Equestrian at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

Individual jumping at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Competitors	46 from 16 nations
Medalists
Czechoslovakia František Ventura and Eliot   France Pierre Bertran de Balanda and Papillon   Switzerland Charles-Gustave Kuhn and Pepita

Equestrian at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Dressage		mixed
Eventing		mixed
Jumping		mixed
Team dressage		mixed
Team eventing		mixed
Team jumping		mixed

The individual jumping at the 1928 Summer Olympics took place at Amsterdam.

Scores from the individual competition were summed to give results in the team competition.

Event rules

"The obstacles with number 16 as a maximum, the minimum height being 1 m. 25, and the maximum height 1 m. 40 (4’ to 4’ 9”). The canter must be free and at a speed of 400 m. (43 yds.) a minute. The timekeeper shall not take into account greater speed, but on the other hand a lower speed shall be penalised by 0.25 of a point per second over the time allowed. Grazing, displacing or touching the obstacles shall not be taken into account."^[1]

Ties for medal position were broken with re-rides, while all other ties were broken by time.

Results

Source: Official results;^[1] De Wael^[2]

Rank	Rider	Nation	Horse	Time	Faults	1st re-ride	2nd re-ride
01 !	František Ventura	Czechoslovakia	Eliot	1:34	0	0	0
02 !	Pierre Bertrand de Bolanda	France	Papillon	1:21	0	0	2
03 !	Charles-Gustave Kuhn	Switzerland	Pepita	1:38	0	0	4
4	Kazimierz Gzowski	Poland	Mylord	1:33	0	2	–
5	José Navarro	Spain	Zapatazo	1:36	0	2	–
6	Karl Hansen	Sweden	Gerold	1:39	0	2	–
7	Francesco Fourquet	Italy	Capinera	1:33	0	DQ	–
8	Alphonse Gemuseus	Switzerland	Lucette	1:27	2	–
9	Carl Björnstjerna	Sweden	Kornett	1:30	2	–
10	José Álvarez	Spain	Zalamero	1:33	2	–
11	Eduard Krüger	Germany	Donauwelle	1:33	2	–
12	Julio García	Spain	Revistade	1:37	2	–
13	Kazimierz Szosland	Poland	Alli	1:40	2	–
14	Richard Sahla	Germany	Correggio	1:15	4	–
15	Luís Ferraz	Portugal	Marco Visconti	1:26	4	–
16	Hélder Martins	Portugal	Avro	1:31	4	–
17	Jacques Couderc de Fonlongue	France	Valangerville	1:34	4	–
18	Harry Chamberlin	United States	Nigra	1:34	4	–
19	José de Albuquerque	Portugal	Hebraico	1:42	4	–
20	Michał Antoniewicz	Poland	Readglet	1:31	6	–
21	Alessandro Bettoni-Cazzago	Italy	Aladino	1:38	6	–
22	Knut Gysler	Norway	Sans Peur	1:38	6	–
23	Frank Carr	United States	Miss America	1:38	6	–
24	Tommaso Lequio di Assaba	Italy	Trebecco	1:48	6	–
25	Ernst Hallberg	Sweden	Loke	1:31	8	–
26	Pierre Clavé	France	Le Trouvère	1:33	8	–
27	Gerard de Kruijff	Netherlands	Preten	1:41	8	–
28	Carl Friedrich von Langen-Parow	Germany	Falkner	1:42	8	–
29	Antonius Colenbrander	Netherlands	Gaga	1:46	8	–
30	Charles Labouchere	Netherlands	Copain	1:44	10	–
31	von Malanotti Lajos	Hungary	Ibolya III	1:28	12	–
32	Anton Klaveness	Norway	Barrabas	1:35	12	–
33	Adolphus Roffe	United States	Fairfax	2:04	12	–
34	Amabrio del Villar	Argentina	Talán-Talán	1:49	12 1⁄4	–
35	Gaston Mesmaekers	Belgium	As de Pique	1:37	14	–
36	Bjart Ording	Norway	Fram I	1:30	16	–
37	Pierre de Muralt	Switzerland	Notas	1:48	16	–
38	Jacques Misonne	Belgium	Keepsake	2:04	16	–
39	von Kánya Antal	Hungary	Gólya	1:33	20	–
40	Raúl Antoli	Argentina	Turbion	1:45	20	–
41	Josef Rabas	Czechoslovakia	Daghestan	2:14	22 1⁄2	–
42	Víctor Fernández	Argentina	Silencio	1:27	26	–
43	Cseh von Szent-Katolna Kálmán	Hungary	Beni	1:56	30	–
44	Baudoin De Brabandère	Belgium	Miss América	2:29	34 1⁄4	–
–	Shigetomo Yoshida	Japan	Kyuzan	DQ
	Rudolf Popler	Czechoslovakia	Denk

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