Federação Equestre Portuguesa

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Federação Equestre Portuguesa
Founded 1927
Place of foundation Lisbon
president Luís Manuel Cidade Pereira de Moura
societies 158
Homepage www.fep.pt

The Federação Equestre Portuguesa ( FEP ) is the umbrella organization for equestrian sports in Portugal . It is based at number 26, Avenida Manuel da Maia , in the Lisbon municipality of São Jorge de Arroios .

The FEP is a member u. a. in the world association Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), in the Portuguese sports umbrella organization Confederação do Desporto de Portugal and in the Comité Olímpico de Portugal , the National Olympic Committee of Portugal.

158 Portuguese equestrian centers are members of the FEP (as of September 2015) .

The FEP maintains its center of excellence ( Centro de Alto Rendimento ) in Golegã , under the name of Centro de Alto Rendimento para os Desportos Equestres - Hippos .

Luciana Diniz (here 2013 in Vienna), winner in Wiesbaden 2012

history

Portugal's riders won their first Olympic trophy with the silver medal in Paris in 1924 .

Today's FEP Riding Association was founded in 1927.

FEP riders then won further Olympic medals, for example in Berlin in 1936 and in London in 1948 .

It was recognized as a non-profit institution in 1977.

At the FEI European Championships 2015 the Portuguese team finished 11th (dressage) and 19th (jumping).

Gonçalo Carvalho at the Whitsun tournament in Wiesbaden 2013

Personalities

organization

structure

The president is Luís Manuel Cidade Pereira de Moura (as of September 2015) . He heads the six-person management. In addition to the four-person leadership of the association assembly ( Mesa do Congresso ), the FEP has four other organs:

  • Conselho Fiscal (Control Council, three members)
  • Conselho de Justiça (Legal Counsel, three members)
  • Conselho de Disciplina (Disciplinary Council, three members)
  • Conselho de Arbitragem (Arbitration Council, five members)

158 riding centers on the Portuguese mainland and the autonomous island regions of the Azores and Madeira are organized in the FEP (as of September 2015) .

President

  • 1927-1937: Filipe de Vilhena
  • 1938–1956: Manuel da Costa Latino
Rodrigo de Castro Pereira (here at the bullfight in 1936), u. a. Olympic tennis player 1924, President of the FEP from 1957
  • 1957-1967: Rodrigo de Castro Pereira
  • 1968–1971: Kaúlza Oliveira de Arriaga
  • 1972: Guilherme Correia Gyão
  • 1972–1974: Tomás Branquinho da Fonseca
  • 1975-1979: Jorge E. Rodrigues y Tenório Correia Mathias
  • 1979–1980: António Ferreira de Carvalho Freire Damião
  • 1980-1983: Manuel Costa de Castro
  • 1983–1986: Manuel Ferreira de Lima
  • 1986–1989: Jorge Soares Franco de Avillez
  • 1989–1993: Jorge Maria d'Orey Pinheiro (Arnoso)
  • 1993–1997: Paulo André Inácio Garrido
  • 1997-1999: Pedro Lynce Faria
  • 1999-2001: Duarte Nobre Guedes
  • 2001-2004: Eduardo Dias Netto de Almeida
  • 2004–2010: Luís Vaz d'Almada
  • Since 2011: Luís Manuel Cidade Pereira de Moura

Finances

FEP closed 2014 with a positive balance of € 27,782. Income of € 1,137,949 (of which € 654,645.53 from association activities, the rest from public grants) was offset by expenses of € 1,110,167.

The FEP is one of the few Portuguese sports associations with balanced finances amid the tense economic situation in the country and the government's rigid austerity policy as a result of the euro crisis , which also made significant cuts in grants to sports associations in its measures.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the FEP on its official website , accessed October 8, 2015
  2. ↑ List of affiliated equestrian centers on the FEP website , accessed on October 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Annual report of the FEP Directorate 2014 (pdf access; 827kb), p. 7f, accessed on October 8, 2015

Coordinates: 38 ° 44 ′ 9.7 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 11.2"  W.