{"id":31536,"date":"2016-08-01T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/?p=31536"},"modified":"2016-08-01T02:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:31:45","slug":"interesting-facts-about-this-years-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/interesting-facts-about-this-years-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facts about this year\u2019s Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>THE RIDERS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of athletes entered (includes reserve riders): 89<\/li>\n<li>Number of athletes competing in the first qualifying competition: 75<\/li>\n<li>Number of teams: 15<\/li>\n<li>Number of countries represented: 27<\/li>\n<li>Number of individual riders: 15<\/li>\n<li>Number of reserve athletes travelling to the games: 14 (Australia is the only team without a traveling reserve horse and rider)<\/li>\n<li>Total number of male riders: 72 (80.9%)<\/li>\n<li>Total number of female riders: 17 (19.1%)<\/li>\n<li>The average age of the riders is 38 years old<\/li>\n<li>The youngest riders entered are:\n<ul>\n<li>Kara Chad \u2013 1996 (Canada)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Mendoza &#8211; 1996 (Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Emanuel Andrade \u2013 1996 (Venezuela)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The oldest riders entered are:\n<ul>\n<li>John Whitaker \u2013 1955 (Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Nick Skelton \u2013 1957 (Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Whitaker \u2013 1960 (Great Britain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[dt_gap height=&#8221;10&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>[dt_divider style=&#8221;thin&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<h3>THE RANKINGS<\/h3>\n<h4>(Jumping &#8211; Longines Rankings &#8211; N\u00b0 186 &#8211; 30\/06\/2016)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The average rank of the 89 athletes in the Longines FEI Rankings is 189<\/li>\n<li>The best ranked Riders:\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Delestre (France) #1<\/li>\n<li>Christian Ahlmann (Germany) #2<\/li>\n<li>McClain Ward (United States) #3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The worst ranked Riders:\n<ul>\n<li>Reiko Takeda (Japan) #1156<\/li>\n<li>Alonso Valdez (Peru) #1108<\/li>\n<li>Koki Saito (Japan) #1070<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The best ranked riders that will NOT be going to the Olympic Games:\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Brash (Great Britain) #6<\/li>\n<li>Bertram Allen (Great Britain) #9<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Wathelet (Belgium) #10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The best ranked reserve rider is Meredith Micheals-Beerbaum who is worlds #21<\/li>\n<li>7 out of the top ten ranked riders will be in Rio.<\/li>\n<li>16 out of the top twenty ranked riders will be in Rio.<\/li>\n<li>33 out of the top fifty ranked riders will be in Rio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[dt_gap height=&#8221;10&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>[dt_divider style=&#8221;thin&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<h3>THE HORSES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>40% of the horses entered are geldings (40 horses)<\/li>\n<li>28% of the horses entered are mares (25 horses)<\/li>\n<li>27% of the horses entered are stallions (24 horses)<\/li>\n<li>The youngest horses entered are 9 years old. (4 horses)<\/li>\n<li>The oldest horse is 17 years old. (Chicago Z)<\/li>\n<li>Breeding by Studbooks:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31547\" style=\"margin-left: 35px;\" src=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Breeding.jpg\" alt=\"Rio_Breeding\" width=\"402\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Breeding.jpg 402w, https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Breeding-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[dt_gap height=&#8221;10&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>[dt_divider style=&#8221;thin&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<h3>THE TEAMS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of teams: 15<\/li>\n<li>Number of teams by continent: Europe 8, Asia 2, North America 2, South America 2, Oceania 1 and Africa 0.<\/li>\n<li>Average ranking of teams in the Longines Rankings (Jumping &#8211; Longines Rankings &#8211; N\u00b0 186 &#8211; 30\/06\/2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31544\" style=\"margin-left: 35px;\" src=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Longines_Rankings.jpg\" alt=\"Rio_Longines_Rankings\" width=\"327\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Longines_Rankings.jpg 327w, https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Longines_Rankings-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Longines_Rankings-300x391.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Average age of teams (Jumping &#8211; Longines Rankings &#8211; N\u00b0 186 &#8211; 30\/06\/2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31542\" style=\"margin-left: 35px;\" src=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Average_age_of_teams.jpg\" alt=\"Rio_Average_age_of_teams\" width=\"328\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Average_age_of_teams.jpg 328w, https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Average_age_of_teams-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rio_Average_age_of_teams-300x355.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] THE RIDERS Number of athletes entered (includes reserve riders): 89 Number of athletes competing in the first qualifying competition: 75 Number of teams: 15 Number of countries represented: 27 Number of individual riders: 15 Number of reserve athletes travelling to the games: 14 (Australia is the only team without a traveling reserve horse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31536"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31548,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536\/revisions\/31548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwideequestrian.com\/wwes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}