In the showjumping, the day after the cross-country, each horse and rider take on a short course of coloured fences which can be knocked down. It will take the best competitors approximately eight minutes to complete it. The cross-country course at the Olympic Games in Tokyo will have up to 38 jumping efforts and be around 4500m long. The striding may be set to be difficult so the horse needs to take particularly long or short strides to successfully clear the obstacles. There will be a number of combination fences where the different jumps are close together and there are not many strides between them. These will include features such as water, ditches and steps up and down and also technical tests such as jumping narrow fences and fences at an angle.

The order of the showjumping and cross-country varies at different competitions, but in eventing at the Olympics the cross-country is the second phase and all horses and riders perform on this day, which follows the second dressage day.Įach horse and rider pair go round the cross-country course separately, in canter or gallop, jumping solid obstacles.

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