Sunday in Oslo. First indoor World Cup of the winter
The Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Western European League 2026/27 starts this week at the Agria Oslo Horse Show. Kirsty Pasto's FEI note of 7 October puts the first points on Sunday 11 October. Thirteen venues in ten countries. Only an athlete's best seven results count.
Steve Guerdat arrives as FEI Jumping World Champion from Aachen in August. He is chasing a fourth World Cup Final title. Thibeau Spits brings individual silver and team silver from the same championship. Marcus Ehning comes with team gold. Guerdat and Ehning sit in a group of four former Final winners entered for the opener, with Martin Fuchs and Henrik von Eckermann. Kevin Staut finished fifth at the 2026 Final in Fort Worth. Marc Dilasser was seventh in last year's Oslo qualifier.
World of Showjumping's 5 October entry list also names Andreas Schou, Manuel Fernandez Saro and Petronella Andersson. Norway has five World Cup places: Pål Flam, Geir Gulliksen, Johan-Sebastian Gulliksen, Mira Oliva Høidal and Marit Haarr Skollerud, named by Norges Rytterforbund on 30 September. Oda Charlotte Lyngvaer lines up at home after finishing 0.04 seconds behind Guerdat in the last qualifier of 2025/26 in Helsinki.
The calendar after Sunday
FEI's organiser list and the 7 October FEI release agree on the 2026 legs after Oslo: Lyon 27 October to 1 November, Verona 5 to 8 November, Stuttgart 11 to 15 November, Madrid 26 to 29 November, A Coruña 3 to 6 December, London-ExCel 16 to 21 December, Mechelen 26 to 30 December. 2027 resumes in Basel, then Leipzig, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, with Helsinki the last qualifier.
Gothenburg drops off the qualifying roster this season. It hosts the Final instead, 24 to 28 March 2027. The FEI notes Gothenburg staged the first World Cup Final in 1979.
The show itself runs 7 to 11 October at X-Meeting Point. NRYF says CSI5* classes start Friday 9 October, 1.40 m then 1.50 m, with the World Cup on Sunday. Organisers added a covered outdoor warm-up this year.
What last year's Oslo World Cup actually asked
Sunday's plan is not public yet. Last year's opener is. On 19 October 2025 Alice Watson wrote for the FEI that Elio Travagliati (ITA) built the first indoor of that season. Most verticals sat at 1.60 m. Eleven combinations reached the jump-off.
The line that collected rails was measured. Fence 9 to a one-stride vertical-oxer at 10a/b sat on a curving five strides of 23.30 m. Then 20.20 m, rideable on four or five, to a plank at 1.60 m as fence 11. Early combinations carried too much canter into 10a. The next group rode 10a and faulted 10b. Kevin Staut and Gerrit Nieberg both lost the plank. The first clear came from the 18th combination, Sanne Thijssen. She took the four-stride option from 10b to 11. Most of the field copied her after that.
Her jump-off was 38.28 seconds. It was the only round under 40 seconds. Related distances with a stride choice, a light plank after a combination, a short track that still asks for balance.
FEI Jumping Rules 2026 Article 241.1.2 still wants an indoor arena of at least 1,200 m² with a short side of 25 m. A 20 m club school misses that width. Build from a 20 × 60 indoor that still rides and related distances in a 20 × 40. Travagliati's 23.30 m will not sit on a 20 m wall.
What to do before Sunday
Watch the CSI5* 1.50 m on Friday and the World Cup on Sunday. Write down fence count, the combination, and whether the four or the five from the double to the last related actually rode. Then open the designer, set a real indoor, and put one curving five-stride into a one-stride double. Leave a four-or-five after it. Keep the plank light if you use one. Leave 1.60 m for Oslo.
