Olympic Individual Dressage Schedule

The British gold medal team of three riders, Laura Bechtolsheimer, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin, all qualified for the musical freestyle that will determine individual medals. © 2012 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

LONDON, Aug. 8–The musical freestyle to determine individual Olympic dressage medals will be held Thursday as the finale of equestrian sports at historic Greenwich Park.

Italy’s Valentina Truppa on Eremo del Castegno will be the first horse into the arena whose 23,000 seats have been sold out for months.

She is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. local time (1330 CET/7:30 am US Eastern time) and the 18 combinations will be spaced 10 minutes apart with two 15-minute breaks.

The final group of six riders and horses, starts at 3 p.m. local (1600 CET/10 a.m. US Eastern Time).

Riders from 10 nations qualified for the freestyle with Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands each represented by three pairs which means that one nation could win gold, silver and bronze medals.

The complete start list (click on + sign for data on rider and horse):

TimeRiderHorse
12:30Italy TRUPPA ValentinaEREMO DEL CASTEGNO+
12:40Sweden KITTEL PatrikSCANDIC+
12:50Denmark KASPRZAK AnnaDONNPERIGNON+
13:00Portugal CARVALHO GoncaloRUBI+
13:10Austria MAX-THEURER VictoriaAUGUSTIN+
13:20Sweden VILHELMSON SILFVEN TinneDON AURIELLO+
Break
13:45United States of America PETERS SteffenRAVEL+
13:55Netherlands GAL EdwardUNDERCOVER+
14:05Denmark ZU SAYN – WITTGENSTEIN NathalieDIGBY+
14:15Netherlands van GRUNSVEN AnkySALINERO+
14:25Spain MUNOZ DIAZ Juan ManuelFUEGO+
14:35Germany SPREHE KristinaDESPERADOS+
Break
15:00Germany LANGEHANENBERG HelenDAMON HILL+
15:10Germany SCHNEIDER DorotheeDIVA ROYAL+
15:20Great Britain BECHTOLSHEIMER LauraMISTRAL HOJRIS+
15:30Great Britain HESTER CarlUTHOPIA+
15:40Netherlands CORNELISSEN AdelindePARZIVAL+
15:50Great Britain DUJARDIN CharlotteVALEGRO+

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