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Argentina also won gold at the 1936 Olympic Games. Vaulting. Vaulting was only held once, at the 1920 Antwerp Games. [12] Vaulting included both a team and an individual competition, with the entrants having to perform movements at the canter and at the halt, both with a saddle and bareback. Three nations sent teams: the gold medal-winning ...
The equestrian events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp included eventing, show jumping, vaulting and dressage. The competitions were held from 6 to 12 September 1920. Although 89 riders were competing, many rode in more than one event, with 87 entries total (45 jumping, 17 dressage, 25 eventing).
Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French). Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009
Equestrian vaulting, or simply vaulting, [1] is most often described as gymnastics and dance on horseback, which can be practiced both competitively or non-competitively. [2] Vaulting has a history as an equestrian act at circuses , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] but its origins stretch back at least two-thousand years.
Duplantis, the Lafayette, Louisiana-born Swedish pole vaulting sensation, won Olympic gold with a jump of 6.10 meters and then became one of Paris 2024's forever athletes once the competition was ...
Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French). Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009
The 39-year-old British athlete and six-time Olympic medalist will be able to compete once again in July 2025, as the ban is backdated to July 2024 when she was provisionally banned.
The horse was set up with its long dimension perpendicular to the run for women, and parallel for men. [1] The vaulting horse was the apparatus used in the Olympics for over a century, beginning with the Men's vault in the first modern Olympics and ending with the Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.