Date: 15th September – 1st October 2000
Venue: Sydney Olympic Park
Forty-four years after Melbourne 1956, when no horses had been allowed into Australia due to severe quarantine restrictions, the veterinary services of the Department of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry proved much more accommodating. The conditions were tough: the Olympic horses had to spend two weeks of pre-shipping quarantine in Europe and, upon arrival in Sydney, they were placed in isolation for another two weeks. The pre-shipping quarantine began on 7 or 8 August. The horses left on 23 August from Frankfurt Airport and landed, after a 30-hour flight, on 25 August in Sydney. There they stayed in quarantine until 9 September, one week before the first competition on 16 September.
RIDER | HORSE | EVENT | PLACE |
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Andrew Nicholson | Eventing Individual | DNC | |
Blyth Tait | Ready Teddy | Eventing Team | 8th |
Blyth Tait | Welton Envoy | Eventing Individual | DNF |
Bruce Goodin | Lenaro | Jumping Individual | 33rd |
Kalista Field | Waikare | Dressage Individual | 18th |
Paul O’Brien | Enzed | Eventing Team | 8th |
Peter Breakwell | Leonson | Jumping Individual | 55th |
Sir Mark Todd | Diamond Hall Red | Eventing Team | 8th |
Sir Mark Todd | Eye Spy | Eventing Individual | 3rd |
Vaughn Jefferies | Bounce | Eventing Team | 8th |