Equestrian Disciplines WILL be part of the 2028 Olympic Games confirm FEI
Jumping, Dressage and Eventing – the Olympic equestrian disciplines since 1912 – will be part of the competition at the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Olympic Games. The equestrian programme will consist of six medal events: a Team and an Individual medal event in each of the three disciplines. Equestrian retains the 200 quota places it had in Paris in 2024 and the breakdown by discipline remains unchanged, i.e. 75 for Jumping, 60 for Dressage, and 65 for Eventing.
The decision was taken by the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which met today, Wednesday 9th April 2025.
“We are extremely pleased with today’s IOC decision,” FEI President Ingmar De Vos said.
“The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games were a historic success for equestrian sport, which proved very popular with the live crowds and TV and online viewers worldwide. It’s a great news that our numbers remain unchanged and we are looking forward to delivering exciting sport at the same level of excellence.”
The qualification systems for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games were discussed at the recent FEI Sports Forum. The proposals will be put forward for approval by the FEI General Assembly 2025 and will afterwards be provided to the IOC for final review and sign off. The summary of discussions and the presentation made during the session dedicated to the LA28 Olympic qualification systems are available here.
Key facts and figures
With three disciplines and 200 quota places, equestrian will be one of the 31 sports on the programme of the LA28 Olympic Games. The six medal equestrian events will be part of the 25 mixed events across all sports and the 351 events overall in LA28.
The LA28 programme maintains the core athlete quota of 10,500 with an extra 698 allocated for the five sports proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Flag Football, Lacrosse and Squash).
A record breaking 50 nations participated in equestrian at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The number of nations in Paris 2024 was 49. The number of nations competing in equestrian in Los Angeles in 1984 had been 30.
Equestrian sport is the only Olympic sport in which men and women compete as equals from grassroots all the way up to Olympic level.
The event programme for LA28 was developed based on the requests presented by the International Sports Federations to the IOC.
Feature image: Olympic champion Christian Kukuk (GER) riding Checker 47 during the Individual Jumping Final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on 6 August 2024. © FEI/Benjamin Clark