KEY FIGURES FROM THE GAMES: Normandy 2014

• 984 athletes
• 1243 horses
• 74 countries
• 7 competition sites in Caen, Le Pin National Stud and the Mont Saint-Michel Bay
• 28 world champion titles awarded – 28 awards ceremonies
• 171 medals, including 57 gold medals

Country rankings:

• Great Britain: 15 medals, with 7 gold
• The Netherlands: 18 medals, with 6 gold
• Germany: 15 medals, with 5 gold
• 6^th place for France: 6 medals, with 1 gold

TICKETING: 574,000 SPECTATORS

• · 428,000 sport tickets
• · 230,000 visitors to the Games Villages, including:

-146,000 Village tickets

– 84,000 entries with sport tickets

     – 37% foreign visitors

      40% of spectators were “novices” without prior involvement in horse riding.

      37% of tickets were purchased abroad (7.3% in the US, 5.5% in the UK, 5.3% in Australia, etc.).

Most French visitors came from regions outside Lower Normandy (34 %) and Upper Normandy (5%).

     Spectators by discipline:

• Opening ceremony: 18,000 spectators
• Dressage: 83,600 (4 days)
• Reining: 16,200 (4 days)
• Endurance: 5300 (1 day)
• Para-Dressage: 22,800 (4 days)
• Eventing: 91,800 (4 days)
• Jumping: 112,000 (5 days)
• Vaulting: 34,300 (4 days)
• Driving: 31,700 (4 days) with a marathon attended by 16,000 spectators
• Polo: 2000 (1 day)
• Horseball: 10,600 (5 evenings)

GAMES VILLAGE

• More than 230,000 visitors
• 8 evening concerts at the Alltech Music Festival with 43,454 people attending
• 160 exhibitors, 600 horses, 6 restaurants over more than 150,000 m²

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