Double gold medalist Peder Fredericson is the World's No.1 showjumper, and has captured the FEI's Best Athlete Award; while team-mate Henrick von Eckermann and King Edward have been crowned the €1.25 million Longines Global Champions Tour Super Grand Prix Champions.
Ebony Horse Club has won its second FEI solidarity award, 10 years after it first took the title.
The London club has been recognised as the best of the decade in this year’s international awards, which sought the winners of the past 10 years rather than just 2020 owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
It was the second award of the week for Ebony, whose horse Splash was named inspirational animal of the year in the 2020 Daily Mirror Animal Hero Awards.
Ebony general manager Naomi Howate told
H&H it was a fantastic week for the club.
“It’s been amazing to win these two awards,” she said. “We were the furthest back nominee as we won in 2009, so we weren’t fresh in people’s minds, and the others in the category were fantastic.
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Repeat winners were the order of the day in the latest edition of the FEI Awards, with dressage star Semmieke Rothenberger claiming the Longines FEI Rising Star Award for the second year in a row, and eventing legend Ingrid Klimke also taking back-to-back wins as Peden Bloodstock FEI Best Athlete.
With the FEI Awards Gala cancelled this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the winners were revealed online in a video narrated by British Paralympic champion Natasha Baker.
This year the task of choosing the best of the best from the past decade’s previous awards winners was entirely in the hands of the public who cast their votes for the 55 nominees from 19 nations. Over 70,000 votes were cast on FEI.org and on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. Podiums in each of the five categories were occupied by a global spread from Germany, Great Britain, Australia, China, Ireland, Palestine, South Africa, The Netherlands and Zambia.