Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

An NOC may enter 3 athletes if they qualified for the team competition. The quota places for top ranked riders in the geographic groups must go to riders from nations without a qualified team. The additional individual qualifying spots are based on the FEI Ranking and can go to any NOC, up to a maximum of 4 riders. If a team obtains 3 individual quota places, it may also be allowed to enter the team competition.[1]

Team

Event	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–		1	Great Britain
World Equestrian Games	Sep 25 – Oct 10, 2010[2]	Lexington	3	Netherlands  Germany  United States
European Championship Groups A, B & C	Aug 17 – 21, 2011	Rotterdam	3	Sweden  Spain  Denmark
Pan-American Games Group D/E	Oct 14 – 30, 2011	Guadalajara	1	Canada  Colombia**
Group F/G Qualifiers	October 28, 2011	Sydney	1	Australia  New Zealand*
	November 2, 2011	Ermelo
Composite Teams				Poland*
TOTAL			9

Individual

FEI Rankings (March 1, 2012)	Vacancies	Qualified
Team Members	27
FEI Olympic Athletes Ranking – Dressage (established March 1, 2012)
Top Ranked Group A (North Western Europe)	1	Norway
Top Ranked Group B (South Western Europe)	1	Austria
Top Ranked Group C (Central & Eastern Europe; Central Asia)	1	Ukraine
Top Ranked Group D (North America; English Caribbean)	1	Antigua and Barbuda***
Top Ranked Group E (Central & South America)	1	Brazil
Top Ranked Group F (Africa & Middle East)	1	Morocco
Top Ranked Group G (South East Asia, Oceania)	1	Japan
Additional	17	Germany  Italy  Great Britain  Portugal  Belgium  Poland  Poland  France  Netherlands  Finland  New Zealand*  New Zealand*  Poland*  Ireland**  United States**  Austria**  Denmark***  Finland*
TOTAL	50

* New Zealand withdrew its team and decided to nominate only two individual riders. As a result, Poland qualified a third individual rider and was admitted into the team competition. New Zealand later withdrew one of those individual quotas allowing Finland to qualify.

** No riders from the Colombian team reached the minimum qualification standard, so three individual quota places were added.

*** No riders from Antigua and Barbuda reached the minimum qualification standard, so one individual quota place was added.

An NOC may enter up to 5 athletes if they qualified for the team competition. Individual qualification quota places may only go to nations without a qualified team, up to a maximum of 5. Should an NOC obtain 3 or more quota places in this manner, it may be allowed to participate in the team competition.[3] The Netherlands, Australia and Ireland have qualified a team by this route.

Team

Team Competition	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–		1	Great Britain
World Equestrian Games	Sep 25 – Oct 10, 2010[2]	Lexington	5	Canada  New Zealand  United States  Germany  Belgium
European Eventing Championship Groups A, B & C	Aug 25 – 28, 2011	Luhmühlen	2	France  Sweden
Pan-American Games Group D/E	Oct 13 – 30, 2011	Guadalajara	1	Brazil  Argentina*
FEI Group F/G Eventing championship	Sep 8 – 11 2011	Blenheim (Oxon)[4]	1	Japan
Qualification through multiple individual qualifications	-	-	3	Australia  Ireland  Netherlands
TOTAL			13

Individual

FEI Rankings (March 1, 2012)	Vacancies	Qualified
Team Members	up to 50
Top Ranked Group A (North Western Europe)	1	Netherlands
Top Ranked Group B (South Western Europe)	1	Italy
Top Ranked Group C (Central & Eastern Europe; Central Asia)	1	Belarus
Top Ranked Group D (North America; English Caribbean)	1	Jamaica
Top Ranked Group E (Central & South America)	1	Ecuador
Top Ranked Group F (Africa & Middle East)	1	South Africa
Top Ranked Group G (South East Asia, Oceania)	1	Australia
Additional	13+5*	Australia  Australia  Australia  Australia  Netherlands  Netherlands  Thailand  Italy  Ireland  Austria  Ireland  Russia  Ireland  Ireland*  Poland*  Ireland*  Belarus*  Russia*
TOTAL	75

* Argentina withdrew its team.

An NOC may enter up to 4 athletes if they qualified for the team competition. Individual qualification quota places may only go to nations without a qualified team, up to a maximum of 2.[5]

Team

Team Competition	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–		1	Great Britain
World Equestrian Games 5 best ranked teams	Sep 25 – Oct 10, 2010[2]	Lexington	5	Germany  France  Belgium  Brazil  Canada
World Equestrian Games – best Group C or G team			1	Australia
Best Group C or G team from the 2011 FEI selected Olympic Qualification event	July 10, 2011	Aachen	1	Ukraine
European Jumping Championship Groups A & B	Sep 13 – 18, 2011	Madrid	3	Netherlands  Sweden  Switzerland
Pan-American Games	Oct 13 – 30, 2011	Guadalajara	3	United States  Mexico  Chile
Best combined score from World Equestrian Games and 2011 FEI selected Olympic Qualification event (Group F)	Dec 27 – 30, 2011	Doha	1	Saudi Arabia
TOTAL			15

Individual

Individual Competition	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Team members			60	–
World Equestrian Games, Group F	Sep 25 – Oct 10, 2010	Lexington	2	Egypt  Syria
World Equestrian Games, Group G			1	Japan
Group G FEI Select Olympic Qualification event	July 10, 2011	Aachen	1	Japan
Pan-American Games, Group D	Oct 13 – 30, 2011	Guadalajara	1	Bermuda
Pan-American Games, Group E			4	Colombia  Colombia  Argentina  Argentina
Group F FEI Select Olympic Qualification event	Dec 27 – 30, 2011	Doha	1	Jordan
Olympic Qualification Ranking, Group A & B	March 1, 2012	–	3	Ireland  Ireland  Portugal
Olympic Qualification Ranking, Group C			2	Azerbaijan  Russia
TOTAL			75