A new edition of FIRO (General rules; 1.2/2007) is now available from the service section of the FEIF website. This version contains changes in the consequences of a third warning for a rider in the International Register of Warnings.
The list of WorldRanking events for 2007 is already growing. Upon initiative of the German sport leader Florian Schneider more then 50 events in Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany have been published already to allow better coordination between countries in planning...
With one more WorldRanking event to go in 2006 (LM Nordrhein-Westfalen in Mönchengladbach-Wickrath (D)) the event list for 2007 is already growing. Upon initiative of the German sport leader Florian Schneider more then 50 events in Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany...
The Board of FEIF has appointed Einar Ragnarsson (IS) as Chief Judge and Claudia Glück (A) as Deputy Chief Judge at the World Championships 2007 in the Netherlands. Both candidates were recommended by the Sport Committee. Their candidature did receive support from...
The best keepsake from a World Championship is without doubt the official DVD. Netherlands's largest multi-camera company DutchView has been comissioned to bring the event to DVD. Just a few short months after the World Championships - in September 2007 - you will...
The organisers of the International Pace Championships in Zachow, Germany (Günther Weber and his team) can look back to a very succesful Pace Championships and FEIF International Breeding show. Over 120 participants from 9 countries took part. Most succesful rider was...
The Delegates' Assembly 2006 elected Wolfgang Berg (D) as new member of the board of FEIF. Wolfgang has been President of IPZV (our German member association) for 12 years and was also head of the organising committee of the succesful World Championships 1999 in...
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...
Jens Füchtenschnieder established a new world record in SpeedPass (100 m) with the gelding Keimur frá Votmúla 1 (IS1995187605): 7.24", at the Mid European Championships in Terenten (IT), August 24-27. This is 0.11" faster then the previous world record by Anna...
At a meeting during the Mid European Championships 2006 the representatives of the countries present decided to organise the next Mid European Championships at the same location: Wiedenhof in Terenten (Süd Tirol, IT). Participants praised the high quality tracks, the...
200 Participants did participate in the 3rd edition of the Mid European Championships, August 24-27, 2006, in Terento (Süd Tirol, IT). The event was hosted by Jacqueline and Ewald Schmid. The Mid European Championhips are organised every two years, following the...
The World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2007 will take place August 6-12 in Oirschot (near Eindhoven) in the Netherlands. 25.000 visitors are expected to watch the performance of up to 200 horses and riders in different sport classes and breeding shows. The on...
The Eva-Maria Gerlach Award is a newly established bi-annual award for promising and versatile young riders. The award is named after the former Director of Youth Work Eva-Maria Gerlach, to acknowledge the fact that without Eva-Maria FEIF wouldn't have the FEIF...
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.