Tetrathlon

Tetrathlon Committee

Audrey Cramp and Fiona Pierce organise teams to represent the CHHPC at events across the Area. They also put on training for our members who would like to take part in Tetrathlon Competitions particularly shooting practise during the season.

Tetrathlon

Pony Club Tetrathlon is very much like Modern Pentathlon, which you may have seen in the Olympics. It provides Members with a challenging competition requiring practical horsemanship, general athletic ability and a steady hand for shooting. Tetrathlon originated as a competition for boys however there are now competitions for girls and for different ages groups.

Children have 4 disciplines that they compete in during a day or over the weekend.

Running

In Tetrathlon, runners go off at one minute intervals over a carefully measured course and each competitor’s time is measured. A bogey time is set for the course and for each second over or under that time a number of points are deducted from or added to 1,000 points.

Distances
Boys Open- 3000m
Boys Intermediate- 2000m
Girls Open and Intermediate- 1500m
Juniors- 1500m
Minimus- 1000m

Bogey times which score 1000 points are shown below:
Open Boys- 10 minutes 30 seconds
Intermediate Boys- 7 minutes 0 seconds
Open and Intermediate Girls- 5 minutes 20 seconds
Juniors- 5 minutes 40 seconds
Minimus- 4 minutes 0 Seconds

Riding

The riding phase usually takes place over fixed cross country fences however, arena jumping can be used as a substitute and is often used for Mini competitions.

Where possible Tetrathlon Cross Country courses always include a gate to open and close whilst mounted, and a slip rail at which the competitor dismounts, takes down the rail, leads his pony or horse through, replaces the rail and remounts.

Maximum Heights
Open- 1.10m
Intermediate- 1.00m
Junior- 90cms
Minimus- 80cms

There is also often a smaller classes with X Poles and 60cm competitions.

Swimming

Shooting

This phase uses any make of single shot 4.5mm calibre air pistol and Pony Club Targets. Competitors each have 5 shots fired consecutively with a time limit of 4 seconds per shot at each target. There is a maximum of 2 targets per competition.

Targets are checked by the scrutineers/judges and marked as follows:

10 marks for a Bull
8 marks for an Inner
6 marks for a Magpie
4 Marks for an Outer
2 Marks for outside the outer circle

A maximum score is worth 1,000 points. To work out the total points scored by a competitor the marks from both targets are added together and multiplied by 10.

Tetrathlon Rules

It is strongly recommended that you buy or download a copy of the appropriate discipline Rule Book(s) so that you always have it to hand for your competitions. All Rule Books are available from The Pony Club Shop at a cost of £3.00.

The 2017 Tetrathlon Rule Book is available to download

Tetrathlon Rule Book 2017

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