Sunday, February 03, 2008

2008 WEC Qualification Review

A Brief Review of the Minimum Qualification Criteria for the 2008 World Endurance Championship, Malaysia, November 7-9, 2008

FEI: Article 825.3, section 3.1:
"To be qualified to participate in any Championship or any other CEI4* ride, a rider/horse as a combination has to have successfully completed a CEI 3* (or above) ride, the combination, in doing so, meeting the parameters and conditions as defined in art.825.4. This minimum qualification must be achieved within 24 months prior to the closing date of nominated entry."

  • The FEI has announced that the closing date of Nominated Entries for the 2008 WEC is August 21, 2008. Closing nomination date is October 1, 2008..


  • FEI: Article 825.4:
    "The rider/horse must:
    1. Successfully complete the ride equal to, or greater than, the published Championship or CEI4* distance (5kms tolerance allowed).
    2. Successfully complete the ride ... in a ride time equal to, or less than, 13 hours 20 mins. per 160km distance.
    3. Successfully complete the ride in the same time frame as the published Championship or CEI4*"

  • A CEI3* completed on or after August21 2006 with a ride time equal to, or less than, 13 hours 20 mins., meets this (825.3, 3.1) minimum qualification.


  • FEI: article 825.5 :
    "Additional Qualification Criteria applicable only to Malaysia 2008.

    To be qualified to participate in WEC Malaysia 2008 a rider/horse as a combination has to have successfully completed an additional FEI CEI 3* (or above) ride, the combination, in doing so, meeting the parameters and conditions as defined below. This additional qualification must be achieved within 12 months prior to the closing date of nominated entry.

    The rider/horse must:
    1. Successfully complete such additional ride equal to, or greater than, the published Championship or CEI4* distance (5kms tolerance allowed).
    2. Successfully complete such additional ride in a ride time equal to, or less than, 13 hours 20 mins. per 160kms distance.
    3. Successfully complete the ride in the same time frame as the published Championship or CEI 4*."

  • In order to qualify for Malaysia WEC, the same rider/horse combination must have completed TWO CEI3*rides: BOTH a CEI3* on or after September 1 2006 AND a CEI3* on or after August 21 2007.


  • In addition, per FEI article 825.6 :
    "1. Any horse qualified as per articles 825.3, 825.4 and 825.5 above that within 6 months of the closing date for nominated entries is elimiated from any FEI or National competition for Metabolic reasons, requiring immediate invasive treatment (while still under competition veterinary control), will forfeit such qualification.
    2. Any rider qualifed as per the articles above who, within 12 months of the closing date for nominated entries, is eliminated from any two consecutive events (FEI or National) for Metabolic reasons will forfeit such qualification."

  • Any HORSE which has a Metabolic Elimination (requiring invasive treatment) on or after February 21, 2008 will forfeit the qualification.


  • Any RIDER who gets 2 consecutive Metabolic Eliminations August 21 2007 and after, will forfeit the qualification.


  • Official PDF file with Qualification Criteria

    1 comment:

    Endurance.Net said...

    With regards to the 01Sept08 (nominated entry) cutoff date for the second CoC.

    This date is 11 weeks before the actual event. (with Definite Entries being 5 weeks b/f the event)

    The corresponding date for the 2006 Achen WEC was Nominated entries at 5 weeks b/f the event. (with Achen Definite Entries being 1 week b/f the event)

    Moving the Nominated Entries deadline by 6 weeks has effected the opportunity for riders from 11 countries to obtain their CoCs for 2008 WEC at CEI*** 160km rides which are scheduled between 1Sept08 and 14Oct08. These countries are:

    ESP, URU, CHI, POL, FRA, RSA, BRA, CZE, BOT, JPN, and USA

    That is, if the Nominated Entries where required in the normal 5 week advance, there would be 11 events at which riders/horses would have the opportunity to obtain their second CoC.

    jt

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