Edwina Tops-Alexander and Lintea Tequila competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Dates set for equestrian at 2021 Tokyo Olympics
During the inaugural online IOC session today, the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) confirmed the Olympic Games competition schedule for 2021.
For equestrian sport, the competition dates have been moved forward by one day so as to mirror the 2020 daily schedule whereby the equestrian events, which were due to start on Saturday, July 25, 2020 and finish on Saturday, August 8, 2020, will now run from Saturday, July 24, 2021 to Saturday, August 7, 2021. There are also some minor modifications to the starting times.
The equestrian events will open with the Grand Prix test for Dressage competitors, while the last event will the be Jumping Team Final.
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic equestrian timetable will be announced in the coming weeks and subsequently published on the FEI’s dedicated Tokyo 2020 Paralympic hub page.
Full schedule:
*All times in Japan Standard Time (JST) as posted on the Official Tokyo 2020 website.
Sat 24 July 17:00 – 22:1
- Dressage Grand Prix Team and Individual Day 1
Sun 25 July 17:00 – 22:15
- Dressage Grand Prix Team and Individual Day 2
Tue 27 July 17:00 – 22:40
- Dressage Team Grand Prix Special
- Dressage Team Victory Ceremony
Wed 28 July 17:30 – 21:25
- Dressage Individual Grand Prix Freestyle
- Dressage Individual Victory Ceremony
Fri 30 July
8:30 – 11:00
- Eventing Dressage Team and Individual Day 1 – Session 1
17:30 – 20:10
- Eventing Dressage Team and Individual Day 1 – Session 2
Sat 31 July 8:30 – 11:00
- Eventing Dressage Team and Individual Day 2 – Session 3
Sun 1 Aug. 7:45 – 11:10
- Eventing Cross Country Team and Individual
Mon 2 Aug. 17:00 – 22:25
- Eventing Jumping Team Final and Individual Qualifier
- Eventing Jumping Individual Final
- Eventing Team Victory Ceremony
- Eventing Individual Victory Ceremony
Tue 3 Aug. 19:00 – 22:45
- Jumping Individual Qualifier
Wed 4 Aug. 19:00 – 21:40
- Jumping Individual Final
- Jumping Individual Victory Ceremony
Fri 6 Aug. 19:00 – 22:05
- Jumping Team Qualifier
Sat 7 Aug. 19:00 – 21:30
- Jumping Team Final
- Jumping Team Victory Ceremony
Source: FEI / Tokyo 2020 website
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