It is a discipline in which the power of the rider and the horse can be measured: it consists of making a single long jump, all this regulated by rules that dictate the position of the obstacle, its difficulty and what would be the correct way in which the equestrian team should jump.
On April 26, 1975, during the "Rand Show" contest, a native of South Africa, and being held specifically in Johannesburg, the Venezuelan Andrés Ferreira and his horse Something, managed to jump an 8.40 m obstacle. During the last decades of the 19th century, it was included in Europe, as a small division in horse racing.
In 1900, during the Olympic Games of that same year, it was decided to incorporate it, consisting of three events: jumping contests, mixed high jump and mixed long jump, each one with the condition of individual; this was the first time that an international equestrian competition was held. Belgian competitor Constant van Langhendonck, was the winner of the gold medal.
Basically, during the process, more obstacles are added as the riders can jump over them, until none of them can overcome them. The objectives, likewise, consist of a low hedge and an estuary, to have higher levels of difficulty. The team that crosses the most traps with a lower penalty rate or none of it would be the winner. Likewise, it would be considered a fault that rubs some area of the limitation or the challenge will not be overcome. It should be noted that there are great differences between the long jump and the normal jump, due to obvious incompatibilities in the length of the difficulty to overcome.
