For the first time since 1992, the team and individual contests ran concurrently.
A fourth phase (a second jumping round) was included in the individual competition for the first time.
The competition was held at the Olympic Equestrian Centre on the outskirts of Markopoulo, in the Attica region of Greece.
14 teams, each consisting of between three and five horse and rider pairs, entered the contest.
[1] The team event used the points from the end of the third phase of competition.