Equestrian at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping
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Individual jumping at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Georgia International Horse Park | |||||||||
Dates | 29 July – 4 August | |||||||||
Competitors | 82 from 24 nations | |||||||||
Winning total | 1.00 faults | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The individual show jumping event, part of the equestrian program at the 1996 Summer Olympics, was held from 29 July to 1 August 1996 at the Georgia International Horse Park, in Conyers, Georgia. Like all other equestrian events, the jumping competition was mixed gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division.[1] There were 82 competitors from 24 nations.[2] Each nation could have up to 4 riders. The event was won by Ulrich Kirchhoff of Germany, the nation's second consecutive victory in the individual jumping (and third overall, tying Italy for second-most all-time after France's four). It was the fourth consecutive Games at which Germany competed that the nation reached the podium in the event—gold in 1936 and bronze in 1952 (with no Games in 1940 or 1944, Germany disinvited in 1948, and either United Team of Germany or separate West Germany and East Germany teams competing from 1956 to 1988), before gold again in 1992 and 1996. The silver medal went to Wilhelm Melliger of Switzerland and the bronze to Alexandra Ledermann of France, the two of whom came out on top of a seven-way jump-off for second place.