Date 10–13 August | Competitors 42 from 14 nations | |
Venue Aldershot (Dressage, Jumping)
Tweseldown Racecourse (Cross-country) | ||
The team eventing in equestrian at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held in the town of Aldershot and at the Tweseldown Racecourse from 10 to 13 August. The American team of Charles Anderson, Frank Henry and Earl Foster Thomson won the gold medal. Sweden won the silver medal and Mexico took bronze.
Competition format
The team and individual eventing competitions used the same scores. Eventing consisted of a dressage test, a cross-country test, and a jumping test. Team eventing final scores were the sum of the three individual scores for riders from the same NOC.
References
Equestrian at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Team eventing Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA