Robert Ben (62- Calais) : 1st International Barcelona 2021
Robert Ben, well known to long distance competition in Europe, has just added a new line to his rich racing pigeons career. And that line, he wins the legendary Barcelona 2021. The queen of the classics of European extrem-long distance who could be compared to the football world cup. All European pigeons fanciers dream of winning this heavenly marathon one day. This year, Robert Ben, (Calais – France) win this prize.
Note that the first 12 pigeons of Barcelona 2021 are French, of which the 2nd, 3rd and 4th places won by Ludovic Guirado’s birds (winner of Barcelona National France 2018).
Back to the winner of the day. Released at 6:45 am, Robert Ben’s “003” was made official at 10:18:14 pm for 1043kms, ie an average of 1118m / min. A real feat to travel the 1043kms in one go and get registered just before nightfall. He win 1st place against 16,595 pigeons.
Philippe Odent wrote this winter to present Robert Ben :
“Who does not know Robert Ben? An outstanding pigeon fancier, he was one of the first French to scour the lofts of Dutch long distance players with great success (STEKETE, KURVERS, ERNEST, DIGGEMANCE, VAN DER VELDEN and others again; his last foray into Holland at J JELLEMA in 2007) his science of the game allowed him to discover real CRACKs and it is not overused to write it in capital letters: The 134, the 048 Super BEN, the BRANLEUR, 029, 719, 669 …. A comeback noticed by INTER specialists with a new generation of pigeons (be careful with his 003, he has a new best pigeon in his loft). In the TOP 10 of the French Internationals and also of PIPA’s IATP Ranking in 2019 “
And what a comeback, after the exploits of his 048 Super BEN which several times narrowly missed the first place on Barcelona (5 International 2004, 20 International 2003, 44 International 2001), the “003” worthy descendant of the “048” made honor to his descending.
The “003” was not his first attempt, since he won before :
- 146 National St-Vincent 2018
- 168 National Narbonne 2018
- 125 Régional Vierzon 2019
- 649 / 10824p Argenton 2019
- 319 National Pau 2019
- 102 National St-Vincent 2019
- 140 National Narbonne 2019
- 17ème Meilleur Pigeon Européen 2019
- 615 National Perpignan 2020
Damn it, the “003” is from a line of TOP pigeons in european marathon races.
His father, the 502541-2011, win 10 times in the internationals (3 X Barcelona, 4 x Perpignan, 3 X Narbonne, 1 X St-Vincent). The 502541-2011 is a great grandson of the 048 crossed with the origins N. Volkens and Gérard Vantuyl.
On the maternal side, we find the 198750-2012, granddaughter of 048.
