Rio 2016: the race for Olympic qualification set to begin for Italian riders.
The regulations for qualification in the individual show-jumping category for the Rio Olympic Games 2016 have been announced on the official FISE website.
To qualify, up to 15 of the best results from the period the 1st of January 2015 until the 6th of March 2016 will be taken into account. FISE is now simply waiting for FEI to publish the list of events that will count towards points for Olympic qualification.
All of the riders will start off with 0 points at the start date indicated above and the Italian Federation FISE will be putting forward the following pairs- which have been listed in order of priority:
1) Piergiorgio Bucci – Casallo Z & Catwalk Z
2) Emanuele Gaudiano – Cocoshynsky & Admara 2
3) Natala Chiaudani – Almero 12
source: www.fise.it