FIPO 2010 is available for download. A separate document is available as well with a list of changes. FIPO 2010 is valid for sport events starting on or after April 1, 2010, and will be valid until March 31, 2011. Major changes are: the weight of protective material...
Between April 23 and October 10, sport riders have a rich choice of 75 WorldRanking events in 10 diffferent countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. Included in the list are two prestigious...
12 Countries were represented at the Annual Sport Meeting 2010: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and the United States of America. The meeting reelected Sigurður Sæmundsson (IS) and...
Important changes in FIPO will be valid as of April 1, 2010. For riders the most important changes are: - The allowed weight of protective material (boots) is limited from 300 g to 250 g per foot - Judges are allowed to distract up to 2.0 from a final mark in...
FIPO 2010 announces a change in Five Gait F1 and F2: starting 2014 these test are only allowed on 250 m tracks or combined oval tracks (P-tracks). The year 2014 is choosen to allow organisers to adapt their tracks. The reason for this change is that on shorter tracks...
A few places are still available for the FEIF seminar for sport judges, trainers and riding instructors at the moment. This means that also a limited number of Level 1 Trainers and Instructors can participate. The 1st International FEIF Seminar for International FEIF...
The 1st International FEIF Seminar for International FEIF Sport Judges, Trainers and Riding Instructors (level 2&3) will take place April 10-11, 2010 in Wurz (D) at Islandpferdereitschule Lipperthof. On Saturday the well known Gerd Heuschmann will be the main guest....
The World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2013 will take place in Berlin, capital of Germany. The Board of FEIF has honored the application made by our German member association IPZV. The venue is Karlshorst, a location used for other horse sports as well. Close to...
Riding on frozen lakes and streams has been a tradition in Iceland for many decades. In Berlin we will once again be honoring that tradition of our horses‘ homeland with icehorse 2010, the European Championships for Icelandic Horses, March 12-13, 2010. More...
The major item in the recent meeting of the Sport Committee (in a joint meeting with members of the sport judges committee) was the structure of our system of sport tests. At the moment, riders entering in tests like Tölt T8 or Four Gait V6 are judged the same way as...
Once more, sport with Icelandic horses has shown to be a clean horse sport. All 20 doping tests taken at the World Championships 2009 in Brunnadern (CH) proved to be negative, which means: no doping. In total around 160 horses participated. The procedures followed...
A new release of IceTest, the free competition software of FEIF, is available. Upon request of users the number of judges in oval track classes is made changable between preliminary rounds and finals. There was also a request to make it possible to correct the number...
After a very successful judges' seminar at Vindhólar (Stapelfeld, D) 9 candidates (out of 15) did pass the test to become an International Sport Judge. FEIF congratulates Andreas Windsio (D), Birgit Quasnitschka (D), Caro Klein (D), Hendrik Gepp (D), Jean-Paul Balz...
22 participants have registered for the open seminar for Sport Judges, at Vindholar near Hamburg in Germany, September 19 and 20. 17 Of them will also take the test to become a FEIF licensed international sport judge or a judge at a national level. Candidates come...
The hospitality and professionality of the Swiss organisers, the hundreds of helpers, including the inhabitants of Brunnadern, made the World Championships to an unforgettable event. An event to be proud of. Even two days with heavy rains couldn't spoil this. On the...
4 gold medals for Iceland, 2 for Norway, 1 for Denmark, 1 for Germany, 1 for Sweden: Tölt T1 - Jóhann R. Skúlason - Hvinur frá Holtsmúla 1 [IS1997186699] - Iceland; Tölt T2 - Tina Kalmo Pedersen - Kolgrimur från Slätterne [SE1997107496] - Norway; Four Gait V1 - Lena...
The complete result lists of the sport classes at the World Championships 2009 in Brunnadern (CH) are available for download from the FEIF website.
The FEIF Feather Prize 2009 has been awarded to Guðmundur Einarsson, World Champion 2009 in Pace Test PP1. 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...