The Dragotă Family+Plăvițu tandem dominated the first Speed races in the Gorj Branch

The 2024 competition season also got off to an intense start in the Gorj Branch, where the first three speed stages have already been contested. At the same time, the competitions in this county are taking place on a new flight route for some pigeon fanciers, and this change, like the change in title, seems to have been auspicious for the Dragotă Family Loft. &

Dream debut for the Constantin + Radu + Stan team from Argeș

At the start of the 2024 season, the pigeon fancier branch of Argeș county had one of the largest numbers of basked pigeons. More precisely, we are talking about 20,038 pigeons, a real record and a competition that every fancier wants to win. Cristi Constantin is a very well-known pigeon fancier from Argeș county, with some of the best results, being several times national and even

Top 3 national Ace Marathon 2023

Ace Marathon is perhaps the most spectacular of the categories dedicated to distance pigeons. Until recently, the National Championship provided for only three marathon races, with a distance greater than 700 km. As the As Marathon category requires the ranking of three races, the pigeons that managed to make this category were those who did not miss a single race. Things have remained the same

Champions of the Marathon category from the 2023 season

As is well known, in Romania, the Marathon category is by far the most contested. Entire provinces, such as Moldova, focus only on this category, and the results of Romanian pigeon fanciers in this category are getting better and better, including at the international level. Things were the same in the 2023 season, when Romanian breeders intensely contested the trophies up for grabs in this

Only 6 pigeons with a norm at Ace Old Birds in the 2023 season

Considering the number of races from which the norm is achieved and the type of stages required, the Ace Old Birds category can be considered as a difficult one, but not necessarily the most difficult of the National Championship. However, considering the number of norms achieved in the 2023 season in the Ace Old Birds category, but also the fact that no norm was achieved

15 norms in the All Round Youngsters category in the 2023 season

With the latest changes to the National Columbophile Regulations, the All Round category has increased in difficulty. According to the current rules, 8 contests are required to fulfill it, i.e. two more than before. These contests must be of several distance categories. Thus, 2-4 races between 100 and 300 km, 2-4 races between 300 and 500 km and 2-4 races over 475 km are required. However, 15

Aces of the Long distance category from the 2023 season

The Ace Long distance category is, without any doubt, one of the most difficult categories of the National Championship. The pigeons engaged in the competition for this norm do not have the "right" to any misses, this is because any flight plan contains only five long-distance races, and As Long distance category involves their ranking, made up of five races with a distance of more

Champions of the Mature Long Distance category from the 2023 season

In the 2023 season, no less than 2,270 norms were achieved in the Long distance category, a category which, as is well known, is achieved by ranking three competitions with a distance of over 500 km. Among them, the best pigeons in this category belong, in order of places in the national ranking, to pigeon fans George Vochin, Radu Constantin and Eugen Silivestru. George Vochin wins a

121 norms in the Youngsters Marathon category in the 2023 season

After in the previous material we presented the situation in the Youngsters Long distance category, this time we move on and, as surprising as it may sound, we present you how things were in the case of the Youngsters Marathon category. In the 2023 season, pigeon fanciers from several counties of the country have decided to hire their young flyers, including at the marathon races, competitions

103 norms in the Youngsters Long distance category in the 2023 season

It's already been a few good seasons since categories like Youngsters Long distance or Youngsters Extrem Long distance are no longer just a difficult dream to achieve. Youngsters competition has gained considerable momentum in Romania, so that more and more pigeon fanciers are organizing, in addition to the classic Speed ​​and Middle Distance stages, flight plans in which Long Distance or Marathon stages appear, and

Miklos Szekely, the best pigeon fancier in the Speed Breeders category for the last four years

The pigeon fancier Miklos Szekely, from Blaj, Alba, is a very well-known breeder in our country. Of course, the results are what brought him this notoriety, and Miklos Szekely managed to maintain himself at a very high level in the 2023 season as well. The breeder we present to you today is a true specialist in speed races. Although he doesn't live in the best part

Marius Dorog: 1, 2, 3 National Ace Speed Youngsters and six pigeons in the top 10 National Speed Youngsters

Hunedorian pigeon fancier Marius Dorog is a regular on the national podiums, being a multiple national champion. His favorite categories and those in which he achieved the best results are the categories with short stages and he also performed in these in the 2023 season. When we open the national catalog of the Youngsters Speed ​​and Ace Speed ​ Youngsters categories we see that "Marius Dorog"