Federcaccia: Italy dominates the 34th World Championship for Pointing Dogs and the S. Uberto World Championship which took place in recent days in Serbia.
In Nis, Serbia, the Italian competitors in the Practical Hunting and San Uberto specialties win the most prestigious titles for both single and team. For quality of wild, land and organization the best in the world in recent years. The 21th edition of the World Championships for pointing dogs and St. Hubert in Serbia ended yesterday evening, 34 October, with the proclamation of the champions and the official award ceremony.
The partridges of Nis and the other wild animals that populate these absolutely unrepeatable lands for natural qualities, but also for the management skills of the local hunting associations, have rewarded the preparation and commitment of Italian dog lovers, who return home with a palmares of everything respect.
In the English Practical Hunting category Stefano Pianigiani is individual world champion with the English setter Pianigiani's Juan and the third place is for Paolo Pardini with the pointer Era Ora di Bocca d'Arno, results that have brought the team, also composed of Alessandro Borgnoli and Agostino Sorbelli to win the world title in English category teams.
The second place overall of Luciano Cecchetto with the Breton Falco in the Continentali and the result of Vittorio Cosentino with the other Breton, Ariel, lead teammates Franco Mari and Maurizio Aldovardi to also conquer the title of Continental World Champions in Teams.
In S.Uberto Donne, Elena Villa wins the 2012 World Champion title and with her teammate Barbara Bazzocchi that of Women's Team World Champions.
A splendid second place by the very young - 20 years old - Cosimo Cupini and the third by Marco Carretti also give us the title of World Spaniel Team Champions.
The commitment of Massimo D'Ambrosio, world champion S.Uberto 2011, and his partner Mariliano Mazzoleni were unfortunately not enough this year to give us a medal also in S.Uberto Men. The San Uberto Men's World Championship was in fact won by the Danish Paul Valdemar Nielsen, already organizer of an excellent World Championship a few years ago.
Words of praise for the organizers and sincere thanks to the athletes of the 22 participating nations were expressed by the National President Federcaccia Gian Luca Dall'Olio - who considered this the best edition for the quality of the fauna and organization in recent years - and by Vice President Antonio D'Angelo, present in Serbia to follow the event, as well as by the secretary of the organizing committee Domenico Coradeschi.
Thanks also goes to the selector of the S.Uberto team Fulvio Turani and to Angelo Cammi, selector of the English and continental, as well as to the Italian judges who were part of the international jury that evaluated the competitors on Serbian grounds: Corrado Ottaviani for the S , Uberto and Silvio Marelli for practical hunting.
Finally, thanks to GranTiro, who supplied the functional and elegant uniforms of the Italian athletes for these world championships. Appointment now in Croatia for the 2013 edition of the World Championships.
Federcaccia Press Office