The Sport Committee adds two new bits to the prohibited equipment list for sport competition: the Peewee Bit and Swales Pelham Bit. The Peewee bit is described by the manufacturer as a correction bit. The Swales Pelham bit is considered a correction bit for overly...
The large group of national sport leaders and representatives from the national as well as FEIF committees had discussions on a long list of agenda items. Florian Schneider was re-elected to the sport committee, Susanne Jelinski joined as a new member. The...
A small number of seats is still available for national as well as international sport judges (Stansted, London, March 2019) - in case you are interested please contact your national sport leader. Follow the link for the details on the seminar. A seminar for...
The Sport Committee and the Sport Judges Committee had a common meeting to ensure that synergies and ideas as well as latest developments were discussed and implemented in the ideal way. In addition to a review of the past season, many points for the future were...
The selection of the World Championships 2019 Sport Jury is complete. The following judges form the jury (in alphabetical order): Ann Winter, Anna Andersén, Åsa William, Fi Pugh, Frauke Walter, Hinrik Már Jónsson, Nicolai Thye, Ólafur Árnason, Oliver Kubinger, Pia...
A seminar for international and national sport judges with focus on equine biomechanics and physiology in general, biomechanics in the context of our judging criteria and guidelines and how to apply the new insights and knowledge on the topic in practical judging will...
Icehorse Festival Indoor WRL is running from 4-7 April 2019. It will be a blast with more than 250 riders and Icelandic horses competing in the World Ranking competition. A powerfull stallion show Saturday evening with fierce Icelandic Sires. The successful series of...
The Board of FEIF has approved the Chief and Deputy Chief Sport Judges for the World Championships 2019 (Berlin, DE). Þorgeir Guðlaugsson will be the Chief Judge, he will be assisted by Will Covert as the Deputy Chief Judge.
FEIF conducted a Sport Judge license examination at Kronshof (Germany) in September. Three candidates passed to become the newest FEIF International Sport Judges. Congratulations to Britta Hassel, Malin Elmgrin, and Inga Trottenberg.
The event OSI Gut Sandheide & Norddt Meisterschaft 2018 in Hatten (DE), scheduled 13-16 September 2018, will no longer be a WorldRanking event.
The World Record time of 21,41" in 250m Pace Race (P1) set at Landsmót 2016 was broken THREE times at Landsmót 2018. First, Árni Björn Pálsson riding Dalvar frá Horni I set a new time of 21,30". This record stood for two minutes until it was broken by Sigurbjörn...
The Nordic Championships for Icelandic horses will be held on August 7-12, 2018 at the beautiful competition grounds of Margaretehof in the south of Sweden, just outside the city of Kristianstad. Riders and horses from all the Nordic countries will meet and compete...
From August 9-12, 2018 the Mid European Championships will take place in St. Radegund, Austria at the competition grounds of Islandpferde Reithof Piber. The preparations for this high class sport event for individual riders and national teams are in full swing and the...
One of the largest events of the 'International Iceland horse family' in 2018 will be Landsmót in Reykjavik. The first Landsmót was held at the Thingvellir National Park in 1950, and has since then grown into the full bi-annual country festival that it is today. The...
Both sport support apps have been updated for the 2018 rules. The Guidelines app (https://appstore.com/dougsmith/guidelines) is a training tool for using the firewall system of the Sport Judges Guidelines. The Timer app (https://appstore.com/dougsmith/fipotimer)...
More than 60 international and national sport judges attended the seminar in Rieden, the location of the World Championships 1999, that took place during the World Tölt event in Germany. Main focus of the seminar was on pace (practical judging and video analysis based...
A new version of the sport judges' guideline has been released. It contains a guideline for pace in F3 and some minor alteration to other sections. In F3 the emphasis is put on the pace transitions rather than the length of the pace stretch. The guidelines 2018 will...
The sport judges' committee is a forum for counseling, communication and discussion and follows new developments in the area of sport judging. The committee is responsible for the contents of guidelines for sport judges, the sport judges seminars and develops...