FEI announces hosts for World Championships and World Cup Finals

FEI World Championships in four disciplines: Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage and Vaulting will be staged in Herning (DEN) in August 2022. The Danish city, which runs a qualifier for the FEI Dressage World Cup annually, previously hosted a multi-discipline equestrian event in 2013 when it staged the FEI European Championships for Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage.

Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), venue for the Eventing discipline at the Rome 1960 Olympic Games, will host FEI World Championships for Eventing and Driving in September 2022. The Italian venue, located 35 kilometres south of Rome, is no stranger to hosting high-level equestrian events and FEI Championships. It was the site for the cross country competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 1998 and hosted the FEI World Driving Championships for Singles in 2006 and 2010.

Ireland was among 10 countries who had submitted applications to host competitions at the 2022 Championships, with Millstreet in Co Cork submitting a strong bid for the 2022 World Eventing Championships.

Speaking after the host venues were announced, Horse Sport Ireland CEO Ronan Murphy said:

“Naturally we are disappointed that Ireland’s bid to host the 2022 FEI Eventing Championships in Millstreet has been unsuccessful on this occasion. However we can take a great deal of comfort from the fact that everyone involved worked extremely well together to put forward an excellent bid that was very well received. I want to thank everyone involved in Ireland’s bid for the championships, particularly the Duggan family in Millstreet. We wish the chosen venues and the FEI the very best of luck in hosting the championships in 2022 and look forward to all our athletes competing.

Millstreet’s Thomas Duggan added:

“The Duggan family and the Millstreet team learned with understandable disappointment that we have not been chosen as the host venue for the FEI 2022 World Eventing Championships. Despite being aware from the outset that multi-discipline bids were the preferred option by FEI, we invested ourselves heavily in the bidding and selection process.

“We are happy that we put the best possible bid forward for Ireland. We thank all the stakeholders in the process for their help and support since February this year. We learned a multitude throughout and look forward to putting this experience to use on future occasions. We look forward to the 2022 Championships, and we wish FEI and the chosen venues well.”

FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez said:

“When we opened the process for the FEI World Championships 2022 to single and multi-discipline bids, our intention was to have events that were more manageable and sustainable at proven venues, By allocating these multi-discipline Championships to Herning and Pratoni del Vivaro we’re working with hosts that already have the necessary experience and required infrastructure in place to organise world-class equestrian championships.

“We received some truly excellent bids and unfortunately we don’t have enough FEI World Championships to allocate to everyone, but we very much hope that these excellent organisers will bid again in the future to host championships at their venues.”

The World Championships 2022 in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines of Jumping, Eventing, Dressage and Para Dressage, will serve as qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.The FEI Board agreed unanimously that any decision on the FEI World Championships in Endurance and Reining should be postponed pending the outcome of discussions about both disciplines on 18 November and voting on 19 November.

The FEI Board also allocated FEI World Cup™ Finals for 2022 to 2024, with Leipzig (GER) once again hosting four FEI World Cup™ Finals under one roof from 6-10 April 2022. The German city previously hosted the same four disciplines – Jumping, Dressage, Driving and Vaulting – in 2011.

The FEI World Cup™ Finals for Jumping and Dressage will return to Omaha (USA) in 2023 (12-16 April), and the FEI World Cup™ Finals 2024 for Jumping and Dressage were allocated to Riyadh (KSA). Dates for the FEI World Cup™ Finals 2024 in Riyadh will be confirmed. Bordeaux (FRA) will host the FEI Driving World Cup™ Finals in both 2023 (2-5 February) and 2024 (1-4 February).

The bidding process for the FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Finals 2023 and 2024 will be reopened.In addition, the Board allocated qualifiers for the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ series, FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Youth 2020 and FEI Eventing Nations Cup™ 2020, FEI Jumping Ponies Trophy™ 2020 qualifiers and Finals and other Championships.

The list of key allocations is below (a complete list will be included in the detailed report of today’s in-person FEI Board meeting):

FEI World Championships 2022

Multi-discipline

• FEI World Championships (Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage & Vaulting) – Herning (DEN), 6 – 14 August
• FEI Eventing World Championship – Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), 14-18 September
• FEI Driving World Championship – Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), 21-25 September

FEI World Cup™ Finals 2022

• FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping, Driving, Vaulting & Dressage) – Leipzig (GER), 6-10 April

2023

• FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping & Dressage) – Omaha (USA), 12-16 April
• FEI Driving World Cup™ Final – Bordeaux (FRA), 2-5 February

2024

• FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping & Dressage) – Riyadh (KSA), 4-9 March or 15-20 April
• FEI Driving World Cup™ Final – Bordeaux (FRA), 1-4 February