The FEI Dressage Committee has made a small adjustment in the allocation of points for dressage riders and horses in the rider rankings point system. As the WBFSH/FEI rankings are connected to this point system the change is also effective in those rankings.
The change in points is already effective in the FEI systems and the new monthly rankings will be presented in the new system already as per August 2013. The new added item is the allocation of bonus points to riders and horses competing at the mentioned types of competitions
It is a logical change, since what the FEI tries to do is to give horses/riders competing at higher levelled competitions extra bonus points.
In the old situation it might happen that a horse competing at the Olympics and achieved 80% in the Freestyle, gained the same amount of points as a horse which competed at a 3* event in a small country and also scored 80% in the freestyle. So by now competitions at the Olympics, continental championships, world cup finals and qualifiers and CDIO5*, CDI5* and CDIO3* competitions are rewarded with extra points.
The World Dressage Rankings are based on:
- Percentages, scored in international competitions under FEI rules.
- Each Grand Prix level result will count from each international CDI3/4/5*/CDI- W event. Consolation Grand Prix results (which have to be clearly marked in the schedule and result lists) will not be taken into account.
- Three results per event will count from CDIOs, Olympic Games and World and Continental Championship.
The scores obtained in a maximum of 8 tests per year will count. The points for the ranking are obtained by adding the 8 best scores of the last 12 months (expressed in World Ranking Points as under mentioned, the percentages will count with the first digit behind the comma).
In the case of tie points the rider/horse combination with less counting results is in front of the other(s), if both have the same amount of counting results, the rider/horse combination with the best single result is in front of the other(s).
Bonus Points for results at:
- Olympic Games: 40 points
- World, continental championships, World Cup Final: 30 points
- World Cup Qualifiers, CDIO 3*: 20 points
- CDIO 5* and CDI 5*: 10 points
Scores to count for the rankings
At all CDI 3/4/5*, CDIO and CDI-W events, judged by five judges of whom at least three are foreign, the results may count (GP, GP Special, GP Freestyle)
At Olympic Games, World Championship and Continental Championship on GP-level three results per rider/horse may count (GP, GP Special, GP Freestyle)
N.B. No ranking points are given for consolation Grand Prix results.
Replacing of points
At the end of each month the points earned during that month are added to the list. The points from the same month the previous year are dropped from the list.
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