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Only one show-jumping event per year and country carries the title CSIO – Concours de Saut International Officiel. To a CSIO, the National Equestrian Federations send four riders who form the official team. At the CSIO Switzerland, this team is identical with the National Team, consisting of 4 or 5 riders and their top horses, who are selected for Continental-/World Championships or Olympics. The highlights of a CSIO are the Grand Prix and the Nations Cup – competitions being part of yearly standings and counting for the world-ranking of riders and nations.

• Former winners of Swiss Nations Cups
• Former winners of Grand Prix Winners at CSIO Switzerland

CSIO Switzerland: A story with many highlights, full of sportive top-performances, lots of emotions, moments of cheering and disappointments; tenths of seconds and millimeters decide about victory or defeat. Young and unknown newcomers, riding like hussars, have left their marks in this history even during European Championships.

International top equestrian events in Switzerland are taking place since the century before last: 1884, the first “St. Galler Internationale pferdesporttage” took place, the precursor of today’s CSIO Switzerland.

Until the seventies, Lucerne and Geneva , until and incl. 2006 Lucerne and St. Gallen organized alternately the CSIO Switzerland, who is, since 1993, one of the top 4 outdoor equestrian events worldwide.

Since 1987, Peter Stoessel is the President of this outstanding event and he is the guarantor for the professional Planning and Organization of this world-class event.

Tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium and hundreds of thousands of TV viewers are watching the sport and the show in St. Gallen every year. In 2008, a crowd of 46.000 spectators came to the Gruendenmoos, one of the most beautiful outdoor equestrian stadiums in the world.