At the 2008 Olympic Games in Hongkong, six Hanoverian horses became Olympic Champions.

The golden German dressage team with Satchmo with Isabell Werth, Bonaparte with Heike Kemmer and Elvis VA with Nadine Capellmann consisted of only Hanoverians. Salinero with Anky van Grunsven and Sunshine with Imke Schellekens-Bartels helped the Dutch team to win the silver medal. In the individual competition all medal winners carried the hanoverian foal brand: Salinero won gold, Satchmo silver and Bonaparte bronze.

FRH Butts Abraxxas with Ingrid Klimke and Butts Leon with Andreas Dibowski did their share to win a gold medal in eventing for Germany.