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OneMind Dogs Coaches Win Silver at World Championships!

Team Finland won its first ever large team medal at the FCI Agility World Championships in Zaragoza, Spain this weekend. Congratulations to Leading OneMind Dogs Coaches Janita Leinonen, Tuulia Liuhto and Jaakko Suoknuuti as well as their teammate Santtu Stenberg!


Team Finland - Large Dogs Team Runs

Watch the videos of Janita & Fu, Tuulia & Pirtu, Jaakko & Dao and Santtu & Rai Rai running the team runs!

It Ain't Over Til It's Over!

“It was great that the teams made a lot of results from both of the large team courses. It made the competition exciting – the final was interesting until the very last team!”, Tuulia explains.

All positions changed in the final: Team Finland grabbed silver after placing third on the jumping course and Russia won gold – they climbed up all the way from 12th place! Team Germany won bronze as well as for gold medals from other competitions that weekend.


 Large Team Jumping. Photograph: Jukka Pätynen / Koirakuvat.fi

Tuulia ran the the jumping course clean but not quite the way she had planned it. She didn’t have the time to make a front cross she had planned to do for the wall (12) - tire (13) - tunnel (14) sequence.

“Nevertheless I had the possibility to make a clean run and live in the moment because I had other techniques in my back pocket. I handled Pirtu from behind when I wasn’t where I had planned to be.”, Tuulia laughs.

“The courses offered challenges that required strong skills on obstacles and required courage in choosing between handling options. It was important for the handler to understand the dog’s path and know where they are going to land from a jump. Otherwise you would fail or lose time.”


Team Finland - Large: Jaakko Suoknuuti, Janita Leinonen, Tuulia Liuhto and Santtu Stenberg. Photograph: Jukka Pätynen / Koirakuvat.fi

We send our warmest and biggest congratulations to all new Agility World Champions and a big thank you for all the volunteers in Zaragoza for making this event so memorable. See you again next year in Liberec, Czech Republic!

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