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FEI Endurance World Championship

Pratoni del Virvaro (ITA) 20 September - 21 September 1986

Beginnings

Endurance became an FEI discipline in 1982, one year before Vaulting. The championship histories of these two non-Olympic disciplines have run in parallel since the beginning with world championships organised every other year on even years.

FEI Endurance European Championships had been held in 1984 and 1985 until the first FEI Endurance World Championship was organised in September the following year at Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), venue of the 1960 Olympic equestrian events.

Games Facts & Figures

  • 49
    Athletes
  • 10
    Nations

Facts & Figures:

First championship

Forty-nine athletes entered the inaugural world championship with 14 finishing the gruelling 160km course. Becky Hart (USA) on Grand Sultan, who would go on to win the next three world titles, was the last one in.

The winners

Cassandra Schuler (USA) on Skikos Omar finished the competition in 10h 50min and 20 sec and became the first world champion. Individual silver went to Valerie Long (GBR) on Tarim followed by Jeannie Waldron (USA) on Cher Abu in bronze.

The British team, which was composed of four female athletes – Valerie Long/Tarim; Pamela James/Forest Fox; Carole Tuggey/El Askar; and Denise Passant/Ferhanoush (did not finish the competition) – took team gold.

USA were in silver and France took the bronze.

Individual Medallists

Full results

Team Medallists

Full results
  • GBR
  • USA
  • FRA
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