Equestrian at the 2007 Pan American Games

Equestrian at the XV Pan American Games
Venues	Deodoro Military Club
«2003 2011»

The Equestrian events included three disciplines: dressage, eventing, and show jumping, and were held at the Deodoro Military Club.

The competition is broken down into an individual and team competition for each discipline, for a total of 42 medals awarded. There are three members per team and one reserve rider in the dressage, and up to 4 team members in the eventing competition with only the top 3 member's scores taken for the final results.

The dressage team riders complete a test at Prix St. George level, and the individual riders complete a PSG and Intermediate I level test, with the top 15 competitors moving on to ride for medals in an Intermediate I Freestyle test.

The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in dressage.

Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF
Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too
Christopher Hickey / Regent

Tom Dvorak / Beaumarchais
Diane Creech / Wiona
Andrea Bresee / Raffles

Rogerio Clementino / Nilo Vo
Renata Costa / Monty
Luiza Almeida / Samba

Cristobal Egerstrom / Ferro
Jose Luis Padilla / Lohengrin
Patrick Burssens / Dark Secret

Sandra Mith / Oceano Do Top
Gabriel Armando / Euclid
Vera Protzen / Kadirmo

Silvia Regina Roesch / Perla
Sylvia Luna / Westerberg
Christa Dauber / Serafino

Roberto Gomez / Tiziano
Oscar Coddou / Bridge
Mario Vargas / Tejas Verdes Montse

The eventers complete a 3-star level dressage test, stadium, and cross-country course. 5 teams competed in the eventing competition: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States.

After the dressage test, the United States led with 143.40 penalty points, closely followed by Canada with 159.90 penalties, then host country Brazil with 173.20 in third, Argentina in 4th, and Chile in 5th.

The cross-country course was designed by Sue Benson of Great Britain. Run over 10 minutes, the 5,700-meter course had 27 obstacles and a total of 41 jumping efforts. After the cross-country phase, the Americans were in the gold medal position, with 154.80 penalties, followed by Canada with 177.10 penalty points, and bronze-medal placed Brazil with 192.60. Of the 26 horses which began cross-country, 21 finished. The teams from Argentina and Chile were eliminated during the cross-country phase.

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