FEI World Cup 2022

FEI President Ingmar De Vos and Founding Director of the International Grooms Association™ (IGA) Lucy Katan have recognized the creation of the IGA with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the FEI Sports Forum today.

After a cat and mouse game of swapping positions between the two favourites, it was the 28 year old soon-to-be father who triumphed in Leipzig.

Seventeen of the world’s best athlete-and-horse dressage combinations put on a show on one of the sport’s biggest stages in front of an appreciative crowd, to conclude the 2022 FEI Dressage World Cup Final with the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle

Fuchs led the way on the opening day but America’s McLain Ward moved into the lead when winning Thursday’s second competition. However a mistake in today’s first round left the 2017 champion on the same score as Smolders going into the closing stages.

There’s nothing like a big win on home ground, but there’s also nothing like retiring a superstar horse in front of a wildly enthusiastic crowd, so tonight’s Freestyle finale had it all.

On a night filled with emotion and excitement, Olympic and European champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB claimed the title with a brilliant last-to-go Freestyle performance.

Under the lights of the Leipziger Messe the 2022 FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Champions were crowned. No-one could keep French Manon Moutinho from the female title whilst Lorenzo Lupacchini took his chance to bring home the glory for Italy.

As the final competitor to start late on Friday night for the first round of the FEI Driving World Cup™ Final in Leipzig (GER), Bram Chardon (NED) laid down his claim to the 2022 title with a fantastic drive.

America’s McLain Ward knows what it is to win the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup, and today the 2017 champion set himself on that path once again when topping the second competition at the 2022 Final in Leipzig, Germany.

The 10th edition of the FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Final started in spectacular style with French favourites Manon Moutinho and Lambert Leclezio dominating the Individual Female and Male classes with their high difficulty, technical routines proving impossible to beat.