Each rider competes in a different class ( MX1, MX2 and " Open ").

Bettina Hoy ( born Bettina Overesch on November 7, 1962 ) is an Olympic-level equestrian rider, who competes for Germany in Eventing competitions.

She is a keen horse rider, and competes in showjumping and dressage events.

Land Speed is where a single rider accelerates over a 1 to long straight track ( usually on dry lake beds ) and is timed for top speed through a trap at the end of the run.

In timed events such as the pursuit and the time trial, riders often use aerobars or ' triathlon bars ' similar to those found on road time trial bicycles, allowing the rider to position the arms closer together in front of the body.

The goal of this timed event is for the rider to catch the calf by throwing a loop of rope from a lariat around its neck, dismount from the horse, run to the calf, and restrain it by tying three legs together, in as short a time as possible.

Other timed rodeo events that use cattle include breakaway roping, where the rider ropes but does not throw the calf ; steer wrestling ;, and team roping, which uses adult cattle.

Pole bending is timed event that features a horse and one mounted rider, running a weaving or serpentine path around six poles arranged in a line.

The player would initially start off with just his or her hands and feet, but if the gamer timed a punch right, he or she could grab a weapon from another rider.

It is a stage-race format where the winner is the rider who accumulates the lowest combined time from the various timed sections.

However, in the sprint event the rider's position is more extreme compared with a road rider.

Riders will keep to the black line at the bottom of the track to ensure they have to cover the least distance over the 1000 m. Riders usually only get 1 attempt to set a time, and the winner of the event is simply the rider to post the quickest time.

The Women's version of the event is held over 500 m. Other than the race distance this is the same as the men's Kilo event, with the fastest rider over the distance declared the winner.

The promoter of the event at Madison Square Garden, reluctant to close his stadium for half the day, realised that giving each rider a partner with whom he could share the racing meant the race could still go on 24 hours a day but that no one rider would exceed the 12-hour limit.

Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.

Walking the course before the event is a chance for the rider to walk the lines he or she will have to ride, in order to decide how many strides the horse will need to take between each jump and from which angle.

Eventing ( also known as horse trials ) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combination compete against other combinations across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping.

This system converts the dressage score and all jump penalties on cross-country and show jumping into penalty points, with the horse and rider with the fewest number of points winning the event.

From the beginning, event horses had to carry a minimum weight of ( including rider and saddle ) during the endurance test, since military horses were expected to be able to carry such weight.

An event horse must be very responsive to succeed, as a horse that will not listen to a rider on the cross-country phase may end up taking a fall at a jump.

It also hosts the Ross Coleman Invitational, an annual Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) minor-league tour event hosted by PBR bull rider and Molalla native Ross Coleman.

Bronc riding, either saddle bronc or bareback bronc competition, is a rodeo event that involves a rodeo participant riding on a horse ( sometimes called a bronc or bronco ), that attempts to throw or buck off the rider.

Steer wrestling, also known as bulldogging, is a rodeo event in which a horse-mounted rider chases a steer, drops from the horse to the steer, then wrestles the steer to the ground by twisting its horns.

Calf roping, also known as tie-down roping, is a rodeo event that features a calf and a rider mounted on a horse.

Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to complete a clover-leaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time.

Many motorcyclists appreciate the way the cylinders in this layout provide protection to the rider in the event of a collision or fall, and keeps their feet warm in cold weather.

Calculation of number of competitors is complicated by the fact that a rider might enter an event multiple times on different horses.

There was a female rider, Elvira Guerra, but she competed only in the non-Olympic hacks and hunter combined event.

As the Rangers neared, the second rider slowed and held a child over her head ; the men did not shoot, but instead surrounded and stopped her.

In addition to the main stages listed above, side matches such as team stages and fun stages require the riders to team up with a partner to run a course of fire while carrying a bag of " gold " or hand off a set of saddle bags, or engage helium-filled balloons that are set free to float away and may escape before the rider can shoot them.

From a mechanical viewpoint, up to 99 % of the energy delivered by the rider into the pedals is transmitted to the wheels, although the use of gearing mechanisms may reduce this by 10 – 15 %.

Riders in a team follow each other closely in line to minimize total drag, and periodically the lead rider ( who works the hardest ) peels off the front, swings up the track banking and rejoins the team at the rear.

In this round each rider completes two to three warm up laps and then completes the final 200 m, which is usually just under a lap.

Board hardware is often set up to allow a rider to ride " Switch " or " Fakie ," with either foot forward.

When the rider rides up the wake the energy of the wake launches him airborne.

* Fashion Air-the rider curls the board behind towards the butt while keeping knees pointing down, arches back, and throws back hand up behind the head for a stylish vanity pose.

For example, a course designer might set up a line so that there are six and a half strides ( the standard measure for a canter stride is twelve feet ) between the jumps, requiring the rider to adjust the horse's stride dramatically in order to make the distance.

Endurance day consisted of 4 phases: A, B, C and D. Phases A and C were roads and tracks, with A being a medium-paced warm up to prepare the horse and rider for Phase B, a steeplechase format at an extremely fast pace over steeplechase-style fences.

The average equine in general can carry up to approximately 30 % of its body weight in " live " weight, such as a rider.

Since the pedal and cranks were connected directly to the front axle, the rear wheel would go up in the air and the rider would be moved slightly forward.

Once more proficient, a rider may twist their hips ( and counter rotate their body ) in order to line up the wheel with the direction, they are going to fall toward, before they begin ' falling ' in that direction, and thus they can immediately begin riding in that direction despite any sudden change in velocity.

In a Hospital Flip, the rider stops the rotation half-way, then flips the board 180 degrees on the axis pointing in the direction of the rider's feet so it lands right side up in the opposite direction.

The rider who was hit, mounted next to a rider who bore a flag, had shouted orders that prompted the soldiers to attack, but when the buckskin-clad rider fell off his horse after being shot, many of the attackers reined up.

His rider, spurring fed up, angry jumped from his chair and pulling sable, two broadswords hamstrung the poor brute fell, crawled bleeding where their hind legs.

The rider of a conventional bike can stand up on the pedals to allow his legs to take up the shock of a severe bump in the road.

The boots usually have high heels that lock into the saddle of the horse to help the rider lean on the side of the horse while trying to pick up the calf.

An often-noted problem with recumbent trikes, much debated by trikers and recumbent riders of all kinds, is their poor climbing ability: the rider cannot get out of the saddle and stand up on the pedals to climb hills.