FEI World Championships, from the first titles to the 2022 split.

When each discipline first crowned a world champion

The FEI's own page on the history of its championships refused our requests, so the jumping, dressage and eventing dates below come from FEI text as quoted in search results and are unconfirmed. Other dates come from the sources named.

The first jumping championship is dated differently. The FEI text quoted in search results places the first FEI Jumping World Championship in Paris in 1953. Olympedia, in its profile of Hans Gunter Winkler of Germany, says he won the first two World Championships in show jumping, in 1954 and 1955. We could not read the FEI page to see how it treats the 1953 event, so both versions stand.

Later venues are scattered through our sources. Wikipedia records that Luhmuhlen, in Lower Saxony, hosted the 1982 Eventing World Championship.

The World Equestrian Games, 1990 to 2018

From 1990 the FEI brought most of its world championships together into one event every four years, the FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG). Wikipedia lists eight editions; the first, in Stockholm, held 13 events in six disciplines.

Tryon 2018 and the end of the Games

The endurance championship that opened the Tryon Games on 12 September 2018 went wrong from the start. The Tryon Daily Bulletin reported that it was restarted after several riders were sent the wrong way, shortened from 100 miles and five loops to 74 miles and four, and then cancelled before it finished. Officials cited heat and humidity combined with trail conditions after heavy rain. The full account, including the dispute over the decision, is on endurance championships.

On 20 November 2018 the FEI General Assembly dropped the multi-discipline format and invited bids for separate discipline World Championships from 2022 (Wikipedia, citing FEI minutes).

2022: Herning and Pratoni del Vivaro

In 2022 the championships were split between two hosts. Jumping, dressage, para dressage and vaulting were held in Herning, Denmark, in August; eventing and four-in-hand driving at Pratoni del Vivaro, near Rome, Italy, in September (Paralympic.org for Herning's para dressage, closing on 14 August; NZ Equestrian for Pratoni, 14 to 18 September).

• Jumper News called the team win Sweden's first World Championship team jumping gold. Its line-up, per a search summary we could not open, was Henrik von Eckermann, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, Peder Fredricson and Jens Fredricson.
• Denmark's dressage team, per search results, was Nanna Merrald Rasmussen, Carina Cassoe Kruth, Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour.
• Germany's eventing team was Michael Jung, Julia Krajewski, Christoph Wahler and Sandra Auffarth (Practical Horseman). A search summary gives Ingham's winning score as 23.2.
• Equestrian Australia called Exell's win his sixth individual world title. An FEI headline, seen in search, said the Netherlands took their 11th team gold in driving.
• Herning's para dressage individual results are on para dressage events. The 2022 vaulting results were not in our research.

Between 2022 and 2026

A four-in-hand driving World Championship was also held in between, at Szilvasvarad, Hungary, on 4 to 8 September 2024 (the venue's own page); our research did not cover its results. The counts reported either side of it are Exell's sixth title in 2022 and his eighth, described by the FEI as eight in a row, at Aachen in 2026; the Netherlands' 11th team gold in 2022 and a 13th in 2026. The 2026 championships in six disciplines went to Aachen, with endurance awarded separately (CHIO Aachen, 2023). Every 2026 result is on the 2026 World Championships page, and the FEI's own history is on the FEI through the years.