English version is still too much under construction, even more than Finnish one. But these pages will be updated weekly, be patient!

8-11.10.2015 FCI Agility WC - in Italy / Bologna

11-14.9.2014 FCI Agility WC - in Luxembourg / Kirchberg

9-11.10.2013 FCI Agility WC - South Afrika

4-7.10.2012 FCI Agility WC - Czech Republic - Liberec

27-29.7.2012 Agility European Open - Sweden - Kristianstadt

6-9.10.2011 FCI Agility World Championship - France - Lievin

1-3.10.2010 FCI Agility World Championship - Germany - Rieden

18-20.9.2009 FCI Agility World Championship, Austria - Dornbirn

26-28.9.2008 FCI Agility World Championship, Finland - Helsinki

28-30.9.2007 FCI Agility World Championship, Norway - Hamar

6-8.10.2006 FCI Agility World Championship, Switzerland

31.8-3.9.2006 Amersfoort, the Netherlands open Agility World Championchip (both breed and mix-breed dogs), Para-Agility championchips

23-25.9.2005 FCI Agility World Championship, Spain

23-35.9.2004 FCI Agility World Championship Montichiari, Italy

27.9.2003 FCI Agility World Championship Lievin, France

4-6.10.2002 FCI Agility World Championship Dortmund, Germany

6-8.9.2002 Gyula, Hungary Agility open World Championchip (both breed and mix-breed dogs),
With Finnish Team in Journey to Hungary!

6-7.10.2001 Agility World Championship Porto - Portugal, links:
http://home.planetinternet.be/~gblancke/international/Porto.htm
http://www.mcdogs.nl/wk01/
http://www.agility-france.com/porto2001_live.htm
http://www.cpc.pt/2001/awc/

30.9 -1.10.2000 Agility World Championship - Helsinki, Finland, WWW-pages at: www.kennelliitto.fi/agi2000, Championship, results and courses.

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Welcome to Finnish Agility pages

Agility is a brisk dog sport, where handler's aim is to direct the dog through a variety of obstacles without any faults in predestined ideal time. A handler cannot touch a dog or obstacles. The Dog Agility has got the idea from same type horse sport in England year 1977. The course has been changed to suit to dogs. Agility has come to Finland in 1986 by Rolf Lundell and the first official competition was in year 1989 and the popularity is growing all the time. There are obstacles in agility such as hurdles or jumps, wall (bridge, closed jump), weave poles, open tunnel, closed tunnel, tire jump, dog-walk, A-frame, see-saw (teeter), table and long jump. There are also river jump, rectangular rest area and cavaletties used, but the latest FCI regulations have left these obstacles away.

Dog Agility is not fun only for a dog and a handler, but it offers speed and exciting moments to spectators too. Agility is suitable for all kinds of dogs and different breeds. The competition can cause some limits for some type of dogs (i.e. the dog is too big for tire). High jumps can be too difficult to very heavy dogs, A-frame and long jump can be too exhausting to dogs with long back. There are two classes (in Finland) depending on the hight of the dog in agility, MINI, MIDI & MAXI. Dogs less than 35 cm belongs to the MINI-class, 35 cm - 43 cm belongs to the MIDI-class and over 43 cm to the MAXI class. The jumps are higher with MAXI dogs than MIDI dogs, and there are the lowest jumps in the MINI class. There are also three different level classes to dogs in Finland, so that every dog starts to competing in I class and when the dog have got enough good results and placements the dog will move up to the next level. In the best case a dog can move up to the III-class after 6 competition if everything goes perfect.

You can start agility training already with young dog, if the dog is healthy. However exhausting performances should be avoided with dog whose skeleton is not ready yet, such as jumping with maximum high hurdles. One can start agility competitions in Finland when a dog is 18 months old.

• What's new!
  Here you can find what is New and Updated stuff on Agility Pages (Finnish).
• Search from Agility-pages!
  Have you lost something from these pages? You can search easily information with keywords from Finnish Agility-pages, for example familiar names from results. Now this works again!
• Overview to the regulations
  (currently only in Finnish, sorry. You can find this information in English from other WWW-site).
• New changes to FCI-Agility regulations
  (currently only in Finnish, Sorry. You can find this information in English from other WWW-site).
• Agility related Articles
  Here you can find Agility related articles sent to published here in Finnish Agility WWW-pages (in Finnish).
• Agility related books and magazines
  (Finnish)
• Agility Courses
  Here you can find all Agility Course drawings available under these pages. Texts are Finnish, but I think you will get the point even if You don'nt understand a word Finnish. 'Hyppyrata' means 'Jumping Course'
• Agility-IRC
  Instruction in Finnish how to join #Agility irc-channel.
• agility-finland Email-list
  Instructions how to join Finnish Agility mailing list agility-finland.
• Finnish Agility Champions
  Information about Finnish Agility Champions (Fin AgCH). These are announced here by handler/owner.

About training

• Agility by the obstacle to obstacle (under work, not ready, ready someday, etc ;-)
• Course training (Will be ready sometime or soon ;-)

Competitions/Results:

• FCI Agility World Championship 1996 in Morges, Switzerland
  (unofficial World Championship page)
• FCI Agility World Championship 1998 in Marobor, Slovenia
  (unofficial World Championship page)
• FCI Agility World Championship 1999 in Dortmund, Germany, photo gallery
  (links to other pages too)

Club related stuff:

• Finnish Agility Clubs

• The latest Agility News and rumours.
  You can find also reader's own writings. You can find here announcements too. (Finnish only, Sorry)
• Message Board of Agility pages
  You can write your own comments here only regarding Agility. You can ask what you want about Agility and you can answer to some one's questions. You can read other's comments and participate the conversation. Mostly Finnish.
• Message Board of Agility pages - other dog related writings
  You can write your own comments here regarding dogs generally. You can ask what you want about dogs and you can answer to some one's questions. You can read other's comments and participate the conversation. Mostly Finnish.
• The guestbook of Finnish Agility pages
  You can add your regards to guestbook, or visit the guestbook of the Finnish Agility pages.
• Readers photo gallery
  You can find here pictures and short stories of reader's own dogs. Click small picture to visit a big one (texts are Finnish, sorry).

Links to Agility related WWW pages

• Local Finnish
• WWW-sites all around the World

Links to Dog Related WWW pages

• Local Finnish
• WWW-sites all around the World

Dog related Newsgroups

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