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XXXI Pigeon Olympiad Dortmund 2009

From left to the right: Teerapol Techavichian who is promoting his Thailand Grand Pigeon Race 2009 with a very well organised One Loft Race! , Dr. Henk de Weerd & Mrs.Zhang who is a vet and also owner of an animal hospital in Beijing. She is Belgica De Weerd agent in Beijing.
From left to right: Bart Hebberecht, Chris Hebberecht, Marc Pollin, Thai fancier who works at CP LOFT in Shanghai together with Mr. Narong Chiravanont at the right who just won 1st CHINA NATIONNAL RACE MORE THAN 60,000 BIRDS in Shanghai!
Jos & Gaby Thone with Teerapol Techavichian. Gaby is daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Peeters.
XXXI Pigeon Olympiad Dortmund 2009
Alexander & Gerald Mack, German topfanciers. They live in the extreme south east of Germany, near the Czech border. They are both big PIPA fans.
Frans Sablon accompanied by Danish pigeon fanciers. Frans was promoting his total auction which will be held next week.
Paulo Rodriguez from Supra, official importer of a.o. Bricon in Portugal.
Geert De Clercq, Ivan Baetens, Erik Limbourg & Jos Vercammen. Top fanciers united at the Bricon stand.
On this photo a.o. Arjan Beens, top long distance fancier in The Netherlands. Also Roel van den Burg & Raymond Moleveld, both owners of breeding stations in The Netherlands
Jef & Ulrich Lemmens, Belgian topfanciers. Recently they invested a lot at the total auction of Frans Rondags.
Henk Jurriens & Evert-Jan Eijerkamp, representatives of Hans Eijerkamp & Sons at the Olympiad. They won 2° Olympic Pigeon Middle Distance this year!
Friedhelm Menne together with his wife and daughter. In 2007 this combination succeeded in winning 1° International Barcelona!
Teerapol Techavichian, one of the 9 members of the famous Techavichian Brothers. Together with PIPA they published a unique catalogue for this Olympiad.
Luc Houben together with some friends of Thailand.
Hok Smits-Mellaerts, they succeeded in winning 1° National La Souterraine Young birds in 2008. Their pigeon was also the fastest of the whole race.
Kris Cleirbaut, recovering from a long night...
In the middle and on the right you see the organisers of Parra Negra. They are making promotion for their One Loft Race at this Olympiad. Also on this photo is Jan Polder, Piet de Vogel & Frans van Peperstraeten, representatives of this race in The Netherlands.
On this photo: Gerrit Van Eikenhorst at the left (chief editor of Dutch pigeon magazine Het Spoor der Kampioenen), Kjelt Spithoven (loft manager of Gerard Koopman), Marcel Sangers, André Leideman (secretary at Gerard Koopman and top fancier himself), and the famous Vredeveld family.
View on the stand of Versele-Laga with on the photo a.o. Nico Jan Koenders, Wim Boddaert & Stefan Mertens.
Some fans of Brockamp pigeons with at the right Daan Besseling, owner of almost 20 direct Brockamps from all the best like Euro Diamond, George, 1° Nat. Perpignan & Super Bordeaux. Dr. Hans-Peter Brockamp himself is next to him. Then you see Ian Steppard & Lynne Radford, last week he was a strong competitor in the Brockamp auction where he could purchase 2 pigeons at the end. At the left Piet de Vogel.
Main entrance of the Westfallenhallen in Dortmund.
Mr. Sava Dorel at the left. In the recent Brockamp auction he was succesfull in purchasing a wonderful child of Mistral.
Mrs. Britta Brockamp & Thomas Gyselbrecht, representing PIPA at this Olympiad.
The impressive stand of Geraldy.
Jaap Koehoorn together with his wife.
Pieter & Gea Veenstra with their lovely son Gerrit. In the middle famous PIPA bidder Great Wall.
Overview of the German National Acepigeons.
Bas & Gerard Verkerk, one of the stars at this Olympiad with 1° & 2° Olympic Pigeon All Round The Netherlands.
The Dutch Olympic pigeons
The Belgian Olympic pigeons
All European countries were present at this Olympiad, on this photo the stands of the Olympic pigeons of Italy, Germany, Romania, France & Poland
Several times a day the Olympic pigeons were given food and water.
The Olympiad pigeons.
The Olympiad pigeons.
Thomas Gyselbrecht next to the 1° & 2° Olympic Pigeon Short Distance of The Netherlands, won by Johan van Boxmeer & Anne Van Meerkerk.
Gerard Verkerk and Harm Vredeveld.
Hans-Peter Brockamp invited some friends the Friday evening for a nice dinner...
The partner of Hans-Peter Brockamp and the parents of Hans-Peter.
Hans-Peter giving a speech. Dr. Hans-Peter Brockamp and his father won the 1st Olympiad pigeon 2009 on the Marathon in Germany. They also won in 2007 the 3 first Olympiad pigeons on the Marathon. He probably owns the best collection of long distance pigeons in Europe for the moment.
Sjaak Buwalda & André Leideman.
Bas Verkerk and Paul Ung (from the partnership Sangers-Ung).
Marcel Sangers and Harm Vredeveld.
On the Brockamp dinner : Franz Steffl in the middle together with some friends...
