It is very impressive what Albert Derwa delivers with its mini stock to hens (5 old and 10 year olds) every year. What this little top shot has won is second to none: National AS pigeons, national winners, Olympic pigeons, etc., something special every year.
It is certainly not easy when you have to compete against the short-distance specialists Dirk Van Den Bulck, Patrick Boeckx, Jos Cools, Harry Smolders and Dirk Donckers (Sticker-Donckers) in the Tienverbond every week.
At the medium-distance classic Bourges (477 km) in 2017, the short and medium-distance player Jos Van Den Brande from Heultje (Westerlo) in the province of Antwerp won the 3rd national course against 38,456 youngsters.This was also the 3rd fastest of 59,243 pigeons. Furthermore, Jos Van Den Brande also won the 13th National vs. 38,456 youngsters only with little used pigeons.
A name that stroke us on the National results was Jos Wouters out of the Antwerp town Heist-op-den-Berg.
