«Chronicles of the Day»

News from the fields

On Sunday, 13 April 2008, the last participants worked tracking at the World Championship in tracking IPO FH in the Slovak Republic.

During four days we carefully watched what was going on and constantly received the information direct from the fields from our Czech colleagues.

The teams from 22 countries (43 conductors with dogs) participated in the competitions and if it wasn’t the only team from the USA, than as a matter of principle it would be the championship of Europe, as the 21 teams represented the trainers of the European countries.

The examination of tracking work was made by:

Frans Jansen	Zoltan Tatarko
Carmelo Sesto	Peter Mosbacher

Each country was represented by 2 participants, except for:

The ten participant countries had the reserves with them (the third conductor with the dog):

Austria – Hovavart,

Germany, Luxemburg, Finland – Malinios

Holland, Denmark, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland and Croatia – German shepherds.

Besides GSD in the competition took part the following dogs:

- 1 Tervueren from Denmark (94+96) 190 points – «very good» (on Saturday evening – the 5th result) as a result – the 10th place;

- 1 Labrador retriever – Austria (73+94) 167 points – «good» - 23rd place;

- 1 Rottweiler from Hungary (23+51) 74 points – « insufficient » - 41st place;

- 1 Holland shepherd from Luxemburg (3+82) 85 points – « insufficient » - 38th place;

- 5 Malinois – the Czech Republic (96+96) 192 points, Luxemburg (86+89) 175 points – 20th place, Belgium (73+84) 157 points – 27th place, Holland (93+90) 183 points – 14th place, France (52+92) 144 points – 29th place.

4 participants didn’t cope with tracking:

The USA (66+8) 74 points – 40th place

Hungary (23+51) 74 points – 41st place

Norway (23+42) 65 points – 42nd place

Serbia (8+52) 60 points – 43rd place

The work of Greg v. Haus Endrikat - F.Dreyer from Germany was very upsetting (62+94) 156 points – «insufficient» - 28th place.

In November 2007 he won the SV championship IPO-FH, and in February 2008 he won the championship in Germany (VDH) with the result of (100+98). At BSP-2007 in section «А» - 100 points.

But his team colleague K.Herglotz with Carry v.d. Woeste, which took the 2nd place at VDH-2008 (99+98), in Slovakia show the result of (94+100) 194 points – «excellent» - 3rd place.

The performance of Furby’t Palmaleinehof, the son of Zender vom Lusondai, from Croatia can be considered as the sensation of the world championship. In June he will be only 2 years of age, but his result is already (81+80) 161 points – «good» - 26th place.

By the way, the only kennel, represented by two participants in the championship, was Palmaleinehof.

The Average Dogs Age:

28 out of 43 dog trainers with their dogs fulfilled (met) the qualification at the World Championship 2008 in IPO-FH.

With the estimation “excellent” - 7 participants;

With the estimation “very good”- 11;

15 sportsmen didn’t get the qualification (34, 88 %).

At the world Championship the places were arranges in the following way.

Sportsman	Breed	Dog’s name	Country	Points
World champions IPO-FH 2008
D.Lipič	GSD	Zala Žitkova	Slovenia initially declared in the reserves	(100+95) 195 «excellent»
A. de Biase	GSD	Vicky du Coberland	Switzerland	(95+100) 195 «excellent»
3rd Place
K. Herglotz	GSD	Carry v.d. Woeste	Germany	(94+100) 194 «excellent»
P. Lengvarský	GSD	Jackson Eqidius	Slovakia	(94+100) 194 «excellent»
further
A. Myläri	GSD	Hettex A°din	Sweden	(95+97) 192
K. Kováč	malonois	Akim Alukuk	the Czech Republic	(96+96) 192
R. Diani	GSD	Vaja di Oroval	Italy	(96+96) 192
E. Panaková	GSD	Tiko Betkin dvor	Slovakia	(92+99) 191
R. Žagar	GSD	Kvant	Slovenia	(98+93) 191
B. Nelsen	tervueren	Lundin Loyalty Lorca by Fidji/Cindi	Denmark	(94+96) 190
J. Holmlund	GSD	Turbaz Frei	Sweden	(95+92) 187
I. Zemanová	GSD	Kája od hradu Lipky	the Czech Republic	(93+93) 186
L. Pisarczyk	GSD	Brita Psi Kantor	Poland	(93+91) 184
B. Kattenberg	malonois	Zippo van Fort Oranje	Holland	(93+90) 183
B. Kristensen	GSD	Svogerslevs Guzzi	Denmark	(97+85) 182
T. Alanen	GSD	Futuras Mocca	Finland	(89+93) 182
M. Delayre	GSD	Rox du Val d´Auzon	France	(92+90) 182
J. Marty	GSD	Roxa vom Hohen First	Switzerland	(85+96) 181
K. Otti	GSD	Harras v. Ritzensee	Austria	(81+96) 177
G. Schmidt	malonois	Micha des Loups des Mutins	Luxemburg	(86+89) 175
Юрий Лысенков	GSD	Argo Garliavietis	Russia	(87+88) 175
J. Hlavács	GSD	Schmoll-Kerti Emir	Hungary	(85+88) 173
R.Wagner	Labrador	Amira v.d. Krannebitter Klamm	Austria	(73+94) 167
N. Mandarič	GSD	King	Serbia	(72+90) 162
A. Govednik	GSD	Hex Aites Bohemia	The USA	(85+76) 161
F. Matekovič	GSD	Furby´t Palmaleinehof	Croatia	(81+80) 161
K. Denille	malonois	Zorck	Belgium	(73+84) 157
F. Dreyer	GSD	Greg v. Haus Endrikat	Germany	(62+94) 156
A. Letourneur	malonois	Rebelle de la Plaine des Cheyennes	France	(52+92) 144
G. Gjetrang	GSD	Vargfjells Chika	Norway	(71+72) 143
V. Kuosmanen	GSD	Musketeer´s Sieger	Finland	(79+55) 134
D. Leemans	GSD	Borra Van Blutsenhof	Belgium	(35+91) 126
A. Van de Stap	GSD	York´t Palmaleinehof	Holland	(31+94) 125
G. Pizzati	GSD	Asch	Italy	(86+27) 113
R. Morávek	GSD	Ambra z Malínskeho statku	The Czech Republic	(8+90) 98
Сергей Жиркевич	GSD	Brit z Ľubovho dvora	Russia	(87+10) 97
D. Peršin	GSD	Limbo vom Koriser See	Croatia	(3+93) 96
N. Haentges	Holland shepherd	Bas van Oranjemoed	Luxemburg	(3+82) 85
I. Mahoni	GSD	Kronis Mirta	Estonia	(80+3) 83
D. Trevino	GSD	Ghandi vom Kassler Kruez	The USA	(66+8) 74
A. Petrás	rottweiler	Yucon von Homgeiss	Hungary	(23+51) 74
B. Ellingsen	GSD	Atom´e br Oddvarg	Norway	(23+42) 65
P. Randič	GSD	Alfa Kacharska	Serbia	(8+52) 60

Only one point decided who will be the champion.

Teams Results of the
World Championship IPO-FH

One more championship has finished!

The preparation for the next one has begun! ...

Good Luck.

Photos from SV journal # 3 2008 and S. Girkevich’s photos were used during the preparation of this article