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Preliminary result in PIPA-ranking: Best old bird with 2 prizes in the one day long distance races. The available national, zonal and provincial results of Limoges I, Valence, Cahors were taken into account for this ranking.

Preliminary result in PIPA-ranking: Best old bird with 3 prizes in the one day long distance races. The available national, zonal and provincial results of Limoges I, Valence, Cahors were taken into account for this ranking.

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Last week PIPA took up the invitation of another very interesting club of dedicated pigeon fanciers from Portugal and has visited the island of Sao Miguel (also called The Green Island), which is the main and the biggest island of the Azores with approximately 120 000 inhabitants.

The National winner Belgium from Cahors in the category "old birds" is Vandenheede Freddy en Jacques (Zingem). The pigeon was clocked on Sunday at 15:24:14 CEST after a race of 730.181 km, achieving an average velocity of 1406.27 m/min.

Yesterday Davy Tournelle made a great result from the interprovincial race Blois, 461km. Special Lady was the fastest pigeon of 4,666 pigeons. She is a double granddaughter to his superbreeder Torres.

Top international competitors, Geoff and Catherine Cooper from Peasdown St John in the UK, compete in a series of national races as a prelude to the international race programme. Starting at distances of 300km through to 500km, these hours on the wing are vital to allow the international team to compete at races over 800km.

Aged of 84 years, Michel Dauchez just decided to call it quits. In France, he is considered as one of the best sprint and middle distance racers from the history of our sport thanks to a career of 40 years. His success, he owes it thanks to an exceptionnal strain built around the pigeons of the Janssen brothers from Arendonk.

The pigeons of the highly renowned Hok Jos Vercammen from Vremde perform at their best in hard conditions; they would often blow their opponents out of the water in tough weather. They showed how it's done in the provincial race from Issoudun.

With the flight from Pau on June 21, 2019, the annual Euro Diamond Pigeon championship starts. Registration is simple and cheap: € 10 for 2019 or € 50 for a five-year membership card for the period 2019-2023.

In a season of extremes Marcel Sangers has turned out to be a consistent performer, claiming top results at the highest level! With the last sprint of the old birds' race competition done and dusted, the multi-winner from Eefde is now 1st not nominated and 2nd nominated in the regional sprint championship.

Two hundred and twenty-eight members sent one thousand, seven hundred pigeons to the British Barcelona Club race from Cholet. After a one day holdover due to bad weather they were liberated at 07.15 CEST into light cloud with no wind. The following is a report on the provisional result based on members' verifications.

Once again Les Green (Manchester, UK) has had an excellent start to the season in 2019, despite some challenges prior to racing commencing. Here we look at Les' racing and results so far...

The pigeon to hold first place in the PIPA ranking over the first three national races of 2019 is none other than Blauwe Witoog BE17-6053446. In addition, the team's first and second nominated were the first pigeons to be clocked both in Bourges and Chateauroux. A touch of class!

A total of 6,898 pigeons will participate in the national race from Cahors. This means 542 pigeons more than last year, when 6.356 pigeons were basketted Click here for the number of pigeons per club