The equestrian competition in the Olympic Games has become a quadrennial feast and is one of the most popular competitions in equestrian events. Whether it’s equestrian enthusiasts or those who don’t keep paying attention to dressage, triathlon and field obstacle courses, they can enjoy this one-horse event at the quadrennial event.
For more than a century, equestrian events have been an important part of the Olympic events. Before the equestrian event of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics begins, we will review the exciting competitions that have been full of drama, impact and climaxes over the past 100 years.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the German team won all six equestrian gold medals, which is the only time in the history of Olympic equestrianism so far.
The largest equestrian competition has 21 countries and 133 contestants participated in the competition, but no one can compare with the Germans, who won 7 out of 18 medals.
Leni Riefenstahl's movie "Olympia" is recorded, and the Olympics were held against the unpleasant background of the Nazi military salute and the Nazi party flag.
1931, the right to host the 1936 Olympic Games was granted to Berlin, about two years before Hitler's Nazis took power. Although the International Olympic Committee has privately discussed that the Olympics should be held after the Nazis began to implement anti-Semitic policies, the German government's commitment to keeping the Olympics in Berlin.
is in stark contrast to the low-keyness of the 1932 Olympics, with a new track and field stadium built in Berlin with a capacity of 100,000 people, as well as six stadiums and many other smaller stadiums.
This is the first time that there has been a television broadcast in the Olympics, and the broadcast signal has been transmitted to 41 countries. On the last day of the competition, 15,000 to 20,000 spectators watched the dressage competition live, and 100,000 spectators watched the equestrian competition and closing ceremony held at the Olympia Stadium on the last day of the Olympics.
German player Heinz Pollay is the youngest rider in the game, only 28 years old, but he rode Kronos to defeat a group of famous players and won the personal gold medal in dressage. Although World War II affected his career, he later won a bronze medal in 1952 and took the oath on behalf of the referee at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Pollay died in 1979 at the age of 71, while two other German individual gold medalists were both killed in World War II.
German rider Kurt Hasse, who was only 29 years old, won the personal and team stadium obstacle course championship, and the exciting match took place in two rounds of play-offs.
8 years later, he died on the front line in the eastern Soviet Union. In the field obstacle course, defending champion Japanese rider Takeichi Nishi was dismissed. Many people think it was intentional to give up the gold medal, and it was Japan and Hitler's German ruled by Germany.
Triathlon champion Ludwig Stubbendorff later joined the 1st Cavalry Division and died in the first few weeks of the Barbarosa program in Belarus in 1941 at the age of 35.
Germany won the team gold medal in the three-time competition with 676 points, Poland won the silver medal, and the United Kingdom won the bronze medal. Since there is no time limit for the competition, Czech player Otomar Bures completed the cross-country with 2 hours and 36 minutes, and the best time set by the competition is only 17 minutes!
Of course, the glory of awarding equestrian medals in front of more than 100,000 spectators cannot make up for the dust that Germany under Hitler cast on the Olympics.
Just three years later, the world fell into war again. About 75 million people were killed before the next Olympic medal was awarded in 1948. (International Malaysian Federation)
