# Equestrian events at the 2007 Pan American Games

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.

## Dressage 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.

### Ground Jury

Appointment of Dressage judges was as follows:
* Mariette Withages (Ground Jury President)
* Jane Weatherwax (Ground Jury Member)
* Salim Nigri (Ground Jury Member)
* Marian Cunningham (Ground Jury Member)
* Stephen Clarke (Ground Jury Member)

### Team dressage

The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in dressage.
| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | United States Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too Christopher Hickey / Regent | 68.633% |
| Silver | Canada Tom Dvorak / Beaumarchais Diane Creech / Wiona Andrea Bresee / Raffles | 67.250% |
| Bronze | Brazil Rogério Clementino / Nilo Vo Renata Costa / Monty Luiza Almeida / Samba | 64.933% |
| 4th place | Mexico Cristobal Egerstrom / Ferro Jose Luis Padilla / Lohengrin Patrick Burssens / Dark Secret | 63.533% |
| 5th place | Argentina Sandra Mith / Oceano Do Top Gabriel Armando / Euclid Vera Protzen / Kadirmo | 61.233% |
| 6th place | Guatemala Silvia Regina Roesch / Perla Sylvia Luna / Westerberg Christa Dauber / Serafino | 60.367% |
| 7th place | Chile Roberto Gomez / Tiziano Oscar Coddou / Bridge Mario Vargas / Tejas Verdes Montse | 60.000% |

### Individual dressage

| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | Christopher Hickey / Regent (USA) | 70.725 |
| Silver | Lauren Sammis / Sagacious HF (USA) | 69.925 |
| Bronze | Yvonne Losos de Muñiz / Bernstein las Marismas (DOM) | 69.50 |
| 4th place | Tom Dvorak / Bernstein las Marismas (CAN) | 69.45 |
| 5th place | Vera Protzen / Kadirmo (ARG) | 68.02 |
| 6th place | Katherine Poulin-Neff / Brilliant Too (USA) | 67.67 |
| 7th place | Andrea Bresee / Raffles (CAN) | 66.92 |
| 8th place | Diane Creech / Wiona (CAN) | 66.67 |
| 9th place | José Luis Padilla Moreno / Wiona (MEX) | 65.50 |
| 10th place | Annabelle Collins / Medici (BER) | 64.55 |

## Eventing results

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.
All 21 horses made it through Sunday jog, moving on to the stadium course. Designed by Brazilian Guilherme Jorge, it was composed of 12 jumps with 15 obstacles, over 490 meters. Rails were quite common, with only 4 horses finishing without jump penalties and only 3 of those four going double-clear without any time penalties. The Americans finished the competition with the gold medal, the Canadians with the silver, and Brazil with the bronze.

### Team eventing

The team results qualified Canada and Brazil to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in eventing.
| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | United States Karen O'Connor / Theodore O'Connor Phillip Dutton / Truluck Gina Miles / McKinlaigh Stephen Bradley / From | 162.8 |
| Silver | Canada Kyle Carter / Madison Park Sandra Donnelly / Buenos Aires Waylon Roberts / Paleface Michael Winter / Kingpin | 211.1 |
| Bronze | Brazil Fabrício Salgado / Butterfly Carlos Paro / Political Mandate Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA André Paro / Land Heir | 235.6 |

### Individual eventing

| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | Karen O'Connor / Theodore O'Connor (USA) | 52.7 |
| Silver | Phillip Dutton / Truluck (USA) | 53.8 |
| Bronze | Gina Miles / McKinlaigh (USA) | 56.3 |
| 4th place | Darren Chiacchia / Better I Do It (USA) | 66.2 |
| 5th place | Kyle Carter / Madison Park (CAN) | 66.3 |
| 6th place | Sandra Donnelly / Buenos Aires (CAN) | 69.7 |
| 7th place | Saulo Tristão / Totsie (BRA) | 74.2 |
| 8th place | Mike Winter / Kingpin (CAN) | 75.1 |
| 9th place | Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA (BRA) | 76.7 |
| 10th place | Serguei Fofanoff / Ekus TW (BRA) | 76.7 |

## Show jumping results

17 countries were represented in the show jumping competition, and there were a total of 10 teams: Argentina, Brazil (defending bronze medalists), Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico (defending silver medalists), the United States (defending gold medalists), and Venezuela.
The competition for team medals occurs over 2 days. Courses were all designed by Brazilian Guilherme Jorge, who also designed at the 2005 and 2007 World Cup Finals.
* Thursday, July 26: Table C Speed Class, max height 1.45m
* Friday, July 27: Table A Nations' Cup (2 rounds), max height 1.50m
The individual competition will then begin.
* Sunday, July 29: Table A (2 rounds), max height 1.60m

### Team show jumping

The team results qualified Canada, Brazil, and Mexico to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in show jumping.
| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | Brazil Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chups 2 Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs De Blanc César Almeida / Singular Joter II Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus | 9.67 |
| Silver | Canada Mac Cone / Melinda Jill Henselwood / Special Ed Eric Lamaze / Hickstead Ian Millar / In Style | 14.72 |
| Bronze | United States Lauren Hough / Casadora Cara Raether / Ublesco Laura Chapot / Little Big Man Todd Minikus / Pavarotti | 27.20 |
| 4th place | Mexico Santiago Lambre / Curant Simon Nizri / Cataro Ask Eduardo Salas / RMW Estina Jose Antonio Chedraui / Don Porfirio | 34.89 |
| 5th place | Argentina Maximiliano Amaya / Church Road Matias Albarracin / Gama Cocu Martin Dopazo / El Capricho Coral Ricardo Kierkegaard / Rey | 64.25 |
| 6th place | Guatemala Wylder Rodriguez / Pompidu Augusto Diaz Duran/ Rubina Eduardo El Castillo / Paesen Juan Andrés Rodríguez / Orestus VDL | 87.98 |
| 7th place | Colombia Ricardo Illa / Calico Z Mauricio Ruiz / Ratoucha Carlos Hernando Ramirez / Amazonas | 99.59 |
| Eliminated | Venezuela  Chile  Ecuador | ELIM |

### Individual show jumping

| Medal | Athlete | Score |
| Gold | Jill Henselwood / Special Ed (CAN) | 4.00 |
| Silver | Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus (BRA) | 5.74 |
| Bronze | Eric Lamaze / Hickstead (CAN) | 6.43 |
| 4th place | Ian Millar / In Style (CAN) | 9.29 |
| 5th place | Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs de Blanc (BRA) | 10.84 |
| 6th place | Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chup (BRA) | 13.09 |
| 7th place | José Antonio Chedraui / Don Porfirio (MEX) | 14.85 |
| 8th place | Cara Raether / Ublesco (USA) | 20.53 |
| 9th place | César Almeida / Singular Joter II (BRA) | 20.66 |
| 10th place | Pablo Barrios / Sun God (VEN) | 36.03 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | Canada | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | Brazil | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |