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March 2003 EVENTING COMMITTEE MEETING
AND TOP EVENTING OFFICIALS SEMINAR IN WARENDORF The Eventing
Committee met in Warendorf (GER) in conjunction with the 2003 Eventing Top Officials
Seminar. This seminar was organised on invitation for Officials functioning in
the high level 2003 Championships, representatives of regions, riders and trainers.
The Committee acknowledged the decision of the IOC to include Eventing
for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games providing it was the same Olympic format as
already accepted for the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Eventing Committee,
further to the assessment of the consequences of the implementation of the Olympic
format of Eventing for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games decided to make the following
recommendations to the FEI Bureau and IOC in regard to the Olympic qualification
and rider/horse eligibility: 1. Olympic minimum requirements for
participation of horse and rider, to be achieved in the period of 1st January
2003 to 30 June 2004 (Reduced period to take IOC requirements into account). The
Rider/horse combination must achieve qualifying result(s) as defined in FEI Rules
for Eventing as follows: 1 CCI****; or 2 CCI***; or 1 CCI*** and 1 CIC***
2. The qualification of nations through the Olympic Eventing rider ranking
list, will now include CIC*** categories of events. 5 best results from the Ranking
list per rider will be included and only qualifying results will count. A rider
placed 1st in a CIC*** will be awarded 41 points, and then down in increments
of 2 points per placing. 3. The technical specifications of the
2004 Olympic Eventing competition to consist of: - Dressage: CCI****
test, - Cross Country test: Cross country course distance of approx 5’700
meters, speed of 570m/min, a number of 45 efforts maximum. - Jumping test:
same dimensions as CCI**** Jumping test;
Team Jumping test: distance 500-600metres,
speed of 375 m/min, 13 efforts maximum; height 120cm. Individual Jumping
test: distance: 450-550m, speed 375 m/min, max 12 efforts, height 125cm.
Other decisions that will be recommended for approval by the FEI Bureau
are as follows: - The creation of a new category of event; CIC****
with a Cross Country test of a distance of 5415-6270 meters and CCI 4 star dimension
of obstacles. - Creation of a CIC event/championship circuit leading
up to the Olympic Games and a parallel circuit leading up to a 4 star Three Day
Event World Championship in the year after the Olympic Games. -
Review of qualification procedures at lower level championships, as well as age
groups of Junior and Young Riders participation at championships. The
main reason for the Top Officials Seminar was to consider the FEI Eventing Safety
Program for 2003. This program, set up in cooperation with TRL and British Eventing,
was presented to the Participants included: an explanation on statistical key
performance indicators, FEI database Safety device procedure and testing specifications.
This presentation will be the basis for the FEI Annual Eventing Safety report
to be finalized and distributed to all NFs and listed Eventing Officials as well
as published on FEI Web-site. The Top Officials Seminar also addressed
the development of a new Eventing Officials Course concept including course programs,
promotion system and assessment procedures to be implemented in 2004. NFs will
be informed in the next months. | 