2024 Paris : Olympic Equestrian Trivia and Fun Facts
This year’s Games will tie Paris with London, who has also hosted three times (1908, 1948 and 2012). For the moment, these two cities sit alone at the top in number of times one city has held the Games.
Paris 2024 is the final Olympics in which an equestrian show jumping phase is included in the pentathlon competition.
The first Olympic equestrian team medal won by the USA was in 1912 in Stockholm when the U.S. Eventing Team, composed of all Army officers, captured bronze. Lt.
Vaulting was included in equestrian Olympic sports once in the 1920 Antwerp Games.