The FEI world rankings in April 2026

Jumping

Richard Vogel is so often victorious and top-placed that the colleagues at Reitturniere.de posted a message today, April 1st, that from now on they would only publish a summary report of all the 29-year-old’s successes at the end of the month. Thanks to all his ribbons, the rider from Württemberg has now worked his way up to third place in the world rankings, leaving three-time Olympic champion Ben Maher behind him.

Scott Brash (GBR) is still the leader on the course, followed by Wellington winner Kent Farrington.

Behind the quartet at the top, European team champion Gilles Thomas (BEL) was able to maintain his fifth place. With 14 clear rounds in a row on Dynastie de Beaufour, France’s Nina Mallevaey deserved her jump from seventh to sixth place. Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam (previously ninth) is now seventh, followed by Julien Epaillard (FRA), who maintained eighth place.

Olympic champion Christian Kukuk from Paris was sixth and is now ninth. The top ten is completed by Laura Kraut (USA), who was previously eleventh.

More Germans among the top 50

Apart from Vogel and Kukuk, three German show jumpers have made it into or stayed in the top 50 in the world:

24th (previously 25th) Daniel Deußer

27. (22nd) Sophie Hinners

42. (31st) Christian Ahlmann

Dressage

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour has regained the lead in the world rankings. She is the only Danish rider to have ever achieved this – but not for the first time. From February to May 2025, she was already number one in the dressage arena. What is particularly remarkable is that she was ranked 25th in the previous month. The big jump can be explained by the way the points are calculated. The results of an entire year are always included in the calculation.

The previous number one, double European Champion and Aachen winner Justin Verboomen, is in second place, followed by Isabell Werth, who has also dropped one place.

The same happened to the two Brits Charlotte Fry and Becky Moody, who are now fourth and fifth.

Norway’s Isabel Freese, on the other hand, improved by two places. She jumped from eighth place to sixth.

Patrik Kittel (SWE) was fifth and is now seventh. Belgium’s second World Cup winner of the season Larissa Pauluis was sixth and is now eighth. Sweden’s Maria von Essen also lost two places and is now ninth.

Raphael Netz, on the other hand, was able to hold on to tenth place.

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour was delighted, especially because her new position shows what a good team she and her top mare Freestyle have become:

“I am over the moon with Freestyle’s recent achievements. It’s been fantastic to feel how our partnership has grown over the last few months. I really feel like a unit with her now, and in Frankfurt and Herning they were the best rides of my life. Trials that I will never forget and trials that I would normally have expected years between. It’s a clear sign that Free and I are becoming true soul mates and when we dance together it’s on a higher level. I’m very grateful to my whole team for their great support.”

More Germans among the top 50

15th (previously 13th) Katharina Hemmer

19th (105th) Jessica von Bredow-Werndl

20th (21st) Frederic Wandres

28th (26th) Moritz Treffinger

29th (27th) Ingrid Klimke

42nd (43rd) Svenja Kämper-Meyer

You can find all the world rankings here.