Department updates in Main Eventing

The Eventing Categorisation of Athletes has been updated on 01 January 2022 and takes into account MERs obtained between 1 July 2013 and 31 December 2021.

The lists of categorised Athletes are available on the following webpage.

Final FEI World Eventing Athlete Rankings 2021 - Final Rankings

1. Oliver Townend (GBR)
2. Tom Mcewen (GBR)
3. Tim Price (NZL)
4. Piggy March (GBR)
5. Jonelle Price (NZL)

The Eventing Zone Rankings have been updated and are available on the following webpage, click here.

2021 Leaders of the Eventing Zone Rankings:

North Western Europe: Oliver Townend (GBR)

South Western Europe: Maxime Livio (FRA)

Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia: Aleksandr Markov (RUS)

North America: Boyd Martin (USA)

Central and South America: Carlos Lobos Muñoz (CHI)

Africa and Middle East: Usman Khan (PAK)

South East Asia and Oceania: Tim Price (NZL)

Note: Eventing Zone Rankings are processed once a year and take into account results obtained between 1 January and 31 December 2021

The FEI has created a stakeholders survey to ensure the maintenance and continued improvement, of an already existing high standard, at FEI Events. This survey will help the FEI better understand the expectations of its key stakeholders, and the information collected will help guide the future approach of the FEI to ensuring that these are met.

The survey launches today and will be open until Monday 14 February 2022. We encourage everyone to take part in this survey, which should take no more than 10 minutes, and thank you in advance for your time.

Take the FEI Events Standards Stakeholder Survey - https://inside.fei.org/hub/fei-events-standards-stakeholders-survey

The Online Risk Management and NSO Seminar will be held on Saturday 22 January 2022.
The agenda is published on the FEI website.
The Seminar will be recorded and available to watch in replay from the FEI website.

MIM Corner and Post & Rail Narrow kits

Fences fitted with the new Corner and Post & Rail Narrow MIM Clip frangible devices have been jumped by many horses already this year, we continue to learn and improve as these devices are used at competitions.  

The FEI Frangible Device Working Group has agreed with MIM that the following change be made to the fitting instructions of the Corner (80326) and Post & Rail Narrow (80322) kits: 

• For all levels, the bolt should no longer be removed as it was previously recommended

MIM Table fences

Instructions to fit Yellow Clips on Table fences built prior to 2021 are now available and have been published (Table kit 00320).

The animation as well as the PDF version of the instructions can be found on the FEI website.

MIM CLIPS Important Notice

Clips must always be removed before moving the fence

All information relating to frangible devices is available on the FEI website under Eventing / Risk Management / Frangible Devices. You can also refer to the MIM Clip website.

The Eventing Categorisation of Athletes has been updated on 01 July 2021 and takes into account MERs obtained between 1 January 2013 and 30 June 2021.

The lists of categorised Athletes are available on the following webpage.

The following British Eventing Reverse Frangible Pins (for rails up to 60 kg) have been approved and added to the FEI register of products having met the Updated Standard for frangible/deformable cross country fences  to be used as from 1st January 2021.

FEI16GBR - BE Reverse pin – Short (for rails up to 60 kg)

FEI17GBR - BE Reverse pin – Long (for rails up to 60 kg)

All information is available on our website 

Following the announcement on Friday 19 March regarding four FEI Jumping calendar recommendations approved by the Board, the two Board resolutions for Dressage announced on Monday 22 March, we would now like to share with you the FEI Eventing Calendar measures which have been approved by the FEI Board. Once again, these measures seek to mitigate the negative effects of Covid-19 and EHV-1, and in particular to allow as many Events as possible to take place leading up to Tokyo 2020. They will provide Athletes more opportunities to compete to obtain the Minimum Eligibility Requirements (MERs) and Confirmation Results, and to train for the Olympic Games as well as for other Championships, while for Organisers, these measures provide more flexibility to re-schedule their cancelled or postponed Events. 
The FEI Eventing Calendar measures approved by the FEI Board are:

• Application of Date Clash Rules until Tokyo 2020 (Emergency Board Resolution)

The FEI Board approved that all Eventing Event Organisers may, until the end of the Tokyo 2020 Games (Sunday 8 August 2021), organise their Events (subject to the Calendar applications deadline mentioned below) on their selected dates and no Dates Clash Rules shall apply during that time.

• Deadlines for Calendar Applications (Emergency Board Resolution)
  In order to give National Federations and Organisers more flexibility when applying for their Events in the FEI Calendar (and consequently providing more options for the Athletes to compete), the FEI Board agreed to reduce the deadlines for Calendar applications as follows:

• CCI5* L CCI4* L CCIO4* L or S: from 6 weeks to 4 weeks
• CCI4* S and all other Eventing Events: same 4 weeks deadline as approved before remains.

Please note that, as stated in the Olympic Regulations, any additional Event which has not organised a CCI4* on a regular yearly basis will be included as “non-OG MER” as per current procedure.
All the Calendar Measures for Jumping, Dressage and Eventing can be found in the FEI Covid-19 Resolutions & Decisions hub. We will also be announcing additional Calendar Measures for other disciplines in the coming days, following input from the relevant Calendar Task Forces. 

The Report and Annexes of the Online Eventing Risk Management and NSO Seminar, 23 – 24 January 2021 have been published on the FEI website.
The sessions are also available to watch on "replay".

The FEI Education & Officials Department have recently published explainer videos for the major FEI Eventing Rules Changes 2021.

These videos are mainly aimed at Officials and Athletes who are required to be up-to-date with the different rules. For the wider audience these videos will serve a rather informative purpose, providing a deeper understanding of our sport. The goal of these short videos is to highlight the most impactful rule changes and their rationale in each discipline, as well as more general regulations including the Equine Anti-Doping Controlled Medication Regulations and the Anti-Doping Rules for Human Athletes which underwent a full review in 2020.

You can access all the videos on FEI Campus by clicking on the relevant discipline pages as well as the Veterinary hub. Here are the direct links to:

• FEI Veterinary Regulations Changes 2021
• FEI General Regulations Changes 2021
• FEI Equine Anti-Doping Controlled Medication Regulations Changes 2021
• FEI Anti-Doping Rules for Human Athletes Changes 2021