Judging at the FCI World Dog Show Finland

Lesley and Kath were both honoured and delighted to be invited to judge the Heelwork To Music and Freestyle Championships at the World Dog Show held in Helsinki.

The competition was held over two days -
 HTM on the Wednesday and Freestyle on the Thursday

The Arena where the routines would be performed

Everything is almost ready

The timetable for the competition and personalised Rosettes for each judge.

Lesley preparing her paperwork for the Team HTM Championship competition.

A lovely touch - each judge had their own flower arrangement in their National Flag Colours.  Sweden - Frida Binette!

Denmark - Helle Larssen

Great Britain - Lesley Neville and Kath Hardman

And the Host Country Finland - Henna Meriharju and Laura Jalli (Head Judge)

 Super Rosettes

 

And wonderful trophies

For winners and those placed

Lovely display of awards

The opening ceremony - all teams in alphabetical order.

And after the competition it was award time for the Teams in HTM. 

First Russia, Second Sweden and Third Denmark 

A happy winning team Russia

THe HTM Individual Championship. 

And the judges had time to offer their congratulations

The Freestyle Team Championship
First Russia, Second Finland and Third Sweden

A very happy Team Russia

And the Freestyle Individual Championship

What a super time - Kath and Lesley were given these superb Vanity Cases as a memento of the occasion.

  Thank you to the organisers and competitors for making this a wonderful Championship.