Equestrian at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

Individual jumping at the Games of the V Olympiad
Jacques Cariou competing
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Date	16 July
Competitors	31 from 8 nations
Winning score	186
Medalists
Jacques Cariou  France Rabod von Kröcher  Germany Emmanuel de Blommaert  Belgium

The individual show jumping was an equestrian event held as part of the Equestrian at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on 16 July 1912 as the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. There were 31 competitors from 8 nations. Each nation was limited to a maximum of six riders. The event was won by Jacques Cariou of France, the nation's first victory in the individual jumping. The victory came with a challenge prize presented by Count Gyula Andrássy the Younger of Hungary. Rabod von Kröcher earned Germany's first medal in the event with his silver. Emmanuel de Blommaert of Belgium took bronze.

Background

This was the second 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.

Chile, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden each made their debut in the event. Belgium, France, and Russia all competed for the second time, having previously appeared at the first competition in 1900.

Competition format

The 1,533 metre course consisted of 19 jumps (15 physical obstacles, 4 of which were jumped twice). Each jump had a maximum of 10 points, so the total possible was 190 points. Long jump obstacles had a maximum distance of 4 metres. The maximum height of jumps was 1.4 metres.

The deductions possible were: 2 points for a first refusal, 4 for a second, 6 for a third; 4 points for a horse falling; 6 points for the rider being unseated; 1 point for touching the obstacle without knocking it down; 4 points for knocking an obstacle down with the horse's fore legs, 2 points for knocking it down with the hind legs; 1 point for landing with hind legs on the end line of a long jump, 2 points for the hind legs inside the end line (or touching the surface of the water) or the fore legs on the line, 4 points for the fore legs inside the end line (or touching the water); and 2 points for every 5 seconds over the time limit of 3:50.0 (400 metres per minute).

Only "gentlemen" were permitted. Thus, professionals, women, and non-commissioned officers were ineligible. Military school horses were excluded, but all other horses were allowed.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 16 July 1912	14:00	Final

Results

3 minutes and 50 seconds were allotted. 190 points was the maximum score.

The jump-off for the gold medal used a shortened course of only 6 obstacles. Cariou had 5 faults throughout the jump-off, while von Kröcher had 7.

Rank	Rider	Horse	Nation	Time	Penalty	Faults	Score	Jump-off
	Jacques Cariou	Mignon	France	—	0	4	186	55
	Rabod von Kröcher	Dohna	Germany	—	0	4	186	53
	Emmanuel de Blommaert	Clomore	Belgium	—	0	5	185	—
4	Herbert Scott	Shamrock	Great Britain	—	0	6	184
5	Sigismund Freyer	Ultimus	Germany	—	0	7	183
6	Nils Adlercreutz	Ilex	Sweden	—	0	9	181
	Ernst Casparsson	Kiriki	Sweden	—	0	9	181
	Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau	Pretty Girl	Germany	—	0	9	181
9	Ernst Deloch	Hubertus	Germany	—	0	10	180
	Gustaf Lewenhaupt	Medusa	Sweden	—	0	10	180
	Charles Lewenhaupt	Arno	Sweden	—	0	10	180
	Dmitri Pavlovich	Unité	Russia	—	0	10	180
13	Pierre Dufour d'Astafort	Amazone	France	—	0	11	179
	Carl-Axel Torén	Falken	Sweden	—	0	11	179
15	Karol Rómmel	Siablik	Russia	—	0	12	178
16	Enrique Deichler	Chile	Chile	—	0	14	176
	Aleksandr Rodzyanko	Eros	Russia	—	0	14	176
18	Friedrich von Grote	Polyphem	Germany	---	0	16	174
	Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia	Gibson Boy	Germany	—	0	16	174
	Sergey Zagorsky	Bandoura	Russia	—	0	16	174
21	Mikhail Pleshkov	Yvette	Russia	—	0	17	173
22	Åke Hök	Mona	Sweden	—	0	20	170
	Aleksey Selikhov	Tugela	Russia	—	0	20	170
24	Karl Kildal	Garcia	Norway	—	0	22	168
25	Elías Yáñez	Patria	Chile	—	0	24	166
26	Jørgen Jensen	Jossy	Norway	—	0	25	165
27	Paul Kenna	Harmony	Great Britain	0:22.0	10	18	162
28	Jens Falkenberg	Florida	Norway	—	0	29	161
29	Edward Radcliffe-Nash	The Flea	Great Britain	0:40.2	18	19	153
30	Guy Reyntiens	Beau Soleil	Belgium	0:33.0	14	29	147
—	Ernest Meyer	Ursule	France	DNF

Sources

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2007.