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FEI Dressage World Championship

Bern (SUI) 25 August - 28 August 1966

Early days: Dressage is the FEI discipline with the longest tradition of Championships.

A Grand Prix de Dressage, organised in Lucerne (SUI) as early as 1927, had hosted 12 riders representing five nations. Victory had gone to the 34-year-old Bulgarian Capt. Vladimir Stoychev on Pan. After World War II, the now General Stoychev became a member of the FEI Bureau and served from 1961 to 1973.

Official FEI Dressage Championships were organised on all non-Olympic years between 1930 and 1939 in Switzerland, France, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain. The last such event took place in August 1939, only days before the outbreak of World War II. The Grand Prix of Aachen (GER) consisted of 32 movements and lasted 14 min 30 sec.

The FEI tried to revive the event after the war with limited success. Participation improved after 1953 when Germany was reinstated as an FEI member. European Championships were organised in 1963 which led to the first FEI Dressage World Championship held in Bern (SUI) three years later.

Games Facts & Figures

  • 24
    Athletes
  • 6
    Nations
  • 1
    Championship

Facts & Figures:

Bern 1966

A field of 24 athletes and horses representing six nations competed on the grounds of the Swiss Cavalry School in Bern in 1966.

Germany, Switzerland, the Soviet Union, and Sweden fielded full teams.

 

German success

Germany took the team title followed by home nation Switzerland in silver and the Soviet Union in bronze.

The individual honours went to Josef Neckermann on Mariano, Harry Boldt on Remus and Reiner Klimke on Dux, all members of the German gold medal winning team.

The Olympic champion of 1964 Henri Chammartin (SUI) on Wolfdietrich placed fourth and Soviet rider Ivan Kizimov, who would go on to win Olympic gold in 1968, was fifth on Ikhor.

Dressage Individual Medallists

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Dressage Team Medallists

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  • GER
  • SUI
  • RUS
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