Top riders given flag bearer honours for Paris Olympic opening ceremony [Video]

Top showjumper Peder Fredricson is among the eight equestrians who will carry their nation’s flags at the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony in the French capital tonight (26 June).

Five showjumpers and three dressage riders will have the prestigious honour of being flag bearers.

Peder, who has four Olympic medals to his name including team gold and two individual silvers, has been named as one of the Swedish flag bearers.

Paris is Peder’s fourth Olympic Games appearance – his first being in the eventing at Atlanta 1992, where he finished 14th, before his career change to showjumping. He was part of the silver medal-winning side at Athens 2004, then won back-to-back individual silver medals at the last two Olympics, and also helped Sweden to the team title in Tokyo.

This year, he rides the 18-year-old Catch Me Not S, the European individual bronze medallist from 2021. Peder will carry the flag alongside multiple medalist Josefin Olsson, who …