The team dressage event, part of the equestrian program

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping. All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events....

 at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

, used the results of the first round of the individual dressage to award rankings. That round was held on 20 August and 21 August 2004 at the Olympic Equestrian Centre on the outskirts of Markópoulo

Markopoulo

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, in the Attica

Attica

Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...

 region of Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Like all other equestrian

Equestrianism

Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...

 events, the dressage

Dressage

Dressage is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as "the highest expression of horse training." Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games...

 competition was mixed gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division. 10 teams, each consisting of four horse and rider pairs, entered the contest.

Medalists

Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Germany		Spain		United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Heike Kemmer Heike Kemmer Heike Kemmer is a German equestrian who won a gold medal in Team dressage at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- References :...	Bonaparte	Beatriz Ferrer-Salat	Beauvalais	Lisa Wilcox Lisa Wilcox (equestrian) Lisa Margrit Wilcox is an equestrian riding instructor best known for her success in dressage...	Relevant 5
Hubertus Schmidt Hubertus Schmidt Hubertus Schmidt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the team from Germany....	Wansuela Suerte	Juan Antonio Jimenez	Guizo	Günter Seidel	Aragon
Martin Schaudt Martin Schaudt Martin Schaudt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta with the team from Germany....	Weltall	Ignacio Rambla	Oleaja	Deborah McDonald	Brentina Brentina Brentina is an Olympic-level dressage horse ridden by Debbie McDonald.*Foaled: 1991*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star, sock off fore, half-stocking off hind*Sex: Mare*Breed: Hanoverian...
Ulla Salzgeber Ulla Salzgeber Ulla Salzgeber is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with the team from Germany....	Rusty	Rafael Solto	Invasor	Robert Dover Robert Dover (equestrian) Robert Jeffrey Dover is an American equestrian who has had international success in the sport of dressage. Riding from the age of 13, he began specializing in dressage at age 19 and competed in his first Olympics in 1984. He competed in every summer Games between 1984 and 2004, winning four team...	Kennedy

By individual

The team event used the points from the first round of competition. 40 of the 52 pairs that competed in the individual event were members of a team. Team members are shown below, with scores used for the team highlighted.

