Ski joëring

The ski joëring is a sporting discipline combining the ski and the equestrian attachment , although there exists a canine form of the activity. It is practiced with a Cheval or a Poney harnessed which draws the skier thanks to a rigid framework.

The skis should not exceed 1,50 m not to obstruct the horse. This sport is practiced on rammed snow, in career closed, on the tracks or more rarely on ways. This discipline is appropriate as well to the skiers as with the riders.

The ski joëring was presented in sport of demonstration to the Olympic Games of St Moritz (1928).

History

The origins of the ski joëring go back to 2500 years before Jesus-Christ, date on which one finds the first traces in Sweden of the “Shörekjöring”, ancestor of the skijoering, which is at the time only one means of transport. At the beginning, this activity was practiced by peasants who associated a need for work, displacement or leisures with the horse and the ski.

Initially means of transport, the ski joëring will evolve to the pleasure and the competition. The Swiss ones, inter alia, developed at the beginning of the 20th century this discipline with a tourist aim and competition of which most famous remain the races of Saint-Moritz.

At the end of the 19th century, forgotten winter equestrian disciplines reappeared locally. In France, the winter use of the horse disappears completely after the Second world war to reappear some ten years ago.

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