Jumping: Richard Vogel Marks Debut at Top
Richard Vogel (GER), who has taken over as world number one in the Longines Rankings for the first time in his career, was featured in a dedicated press release HERE.
Longines League of Nations: Team USA holds on to top spot
Team USA continues to resist all challenges at the top of the Longines League of Nations™ Ranking, sitting pretty at the head of affairs with a sextet that includes three of the top 12 in the world – Kent Farrington (2), McLain Ward (9) and Laura Kraut (12), despite ending up in fourth, less than a fence off the world championship medals. Closest of their rivals are none other than the newly-crowned champions, Germany, who have overhauled Belgium for second place, with the world bronze medal team Great Britain up a place to fourth. Canada remains steady in 13th place.
Dressage: Laudrup-Dufour holds onto number one slot
Catherine Laudrup-Dufour and Mount St John Freestyle, who led Denmark to world team bronze and also claimed a pair of individual silver medals at Aachen 2026, remain out in front in the athlete and horse rankings, where the top end still features all the same names in the same order. In the athletes’ rankings, the top six – all in the championship medals – mirror the end-July order.. Laudrup-Dufour sits just clear of Belgium’s double European gold medallist Justin Verboomen, who left Aachen empty-handed despite finishing second behind the Danish duo in the Grand Prix to lead Belgium to fourth (6.382% off a team medal), but at least that placing secured the Belgians their Olympic team quota place for Los Angeles 2028. Charlotte (Lottie) Fry, who claimed historic back-to-back double world championship titles with Glamourdale and led GBR to team silver, notably posting a PB 91.907% to win the Freestyle, retains her hold on third, while the first of Germany’s golden quartet – Isabell Werth – is fourth. Fry’s teammate Becky Moody is fifth.
For Canada, Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu still sits 27, while Camille Carier Bergeron has improved from 73rd to 64th. Fraser-Beaulieu remains in 3rd spot in the 2* rankings.
Eventing*: Price is right at top
Tim Price retains his place at the top of the world rankings, even though hopes of either mirroring or improving his Pratoni 2022 team and individual bronze were denied last month when he and Falco ended in 21st at the world championship in Aachen, and New Zealand finished more than seven rails off the third step of the podium. But Team New Zealand were among the seven nations that earned Olympic quota places for LA28, and personally, Price’s rankings tally still keeps him in the world number one slot. Boyd Martin, part of the USA quartet that claimed team bronze in Aachen, is up one place to second, while team gold and individual bronze medallist Laura Collett (GBR) is also on the ascent, moving up from seventh to third. Harry Meade (GBR), former occupant of the number two slot, is down to fourth, while Great Britain’s Tom McEwen remains fifth.
The only Canadian eventer in the top 100 currently is Waylon Roberts, 95th.
* A revised points system for the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings was voted in by National Federations at last year’s FEI General Assembly as part of the full Rules revision for Eventing. The amended text for these Rules is available here. The system continues to take into account the number of Dressage starters per Event but now with updated percentages weighted in favour of Events with higher number of starters. Following some technical issues earlier in the year, this has now been fully implemented in the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings no. 237, which includes results from 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026.
Para-Dressage: Shoemaker returns to number one
Kate Shoemaker, who had a brief one-month stint at world number one in the end-June rankings, has returned to the top after collecting triple gold at last month’s FEI World Championships in Aachen. The athlete proved unbeatable with the lovely 10-year-old mare Vianne in Grade IV and also led the USA quartet to team gold and overhauling teammate and Grade II leader, Fiona Howard to go back in front. Grade I individual medallist Mari Durward-Akhurst (GBR), who announced the retirement of Athene Lindebjerg immediately after Aachen, retains third ahead of Heidemarie Dresing (Grade II), top scorer in Germany’s silver medal foursome. Making her championship debut in Aachen, the USA’s Marie Vonderheyden (Grade I) also picked up triple gold to move up two places to fifth.
Canada’s 12-place Para Dressage team in Aachen have all improved their individual standings; Jody Schloss is now 23rd, Bert Sheffield is 33rd, Eleonore Elstone is 39th, and Laura Hall is 44th.
With a total of six Para Dressage golds overall – including those team honours in Aachen – the USA is now at the head of the team rankings. Germany, which took world silver on home footing, has moved up into second ahead of Great Britain in third. Denmark remains fourth, with the Netherlands up a place to fifth. Canada is 15th.
Driving: History-maker Exell stays on top
Boyd Exell, the freshly re-minted world champion from Aachen 2026 for a record eighth individual title plus team silver, has not surprisingly also held onto the world number one spot in the Four-in-Hand Rankings. The Australian has increased his advantage to leave him clear of Belgium’s Dries Degrieck, the man who added individual silver and team bronze at last month’s worlds to his FEI Driving World Cup™ Final victory earlier in the year. Tucked in neatly behind the leading duo are another golden pair, Bram Chardon and his father IJsbrand, who steered Team Netherlands to the top of the medal podium, as they have done over many years. Anna Sandmann, best of the fourth-placed German trio in Aachen, holds fifth.
Once again, there has been some reshuffling of the order in the Pairs and Singles, with the Netherlands’ Stan van Eijk returning to the top in the Pairs, and Marie Schiltz (LUX) moving up from fifth to world number one in the Singles. In Singles Driving, Canadian Kelly Bruder has dropped from 8th to 16th, and Carole Precious is now 91st. But the end-of-September rankings following this month’s World Single Horse Championship at München-Riem (GER) should shake up the rankings somewhat.
All Rankings here.
~ with files from FEI Communications
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