Equestrian at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Individual dressage


The individual dressage at the 1928 Summer Olympics took place at Hilversum. The test was the same as for the 1924 Olympics, but the 10-minute limit was now raised to 13 minutes, giving the riders much needed time to complete it without losing points for going over the time allowed. Judging created controversy, both due to nationalistic tendencies by judges and the fact that individual judges had differing opinions on what was correct. While there was discussion on how to make it more fair—including dropping the lowest and highest scores, only having one judge from a neutral county, and removing 20 points from each score given to a countryman of each judge—no changes were made until after the judging scandal at the 1956 Games.
Scores from the individual competition were summed to give results in the team competition.

Results

Source: Official results; De Wael
RankRiderNationHorseAverage Score
Carl Freiherr von LangenDraufgänger237.42
Charles MarionLinon231.00
Ragnar OlsonGunstling229.78
4Janne LundbladBlackmar226.70
5Emanuel ThielLoki225.96
6Hermann LinkenbachGimpel224.26
7Robert WallonClough-banck224.08
8Jan van ReedeHans220.70
9Pierre VersteeghHis Excellence II216.44
10Otto SchöningerEx210.28
11Eugen von LotzbeckCaracalla208.04
12Gerard le HeuxValérine205.82
13Arthur von PongraczTurridu204.28
14Wilhelm JaichGraf204.16
15Adolphe MercierQueen-Mary203.34
16Magnus FogMistinguett202.08
17Jaroslav HanfElegán201.70
18Vladimir StoychevPan200.76
19Carl, Count BondeIngo194.38
20Kozeki OkadaTakushu193.70
21Gustav GracheggDaniel191.96
22Oskar FrankSolon190.62
23Pierre DanlouxRempart187.10
24Oswald LintsRira-t-elle185.86
25Werner StuberUlhard175.12
26Paul MicheletBenue170.78
27Henri LaameBelga167.70
28Kohei YusaSakigake166.96
29Roger DelrueDreypuss146.14