The individual show jumping was one of five equestrianism events on the Equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday 27 July 1924. 43 riders from 11 nations competed. Nations were limited to four riders each; the team jumping event used the same results as this competition, with the top three individual scores counting for each national team. The individual event was won by Alphonse Gemuseus of Switzerland, with the nation winning its first victory in its debut in the individual jumping event. Tommaso Lequio di Assaba of Italy became the first person to win multiple medals in the event, taking silver to add to his 1920 gold. Adam Królikiewicz earned Poland's first individual jumping medal with his bronze.
Background
This was the fourth appearance of the event, which had first been held at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been held at every Summer Olympics at which equestrian sports have been featured (that is, excluding 1896, 1904, and 1908). It is the oldest event on the current programme, the only one that was held in 1900.
Three riders from the 1920 competition returned: gold medalist Tommaso Lequio di Assaba of Italy, fourteenth-place finisher Åge Lundström of Sweden, and twenty-fifth-place finisher Jacques Misonne of Belgium.
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland each made their debut in the event. Belgium and France both competed for the fourth time, the only nations to have competed at each appearance of the event to that point.
Competition format
The 1060 metre course consisted of 15 obstacles, which were up to 1.4 meters high. The water was a maximum of 4 meters in width. The pair with the fewest faults was the winner. The time limit for the course was 2:39 (400 metres per minute), with a penalty of 0.25 faults for every second or fraction thereof above the limit.Official Report, p. 249.
The faults possible were: 3 points for a first refusal, 6 for a second, elimination for a third; 5 points for a horse falling; 10 points for the rider being unseated; 4 points for knocking an obstacle down with the horse's fore legs, 2 point for knocking it down with the hind legs; and 2 points for going off-course.
Schedule
Date Time Round Sunday, 27 July 1924 Final
Results
The course turned out to be rather difficult; the best pair finished with 6 faults.
Rank Rider Nation Faults Time Alphonse Gemuseus 6.00 2:24.4 Tommaso Lequio di Assaba 8.75 2:42.0 Adam Królikiewicz 10.00 2:38.4 4 Philip Bowden-Smith 10.50 2:41.4 5 Aníbal de Almeida 12.00 2:28.8 6 Åke Thelning 12.00 2:30.4 7 Axel Ståhle 12.25 2:40.0 8 Nicolas LeRoy 14.75 2:42.2 9 José Álvarez 18.00 2:31.0 10 Karol von Rómmel 18.00 2:38.2 11 Åge Lundström 18.00 2:38.4 12 Hélder Martins 19.00 2:31.4 13 Jacques Misonne 19.50 3:05.4 14 Werner Stuber 20.00 2:32.4 15 Leone Valle 20.00 2:36.6 16 Nemesio Martínez 22.00 2:17.2 17 José de Albuquerque 22.00 2:21.0 18 Gaston Mesmaekers 22.75 2:50.0 19 Georg von Braun 23.50 2:45.6 20 Hans Bühler 24.00 2:20.0 21 Hans von der Weid 24.00 2:39.8 22 Jean Breuls van Tiecken 24.00 2:44.4 23 Rudolf Popler 24.50 2:45.8 24 Capel Brunker 25.50 2:45.0 25 John Barry 27.25 2:40.0 26 Alessandro Alvisi 28.75 2:42.4 27 Geoffrey Brooke 29.75 3:02.6 28 Zdzisław Dziadulski 30.50 2:49.4 29 Sloan Doak 32.00 2:23.0 30 José Navarro 33.75 3:02.4 31 Luís de Meneses 36.00 2:17.2 32 Kazimierz Szosland 39.25 3:20.0 33 Pierre Clavé 41.00 3:23.0 34 Oldřich Buchar 45.00 2:37.6 — Emanuele Beraudo Di Pralormo — Michel Bignon — Frederic Bontecou — Théophile Carbon — Henri de Royer-Dupré — Keith Hervey — Emilio López — Vernon Padgett — Josef Rabas —
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