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...
Recent changes in Sport Rules and Requirements require an update of IceTest. The update is available (version 1.1.795). Included is the new handling of PP2. As of April 1, 2018, the number of heats is reduced to 2, and the marks for time are no longer doubled. An...
The Sport Leaders met in Stockholm for a productive two-day session as part of the FEIF Conference 2018. Two new members were elected to the Sport Committee: Alexandra Montan-Grey (SE) and Markus Karrer (CH). They join Hulda Gústafsdóttir (IS), Einar Ragnarsson (AT),...
The Nordic Championships 2018 were moved from Finland to Sweden and will be in Margaretehof Islandhestcenter which is located in Everöd, south of Kristianstad, Sweden. The Mid-European Championships will take place at Reithof Piber in St.Radegund (Austria). Countries...
The Nordic Championships for Icelandic horses will be held from August 7th-12th, 2018 at the beautiful competition grounds of Margaretehof in the south of Sweden, just outside the lovely city of Kristianstad. Riders and horses from all Nordic countries will meet and...
Response to the concerns raised on the matter of ported bits.
The WorldRanking season 2017 ended in late October 2017 with the WorldRanking event in Jönköping, Sweden. 11 countries registered results of 89 events fulfilling the requirements set for these events. 9,486 marks and times were registered from more than 2,016 riders...
FEIF congratulates the 119 riders who have been nominated for Good and Harmonious Riding in the 2017 competition season. Thank you to all riders listed for being such excellent examples of the type of riding we hope to see in our sport! Martin Rønnestad (NO) who was...