Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Team jumping

Team jumping at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medal ceremony
Venue	Hong Kong Sports Institute
Date	15-18 August
Medalists
Laura Kraut Beezie Madden Will Simpson McLain Ward   United States   Mac Cone Jill Henselwood Eric Lamaze Ian Millar   Canada   Christina Liebherr Pius Schwizer Niklaus Schurtenberger Steve Guerdat   Switzerland

Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Dressage		individual		team
Eventing		individual		team
Jumping		individual		team

The team jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place from August 15 to 18, at the Hong Kong Sports Institute.

The second and third rounds of show-jumping from the individual jumping event were used to determine scores for the team round. The best three scores from teams having more than three competing pairs were used to determine the team score.

Medalists

Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
United States		Canada		Switzerland[1]
Laura Kraut	Cedric	Mac Cone	Ole	Christina Liebherr	No Mercy
Beezie Madden	Authentic	Jill Henselwood	Special Ed	Pius Schwizer	Nobless M
Will Simpson	Carlsson Vom Dach	Eric Lamaze	Hickstead	Niklaus Schurtenberger	Cantus
McLain Ward	Sapphire	Ian Millar	In Style	Steve Guerdat	Jalisca Solier

Results

The first round of the competition were held on August 17, 2008. The eight highest ranked teams in the first round progressed to the second round, which was held on August 18, 2008.

Rank	Name	Round 1		Round 2		Team Total Penalties	Jump-off
		Penalties		Penalties			Penalties		Time
		Individual	Team	Individual	Team		Individual	Team	Individual	Team
	United States (USA) McLain Ward Laura Kraut Will Simpson Beezie Madden	0 4 8 11	12	4 0 8 4	8	20	0 0 0 DNS	0	37.05 39.86 38.50	115.41
	Canada (CAN) Mac Cone Jill Henselwood Eric Lamaze Ian Millar	12 18 0 4	16	WD 0 4 0	4	20	DNS 4 0 DNS	4	40.32 36.35	76.67
	Switzerland (SUI) Christina Liebherr Pius Schwizer Niklaus Schurtenberger Steve Guerdat	4 4 4 4	12	23 5 8 5	18	30
=4	Netherlands (NED) Angelique Hoorn Marc Houtzager Vincent Voorn Gerco Schroder	4 1 16 12	17	8 5 27 4	17	34
=4	Germany (GER) Christian Ahlmann Marco Kutscher Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum Ludger Beerbaum	8 13 4 8	20	4 19 4 6	14	34
6	Great Britain (GBR) Nick Skelton Tim Stockdale Ben Maher John Whitaker	8 4 4 DNS	16	13 8 0 DNS	21	37
7	Sweden (SWE) Peter Eriksson Lotta Schultz Helena Lundback Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	8 5 12 0	13	4 20 17 4	25	38
8	Australia (AUS) Peter McMahon Laurie Lever Edwina Alexander Matt Williams	16 16 0 4	20	DNS 4 0 17	21	41
9	Mexico (MEX) Alberto Michan Antonio Chedraui Enrique Gonzalez Federico Fernandez	9 8 16 9	26
10	Norway (NOR) Stein Endresen Morten Djupvik Geir Gulliksen Tony Andre Hansen	4 12 12 DSQ	28	12 4 5 DSQ	21
11	Ukraine (UKR) Aleksandr Onishchenko Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe Bjorn Nagel Katharina Offel	EL 8 9 17	34
12	Saudi Arabia (KSA) HH F. Al Shalan Kamal Bahamdan HRH A. Al Saud Ramzy Al Duhami	18 15 30 5	38
13	New Zealand (NZL) Katie McVean Kirk Webby Sharn Wordley Bruce Goodin	45 8 25 12	45
14	Hong Kong (HKG) Patrick Lam Samantha Lam Kenneth Cheng	9 29 21	59
15	China (CHN) Huang Zuping Zhang Bin Zhao Zhiwen Li Zhenqiang	36 31 32 39	99
EL	Brazil (BRA) Pedro Veniss Bernardo Alves Camila Benedicto Rodrigo Pessoa	EL 12 13 DSQ	EL

Illegal substance use

After Tony Andre Hansen's horse Camiro tested positive for use of capsaicin, Norway has been stripped of their bronze medals.^[2]

References

1. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur/story/2008/12/22/equestrian-medals.html
2. Bronze Medalist Tony Andre Hansen Was Stripped of His Bronze Medal for Doping SI.com, December 22, 2008

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