Every year, IceTest, the free competition software provided by FEIF, requires an update of FIPO Rules. Starting 2008, changes of FIPO will be published and valid April 1 of each year. This is due to the change of the date of the yearly Delegates' Assembly from...
The new edition of FIPO 2008 will be published shortly before April 1, 2008. Until this year the yearly editions of FIPO (and other rules) were published just before January 1. As of 2007, the Delegates' Assembly deciding upon changes of rules takes place in February....
The FEIF Sport Committee has decided to add the Peruvian bit (and other bits typically designed for specific other horse cultures) explicitly to the list of prohibited equipment. This bit is not fitting to the Icelandic horse style and/or culture. The bit is not...
The 8 year old world record in Pace Race 150m has been broken by the Danish rider Samantha Leidesdorff with Mondrian vom Lucahof [DE1996106993], with a time of 13.75". The old record was by Guðmundur Björgvinsson with Reddi fra Lykkegarden (13.8"). The record was...
The Sport Judges Seminar 2008 will take place at the Agricultural University of Iceland in Hvanneyri, Borgarnes. The seminar will start Friday, April 11 at 09:00 and end Sunday, April 13 at 12:00 h. On Sunday 13 and Monday 14 the test to become a FEIF Licensed...
The Board of FEIF did receive 4 applications for the World Championships 2011: two from Austria and two from Germany. One Austrian location is Klagenfurt, the Hypo Group Arena, one of the places for the European Championships for football in 2008. The other location...
During the World Championships 20 horses were tested for doping. All of them tested negative, a result the Icelandic horse world can be very proud of. Although we didn't expect otherwise, other disciplines in horse sport gave quite different results in the last few...
Unfortunately the Gæðingakeppni Seminar for new judges and renewal of licenses in Zachow (September 24-26, 2007) had to be cancelled due to a lack of enough participants.
The Board of FEIF has invited the FEIF member associations to present proposals for the venue of the World Championships 2011. Proposals have to be sent to FEIF before October 14, 2007, based upon the new Rules and regulations for organisers. The Board will discuss...
The Gæðingakeppni Judges Seminar 2007 will take place in Zachow, Germany, from September 24th to September 26th. The seminar is open for all interested persons. There will be a test for new international Gæðingakeppni judges on September 26th. This seminar is...
All results of the World Championships 2007 are available on the FEIF website: www.feif.org/wc2007. This includes results from all preliminary rounds and finals, plus the results of the International Breeding Show.
FEIF congratulates the new World Champions:
The winner of Pace Test PP1, Sigursteinn Sumarliðason [IS] with Kolbeinn frá Þóroddsstöðum [IS1996188806] is the first champion at the World Championships 2007. Although his total score of 8.25 was the same as the score of Sigurður Marinusson [NL] with Eilimi vom...
During the World Championships 2007 FEIF will provide live result lists of preliminary rounds and finals. These result lists will be updated continuously during the tests. The service will start Wednesday, August 8, at around 10:00 h CET and continue until the last...
The Alpe-Adria Cup (WorldRanking, September 14-16, 2007, Krumperk, Slovenia) had to be cancelled. Major works at the competition grounds by the national electricity distributing company make it impossible to organise the event. The next Alpe-Adria Cup is scheduled for...
Now that all teams have entered their final entries, the WC-organisation found that the published preliminary time schedule doesn't fit with the total number of entries in the different tests. Due to that the organisation has decided to change the days on which the...
Thanks to the good cooperation between the World Championships Office, the FEIF Office and the national team leaders, all teams for the World Championships 2007 have been entered. A total of 181 participants have been registered, 143 in sport (including reserve riders...
Monday, July 23 is the last day countries can enter teams for the World Championships. Closing is at 12:00 CET. The first teams have already been entered. The list of participants and other relevant information is published at www.feif.org/wc2007. Unfortunately Italy...