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. A young rider at a horse show in Australia. ... The Fédération Equestre Internationale (commonly known as the FEI, or informally in English as the International Equestrian Federation) is the international governing body of equestrian (horse) sports. ... Poster for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. ...

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. Insert non-formatted text here An upper-level dressage competitor performing an extended trot Dressage (a French term meaning training) is a path and destination of competitive horse training, with competitions held at all levels from amateur to the Olympics. ... Show jumping is a form of competition in which horses are jumped over a course of fences, low walls, and other obstacles (e. ... Eventing is an equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country and show-jumping. ... Endurance riding is an extremely strenuous form of horse racing, requiring the horse to complete, at the top levels, up to 100 miles. ... A Dutch vaulting team Equestrian vaulting is most often described as gymnastics and dance on horseback, and like these disciplines, it is both an art and a highly competitive sport. ... Combined driving also known as Horse Driving Trials is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving. ... Reining is a Western horseback riding competition. ... Nickname: Location in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Coordinates: Country United States State Kentucky Counties Fayette Government  - Mayor Jim Newberry (D) Area  - City  285. ... Tent pegging (sometimes spelled tentpegging or tent-pegging) is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation. ... A game played on horseback where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a high net. ...

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. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... CBC Country Canada is a Canadian category 1 digital cable specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) is a public broadcaster in the German Bundesland North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office is in Köln. ...

Locations

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Medal count

Since the 1998 games, the medal count is as follows:

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Results

• Eventing World Championship
• Show Jumping World Championships
• Dressage World Championship