Rank	Nation	Rider	Horse	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Judge 4	Judge 5	Score
1	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Ulla Salzgeber Ulla Salzgeber Ulla Salzgeber is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with the team from Germany....	Rusty	77.708	77.917	81.667	76.042	77.708	78.208
2	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Beatriz Ferrer-Salat	Beauvalais	74.792	75.208	74.583	75.417	73.333	74.667
3	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	Anky van Grunsven Anky van Grunsven Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics with her horse Bonfire and gold in the 2004 Olympics and in the 2008 Olympics with Salinero.Van Grunsven has also dominated World Cup Dressage competition, being named the World...	Salinero	72.292	75.625	75.208	73.125	74.792	74.208
4	Germany	Martin Schaudt Martin Schaudt Martin Schaudt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta with the team from Germany....	Weltall	70.000	73.333	75.833	75.000	72.917	73.417
5	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Deborah McDonald	Brentina Brentina Brentina is an Olympic-level dressage horse ridden by Debbie McDonald.*Foaled: 1991*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star, sock off fore, half-stocking off hind*Sex: Mare*Breed: Hanoverian...	74.167	71.875	75.000	72.292	73.542	73.375
6	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Jan Brink	Briar	72.083	72.500	74.167	74.375	73.125	73.250
7	Spain	Rafael Soto	Invasor	72.292	72.500	73.958	72.917	72.292	72.792
8	Germany	Hubertus Schmidt Hubertus Schmidt Hubertus Schmidt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage atthe 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the team from Germany....	Wansuela Suerte	74.167	73.333	72.292	70.000	71.875	72.333
9	United States	Robert Dover Robert Dover (equestrian) Robert Jeffrey Dover is an American equestrian who has had international success in the sport of dressage. Riding from the age of 13, he began specializing in dressage at age 19 and competed in his first Olympics in 1984. He competed in every summer Games between 1984 and 2004, winning four team...	Kennedy	72.083	72.083	72.083	71.250	70.625	71.625
10	Germany	Heike Kemmer Heike Kemmer Heike Kemmer is a German equestrian who won a gold medal in Team dressage at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- References :...	Bonaparte	71.250	70.625	71.875	72.917	69.792	71.292
10	Spain	Juan Antonio Jimenez	Guizo	71.458	70.208	69.583	72.708	72.500	71.292
12	Great Britain United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Carl Hester	Escapado	70.208	70.625	71.042	71.458	70.000	70.667
12	Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...	Per Sandgaard	Zancor	68.750	70.833	71.250	71.458	71.042	70.667
14	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	Sven Rothenberger Sven Rothenberger Sven Günther Rothenberger is an equestrian from Germany, who competed for The Netherlands after his marriage with Dutch equestrain Gonnelien Gordijn....	Barclay II	69.375	70.208	70.417	68.958	70.208	69.833
15	Netherlands	Imke Bartels Imke Bartels Imke Anne Marian Schellekens-Bartels is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Her mother Tineke was also an equestrian in dressage....	Lancet	70.625	69.375	68.333	68.542	71.875	69.750
16	United States	Guenter Seidel	Aragon Aragon Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...	70.625	68.542	70.625	67.292	70.417	69.500
17	Denmark	Jon Pedersen	Esprit de Valdemar	69.375	67.292	70.625	68.125	69.583	69.000
18	United States	Lisa Wilcox Lisa Wilcox (equestrian) Lisa Margrit Wilcox is an equestrian riding instructor best known for her success in dressage...	Relevant 5	68.542	68.125	70.000	69.583	67.708	68.792
20	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	Victoria Max-Theurer	Falcao	67.500	70.417	70.208	67.083	68.125	68.667
21	Great Britain	Richard Davison	Ballaseyr Royale	68.333	69.583	68.333	67.708	68.750	68.542
22	Denmark	Andreas Helgstrand Andreas Helgstrand Andreas Helgstrand is an award-winning Danish dressage rider who is most known for riding the 9-year-old mare Blue Hors Matiné at the Grand Prix level. Helgstrand has also represented Denmark in Olympic dressage events in 2004 and at the World Equestrian Games...	Cavan Cavan Cavan is the county town of County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. The town lies in the north central part of Ireland, near the border with Northern Ireland...	68.750	68.958	69.167	67.917	66.875	68.333
25	Great Britain	Emma Hindle Emma Hindle Emma Hindle is a British international equestrian. She first rode for her country in 2004, competing in the World Equestrian Games of that year, and competed for Great Britain in Dressage at both the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games....	Wie Weltmeyer	67.500	67.500	67.292	66.875	68.333	67.500
26	Austria	Nina Stadlinger	Egalite	65.625	67.500	69.792	67.500	66.458	67.375
28	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	Silvia Ikle	Salieri CH	66.042	66.458	67.083	68.333	67.292	67.042
29	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Tinne Vilhelmson	Just Mickey	68.333	65.625	67.500	65.625	67.500	66.917
30	Switzerland	Christian Plaege	Regent Regent A regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. Currently there are only two ruling Regencies in the world, sovereign Liechtenstein and the Malaysian constitutive state of Terengganu...	65.417	68.750	67.917	67.708	63.542	66.667
31	Sweden	Louise Nathorst	Guinness Guinness Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin. Guinness is directly descended from the porter style that originated in London in the early 18th century and is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost...	67.500	68.125	65.417	65.208	66.667	66.583
31	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Cynthia Ishoy	Proton Proton The proton is a subatomic particle with the symbol or and a positive electric charge of 1 elementary charge. One or more protons are present in the nucleus of each atom, along with neutrons. The number of protons in each atom is its atomic number....	65.417	66.667	67.917	68.333	64.583	66.583
34	Great Britain	Nicola McGivern	Active Walero	65.625	66.667	68.125	66.042	65.833	66.458
35	Canada	Leslie Reid	Mark	65.833	64.792	66.458	66.250	67.083	66.083
36	Canada	Belinda Trussell	Royan II	66.458	66.458	67.708	65.000	64.375	66.000
38	Denmark	Lone Joergensen	Ludewig G	63.333	66.875	68.125	65.208	65.208	65.750
40	Sweden	Minna Telde	Sack	65.833	64.375	66.042	66.250	64.375	65.375
41	Spain	Ignacio Rambla	Oleaje	65.417	64.792	65.417	65.000	63.125	64.750
42	Canada	Ashley Holzer	Imperioso	64.583	65.625	65.833	64.583	62.708	64.667
43	Netherlands	Marlies van Baalen Marlies van Baalen Marlies Anne van Baalen is a Dutch Dressage equestrian. She is Coby van Baalen's daughter.Van Baalen represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she finished in 43rd position in the individual rankings...	Idocus	62.708	65.625	65.208	65.833	63.542	64.583
44	Austria	Friedrich Gaulhofer	Wels Wels Wels is the second largest city of the state of Upper Austria, located in the north of Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is not part of its surrounding Wels County , but a so-called Statutarstadt . However, Wels is the county seat of Wels-Land.- Geography :Wels is located in the...	62.917	63.333	63.542	65.417	63.125	63.667
45	Switzerland	Daniel Ramseier	Palladio	62.083	65.625	63.333	63.750	61.458	63.250
48	Austria	Peter Gmoser	Don Debussy	62.292	62.292	62.917	64.167	62.083	62.750
WD	Switzerland	Jasmien Sanche-Burger	Mr G de Lully

