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World Championship Show
At the
2010 WBO meeting held in Portugal the concept of the WBO World Championship
Show was born and the foundation and guidelines were laid at the 2011
meeting held in Australia. At the 25th Anniversary meeting held
in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2019 those guidelines for such a show were updated
as follows:
WBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW GUIDELINES
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To coincide with the WBO Annual Delegates Meeting with venue and date to
be decided by the WBO meeting upon the received invitation of a member
society.
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To be organised with a WBO formulated standard classification.
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To follow the WBO guidelines on showing and judging including WBO
Standard.
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To be judged by judges on the approved WBO International Judges Panel
with consideration to as wide a geographical spread as possible and
approved by the WBO Executive Committee.
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To be awarded special and prestigious WBO patronage.
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To accept participation of birds and exhibitors from all WBO affiliated
societies only.
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To accept the collaboration of the foreign delegates in the different
tasks of the show organisation (feeding/watering of birds, stewarding
etc ...).
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To provide free admission to the show for the WBO Executive Committee
and all WBO delegates participating at the meeting.
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To accept the appointed WBO World Show Liaison Officer who will assist
in marketing the show worldwide and to liaise with member countries and
investigate the import and export legislation and rules for the host
country relating to bird transportation and other related matters
of birds transportation and other related matters.
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To allow the WBO Judges Test to take place at the show.
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YEAR |
COUNTRY |
JUDGES |
BEST IN SHOW |
ENTRY
+ COLOUR |
Exhibitors
& Countries |
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12/10/2013 |
Italy, Forli |
Jo Mannes (Germany), Jim Fletcher (Australia), Dewayne Weldon (USA) |
Rui Teixeira (Portugal) |
580 + 320 |
31 - 6 |
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8/11/2014 |
Turkey, Istanbul |
Grant Findlay (UK) |
Güray Özkul (Turkey) |
222 + 100 |
? - 2 |
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6/6/2015 |
U.K., Stoke on Trent |
Roy Aplin, Bob Allen, Bev Hutt, Maurice Roberts (UK) |
John Rogers (UK) |
352 + 24 |
46 - 5 |
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3/12/2016 |
Portugal, Lisbon |
Henry George |
José Brazio (Portugal) |
289 + ? |
30 - 5 |
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10/11/2017 |
Hungary, Budapest |
Armin Giger (Switzerland), Alan Rowe (Australia), Julie Willis (USA) |
Daniel Lütolf (Switzerland) |
366 + 115 |
55 - 12 |
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28/7/2018 |
South Africa, Bloemfontein |
Jim Fletcher (Australia), Bob Wilson (USA), Christian Back
(Germany), Carlos Ramoa (Portugal), Grant Findlay (U.K.) |
Tommie Roodt
(South Africa) |
1002 - 0 |
56 - 1 |
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24/8/2019 |
Germany, Karlsruhe |
Neale Love (Australia), Jeff Coles (Canada), Albert Olivier (South
Africa), Clemens Keller (Germany), Ghalib Al-Nasser (U.K.) |
Daniel Lütolf (Switzerland) |
1261 + 763 |
196 - 14 |
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6/6/2020 |
Show cancelled due to Coronavirus |
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