There are different disciplines:

• dressage

  In dressage, the rider and the horse do different tests.

• jumping

  In jumping, the horses have to jump over different heights.

• English equitation

  In English equitation, the horses do different tricks.

• working trails

  In working trails the horses go

  over various obstacles or through objects.

• Unified Sports drill teams

  athlete and partner perform a freestyle with music.

• vaulting

  In vaulting, 1, 2 or 3 athletes

  do various gymnastic routines on a horse.

Unified Sports®

 
In Unified Sports®, people with ID and

people without disabilities play sport together.

They also compete together.

The people with ID are called athletes.

The people without disabilities are called partners.

Is equestrian a Unified Sport?

Yes.

There are teams of people with ID.

And there are teams of people with ID and people without disabilities.

How many people do equestrian at the National Games?

89 athletes and 19 partners.

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