KARIN LASSMANN

First ROb World Championships was held on 28-29th September 2024 in Turku, Finland.

It was a great honor and pleasure for me to judge this year. Other judges were Tytti Lintenhofer (Chief judge, Finland), Martina Klein (Germany), Ida Lindgren (Sweden) and Brian Binnerup (Denmark). Judges’s secretaries were also experienced FCI ROb commission members and judges: Maryna Nemchenko (worked with me), Petra Nossian, Solveig Therese Malme Zetterstrøm, Vilemína Kracíková.

Since 2019, I have been in the commission of the FCI ROb, and we have been working for years on the rules of the FCI ROb. And finally, the first WC took place this year. I think that this is a very important step for the development of Rally Obedience.

48 teams from 10 different countries were participated. Teams from: Austria, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Norway and Sweden.
There were lot of beautiful performances at the World Championship. It was pleasure to see that all the participating countries are at a very high level and the level is quite equal. Even though some countries don’t have too long history of ROb.

First day

All competitiors competed on two courses. Courses were drawn the day before.
Karin Lassmann’s course HERE
Brian Binnerup’s course HERE

Best results after two courses on Saturday:

Name	Dog	Country	1. course	2. course	Total
Kersti Lang	Bariguard Extreme Prince	Estonia	99	88	187
Lisa Grönstedt Vilhelmsson	Eldflammans Triton	Sweden	98	87	185
Helle Sejer Damkjær	Myrullen’s Mio	Denmark	97	87,5	184,5

In end of the day the course for the finals was drawn.

Second day (Finals)

Best 25 teams from day 1, had possibility to compete in Finals and to World Champion title.

Ida Lindgren’s course HERE

It was seen that competing on second day is harder for dogs and more stressful for people. But lot of teams still managed to show very good work and cooperation.

Best three teams of the world in Rally Obedience in 2024 are:

Name	Dog	Country	Final points
Lisa Grönstedt Vilhelmsson	Eldflammans Triton	Sweden	273,75
Eija Heinonen	Kutinan Xuurvili	Finland	272,00
Solveig Nyvold	Doubleuse Marlon Brandon	Sweden	270,00

And team results:

Country	Points (3 best individual results)
Sweden	537,5
Denmark	536
Austria	506

This was definitely the most memorable weekend this year. I’m so happy I had possibility to be part of it.

Big thanks for photos to
© Jukka Pätynen / Koirakuvat.fi