![]() Among the powerhouses of the sport, the US won back-to-back team gold medals at the 20 Games and has medalled at seven of the last 10 Olympics, but the pressure will be on in Chile for them to add to that Olympic resume. The United States earned the silver medal in Tokyo, but they will rely on the 2023 Pan American Games to qualify for Paris. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates secured team quota places at their Group F Designated Olympic Qualification Event, but 33 team quota places remain. The Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland and Germany also secured their places in Herning, while Belgium earned its spot at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final 2022 in Spain. ![]() Peder Fredricson and All In during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. ![]() In Tokyo, he became just the second horse in history to jump the entire Olympic Games without having a single rail. “Allan,” as the barefoot bay was affectionately called, won six championship medals in his career. Safely qualified, their concern will be trying to replace Peder Fredricson’s incredible All In, who earned a most celebratory retirement in February. Sweden is undisputedly the team to watch on the road to Paris, having claimed team gold medals at both the Tokyo Olympic Games and the FEI World Championships 2022. Jumping offers the most quota places of all the equestrian disciplines, with 75 up for grabs, including 60 team athletes. The competition for ranking points for the Individual slots has started, and will continue through the rest of the year. They have remaining opportunities at the Group F and G FEI Designated Olympic Qualification Event at Millstreet in Ireland in June and the FEI Eventing European Championships 2023 in Haras du Pin in France, and via the 2023 FEI Eventing Nations Cup Series. Most notably, Tokyo’s silver medalists Australia have yet to secure their place. Laura Collet (GBR) with London 52 at the FEI Eventing World Championships 2022. The United States is the only nation from North, Central or South America to have secured a team quota place. These places were all earned at the FEI World Championships in Herning, where the United States secured its first team medal at a World or Olympic Championship since 2004. In addition to the host nation, the United States, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland have also qualified. After all, the nation produced Eventing’s first-ever female individual Olympic gold medalist, Julia Krajewski in Tokyo. Germany is among the first nations qualified, which should provide some excitement. Nearly half of the team quotas places have already been secured in the sport of Eventing. Riders will be a mix of males and females, as equestrian sport remains the only Olympic event in which men and women compete as equals. Fifteen individual quota places are also available, awarded to athletes from nations that have not already accepted a team quota place. Most notable will be the 2023 FEI European Dressage Championship in Riesenbeck, Germany, in September. Twenty-one team quota places (accounting for seven teams) remain, many of which will be decided at the year’s continental and regional championships. ![]() Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Bredow-Werndl remains at the top of her game and sits atop the FEI Dressage World Rankings with her partner from Tokyo, TSF Dalera BB. All eyes will be on Germany on the road to Paris, as not only did they top the team competition in the last Olympics, but its athletes Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Isabell Werth also claimed the individual gold and silver medals, respectively.
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