2018 world individual champion Ros Canter is due to ride Lordships Graffalo at Pratoni del Vivaro ©Getty Images

All three individual Olympic medallists from Tokyo are set to compete in the International Equestrian Federation’s World Eventing Championships, due to begin at Pratoni del Vivaro in Italy tomorrow.

The field includes 90 horse and rider combinations from 27 nations.

Olympic champion Julia Krajewski of Germany is set to ride her gold medal winning mare Amande de Bonneville.

Olympic champion Julia Krajewski goes for world championship gold in Tokyo ©Getty Images
Olympic champion Julia Krajewski goes for world championship gold in Tokyo ©Getty Images

Tom McEwen, who won silver on Toledo de Kerser in Tokyo, was also part of Britain’s first team gold since the Munich 1972 Olympics.

Australia’s 63-year-old bronze medallist Andrew Hoy won the first of three Olympic gold medals in the team events 30 years ago in Barcelona.

He is set to ride his Tokyo mount Vassily de Lassos.

Hoy first competed at the 1984 Olympics and has taken part in eight Games in total.

Switzerland’s Robin Godel and Grandeur de Lully CH at the horse inspection before competition in Pratoni del Vivaro ©FEI/Richard Juilliart
Switzerland’s Robin Godel and Grandeur de Lully CH at the horse inspection before competition in Pratoni del Vivaro ©FEI/Richard Juilliart

The top seven in the team competition will earn a berth at Paris 2024, excluding Olympic host nation France who qualify as of right.

Squads can feature five riders but only four score in the team competition, with the fifth taking part only in the individual event.

The field is expected to include world champion Ros Canter, who won individual gold at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina. 

She was also part of the successful British team which won gold at those Games, but this time will be riding Lordships Graffalo.

Canter is scheduled to be the first British rider to compete in Pratoni del Vivaro.

Olympic team gold medallist and fellow Briton Oliver Townend, ranked number one in the world, is expected to again partner his grey gelding Ballaghmor Class, as in Tokyo.

His fellow team gold medallist Laura Collett, on London 52, is also part of the team after winning at Badminton in 2022.

The German team will also present a strong challenge.

Apart from Krajewski, they are set to include Michael Jung, who won world individual gold in 2010 and team gold in 2014, as well as individual Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 and a team gold in 2016.

Jung is due to ride his Olympic mount FischerChipmunk FRH.

His compatriot Christoph Wahler and Carjatan S will be out first in the dressage phase of the competition.

The venue hosted eventing during the Rome 1960 Olympics.