 3 of those four going double-clear without any time penalties. The Americans finished the competition with the gold medal, the Canadians with the silver, and Brazil with the bronze.
The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in eventing.
| Medal | Athlete[3] | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Karen O'Connor / Theodore O'Connor Phillip Dutton / Truluck Gina Miles / McKinlaigh Stephen Bradley / From | 162.8 | |
| Silver | Kyle Carter / Madison Park Sandra Donnelly / Buenos Aires Waylon Roberts / Paleface Michael Winter / Kingpin | 211.1 | |
| Bronze | Fabrício Salgado / Butterfly Carlos Paro / Political Mandate Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA André Paro / Land Heir | 235.6 |
| Medal | Athlete | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 52.7 | ||
| Silver | 53.8 | ||
| Bronze | 56.3 | ||
| 4th place | 66.2 | ||
| 5th place | 66.3 | ||
| 6th place | 69.7 | ||
| 7th place | 74.2 | ||
| 8th place | 75.1 | ||
| 9th place | 76.7 | ||
| 10th place | 76.7 |
17 countries were represented in the show jumping competition, and there were a total of 10 teams: Argentina, Brazil (defending bronze medalists), Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico (defending silver medalists), the United States (defending gold medalists), and Venezuela.
The competition for team medals occurs over 2 days. Courses were all designed by Brazilian Guilherme Jorge, who also designed at the 2005 and 2007 World Cup Finals.
The individual competition will then begin.
The team results qualified Canada, Brazil, and Mexico to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in show jumping.[4]
| Medal | Athlete | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chups 2 Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs De Blanc César Almeida / Singular Joter II Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus | 9.67 | |
| Silver | Mac Cone / Melinda Jill Henselwood / Special Ed Eric Lamaze / Hickstead Ian Millar / In Style | 14.72 | |
| Bronze | Lauren Hough / Casadora Cara Raether / Ublesco Laura Chapot / Little Big Man Todd Minikus / Pavarotti | 27.20 | |
| 4th place | Santiago Lambre / Curant Simon Nizri / Cataro Ask Eduardo Salas / RMW Estina Jose Antonio Chedraui / Don Porfirio | 34.89 | |
| 5th place | Maximiliano Amaya / Church Road Matias Albarracin / Gama Cocu Martin Dopazo / El Capricho Coral Ricardo Kierkegaard / Rey | 64.25 | |
| 6th place | Wylder Rodriguez / Pompidu Augusto Diaz Duran/ Rubina Eduardo El Castillo / Paesen Juan Andrés Rodríguez / Orestus VDL | 87.98 | |
| 7th place | Ricardo Illa / Calico Z Mauricio Ruiz / Ratoucha Carlos Hernando Ramirez / Amazonas | 99.59 | |
| Eliminated | ELIM |
| Medal | Athlete | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 4.00 | ||
| Silver | 5.74 | ||
| Bronze | 6.43 | ||
| 4th place | 9.29 | ||
| 5th place | 10.84 | ||
| 6th place | 13.09 | ||
| 7th place | 14.85 | ||
| 8th place | 20.53 | ||
| 9th place | 20.66 | ||
| 10th place | 36.03 |