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

• ^1 Medal count is sorted by total gold medals, then total silver medals, then total bronze medals, then alphabetically. The table doesn't count events before 1990.
• ^2 The reunified Federal Republic of Germany (1990 onwards) is regarded by the FEI as being the same country as pre-reunification West Germany (1948-1990), as part of an unbroken line going back to Germany's affiliation to the FEI in 1927 during its Weimar Republic (1919-1933).^[8] If Germany and West Germany were considered to be two separate countries, their medal tallies would be: Germany 26 gold, 14 silver, and 20 bronze; West Germany 4 gold, 4 silver, and 4 bronze.
• ^3 The Soviet Union competed only in the 1990 Games, as it collapsed prior to the 1994 Games

Results

• Eventing World Championship
• Show Jumping World Championships
• Dressage World Championship

References

See also

• Equestrian at the Summer Olympics