Equestrian is the only Olympic sport in which men and women compete on equal terms.
There are no separate events for men and women in the three different disciplines — dressage, jumping and eventing.
However, women were only allowed to compete in the sport in 1952 when the competition stopped being restricted to active-duty officers on military horses.
Riders must avoid accumulating penalty points for errors and to do that they rely on harmony with their horses.
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