Daan Besseling on the left and Guy Baerts and his wife on the right.
Gerard Verkerk, Harm Vredeveld and Kjelt ( loftmanager of Gerard Koopman ).
Gerard Koopman and Fons van Ophuizen.
Mrs. Van Ophuizen en Rainier Puttman.
The organisers of the dinner, Hans-Peter and his partner Britta.
On the Brockamp dinner...
Thomas, always surrounded by the most beautiful women.
In the evening in the hotel in the bar.
Excuse me ? What do you want to say Chantal ?
Jimmy, a chinese young translator
Piet Verbree and Henriette Leemhuis.
Again another woman Piet ? You really have to make your choice once ;-)
Bas Verkerk, very busy, in discussion with Shung Xia Ming. Bas and his father Gerard are the absolute number 1 in the Netherlands on the middle and one day long distance. Hard to believe that a 30-year old guy dominates the whole nation like Bas does...
Twin brothers, Rutz & Sons (on the photo you see the 2 sons). In season 2008 they succeeded in winning one of the most impressive results ever on Barcelona by winning 1°, 3° & 4° National Barcelona in Germany!
Peter Pillet on the left and his father.
Marc Pollin, his son Geert Pollin and the wife of Geert. The Pollin family won 1st Olympiad pigeon on the Marathon from Belgium in 2009 with their legendary Mortifer, a super pigeon !
Dr. Geronimo Branescu from Romania. A very very nice person, who races in partnership with Dr. Sorin Paul Stanescu. They are both loyal customers of PiPa.
Geronimo Branescu, Marcel Sanger and Peter vd Merwe.
Entrance of the Olympiad. One of the best Olympiads ever...congratulations for the organisation !
Mr. Jacob Poortvliet on the left.
Mr. Johnson from Taiwan and his son.
Jan Lotterman from the combination Jan & Kathy Lotterman, Dutch topfanciers.
On the right Mark King, South African pigeon fancier, accompanied by 2 South African pigeonfriends.
In the middle Rainer Puttman, owner of one of the biggest German pigeon magazines Brieftaubensport International. He also has an impressive breeding station with children Fieneke, Kleine Dirk,...
Norway fanciers, making promoting for the product Pigeon Vitality.
One of those other stars at this Olympiad, Jef van Winkel on the left. He represents Belgium with 2 Olympic pigeons. Next to him André Verbesselt, collector of the basic lines of De Rauw-Sablon
On the left combination Jespers-Van der Wegen. On the right Verreckt-Arriën. Both combinations had a very succesful 2008 season.
In the middle Rudi De Saer, strong racer in West Flanders. On the right Eric van de Kerckhove, faithful PIPA-member at the public auctions of PIPA.
From the left to the right: Gerard Verkerk, Wal Zoontjens, Bas Verkerk, Jan Duijn & Koen Minderhoud
XXXI Pigeon Olympiad Dortmund 2009
Didier Desmet & Georges Carteus. Didier Desmet climbed to the top of the National level for the long distance, mainly thanks to Georges Carteus birds.
All top fanciers on this photo, from left to right: Albert Derwa, Paul Huls, Frans Rondags & Danny Van Avondt
From the left to the right: Arie Dijkstra, topfancier in the north of The Netherlands, Britta Brockamp, Didier Desmet & H-P Brockamp
Having a quiet chat at the stand of Belgica-de Weerd.
From the left to the right: Teerapol Techavichian, Jos Veulemans, Xavier Verstraete & Theo Ceulemans
At the left Miet & Raf Herbots, representing the Herbots family at this Olympiad.
Chris Hebberecht in the middle, next to his son Bart. They were winners of the Thailand Grand Prix One Loft Race this year!
XXXI Pigeon Olympiad Dortmund 2009
The stand of Haspeslagh company, suppliers of all kind of products for racing pigeons.
Ype Hemstra together with his wife. They are promoting their One Loft Race German Open. They aim to have about 1.500 participating pigeons this year. A very well organised One Loft Race!
Again twin brothers, this time Reinhard Brothers, German topfanciers.
Jeroen & Willy-Jan Jacobs. Recently they purchased in the Jewels Of The Sky auction 1 Verkerk pigeon.
Combination Braad-de Joode, topfanciers in The Netherlands. They represented The Netherlands at this Olympiad with their superpigeon Home Alone, winning 1° Olympic Pigeon Long Distance this year.
Vanhee family at their stand with products and pigeons. Exhausted after a succesful Olympiad
On the right Mr. Positivo, Gert Jan Beute, famous columnist in The Netherlands.
A very nice lady preparing our food.
Preparation of the food...
Anne van Meerkerk on the left, winner of 2° Olympic Pigeon Short Distance 2009. Together with his friend Jelger Klinkenberg (not on this photo) they succeeded in winning several Olympic & National Acepigeons the last years. Because of their very busy professional lives they decided to auction all their best breeders & racers. This auction will be on PIPA and will start 9th of February. In this auction Olympic pigeons, Top 3 National Acepigeons, etc...
Vincent van de Kerk, member of the PIPA Team and responsible for a.o. Public Relations. Next to him his good friend John Aarts.
pipaadmin - 18/01/2009
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