The Eva-Maria Gerlach Award is a newly established bi-annual award for promising and versatile young riders. The award is named after the former Director of Youth Work Eva-Maria Gerlach, to acknowledge the fact that without Eva-Maria FEIF wouldn’t have the FEIF YouthCup, the FEIF Youth Camp, sport tests for young riders (now included also available for adult and senior riders) and the special position of Young Riders at World Championships.
The first five riders receiving this award at the FEIF YouthCup 2006 in St. Radegund, Austria are Andrea Balz (CH), Anna Brüggemann (D), Jonas Hassel (D), Lisa Schürger (D) and Nina Tromm (CH).