Tonnie Kaspers, Markelo
Tonnie Kaspers lives in the beautiful Markelo in Twente, in the center of this beautiful village. He is married to Rina and together they have a daughter and a son who both live in the parental home. Tonnie came into contact with the pigeon sport in Enschede by his father and uncle at the age of eight. We can say that he has a lot of space in Markelo to practice his sport. There is more than enough room for a 35m loft and he has only used a small percentage of his backyard.
After a time-out of 4 years he picked up the pigeonsport again in 2012 and Tonnie focused completely on the overnight long distance after his restart. Two people played an important role in the excellent performance of Tonnie’s pigeons: Dennis Borkent who gave him the push to start again and Jelle Jellema, his running- and pigeonmate.
Our protagonist has therefore only been active on the overnight long distance since 2013. Up to and including 2017, an average of 3 marathon flights per year were participated. Due to Tonnie’s health problems, he did not basket his pigeons in the past year, but in 2019 he will again compete with his pigeons!
A friendship with Jelle Jellema has arisen in recent years and often thoughts and pigeons have been exchanged. Through this friendship, children from Jelle’s best pigeons moved to Markelo every year. Tonnie thus has pigeons from:
“Jack” 3rd National Ace Pigeon Perpignan 2015-2017, 3rd National Ace Pigeon Barcelona 2016-2018, 6 National St.Vincent
“Erin” 37 National Barcelona, 146 National Perpignan, 302 National Barcelona
“Roman” top breeder, father of 6 International Pau, 7 International Pau, 30 National Marseille, 132 National Barcelona
“Tara” 7 NPO Bergerac, 9 NPO Bergerac, 10 NPO Limoges
“Waldeck” 5 National Orange
“Buffel” 12 NPO Bergerac, 15 NPO Perigueux, 15 NPO Limoges
“Maud” 34 National St Vincent, 37 National St Vincent, 69 National Perpignan, 78 NPO Limoges
“Anna” 13 National Marseille, 22 NPO St Vincent, 180 National Perpignan
“Eva” 3rd National Ace Pigeon Perpignan 2013-2015, 16 National St Vincent, 34 National Orange, 62 NPO Limoges, 119 National Marseille
“Kweker 200” top breeder, father of 1 NPO Bergerac, 7 National Periqueux, 8 NPO Limoges
And Tonnie Kaspers has a whole bunch of grandchildren from, among others, “Olympic Romee”, “Saffier”, “Orion”, “Joe Frazier”, “De 933”, “Silvie”, “New Remy”, “Dirke”, etc.
The results of the last years show that Tonnie Kaspers has the best of Jelle Jellema at the Markelo’s lofts!
1 NPO Bergerac 2.643 – 932 km
5 NPO Bergerac 2.800
7 National Periqueux 9.455 – 893 km
8, 11, 50, 66, 68, 75 NPO Limoges 1.420 – 801 km
12, 57, 58 NPO Aurillac 2.424 – 867 km
16, 30, 57, 59 NPO Orange 1.761 – 919 km
17 NPO Limoges 1.319
18, 31, 37, 62, 65, 75 NPO Dax 685 – 1101 km
18 FU St Vincent ZLU 686 – 1117 km
19 FU Agen ZLU 2.221 – 999 km
20, 21 NPO Bergerac 2.283
31 NPO Cahors 1.601 – 971 km
44, 51, 75 NPO Cahors 2.249
42, 64 FU ZLU Marseille 808 – 1017 km
51 FU Pau ZLU 939 – 1114 km
Note: Sex of the birds from 2018 believed to be correct by Tonnie Kaspers , but not 100% guaranteed.
