The Delegates Assembly 2006 elected Jens Iversen (DK) as new FEIF President. Jens was Treasurer of FEIF since 2003. Jens started his career with Icelandic horses as sport rider: he participated in many European and World Championships. He was also President of our...
The FEIF Delegates' Assembly 2006 in Kristiansand (N), September 16 and 16, decided upon minor changes in the breeding rules (FIZO) and some changes in the sport rules (FIPO). An overview of the changes in sport rules is available from the service section of the FEIF...
Tone Kolnes (N) stepped down as FEIF President, after a career of 25 years in FEIF, since 1999 as President. Because of her endless and uncompromised energy to support and to promote the Icelandic horse and FEIF, many people looked upon Tone as being Ms FEIF. To...
Fi Pugh (GB) stepped down as FEIF Secretary. Fi has fulfilled this position since 1991. Invisible for many persons, Fi was one of the backbones in the Board of FEIF. She also translated many texts from different languages into English. The board of FEIF awarded Fi...
The FEIF Feather Prize 2006 has been awarded at the YouthCup 2006 to the Swiss young rider Andrea Balz. The aim of this prize is to encourage good riding and good horsemanship, a tribute to feather light riding. The awarded rider sets an example to the Icelandic Horse...
Due to a major power outage in Amsterdam (NL), the FEIF website (and many other websites hosted in the Netherlands) has been out of reach for several hours on July 21.
FEIF President Tone Kolnes has been awarded with the golden pin of Landssamband Hestamannafélaga (LH), the greatest honour Icelandic horsemen can get. Read more at the FEIF Website.
This year the FEIF Delegates' Assembly will be in Kristiansand, Norway on 16th - 17th September. The meeting will start on Saturday at 13:00 h with coffee, and end on Sunday at lunchtime. Each member association is represented by two delegates. The agenda, reports and...
FEIF is now offering several syndicated news feeds (following the RSS standard). The news can be integrated in websites or being read with a newsfeed reader (RSS). The first two feeds contain general news from FEIF and a calendar of WorldRanking events, International...
One of the founding fathers of the FEIF, Max Indermaur from Switzerland, has passed away at the age of 81 years. Max was one the five men who at Whitsun 1969 gathered in the living room of Walter Feldmann sen. in Aegidienberg to carry out Gunnar Bjarnason’s impossible...
About 100 persons did attend the second FEIF Conference, Februari 10-12, 2005. Representants of 14 countries did discuss various items: Breeding and WorldFengur, World Championships in the future and the Education matrix. The participants took part in one or more...
100 Persons will attend the second FEIF Conference, Februari 10-12, 2005. The conference is hosted by our Dutch member association NSIJP in Amsterdam (NL). Among them 5 guests, 15 members of various committees, 8 board members and 71 participants representing 14...
The second FEIF Conference will be arranged in the Netherlands, near Amsterdam, on Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th February, 2006. Main topics are: World Championship in the Future, Breeding, WorldFengur and Education Matrix. All FEIF annual meetings...
The new edition of FIRO (1.1/2006) is available for download from the FEIF website (www.feif.org/service). This version is valid as of January 1, 2006. This version is approved upon by the FEIF Delegates' Assembly 2005. FIRO contains all relevant general rules for all...
The Board of FEIF did elect Jón Albert Sigurbjörnsson (PR Manager) as its vice-president at the board meeting held in Reykjavík, November 11-13, 2005. This position was vacant after Eva-Maria Gerlach had left the board of FEIF. Other Board members are: Tone Kolnes...
The FEIF Library Register has recently been updated. The FEIF Library Register contains references to hundreds of books, magazines, yearbooks, scientific articles, videos and films. The register can be searched by the name of an author, director, publisher and/or the...
The annual Delegates' Assembly took place September 17 - 18, 2005 in Göteborg, Sweden. The Delegates' Assembly is the highest body within FEIF. Every member country is represented with two delegates, votes per country are related to the number of members. The agenda,...
The Annual Delegates' Assembly elected two new board members. Anne Svantesson from Sweden is the new Director of Youth Work. Anne did participate in several FEIF Youth Camps and FEIF Youth Cups, both as participant and as a team leader. She was also a member of the...