The Championship was held in the framework of CSIO La Baule, the first edition of which had been held eight years previously in 1962.
The Championship was hugely successful from a media point of view and attracted large international coverage.
Team Canada, the reigning World and Olympic champions from Mexico 1968, were the exciting new comers. They had also won CSIO La Baule prior to the start of the Championship.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (MEX), who placed 22nd, went on to become his country’s President, a position he held from 1988 to 1994.
Harvey Smith (GBR) with Mattie Brown, Graziano Mancinelli (ITA) with Fidux, David Broome (GBR) with Beethoven and Alwin Schockemöhle (GER) with Donald Rex qualified for the final in that order.
The final became a battle between Broome and Mancinelli. The Britton had three clear rounds and a single fence down aboard Schockemöhle’s Donald Rex thus winning the gold medal, a first for a British rider.
Mancinelli took home the silver. Harvey Smith, the only rider with a knock-down on his own horse, which equalled five penalty points given that a fence down on one’s own horse was penalised by 125%, was in bronze.
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