FEI WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES

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The 'World Equestrian Games' are the major international championships for equestrianism, considered by many horsemen to be more important than the Olympics, and administered by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The games are held every four years, half way between each pair of consecutive Summer Olympic Games.
The games have included seven disciplines: dressage, show jumping, eventing, endurance riding, vaulting, combined driving, and reining. Paraequestrianism will be included for the first time at the 2010 games (to be held in Lexington, Kentucky), while the FEI's two remaining disciplines, tent pegging and horseball, conduct separate championships.
The WEG represent the world's top riders and the world's most skilled horses, competing over 15 days. Riders competing at WEG go through a rigorous selection process over the 4 years leading up to each competition. Each competing country sends teams selected from the very best equestrians in their discipline. Some 57 countries are represented by 800 athletes.
The 2006 WEG were covered on television in the United Kingdom by the BBC, in the United States by HorseTV, in Canada by CBC Country Canada, and in Germany by WDR.

Contents

Locations

Medal count

Results

Locations

Year	Host
1990	Stockholm, Sweden
1994	The Hague, Netherlands
1998	Rome, Italy
2002	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
2006	Aachen, Germany
2010	Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Medal count

The current historical medal count of the FEI World Equestrian Games is as follows:

	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	1	21	9	16	46
2		9	10	8	27
3		8	12	4	24
4		6	7	6	19
5		5	1	–	6
''6''	'' 1, 2	''4''	''4''	''4''	''12''
7		3	7	5	15
8		3	2	2	7
9		2	3	1	6
10		2	1	7	10
11		1	2	2	5
12		1	2	1	4
		1	2	1	4
14		1	–	–	1
		1	–	–	1
		1	–	–	1
17		–	2	2	4
18		–	1	4	5
19		–	1	2	3
20		–	1	1	2
		–	1	1	2
''22''	'' 3	–	''1''	–	''1''
23		–	–	1	1
		–	–	1	1

Note: Medal count is sorted by total gold medals, then total silver medals, then total bronze medals, then alphabetically.
:¹ If totaled together, Germany and West Germany would have a total of 58 medals (25 gold, 13 silver, and 20 bronze)
:² West Germany competed only in the 1990 Games, as it became Germany prior to the 1994 Games
:³ The Soviet Union competed only in the 1990 Games, as it collapsed prior to the 1994 Games

Results

★ Eventing World Championship

★ Show Jumping World Championships

★ Dressage World Championship