FEI World Equestrian Games

The FEI World Equestrian Games are the major international championships for equestrianism, and are administered by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The games have been held every four years, halfway between sets of consecutive Summer Olympic Games, since 1990. Prior to that year, all ten of the FEI's individual disciplines held separate championships, usually in separate countries. The modern WEG runs over two weeks and, like the Olympics, the location rotates to different parts of the world. Riders and horses competing at WEG go through a rigorous selection process, and each participating country sends teams that have distinguished themselves through competition as the nation's best in each respective discipline. At the 2010 Games, 57 countries were represented by 800 people and their horses.

The WEG gradually expanded to include eight of the FEI's ten disciplines: combined driving, dressage, endurance riding, eventing, paraequestrianism, reining, show jumping, and vaulting. The FEI's two remaining regional disciplines,[1][2] horseball[3] and tent pegging,[4] still conduct independent championships.

The 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky marked a series of firsts in WEG history: the first time WEG were held outside of Europe; the first time that championships for eight FEI disciplines were held at one location (the Kentucky Horse Park); and the first time WEG had a title sponsor (in this case the animal health and nutrition group corporation Alltech, headquartered in the nearby city of Nicholasville). Permanent upgrades added to the Kentucky Horse Park leading up to the event included the completion of a 6,000 seat, climate-controlled indoor arena and completion of a 7,500 seat outdoor stadium.[5]

The Tryon International Equestrian Center, near Mill Spring, North Carolina, will be the location of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games.[6]

Locations

Year Host
1990 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands
1998 Italy Rome, Italy
2002 Spain Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
2006 Germany Aachen, Germany
2010 United States Lexington, United States
2014 France Normandy, France[7]
2018 United States Tryon, United States
2022 TBD

Medal count

The current historical medal count (as of 2014) of the FEI World Equestrian Games is as follows:

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Germany2 36 26 25 87
2  Great Britain 19 20 10 49
3  Netherlands 17 13 16 46
4  United States 13 14 15 42
5  France 9 15 7 31
6  Belgium 5 6 2 13
7  New Zealand 5 1 2 8
8   Switzerland 4 4 5 13
9  Spain 3 2 2 7
10  United Arab Emirates 3 1 1 5
11  Sweden 2 1 7 10
12  Australia 2 1 6 9
13  Denmark 1 5 6 12
14  Canada 1 4 4 9
15  Italy 1 4 3 8
16  Austria 1 3 4 8
17  Brazil 1 0 0 1
 Ireland 1 0 0 1
19  Finland 0 1 2 3
 Hungary 0 1 2 3
21  Saudi Arabia 0 1 0 1
 Soviet Union3 0 1 0 1
23  Norway 0 0 1 1
 Portugal 0 0 1 1
 Qatar 0 0 1 1
 Singapore 0 0 1 1
 Slovakia 0 0 1 1
Total 124 124 124 372
Notes

Results

References

  1. ↑ FEI>Development>Regional Disciplines>Horseball, retrieved 9 July 2009
  2. ↑ FEI>Development>Regional Disciplines>Tent Pegging, retrieved 9 July 2009
  3. ↑ Horseball Championship Calendar, retrieved 1 January 2008
  4. ↑ 2008 FEI International Tent Pegging Championships, retrieved 23 February 2008
  5. ↑ retrieved, 12 September 2010
  6. ↑ "North Carolina to Host 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games". TheHorse.com. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Normandy 2014
  8. ↑ http://www.fei.org/fei/about-fei/nf/germany, retrieved 8 July 2013

See also

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