Jo and Florian Hendriks (Nijswiller, NL) crush the field in national Argenton Sector 1 with a 1-2-3-4-5 etc. of 9,512 pigeons

10,029 pigeons will take part in this year's international race from Marseille.

A few weeks ago, right after their incredible provincial top result from Blois, we wrote that their team was strong enough to claim a national first prize sooner or later, and look what happens: just 14 days later they take a coveted national victory from Montluçon of 14,104 yearlings.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 13/07/2019 and 14/07/2019.

Just two weeks after his prestigious first prize NPO from Issoudun Peter Janssen went on to win another top result: a national victory from Châteauroux.

The first place in National Flying Club Tarbes Grand National is the most coveted title in the UK pigeon sport without exception. It presents the biggest haul of silverware that can be won in any race in the country, accumulated in more than 100 years of the National Flying Club history.

A new racing weekend means that our PIPA rankings have been updated.

Mark Gilbert was hopeful of a bird on the day, although the northerly wind was against the pigeons over most of the 539 miles (868 km) his entries had to fly home.

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Barcelona is the blue ribbon race for the British International Championship Club as it is the longest race for all members. It is run in conjunction with the Barcelona International and this year 16,000b were liberated on the 5th July at 8:50am UK time.

Best Barcelona pigeon from Belgium over 2-3-4-5 seasons

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The International winner from St.-Vincent in the category "old birds" is Fortuin Ad (Strijen, The Netherlands). The pigeon was clocked on Sunday at 05:27:58 CEST after a race of 999.513 km, achieving an average velocity of 1052.16 m/min.

The National winner England from St.-Vincent in the category "old birds" is Gilbert Mark (Winkfield Windsor). The pigeon was clocked on Sunday at 06:00:09 CEST after a race of 868.973 km, achieving an average velocity of 884.77 m/min.

The National winner Belgium from St.-Vincent in the category "old birds" is Peiren Noel (Zedelgem). The pigeon was clocked on Saturday at 22:02:45 CEST after a race of 892.81 km, achieving an average velocity of 1005.7 m/min.

The Victoria Falls World Challenge Pigeon Race fifth hotspot race was held on Saturday 6th July 2019 from a distance of 450km. There was a strong tailwind for the race which, whilst resulting in high velocities for the first birds back, made the race a hard one for all the birds.