The International Tent Pegging Federation (ITPF, ar, الاتحاد الدولی لإلتقاط الأوتاد), formerly known as the World Tent Pegging Federation is the international

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of the

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discipline of

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. The ITPF is responsible for the organisation of tent pegging's major international tournaments, notably the

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which commenced in 2014, and other international events. ITPF headquarters is at

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History

ITPF was founded as the World Tent Pegging Federation on 21 March 2013 at the World Tent Pegging Championship held in Gurgaon (Haryana), India by the representatives from India, England, Australia, Pakistan, Oman, Iraq, USA, Canada, Egypt, Sudan, Germany, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Kazakasthan, Jordan and Lebanon. India through its National Federation, The Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) represented by Col. (Retd) Sarpartap Singh and major World Tent Pegging Promoter Mr. Ahmad Afsar, in consultation with Malik Ata Muhammad Khan of Pakistan, pushed a meeting for all representatives of 17 countries that were participating in the World Equestrian Tent Pegging Championship in India. This meeting marked the beginning of Unification of Tent Pegging playing countries of the world. India through its major organiser, Equiwings Sports had sustained and conducted International and Asian Equestrian Tent Pegging Championships in 2010, 2012 prior to the World event in 2013. Mr. Ahmad Afsar's first lecture for formation of Equestrian Tent Pegging Federation was recognition of the Thrilling Sport of Tent Pegging as an Olympic discipline from International Equestrian Federation (FEI) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Following the meeting, in

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on 27 October 2013 on request of the head of FEI Group 7 countries the organisation changed its name to the “International Tent Pegging Federation”.

International Tent Pegging Federation meeting Oman (27-10-2013)

Members

At its founding, the ITPF had 29 member countries:

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, Australia,

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Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

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Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

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, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden,

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, UK,

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, and

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

Executive committee

The executive committee was elected on 27 October 2013 and stand for 4 years. * President: Mohammed Issa Al Fairuz (Oman) * Vice President: Yousef Alhoti (Oman) * General Secretary: Hitham Allawati (Oman) * Asst General Secretary :Salim Albulushi(Oman) Officials of International Tent Pegging Federation

Officials of International Tent Pegging Federation

* Col Sarpartap Singh (India) *Pat Vorster (South Africa) *Talib Dhahir Al Muhairi (UAE) *Khalid Safer Al Hajri (Qatar) *Eng Hisham Hattab (Egypt) *Neville Rathbone (Australia) *Haider H Al Jumaili (Iraq) *Paul Brown BEM (UK) *Akaash Maharaj (Canada) *Rafat Abdel Rahman Bella (Sudan) * Ahmed Husain Zubair ( USA)

Events

World Cup

The ITPF World Cup takes place throughout the world with qualifying members leading to a final event. After the formation of the federation, the world body decided to launch its own World Cup competition. The first and the inaugural Tent Pegging World Cup was organised by the Oman Equestrian Federation (OEF) at Al Rahba Farm, Barka, Oman from March 31 to April 4, 2014. The participant countries were Pakistan, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, South Africa, Britain and Australia who qualified the Sudan and Pakistan qualifying events in January and February respectively. South Africa won the event by a total of 758.5 points and clinch the enviable honour of being the first world champions. Oman got second position with 693.5 points. Sudan, who finished with 654 points, took the third place.

World Cup history

* The World Cup began in 2014

Representation in the FEI World Equestrian Games 2014

2014 FEI World Equestrian Games were held at

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from 23 August from 7 September by the FEI. The FEI had invited the Vice President of International Tent Pegging Federation Malik Ata Muhammad Khan with full tent pegging team to give a demonstration of tent pegging to all the equestrian players who came there from all over the world. Malik Ata taught them the basics of tent pegging, rules, methods how tent pegging is done. Haroon Bandial, Namdar Rehmat, Syed Wamiq Shah and Raja Zarrar Sajjad were part of the team.

Photo gallery

File:ITPF World Cup trophy 2014.jpg, Saad bin Mohammed Al Mardhouf Al Saadi, minister of sports Oman unveils the trophy of the 2014 Tent Pegging World Cup along with Mohammed bin Issa Al Fairuz, the president of ITPF File:South African team with World cup trophy 2014.jpg, South African team with World cup 2014 trophy File:Prince Malik Ata with Pakistan team in France 2014.jpg, ITPF Vice President Malik Ata with Pakistan team at world equestrian games France 2014

References

External links

Official website of ITPFOfficial Facebook Group
{{International Sports Federations Equestrian organizations International sports organizations Sports organizations established in 2013