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Every
year the Federation Mondiale du Berger Belg (FMBB), an international society for Belgian
Shepherd Dogs, organises a huge competition of different events exclusively for Belgian
Shepherd Dogs for all four varieties. It is held in a different country every year and run under the
rules of the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Great Britain has been sending a team to the
BSD Agility Worlds since 2003.
2020
Official
Communication FMBB Championship 2020
We regret the decision to have to
cancel the FMBB 2020 World Championship in May, following the current pandemic
(COVID-19), and the health measures taken by all official instances which are
only getting stronger every day.
France has been declared as a
contaminated country. For the moment, gatherings of more than 1000 people in
France are prohibited. Following the evolution and spreading of the coronavirus,
the coming days, weeks, months, it will spread further and further over the
world. A consequence is that we will have few competitors present due to the
current and future restrictions imposed by the different authorities in many
different countries.
Since we normally receive over 40
countries from different continents, we would put everyone at high risk. The
FMBB acknowledges and assumes its responsibility in this matter. That is why the
world Championship is cancelled.
We fully agree and confirm the views
of our French organiser, the French Belgian Shepherd Association. They do not
have to put their technical staff, volunteers (often elderly) at risk, whom we
will put in contact with competitors, supporters, a large part of which will
have crossed Europe and more. It is, therefore, preferable to make this wise
decision to cancel or postpone.
Stop
press... The French Club of the Belgian Shepherd Doghas agreed to
postpone the FMBB World Championships to the week of 17 to 23 August 2020 on the
Aubigny sur Nčre site, the same period as the French National Breeding
exhibition Belgian Shepherds.
Selection Day News
The BSDA of GB and
WBSDS would like to invite all eligible Belgian Shepherd dog agility handlers to
register their interest for the GB Squad going to the FMBB World Championship
2020 being held in France at Aubigny-sur-Nčre between 12th and 17th May. The
Selection Day is to take place on Sunday, 1st March at Steventon in
Oxfordshire,
a short distance from the A34 at Milton
Tony Parmiter, GB Team Manager, explained. 'Usually the location for the
FMBB World Championship known at the end of the preceding year’s event or
shortly thereafter. This year, however, it took several months for the venue
for the 2020 event to be announced, further delayed further by the
withdrawal of Romania who are now planning to host in 2022 after Greece in
2021. The lead time for a host nation can be up to two years so it took a
while for France to step up to the mark which they did at the end of 2019.
'Unfortunately meant that Team GB missed our usual Selection Day window
around mid-November at Moreton Morrell College (Warks) where the trials have
been held in recent years. We have, therefore, needed to secure a suitable
indoor venue with equipment on a weekend ideally in February which also
avoided other events. Finding a location which is sufficiently accessible to
everyone has not been easy. We had been waiting for a newly-built venue to
open but this turned out to be too small as we require an arena of
sufficient size (40m x 25m) to set out FCI courses including width for
working space according to FCI / FMBB Rules.'
Email your name together with
Kennel Club/pet name of your dog, variety, gender, age, KC Grade/height and
contact details to Tony Parmiter by Sunday, 2nd February 2020.
2019
2019 GB Team Report
FMBB
World Championship 2019 – Czech Republic
It was an early meet in Kent for Eurotunnel on the Sunday for our journey
through France, Belgium and Germany and then an overnight
halt at Würzburg (Bavaria.) Next day it was onward to into The Czech Republic to Písek
in South Bohemia. The
venue was an hour from our base in the Bechynĕ Golf Resort and weather mixed,
sunny and breezy then cold with strong northerly wind and rain.
There were 154 competitors taking part in the Agility from 24 countries and 20
countries that qualified to take part in the Team competition.
Team Manager Tony Parmiter said, 'It is always a privilege and great
opportunity to represent Great Britain abroad and an exciting challenge to
compete at this level against so many from Europe and beyond who train and
run FCI courses the whole year.'
Representing Great Britain were:-
Team +
Individuals
-
Tony
Parmiter with Nightsabre Elara in Ebony AW/D (Groenendael)
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Gill
Raddings with Minka Quinton Zero (Terveuren)
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Agata
Wieczorek with Amazing Black Lady Yassalen (Groenendael)
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Tina
Simpson with Hawksflight The Phoenix AW/S (Terveuren)
Individuals
Results
Fitmin Open Cup (Jumping / Agility rounds)
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22nd Sue with Mischief
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25th Tony with Ebony
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32nd Gill with Zero
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38th Tina with Phoenix
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- -- Sharyn with Thula
World Championship (2 x Jumping / 2 x Agility rounds)
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11th Tony with Ebony
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17th Agata with Lilu
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74th Sue with Mischief
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91st Sharyn with Thula
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96th Gill with Zero
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- - Tina
with
Phoenix
GB Team results
-
Team Jumping
- 17th
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Team Agility
- 12th
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15th
-
Overall
 Tony
and Ebony represented GB in the Individual Final.
Afterwards he told Agilitynet, 'I was so pleased with Ebony. We were clear in
the Jumping round of the Fitmin Cup, but had an unfortunate E in the Agility and
in the World Championship finished 11th overall after the four qualifying rounds
(2 x Jumping and 2 x Agility). She worked really well, only clipping one pole
(my fault) and missing an A-frame off with R blind after. We qualified for the
Final, too. We were clear in both rounds ending up 23rd. I was especially proud
as she hurt her shoulder a little in the Jumping due to the slippery conditions,
and I had to take it steady in the Agility. We were the only GB pair to get both
the Team Jumping and Team Agility Clear.
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39th - Jumping
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26th - Agility
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23rd - Overall
The return journey was through The Czech Republic back into Germany to an
overnight halt at Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia). Then, for obvious reasons,
there was a brief visit to Tervuren in Belgium and onto France for
Eurotunnel. It was a 2,000-mile round trip and the only delays (potholes) were
once we got back to Kent the following Tuesday with inevitable queues/diversions
on M26 / M20 / M25.
With many thanks from all within Team GB for the support given by the BSDA of GB
and WBSDS. Special thanks to Jenny Kimber at Rogue Agility for her training
input.
FMBB WC 2020 will possibly be in Romania or Spain and then in 2021 it travels to
Greece.
Tony Parmiter (GB Team Manager)
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