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The World Dressage Championships is held every four years. The best horse and rider competitions in the world compete for individual and team titles. The Dressage World Championship is since 1990, held at the World Equestrian Games in conjunction with other equestrian world championships.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Germany | 21 | 9 | 11 | 41 |
| 2 |  Netherlands | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 |  Great Britain | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 |  Denmark | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 |  Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 |  Switzerland | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 |  United States | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 |  Spain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 |  Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 |  East Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (11 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 | |
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The FEI World Equestrian Games are the major international championships for equestrianism, and are administered by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The games have been held every four years, halfway between sets of consecutive Summer Olympic Games, since 1990. Prior to that year, all ten of the FEI's individual disciplines held separate championships, usually in separate countries. The modern WEG runs over two weeks and, like the Olympics, the location rotates to different parts of the world. Riders and horses competing at WEG go through a rigorous selection process, and each participating country sends teams that have distinguished themselves through competition as the nation's best in each respective discipline. At the 2010 Games, 57 countries were represented by 800 people and their horses.
Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anky" van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event. Along with her Olympic successes, she has won numerous medals at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), and is the only rider to have competed at every WEG since they began in 1990. Between 1990 and 2006, she competed at the Games in dressage, but in 2010 she was named as part of the Dutch reining team, marking a major change in discipline.
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