By team

Each team consisted of four pairs of horse and rider. The scores of the top three pairs from each team were averaged to get the team score.

1. Germany
   Germany
   Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
   
    - 74.563
   • Ulla Salzgeber riding Rusty, 78.208
   • Martin Schaudt riding Weltall, 73.417
   • Hubertus Schmidt riding Wansuela Suerte, 72.333
   • Heike Kemmer riding Bonaparte, 71.292
2. Spain
   Spain
   Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
   
    - 72.917
   • Beatriz Ferrer-Salat riding Beauvalais, 74.667
   • Rafael Soto riding Invasor, 72.792
   • Juan Antonio Jimenez riding Guizo, 71.292
   • Ignacio Rambla riding Oleaje, 64.750
3. United States
   United States
   The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
   
    - 71.500
   • Deborah McDonald riding Brentina, 73.375
   • Robert Dover riding Kennedy, 71.625
   • Guenter Seidel riding Aragon, 69.500
   • Lisa Wilcox riding Relevant 5, 68.792
4. Netherlands
   Netherlands
   The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
   
    - 71.264
   • Anky van Grunsven riding Salinero, 74.208
   • Sven Rothenberger riding Barclay II, 69.833
   • Imke Bartels riding Lancet, 69.750
   • Marlies van Baalen riding Idocus, 64.583
5. Denmark
   Denmark
   Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
   
    - 69.333
   • Per Sandgaard riding Zancor, 70.667
   • Jon Pedersen riding Esprit de Valdemar, 69.000
   • Andreas Helgstrand riding Cavan, 68.333
   • Lone Joergensen riding Ludewig G, 65.750
6. Sweden
   Sweden
   Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
   
    - 68.917
   • Jan Brink riding Briar, 73.250
   • Tinne Vilhelmson riding Just Mickey, 66.917
   • Louise Nathorst riding Guinness, 66.583
   • Minna Telde riding Sack, 65.375
7. Great Britain
   United Kingdom
   The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
   
    - 68.903
   • Carl Hester riding Escapado, 70.667
   • Richard Davison riding Ballaseyr Royale, 68.542
   • Emma Hindle riding Wie Weltmeyer, 67.500
   • Nicola McGivern riding Active Walero, 66.458
8. Austria
   Austria
   Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
   
    - 66.570
   • Victoria Max-Theurer riding Falcao, 68.667
   • Nina Stadlinger riding Egalite, 67.375
   • Friedrich Gaulhofer riding Wels, 63.667
   • Peter Gmoser riding Don Debussy, 62.750
9. Canada
   Canada
   Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
   
    - 66.222
   • Cynthia Ishoy riding Proton, 66.583
   • Leslie Reid riding Mark, 66.083
   • Belinda Trussell riding Royan II, 66.000
   • Ashley Holzer riding Imperioso, 64.667
10. Switzerland
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
    
    - 65.653
    • Silvia Ikle riding Salieri CH, 67.042
    • Christian Plaege riding Regent, 66.667
    • Daniel Ramseier riding Palladio, 63.250
    • Jasmine Sanche-Burger riding Mr G de Lully, WD