Ginny Elliot and Ian Stark hold the joint record for European gold medals won – seven each, but Lucinda Green still has the most medals (10).

Supreme Rock, ridden by Pippa Funnell (GBR), is the only horse to win back-to-back titles (in 1999 and 2001); he has four European gold medals in total, equaling the record of Kilbarry, The Poacher and Over To You, who won a record four consecutive European team golds (1999-2005).

Only three horses have held World and European titles simultaneously: Cornishman V (Mary Gordon Watson, 1969-70); Priceless (Ginny Holgate, 1985-86); Toytown (Zara Phillips, 2005-06).

Princess Anne and Zara Phillips are the only mother-daughter combination to win European titles (1971 and 2005).

Harry and Virginia Freeman-Jackson (IRL) are the only father-daughter combination to ride on a team together, in 1959 and 1962.

Ireland also fielded the first brother-sister team, with John and Jessica Fowler in 1967 and then Jeremy and Jill Spring in 1991. Mandy and Eddy Stibbe were the first husband and wife combination (1989-91) and Jean-Yves and Thierry Touzaint, the first brothers (1975).

Eddy Stibbe holds the record for the most European Championship appearances: 12 for the Netherlands. Horst Karsten represented Germany nine times; Piotr Piasecki eight for Poland; Herbert Blocker (GER), Ginny Elliot (GBR) and Lucinda Green (GBR) seven each.

Lucinda Green’s 10 European medals (5 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) is still a record.

Women hold a fractional advantage in European Championships with 14 female individual gold medallists against 13 male.