20 Feb 2024
Olympic & Paralympic Games - Update

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Olympic Games

Paralympic Games

General

 
OLYMPIC GAMES
Important Deadlines - Jumping - Dressage - Eventing
2024
18 MARCH NOCs/NFs to confirm allocated individual & composite team quota places to the FEI
28 MARCH NOCs/NFs to nominate long list of potential Athletes to Paris 2024*
24 JUNE Deadline for achieving Olympic MERs for all Athlete/Horse combinations
25 JUNE NFs to send FEI Certificates of Capability to the FEI
08 JULY Paris 2024 Sport Entry deadline – NOCs submit final entries
* IMPORTANT: NOCs will be required to nominate directly to Paris2024 OC, the long list of all Athletes who could possibly be entered for the Olympic Games by 28 March 2024.  This accreditation long list includes the NOC Delegation with all potential grooms, horse Owners, Team officials. For more information, please contact your NOC directly.
Individual Quota Places confirmation
Jumping - Dressage - Eventing

The FEI has informed eligible NOCs/NFs of the allocation of Individual quota places on 19 February 2024. All eligible NOCs/NFs must now confirm or decline their allocated Individual quota place for the Paris2024 Olympic Games to the FEI in writing by 18 March 2024. An answer from both the respective NOC and NF is required. 
The current status for individual qualification quota places within each of the three Olympic disciplines – Jumping, Dressage, Eventing - has been outlined below. This list is subject to the completion of the respective qualification requirements, procedures and deadlines.
 
JUMPING

  • Olympic Ranking - Group A: Denmark and Norway
  • Olympic Ranking - Group B: Italy and Portugal
  • Olympic Ranking - Group C: Latvia and Greece
  • Olympic Ranking - Group D and E: Venezuela // through Pan Am Games: Colombia, Argentina, Chile 
  • Olympic Ranking - Group F: Egypt and Syria
  • Olympic Ranking - Group G: Thailand and New Zealand 
  • Highest ranked NOC not yet qualified: Luxembourg 

 
EVENTING

  • Olympic Ranking - Group A: Denmark (1) and Finland (1*)
  • Olympic Ranking - Group B: Spain (1*) and Austria (1)
  • Olympic Ranking - Group C: Lithuania (1) and Hungary (1)
  • Olympic Ranking – Groups D & E: Chile (1), Argentina (1), Ecuador (2)
  • Olympic Ranking - Group F:  South Africa (1) and Morocco (1)
  • Olympic Ranking - Group G:  China (2)
  • Three (3) highest Ranked NOCs not yet qualified: Spain (1*), Finland (1*), Czech Republic (1)

* These two nations have a total of two (2) individual quota places
 
DRESSAGE

  • Olympic Ranking - Group A: Norway and Ireland
  • Olympic Ranking - Group B: Luxembourg and Switzerland
  • Olympic Ranking - Group C: Lithuania and Moldova 
  • Olympic Ranking - Group D and E: Dominican Republic and Venezuela // through Pan Am Games: Brazil* and Ecuador
  • Olympic Ranking - Group F: Morocco and Palestine 
  •  Olympic Ranking - Group G: New Zealand and Singapore 
  • Highest ranked NOC not yet qualified: India 

 * Allocation of one (1) individual quota place further to team quota place withdrawal

The Qualification System documents including the list of NOCs having obtained Team and Individual Quota Places and Reserve NOCs for all three disciplines are available in the FEI Paris 2024 hub.

Deadline to submit Horse Owner's information to the FEI

Please note that the date for the registration of owners is lined up with the NOC deadline to submit the long list for accreditation to the Paris2024 Organising Committee.
Article 620 – OWNERS OF HORSES
1. Accreditation
Each NOC may request accreditation for a maximum of two (2) Owners for each Horse allowed into the Olympic Stables during the Olympic Games. One (1) of those two (2) Owner’s name must be entered in the passport. Access will include the stables in accordance with Veterinary Regulations, training areas, Athletes’ and Olympic Family seating.
2. Registered owners
The National Federation (NF) of a Horse belonging to a partnership or a syndicate of Owners must inform the FEI by the date of the OCOG/IOC accreditation date (entry by number) for NOCs: 28 MARCH 2024, of the name of one (1) Owner to ensure that they are entered in the Olympic Accreditation system.

Olympic Minimum Elegibility Requirements - Eventing

Further to queries received from different National Federations, the wording of the below Article 626.1 of the FEI Regulations for Equestrian Events at the Olympic Games is confirmed as follows:

All Athletes/Horses who take part in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Eventing Competitions, and subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 below, must achieve the following minimum eligibility requirements (MERs) as a combination by obtaining “FEI qualifying results” at different events in the following level of Competition which take place from 1 January 2023 until (and including) 24 June 2024):
(i) One (1) qualifying result at a CCI5*-L;
or (ii) One (1) qualifying result in a CCI4*-L AND 1 qualifying result in a CCI4*-S
(iii) Plus one (1) qualifying result in a CCI4*-S or 4*L or 5*L to be obtained after 1 January 2024 and on or before 24 June 2024 (the “Confirmation Result”)

Combinations obtaining all of their MER results at 4* level must achieve a minimum of three (3) MERs, one of which must be obtained at a long-format event. Alternatively, combinations obtaining one MER at 5* level must achieve a minimum of two (2) MER results. Of these MERs, all combinations must obtain at least one (1) MER result in 2024, the “confirmation result”.
 
The list of events counting for achieving Olympic Minimum Eligibility Requirements for 2024 is available here.

Should you have any question, please contact Catrin Norinder with a copy to Nitia Lazzari.

PARALYMPIC GAMES
Important Deadlines Para Dressage
28 FEBRUARY Deadline to submit change of nationality requests to the IPC
04 MARCH FEI notifies the NPCs in writing about the number of allocated qualification slots
18 MARCH NPCs confirm in writing the use of allocated qualification slots

Deadline for NPCs to submit Bipartite Commission Invitation applications to FEI

25 MARCH FEI confirms in writing the reallocation of unused qualification slots and the awarding of Bipartite Commission Invitations
03 MAY Deadline for Paris 2024 Organising Committee to receive accreditation application forms submitted by NPCs (“Accreditation Long List”)
19 JUNE End of the period for Athlete/horse combinations to attain a minimum eligibility score

NFs to send FEI Certificates of Capability to FEI

05 AUGUST Deadline for Paris 2024 Organising Committee to receive sport entry forms submitted by NPCs
GENERAL

Remember to check out the Paris 2024 Hub, where you will find all the relevant information, guidelines and rules, as well as latest news, updates and deadlines with regards to the equestrian events of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 
Each tab opens a dedicated section, and you will find at the end of the table of contents links to the latest Media Updates as well as Department Updates with technical information and reminders regarding upcoming deadlines. This hub is continually being updated, and we include the date of publication for all documents when documents are published and subsequently updated.

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