The individual dressage at the 1998 FEI World Equestrian Games in Rome, Italy was held from 1 to 11 October 1998.
Competition format
The team and individual dressage competitions used the same results. Dressage had three phases. The first phase was the Grand Prix. Top 23 individuals advanced to the second phase, the Grand Prix Special where the first individual medals were awarded. The last set of medals at the 2026 World Dressage Championships was awarded after the third phase, the Grand Prix Freestyle where top 12 combinations competed, where the medals were divided among the overall best scoring riders from the GP, GPS and GPF combined.
Results RiderNationHorseGP scoreRankGPS scoreRankGPF scoreRankIsabell WerthGigolo 77.800 1 Q 79.350 84.570 Anky van GrunsvenBonfire 77.480 2 Q 79.490 84.420 Louise NathorstWalk On Top 73.480 3 Q 71.670 7 Q 76.860 5Karin RehbeinDonnerhall 73.200 4 Q 73.300 4 Q 76.210 4Nadine CapellmannGracioso 72.720 5 Q 72.790 6 Q 75.490 7Ulla SalzgeberRusty 72.320 6 Q 73.440 79.240 Coby van BaalenFerro 72.240 7 Q 73.210 5 Q 75.680 6Guenter SeidelGraf George 70.840 8 Q 71.160 10 Q 71.830 9Ellen BontjeSilvano N 70.800 9 Q 71.440 8 Q 72.930 8Kyra KyrklundFlyinge Amiral 69.200 10 Q 68.790 12 Q 72.210 10Lars PetersenBlue Hors Cavan 68.640 11 Q 69.260 11 Q 70.240 11Ignacio RamblaEvento 68.320 12 Q 66.190 18 Margit Otto-CrépinLucky Lord V 67.880 13 Q 67.810 15 Christine StückelbergerAquamarin 67.640 14 Q 71.440 9 Susan BlinksFlim Flam 67.560 15 Q 68.700 13 Q 70.040 12Robert DoverLennox 67.520 16 Q 66.880 17 Elena SidnevaPodkhod 67.200 17 Q 64.510 23 Ulla HåkansonFlyinge Bobby 67.040 % 18 Q 68.000 14 Gonnelien RothenbergerDondolo 66.800 19 Q 66.980 16 Anne van OlstDempsey 66.720 20 Q 65.020 21 Annette SolmellFlyinge Strauss 689 66.680 21 Anna BieniasCelbant 66.480 22 Q 64.650 22 Arlette HolstersFaible 66.440 23 Q 65.950 19 Emile FaurieLegrini 66.200 24 Q 65.160 20 Jon PedersenEsprit de Valdemar 66.160 25 Jan BrinkBjorsell’s Fontana 66.040 26 José Manuel LucenaElorianne 65.640 27 Sandy PhillipsFun 65.600 28 Heike HolsteinBallaseyr Legend 65.440 29 Rafael SotoInvasor 65.040 30 Janne BerghChimkent 64.960 31 Richard DavisonHiscox Askari 64.840 32 Beatriz Ferrer-SalatVital Robert Brilant 64.800 33 Ferdi EilbergArun Tor 64.760 34 Shelly FrancisPikant 64.560 35 Caroline HatlapaMerlin TSF 64.560 36 Nina MenkovaGarpun 64.440 37 Peter GmoserCandidat 64.280 38 Kristy Oatley-NistRosemount Maurice 64.240 39 Suzanne DunkleyElliot 63.880 40 Oded ShimoniAmora 63.840 41 Jasmine SanchePlaisir d’Amour 63.840 42 Gyula DallosBa’Bolna Aktion 63.800 43 Daniel RamseierRali Baba 63.760 44 Heini NaukkarinenPatrick of Finland 63.600 45 Daniel PintoWeldon Surprise 63.440 46 Victoria WinterWedgwood 63.400 47 Finn HansenBergerac 63.160 48 Liz HoppsElymas 63.160 49 Joaquin OrthBellini 63.040 50 Bernadette PujalsEmir 63.040 51 Jeanette Lechner GebhardWinergy 63.000 52 Mieko YagiTasio Ramon 62.920 53 Heidi SvanborgBazalt 62.920 54 Ricky MacMillanCrisp 62.800 55 Mary HannaMosaic II 62.680 56 Monica GhenoDestino di Acciarella 62.600 57 Natalie HobdayEdelmann 62.600 58 Dominique BrieusselAkazie 62.320 59 Susumu ShinomiyaGazpacho 62.120 60 Pierre RossyChess 62.080 61 Mauro RomanRigoletto VI 61.920 62 Per WaalerStar Fortune 61.880 63 Antonio RiveraAczydos 61.400 64 Kuranojo SaitoDugal 61.360 65 Cindy KentPlayschool 61.320 66 Sandra WaltherDukaat 61.280 67 Pia LausRenoir 61.200 68 Kjersti JensenHappy Duke 61.120 69 Catherine SmallboneAlzac 60.920 70 James ConnorRubino 60.520 71 Marietta AlmasyQuixote Priboy 3 60.520 72 Yvette TruesdaleAccolade 60.480 73 Inessa PoturajevaTargim 60.080 74 Kallista FieldJaneiro 59.400 75 Natalia DombroyskayaDamar 59.320 76 Nancy FrenchWiking 58.800 77 Tatiana JelobkovitchPotomok 58.120 78 Nancy MaclachlanDavis Cup 57.920 79 Barbara von GrebelRamar 57.440 80 George MiechowskyLeonti 56.960 81 Toshihiko KisoGiani Naniny 55.120 82 Katy Bradley-LynnDiamant II RT 83 Florence LenziniRavel EL 84
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