Equestrian events at the 2007 Pan American Games

Equestrian at the 2007 Pan American Games
Equestrian at the 2007 Pan American Games
Venues	Deodoro Military Club
	«2003 2011»

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.

Dressage 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.

Team dressage

The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in dressage.

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	United States (USA) Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too Christopher Hickey / Regent	68.633%
Silver	Canada (CAN) Tom Dvorak / Beaumarchais Diane Creech / Wiona Andrea Bresee / Raffles	67.250%
Bronze	Brazil (BRA) Rogerio Clementino / Nilo Vo Renata Costa / Monty Luiza Almeida / Samba	64.933%
4th place	Mexico (MEX) Cristobal Egerstrom / Ferro Jose Luis Padilla / Lohengrin Patrick Burssens / Dark Secret	63.533%
5th place	Argentina (ARG) Sandra Mith / Oceano Do Top Gabriel Armando / Euclid Vera Protzen / Kadirmo	61.233%
6th place	Guatemala (GUA) Silvia Regina Roesch / Perla Sylvia Luna / Westerberg Christa Dauber / Serafino	60.367%
7th place	Chile (CHI) Roberto Gomez / Tiziano Oscar Coddou / Bridge Mario Vargas / Tejas Verdes Montse	60.000%

Individual dressage

Medal	Athlete ^[1]	Score
Gold	Christopher Hickey / Regent (USA)	70.725
Silver	Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF (USA)	69.925
Bronze	Yvonne Losos de Muñiz / Bernstein las Marismas (DOM)	69.50
4th place	Tom Dvorak / Bernstein las Marismas (CAN)	69.45
5th place	Vera Protzen / Kadirmo (ARG)	68.02
6th place	Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too (USA)	67.67
7th place	Andrea Bresee / Raffles (CAN)	66.92
8th place	Diane Creech / Wiona (CAN)	66.67
9th place	José Luis Padilla Moreno / Wiona (MEX)	65.50
10th place	Annabelle Collins / Medici (BER)	64.55

Eventing results

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.

Team eventing

The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in eventing.

Medal	Athlete^[2]	Score
Gold	United States (USA) Karen O'Connor / Theodore O'Connor Phillip Dutton / Truluck Gina Miles / McKinlaigh Stephen Bradley / From	162.8
Silver	Canada (CAN) Kyle Carter / Madison Park Sandra Donnelly / Buenos Aires Waylon Roberts / Paleface Michael Winter / Kingpin	211.1
Bronze	Brazil (BRA) Fabricio Salgado / Butterfly Carlos Paro / Political Mandate Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA Andre Paro / Land Heir	235.6

Individual eventing

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Karen O'Connor / Theodore O'Connor (USA)	52.7
Silver	Phillip Dutton / Truluck (USA)	53.8
Bronze	Gina Miles / McKinlaigh (USA)	56.3
4th place	Darren Chiacchia / Better I Do It (USA)	66.2
5th place	Kyle Carter / Madison Park (CAN)	66.3
6th place	Sandra Donnelly / Buenos Aires (CAN)	69.7
7th place	Saulo Tristao / Totsie (BRA)	74.2
8th place	Mike Winter / Kingpin (CAN)	75.1
9th place	Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA (BRA)	76.7
10th place	Serguei Fofanoff / Ekus TW (BRA)	76.7

Show jumping results

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.

Thursday, July 26: Table C Speed Class, max height 1.45m
Friday, July 27: Table A Nations' Cup (2 rounds), max height 1.50m

The individual competition will then begin.

Sunday, July 29: Table A (2 rounds), max height 1.60m

Team show jumping

The team results qualified Canada, Brazil, and Mexico to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in show jumping. ^[3]

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Brazil (BRA) Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chup 2 Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs De Blanc Cesar Almeida / Singular Joter II Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus	9.67
Silver	Canada (CAN) Mac Cone / Melinda Jill Henselwood / Special Ed Eric Lamaze / Hickstead Ian Millar / In Style	14.72
Bronze	United States (USA) Lauren Hough / Casadora Cara Raether / Ublesco Laura Chapot / Little Big Man Todd Minikus / Pavarotti	27.20
4th place	Mexico (MEX) Santiago Lambre / Curant Simon Nizri / Cataro Ask Eduardo Salas / RMW Estina Jose Antonio Chedraui / Don Porfirio	34.89
5th place	Argentina (ARG) Maximiliano Amaya / Church Road Matias Albarracin / Gama Cocu Martin Dopazo / El Capricho Coral Ricardo Kierkegaard / Rey	64.25
6th place	Guatemala (GUA) Wylder Rodriguez / Pompidu Augusto Diaz Duran/ Rubina Eduardo El Castillo / Paesen Juan Andrés Rodríguez / Orestus VDL	87.98
7th place	Colombia (COL) Ricardo Illa / Calico Z Mauricio Ruiz / Ratoucha Carlos Hernando Ramirez / Amazonas	99.59
Eliminated	Venezuela (VEN) Chile (CHI) Ecuador (ECU)	ELIM

Individual show jumping

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Jill Henselwood / Special Ed (CAN)	4.00
Silver	Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus (BRA)	5.74
Bronze	Eric Lamaze / Hickstead (CAN)	6.43
4th place	Ian Millar / In Style (CAN)	9.29
5th place	Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs de Blanc (BRA)	10.84
6th place	Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chup (BRA)	13.09
7th place	Jose Antonio Chedraui / Don Porfirio (MEX)	14.85
8th place	Cara Raether / Ublesco (USA)	20.53
9th place	Cesar Almeida / Singular Joter II (BRA)	20.66
10th place	Pablo Barrios / Sun God (VEN)	36.03

References

[1] ttp://www.hippomundo.com/competitions/results/6428

[2] ttp://www.chronofhorse.com/article/oconnor-and-pony-prodigy-lead-historic-us-medal-sweep

[3] Pan-Am Games-S - Rio de Janeiro RJ (BRA) (14/07/2007 - 28/07/2007)

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