Canada's Lamaze wins jumping gold
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
HONG KONG (AP) Eric Lamaze of Canada rode Hickstead to the individual gold medal in Olympic equestrian jumping on Thursday, winning a timed jump-off over Rolf-Goran Bengtsson of Sweden, who took silver on Ninja.
U.S. rider Beezie Madden, riding Authentic, beat six other riders in another timed jump-off for the bronze.
Earlier in the week, the U.S. team won gold in team jumping and Canada won the silver.
Summer Games News
- Thursday, November 26, 2009 -
OLYMPICS_DOLY_EQU Headlines
- Canada's Lamaze wins jumping gold
- Four team jumping horses suspended for doping
- Olympic riders seek funding for costly sport
- Van Grunsven wins gold again in Olympic dressage
- Jumpoff decides team show jumping medal
- US wins team jumping gold
- US, Swiss riders lead show jumping
- Werth, van Grunsven battle for dressage medals
- Hong Kong, Chinese riders thrill crowd
- Germany rides for redemption after 2004 incident
| Medal Count | ||||
| Equestrian | ||||
| G | S | B | Total | |
| AFG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ALB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ALG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ASA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Full Medals Table | ||||
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