What and where?
The 2022 Equestrian World Championships will be held on classic equestrian grounds in Herning, Denmark, located in Jutland, the place where the Swedish show jumping team won bronze at the European Championships in 2013. Equestrian's first combined World Championships were held in Stockholm in 1990 and have since been held every four years, most recently in Tryon, USA. 2018.
In Herning, Sweden has participants in all four branches;
jumping, dressage, vaulting and paradressage.
SVT broadcasts all competitions in jumping and dressage as well as covering paradressage and vaulting.
Here you can follow the competitions in SVT Play.
Commentator: AnnaMaria Fredholm.
Expert: Gunilla Byström.
Program leader and reporter: Maria Wallberg.
Broadcast times day by day
Saturday 6 August
Dressage Team Day 1, Grand Prix, 10.55-14.20 SVT2/SVT Play
Dressage Team Day 1, Grand Prix, 15.15-20.00 SVT Play (19.00-20.00 SVT2)
Sunday 7 August
Dressage Team Day 2, Grand Prix, 10.55-14.20 SVT Play
Dressage Team Day 2, Grand Prix, medal ceremony, 15.15-20.30 SVT Play SVT2 (15.15-17.00 & 18.00-20.30) SVT1 (17.00-18.00)
Monday 8 August
Dressage, Individual, Grand Prix Special, medal ceremony, 13.25-20.30 SVT1/SVT2 (channel change at 18.00)
Wednesday 10 August
Jumping Individual, day 1, time jumping, 10.50-17.00 SVT1
Dressage Individual Kür, medal ceremony, 19.55-23.30 SVT2/SVT24 (channel change at 21.00)
Thursday 11 August
Jumping Team Day 1 12.55-19.00 SVTPlay (12.55-18.00 SVT1)
Friday 12 August
Jumping Team Day 2, medal ceremony, 20.50-00.00 SVT1
Sunday 14 August
Jumping Individual final, medal ceremony, 13.45-17.00 SVT1
More about the WC jumping
After last year's Olympic gold in jumping, the Swedish team has continued to impress the jumping world with great individual successes.
As a team, they are heavily favored and go to the WC with the stated goal of winning gold.
In addition, Peder Fredricson, Henrik von Eckermann and Malin Baryard Johnson are mentioned as strong medal candidates individually and are pre-registered with the Olympic horses All In, King Edward and Indiana.
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Sweden has never been this much favorite ahead of a WC.
They have Olympic gold behind them and all three from Tokyo have delivered great individual victories since then.
King Edward is probably even better now than a year ago, All In is in itself a year older, but Peder Fredricson wouldn't choose him if he wasn't in super form.
Indiana and Malin Baryard are also super strong, says SVT's jumping expert Lotta Björe.
How do you view the other nations?
- I think Germany will be enormously strong;
Ahlman who has won a lot this year, Thieme who took double wins in Falsterbo and then Marcus Ehninng at that, not easy to beat.
Belgium, bronze medalists in Tokyo with a strong season and Great Britain with both reigning Olympic champion Ben Maher and Scott Brash are also very good.
And then we have the USA, who we beat in the Olympic jump-off but lost the jump-off against at the last WC.
The team competition is decided in two rounds where the medals are awarded on Friday 12 August.
Individually, Wednesday's time jumping, both team rounds and Sunday's final are counted together to crown the winner.
Should teams or individual crews end up with the same number of faults, there will be a re-jump over a shorter track in time.
In the team competition, the three best results out of four are counted together.
More about the WC dressage
The dressage team is coming off a summer with a nice podium at the very prestigious Nations Cup in Aachen and they also took home the team victory in Compiégne, two benchmarks where they faced strong international opposition.
Patrik Kittel, fourth and fifth individually at the last WC, has had one of his strongest seasons so far in his career and, together with Touchdown, he is already around the top five of the teams at the start.
With 233.63 percent, Sweden is fourth best when you add up the riders' personal bests.
Just over one percent after Great Britain.
- On paper it looks promising, but then reality comes and then it's hard to know.
The traditional top nations often rise and Sweden must too, says SVT's dressage expert Gunilla Byström.
In the team competition, she believes in cheering at home.
- If you count on personal bests, Great Britain barely wins before Denmark, but I think Denmark will win the gold.
Cathrine Laudrup Dufour is an enormously strong card and for two of the Englishmen the personal records are relatively old.
For dressage, the team medals are awarded on the Sunday after the Grand Prix.
The top 30 in that class advance to the Grand Prix Special where the first individual medals are awarded.
There, the 15 best go on to the kúre, for many the crown jewel of the WC dressage, where additional individual medals are awarded.
At the 2018 WC, the race was canceled due to a storm passing Tryon.
More about dressage and vaulting
The para dressage is decided between Wednesday 10 August and Sunday 14 August with the classes Individual Championship, Team Championship and Individual Dressage and medals are awarded in all classes.
In paradressage, the competition classes are divided into different grades, based on the riders' classified disability.
There are five different grades and at the WC the teams must contain at least one rider from one of the three lower grades.
In addition, teams may not contain more than two riders per grade.
For Sweden, the strongest cards are Louise Etzner Jakobson, who has several EC and Olympic medals already, and Lena Malmström, who has achieved strong international results in tough competition this season together with Fabolous Fidelie.
In vaulting, Sweden's Ella-Filippa Velander competes individually and Team Swea in teams.
They compete Saturday August 6th through Wednesday August 10th and medals are awarded August 8th and 10th.
The four-team driving and the field competition will instead be decided at the WC in Italy's Pratoni del Vivaro in September.