Equestrian sport featured on the Olympic programme for the first time at the Games of the II Olympiad, Paris 1900. It was not staged at the next two editions of the Games, but returned in 1912.
Since then, the sport has always been on the programme. Until 1948, only men could compete in the events, as the riders had to be officers. This restriction was lifted in 1951 and, since the Games of the XV Olympiad, Helsinki 1952, women have competed with men in mixed events. They competed first in dressage, then gradually in the other equestrian events less