Equestrian at The Summer Olympics - Eventing in The Olympic Games

Eventing in The Olympic Games

See also: Eventing

Introduced in 1912, three-day eventing originally only allowed active military officers to compete, and only on mounts either owned by themselves or by their military branch.

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