Australia’s Boyd Exell, pictured here with Daan, Hero, Mad Max and Mister Bono Van ’t Hooge in the Aachen 2026 Marathon on his way to a record eighth individual title in the FEI Driving World Championship Four-in-Hand, is still untouchable at the head of the Driving Four-in-Hand Rankings.

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The FEI oversees around 70 Rankings and Standings across all the disciplines, from World Rankings calculated on a monthly basis for Athletes, Horses and/or Combinations, to league, team and regional based standings for Series such as the Longines League of Nations™, FEI World Cup™ and FEI Nations Cup™. The FEI rankings also include a variety of youth categories, which are featured separately later in the month.

Longines Rankings:

Richard Vogel (GER), who has taken over as world number one in the Longines Rankings for the first time in his career, featured in a dedicated press release that was distributed to media on 3 September.

Longines League of Nations™ Ranking: Team USA holds on to top spot 

Team USA continues to resist all challenges at the top of the Longines League of Nations™ (LLN) Ranking, sitting pretty at the head of affairs on 14,827 points 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 – but still 516 adrift – are none other than the newly crowned champions, Germany, who have overhauled Belgium for second place on 14,311. The Belgians, who were also one spot below the Germans on the Aachen 2026 podium, are 85 points off the pace, with the world bronze medal team Great Britain up a place to fourth on 13,988. Although Ireland’s medal hopes were dashed with a seventh-place finish and a drop on the LLN ladder to fifth on 13,938, the Aachen performance was still enough to earn an Olympic team quota place for Los Angeles 2028. France remains sixth on 13,500, ahead of Switzerland on 11,573. Brazil (10,517) is up one place to eighth at the expense of Italy (10,496) and the Netherlands (9,676).

FEI Dressage World Rankings: 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 although there are new points tallies for each of them, with the leading trio now all notching up over 2,000. Laudrup-Dufour sits on 2,058, just 21 points 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 with 2,014, while the first of Germany’s golden quartet – Isabell Werth – is fourth on 1,965. Fry’s team-mates Becky Moody (fifth, 1,783) and Carl Hester (sixth, 1,691) are next in line, followed by a new face in seventh – German team gold medallist Katharina Hemmer – up from 10th on 1,670. Winner of the biggest mover of the month title is Maria von Essen (1,455), up from 197th to 17th after partnering Invoice to ninth in the Grand Prix Special and helping earn Sweden its LA28 quota place.

FEI Dressage World Ranking – Horses: Freestyle still dancing ahead 

Mount St John Freestyle, the mare partnered by Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour to her seventh win of the year when claiming the Aachen 2026 Grand Prix honours as well as three medals and an Olympic team quota place for Denmark, is still dancing ahead of the opposition in the dedicated Horses ranking. Posting a points tally of 2,058, Freestyle sits ahead of Belgian stallion Zonik Plus (Justin Verboomen) on 2,037, with double-double world champion Glamourdale (Lottie Fry, GBR) third on 2,014. Isabell Werth’s team gold and individual Freestyle bronze medal ride Wendy de Fontaine is fourth with 1,965, followed by British pair Jagerbomb (Becky Moody, 1,783) and Fame (Carl Hester, 1,691) in fifth and sixth. Highest of the climbers is Team Germany’s golden Bluetooth OLD (Frederic Wandres), up from 178th to 11th on 1,546.

FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking*: 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 554-point 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 on 528, while team gold and individual bronze medallist Laura Collett (GBR) is also on the ascent, moving up from seventh to third with 489. Harry Meade (GBR), former occupant of the number two slot, is down to fourth on 485, while Great Britain’s Tom McEwen (484) remains fifth, ahead of fellow Aachen team gold medallist and individual silver winner Ros Canter, up from ninth to sixth on 479. There are a couple of other important improvers immediately behind, with Will Coleman (USA) jumping up from 14th to seventh after just missing the individual podium in fourth but leading the US claim to team bronze, while the newly enthroned individual world champion and team silver medallist Michael Jung (GER) is up from 16th to eighth. 

* 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. 

FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team: 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, boosting her personal points to 2,259 and overhauling team mate and Grade II leader, Fiona Howard (2,198) 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 on 2,133, 15 points 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 on 2,041.

With a total of six Para Dressage golds overall – including those team honours in Aachen – the USA is now on 1,377 points at the head of the team rankings. Germany, which took world silver on home footing, has moved up into second on 1,342, five points ahead of Great Britain in third. Denmark remains fourth on 1,329, with the Netherlands up a place to fifth on 1,325 after taking world team bronze.

FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand / Pairs / Singles: 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, whose tally now stands at 245, has increased his advantage by a further three points to leave him nine 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 (217 points) and his father IJsbrand (181), 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 on 169, while Chester Weber’s personal best dressage test and team bronze for the USA has bumped him up the order from eighth to sixth on 153.

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. Sitting on 79, van Eijk has overtaken the end-July leader Lars Schwitte (GER) by just two points, followed by a trio of Polish Drivers led by Rafal Wojtacha on 59. The elevation of Luxembourg’s Marie Schiltz in the Singles division comes after an impressive one-two at last month’s Danish 3* in Morkov–Raevebjerg for an end-August total 78, which boosted her 10 points clear of former number one Mario Gandolfo, but the Swiss Driver could well return the favour in the end-September rankings following his team gold and individual silver medal haul at this month’s world championship at München-Riem (GER).

FEI Endurance Riders and Trainer World Rankings: Theolissat still bossing it 

Melody Theolissat continues to dominate the Riders Rankings on an end-August total of 1,049, but once again fellow Frenchwoman Virginie Atger is moving closer. She is now within 110 points of the top slot, but there’s just a single point between her and another woman flying the French tricolour, May Manifacier, who remains third. Bahrain’s Isa Hameed Dakheel Al Anezi, up one to fourth on 878, is the only non-French athlete in the top-six, which is completed by Victor Fabre Carlus, up from 16th to fifth on 869, and Elena Paton, up three to sixth with 832.

The dedicated Trainers ranking sees Bahrain’s Ahmed Jaafar Janahi holding the number one spot for the fifth month in succession. His total of 1,428 leaves him 250 points clear of the UAE’s Ali Nasser Sultan Alyabhouni Aldhaheri, who stays second on 1,178. Mohammed Ahmad Ali Al Subosi (UAE) on 1,109 and Pio Olascoaga Silveira (URU) with 1,105 complete an unchanged top four.

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