Stan van Eijk (NED), pictured here during the FEI Driving World Championship for Pairs 2025 in Beekbergen (NED), has taken over as world number one in the Driving Pairs rankings on 86 points after finishing second in Saumur (FRA) © FEI / Wil Smeets

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: Farrington holds onto world number one

Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ champion Kent Farrington has held onto his world number one ranking for a second consecutive month, but there’s a new challenger champing at the American’s heels in the form of Germany’s 2025 European champion Richard Vogel. Farrington’s tally of 3,506 leaves him 195 points clear of second placed Vogel, whose latest success includes a spectacular Aachen Grand Prix win with United Touch S. Former world number one Scott Brash (GBR), who had already been relegated last month by his US rival, is down another slot and sits third on 3,305. Brash’s compatriot Ben Maher, who just missed out on Aachen’s three-way Grand Prix jump-off to finish fourth with Enjeu de Grisien, remains fourth on 3,083, with Belgium’s Gilles Thomas holding fifth on 2,984. Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam (2,940) is up one to sixth at the expense of Nina Mallevaey (FRA), who is down one in seventh on 2,834, but retains her highest-ranked female athlete sash. Rounding out the top-10 are Paris 2024 Olympic champion Christian Kukuk on 2,770, followed by the USA’s Laura Kraut, up from 11th to ninth on 2,755, with Steve Guerdat (SUI) down a place to 10th on 2,678.

Longines League of Nations™ Ranking: Team USA’s lead shrinks

Team USA continues its long-term dominance of the Longines League of Nations™ Ranking, but their main adversaries Belgium have narrowed the gap, creeping 128 points closer. The USA, which boasts four in the world’s top-20 – number one Farrington, Kraut (9th), McLain Ward (14th) and Karl Cook (16th) – sits on 15,392 for a 754-point advantage over the Belgians on 14,638. The top three nations remain unchanged, with Great Britain (13,991) still third, but Germany (13,835) has now overtaken France for fourth, leaving Les Bleus in fifth on 13,775. Ireland (13,658) and the Netherlands (11,276) are unmoving in sixth and seventh, and Switzerland also holds onto its eighth-place with 10,806, but there’s a reshuffling of the pack behind them that sees Italy (10,027) switching places with Brazil, just two points in arrears in 10th.

FEI Dressage World Rankings

Justin Verboomen (BEL), the new world number one in the FEI Dressage World Rankings, and his new world number one horse, Zonik Plus, featured in a dedicated press release distributed to media on 2 June.

FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking: xxx

The new world number one in the FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking, Tim Price (NZL), featured in a dedicated press release distributed to media on 10 June.

FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team: Howard keeps USA out in front

Fiona Howard, who has yet to bring out her Paris 2024 Paralympic gold medal partner Diamond Dunes this year, has nevertheless had a busy season and the American Grade II athlete added two more wins with her own Ferguston in Aalborg (DEN) last month to maintain her hold on the top spot in the world Para Dressage individual rankings. Sitting on 1,667, Howard stays out front but her lead over compatriot Kate Shoemaker (Grade IV) has shrunk to just 22 points. Germany’s Heidemarie Dresing (Grade II) stays third on 1,607, but there’s a new arrival in at number four in the form of Denmark’s Tobias Thorning Joergensen, who has shot up from 50th to fourth in the global rankings with 1,531 points, and has also taken over at the head of the Grade III standings. Equally impressively, Australia’s Lisa Martin has moved up 64 places from 74th to 10^th on 1,396, and now leads the Grade V rankings, in which she was previously 17th.

With Howard and Shoemaker both heading their individual Grades, the USA remains out in front in the team rankings on a total of 1,326 points. Great Britain (1,316) stays second, but Denmark has now moved up into third on the same score, relegating Germany (1,310) to fourth.

FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand / Pairs / Singles: Change and no change, that’s Driving!

There are changes at the top of both the Pairs and Singles Driving rankings, but Boyd Exell is – as always – the man of the moment in the Four-in-Hand division. The Australian is unchanged on points (193) and position (first), but Dries Degrieck is closing the gap. The Belgian driver is now within nine points of Exell after winning the mid-May FEI Driving World Cup™ qualifier in Windsor (GBR) on the back of four other victories this year already.

In the Pairs, Stan van Eijk (NED) has taken over as world number one on 86 points after finishing second in Saumur (FRA) at the end of the month to pole vault over former rankings leader, Lars Schwitte (GER), now four points behind in second. Marion Vignaud (FRA), who also finished second in Saumur but in the Singles category, has returned to her former position as world number one, moving up from third to take the lead on 74 points. Her closest challenger is Dutch driver Larissa Jansma, who is five points behind Vignaud and five ahead of the previous month’s rankings leader, Kelly Bruder (CAN), in third.

FEI Endurance Riders and Trainer World Rankings: No changes at the top

French domination continues in the world rider rankings, with five of the top eight representing France, and it is again Melody Theolissat who leads not just those five French females but the whole world at number one. The 36-year-old, who turns 37 later this month, brought out her 2024 world team gold and individual bronze medal partner Yalla de Jalima for an easy 120-kilometre ride on home turf at Castelsagrat to finish second, with the focus firmly set on much bigger goals for the latter half of the year. Theolissat, who sits second with Yalla de Jalima in the combination rankings, has a 15-point advantage over compatriot Virginie Atger on 1,055, up from fourth. May Manifacier completes the all-French top-three on 903 (up from fifth), with the 12-month rolling rankings seeing the late Yanno Mair (ARG) now fourth on 875. Making the biggest advance of the French contingent is Julia Montagne, whose runner-up spot in last month’s Castelsagrat CEI3* 160-kilometre ride with Chiara de Beders has boosted her from 19th to eighth on 796.

There’s no change at the head of the Trainers rankings either, with Bahrain’s Ahmed Jaafar Janahi marking his second month at world number one on an unchanged 1,328 points, while the UAE’s Mohammed Ahmad Ali Al Subosi has moved up a place to second on 1,172.

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