Team USA - Equestrian

[clemsonbeav 633]

Starting a thread here to discuss all things horsey, including results, forecasts, history, etc.  

[clemsonbeav 633]

Completely new to following US Equestrian...

 

Right now, in Dressage, our leaders in the World Cup are Christian Simonson, Kevin Kohmann, and Benjamin Ebeling.  None of these competed in Paris 2024.  We'll see how they continue to do as they approach the finals in April.  Simonson is #9 overall right now.

 

In Jumping, McLain Ward, Laura Kraut, and Kent Farrington are our leaders.  Farrington is #1 in the overall rankings apparently.  All 3 of these have competed before and won medals.   

 

Eventing will start later in the year.

Edited February 3 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 633]

Just looked at the qualification for this.  We get the max per NOC automatically (1 team of 3 per discipline).  So, as complicated as it was for me to figure out how Equestrian is run in the off season, it doesn't matter for qualification purposes.  

[bmo 269]

27 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

Just looked at the qualification for this.  We get the max per NOC automatically (1 team of 3 per discipline).  So, as complicated as it was for me to figure out how Equestrian is run in the off season, it doesn't matter for qualification purposes.  

Yeah equestrian is a difficult sport to understand how the season works. I like watching Jumping and the cross-country portion of eventing. Still don't really understand dressage, but haven't really made the time to ever watch it. I always skip over dressage during the Olympics.

[clemsonbeav 633]

2 minutes ago, bmo said:

Yeah equestrian is a difficult sport to understand how the season works. I like watching Jumping and the cross-country portion of eventing. Still don't really understand dressage, but haven't really made the time to ever watch it. I always skip over dressage during the Olympics.

Yes, I really enjoy watching the cross-country portion of eventing.  We actually have a FEI-sanctioned event nearby in South Carolina in a couple of weeks, hosting a 4* Eventing competition.  Might try and check it out.

[bmo 269]

1 hour ago, clemsonbeav said:

Yes, I really enjoy watching the cross-country portion of eventing.  We actually have a FEI-sanctioned event nearby in South Carolina in a couple of weeks, hosting a 4* Eventing competition.  Might try and check it out.

Ooh yeah that would be cool. It’s rare for an Olympic sport to come to Michigan. Although there was a pro squash event here last month i think. 
 

equestrian would be cool to see in person

[clemsonbeav 633]

7 hours ago, bmo said:

Ooh yeah that would be cool. It’s rare for an Olympic sport to come to Michigan. Although there was a pro squash event here last month i think. 
 

equestrian would be cool to see in person

 

It was actually just in the past few months when I started digging into all the sports that I realized that there were nearby events, some of which I am sad to have missed !  (I learned just about a week too late that the PanAm Table Tennis competition was just an hour up the road this past October!)  This is partly/mostly what led me to create my master calendar.  I also thought that South Carolina would not be a top destination...and don't get me wrong, it's not.  But it is cool to see that I do have the ability to go see Olympians or potential Olympians a few times per year.  It helps that Charlotte is just an hour away, and many sports are centered there (taekwondo, pentathlon, among others).

 

(Pro to living in a big country: Lots of Olympians.  Con: Hardly ever close!)

 

 

In SC, we have...

BMX National Champs in just a couple of weeks (in the same venue that hosted the 2024 Worlds! - this is just outside Charlotte in SC),

a WTA 500 event in Charleston at the beginning of April,

Eventing (in April and October),

and a non-Olympic class sailing National Championship at the lake just outside Columbia.

 

Charlotte proper will host a USMNT friendly vs.  , and the Taekwondo Nationals, and of course it just hosted the Curling Nationals.  And of course we get the Masters to our west, just across the Savannah River in Augusta, GA.

 

 

As for Michigan, there was Squash in Detroit.  You also will have the Shotgun National Champs in May in Hillsdale, and the Rowing National Champs in Ypsilanti in July.

Edited March 13 by clemsonbeav

[bmo 269]

3 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

 

It was actually just in the past few months when I started digging into all the sports that I realized that there were nearby events, some of which I am sad to have missed !  (I learned just about a week too late that the PanAm Table Tennis competition was just an hour up the road this past October!)  This is partly/mostly what led me to create my master calendar.  I also thought that South Carolina would not be a top destination...and don't get me wrong, it's not.  But it is cool to see that I do have the ability to go see Olympians or potential Olympians a few times per year.  It helps that Charlotte is just an hour away, and many sports are centered there (taekwondo, pentathlon, among others).

 

(Pro to living in a big country: Lots of Olympians.  Con: Hardly ever close!)

 

 

In SC, we have...

BMX National Champs in just a couple of weeks (in the same venue that hosted the 2024 Worlds! - this is just outside Charlotte in SC),

a WTA 500 event in Charleston at the beginning of April,

Eventing (in April and October),

and a non-Olympic class sailing National Championship at the lake just outside Columbia.

 

Charlotte proper will host a USMNT friendly vs.  , and the Taekwondo Nationals, and of course it just hosted the Curling Nationals.  And of course we get the Masters to our west, just across the Savannah River in Augusta, GA.

 

 

As for Michigan, there was Squash in Detroit.  You also will have the Shotgun National Champs in May in Hillsdale, and the Rowing National Champs in Ypsilanti in July.

Hmmm… might have to check those out

[Olympian1010 8,301]

14 hours ago, bmo said:

Yeah equestrian is a difficult sport to understand how the season works. I like watching Jumping and the cross-country portion of eventing. 

I had tickets for eventing's cross country phase at Tokyo 2020, but the pandemic stole my chance to see it live  

[Olympian1010 8,301]

6 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

I also thought that South Carolina would not be a top destination...and don't get me wrong, it's not.  But it is cool to see that I do have the ability to go see Olympians or potential Olympians a few times per year.  It helps that Charlotte is just an hour away, and many sports are centered there (taekwondo, pentathlon, among others).

Charlotte is also slated to host the CISM Military World Games next summer: https://www.milsport.one/news/world-summer-games-dedicated-pages/8th-cism-military-world-summer-games-charlotte-usa

 

North Carolina's triangle area will also host the 2029 FISU Summer World University Games.