Individual, Open
| Date | 29 May 1900 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Place de Breteuil, Paris | |
| Participants | 27 from 3 countries | |
| Format | 850 metres. 22 jumps. One double jump, one triple jump. Average height - 1.1 to 1.2 metres. One river jump 4 metres wide. | |
| Details | Distance: 850 m Efforts: 25 Obstacles: 22 | |
The course for jumping was 850 metres in length, with 22 jumps, including one double jump, one triple jump, and one water jump of 4 metres in width. The event was won by Belgium’s Aimé Haegeman, followed by his countryman Georges Van De Poele, and France’s Louis de Champsavin. Press reports in 1900 list the medalists with times to seemingly determine the placements, so presumably they either all rode cleanly, or tied on faults, or perhaps the only determining factor in 1900 was how quickly they covered the course.
Until recently, we did not know much about this event and, in terms of who competed and rode the horses, versus simply owning the horses, that is a complex matter. Much research on this topic has been done by Bill Mather (see his Wikipedia working page). In addition, the program for this has recently been discovered and made available to us (from Jean Michel Serrurier), which has greatly enlarged this event’s results, and we feel that we now know all the competitors and/or owners. The program also included the names of all horses, along with many of their ages, colors, and genders, so we now have that information as well.
Following is the current list we have, based on the event program and Mather’s work, showing the horse, the rider, and the owner. However, it is not exactly certain who were the riders in all cases, nor if all of those listed in the program competed. In those cases, we have listed the riders as NP = non-placed, meaning we are uncertain if they competed and finished, competed and did not finish, or simply did not start. As mentioned in footnotes, there were several riders entered with more than one horse. It is not always known if they rode both, or all, horses, or only one of them.
BEL
FRA
RUS
ITA