Equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

Individual jumping at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Alphonse Gemuseus (1927)
Venue	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
Date	27 July
Competitors	43 from 11 nations
Winning score	6.00
Medalists
Alphonse Gemuseus  Schweiz Tommaso Lequio di Assaba  Italien Adam Królikiewicz  Polen

The individual show jumping was one of five equestrianism events on the Equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday 27 July 1924. 43 riders from 11 nations competed. Nations were limited to four riders each; the team jumping event used the same results as this competition, with the top three individual scores counting for each national team. The individual event was won by Alphonse Gemuseus of Switzerland, with the nation winning its first victory in its debut in the individual jumping event. Tommaso Lequio di Assaba of Italy became the first person to win multiple medals in the event, taking silver to add to his 1920 gold. Adam Królikiewicz earned Poland's first individual jumping medal with his bronze.

Background

This was the fourth 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.

Three riders from the 1920 competition returned: gold medalist Tommaso Lequio di Assaba of Italy, fourteenth-place finisher Åge Lundström of Sweden, and twenty-fifth-place finisher Jacques Misonne of Belgium.

Czechoslovakia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland each made their debut in the event. Belgium and France both competed for the fourth time, the only nations to have competed at each appearance of the event to that point.

Competition format

The 1060 metre course consisted of 15 obstacles, which were up to 1.4 meters high. The water was a maximum of 4 meters in width. The pair with the fewest faults was the winner. The time limit for the course was 2:39 (400 metres per minute), with a penalty of 0.25 faults for every second or fraction thereof above the limit.

The faults possible were: 3 points for a first refusal, 6 for a second, elimination for a third; 5 points for a horse falling; 10 points for the rider being unseated; 4 points for knocking an obstacle down with the horse's fore legs, 2 point for knocking it down with the hind legs; and 2 points for going off-course.

Zeitplan

Date	Zeit	Round
Sunday, 27 July 1924		Final

Results

The course turned out to be rather difficult; the best pair finished with 6 faults.

Rank	Rider	Nation	Faults	Zeit
	Alphonse Gemuseus	Schweiz	6.00	2:24.4
	Tommaso Lequio di Assaba	Italien	8.75	2:42.0
	Adam Królikiewicz	Polen	10.00	2:38.4
4	Philip Bowden-Smith	Great Britain	10.50	2:41.4
5	Aníbal de Almeida	Portugal	12.00	2:28.8
6	Åke Thelning	Schweden	12.00	2:30.4
7	Axel Ståhle	Schweden	12.25	2:40.0
8	Nicolas LeRoy	Belgien	14.75	2:42.2
9	José Álvarez	Spanien	18.00	2:31.0
10	Karol von Rómmel	Polen	18.00	2:38.2
11	Åge Lundström	Schweden	18.00	2:38.4
12	Hélder Martins	Portugal	19.00	2:31.4
13	Jacques Misonne	Belgien	19.50	3:05.4
14	Werner Stuber	Schweiz	20.00	2:32.4
15	Leone Valle	Italien	20.00	2:36.6
16	Nemesio Martínez	Spanien	22.00	2:17.2
17	José de Albuquerque	Portugal	22.00	2:21.0
18	Gaston Mesmaekers	Belgien	22.75	2:50.0
19	Georg von Braun	Schweden	23.50	2:45.6
20	Hans Bühler	Schweiz	24.00	2:20.0
21	Hans von der Weid	Schweiz	24.00	2:39.8
22	Jean Breuls van Tiecken	Belgien	24.00	2:44.4
23	Rudolf Popler	Czechoslovakia	24.50	2:45.8
24	Capel Brunker	Great Britain	25.50	2:45.0
25	John Barry	Vereinigte Staaten	27.25	2:40.0
26	Alessandro Alvisi	Italien	28.75	2:42.4
27	Geoffrey Brooke	Great Britain	29.75	3:02.6
28	Zdzisław Dziadulski	Polen	30.50	2:49.4
29	Sloan Doak	Vereinigte Staaten	32.00	2:23.0
30	José Navarro	Spanien	33.75	3:02.4
31	Luís de Meneses	Portugal	36.00	2:17.2
32	Kazimierz Szosland	Polen	39.25	3:20.0
33	Pierre Clavé	Frankreich	41.00	3:23.0
34	Oldřich Buchar	Czechoslovakia	45.00	2:37.6
—	Emanuele Beraudo Di Pralormo	Italien	—	DNF
	Michel Bignon	Frankreich	—	DNF
	Frederic Bontecou	Vereinigte Staaten	—	DNF
	Théophile Carbon	Frankreich	—	DNF
	Henri de Royer-Dupré	Frankreich	—	DNF
	Keith Hervey	Great Britain	—	DNF
	Emilio López	Spanien	—	DNF
	Vernon Padgett	Vereinigte Staaten	—	DNF
	Josef Rabas	Czechoslovakia	—	DNF

External links

• Kubatko, Justin. "Equestrianism at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Jumping, Individual". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009.