VERSAILLES, France--Para Dressage begins Tuesday, Sept.2 with five categories of competition, rated one to five based on degree of disability, with 1 being with the worst disabilities, competing only at a walk, and IV and V being the least, competing at a walk, trot and canter.

Roxanne Trunnell won gold on Dalton in Tokyo
Grades I, II, and III go tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept.3, with Grades IV and V going on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Grade !!! begins at 3 a.m., Eastern, with Rebecca Hart on Floratina competing at 4:49 a.m. as the 12th of 13 competitors.

Grade II begins a 5:45 a.m., with Fiona Howard, in her first Olympics, going at 6:03 Eastern on Diamon Dunes as the third of nine competitors.

Grade I begins at 7:45 a.m., Eastern, with defending Olympian gold medalist Roxanne Trunnell on a new mount, Fan Tastico H, going at 9:15 a.m., Eastern as the 11th of 22 competitors.

On Wednesday, Grade IV begins at 4a.m., Eastern,, with Kate Shoemaker on Vianne going at 5:58 a.m., Eastern as the 13th of 15 competitors.

Grade V begins at 6:55 a..m., Eastern with no American competitor.

 

AFTER A rest day on Thursday, Sept. 5, the team event – where Great Britain will target an eighth consecutive gold medal since 1996 – is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 6, with three riders from each nation competing as a team in a bid for a place on the podium.

The final set of medals will be competed on Sept. 7 in the Individual Freestyle Events in each of the five Grades in what is expected to be a dramatic conclusion to the Para Dressage in Versailles.