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<div class=\"judge26-hero-grid\">\n      <div class=\"judge26-hero-copy\">\n        <div class=\"judge26-kicker\">CACIT South Africa \u00b7 KZN 2026<\/div>\n        <h1 id=\"judge26-title\" class=\"judge26-title\">Meet Camilla <span>R\u00f6nnqvist<\/span><\/h1>\n        <p class=\"judge26-standfirst\">\n          Sweden\u2019s international FCI IGP judge, competitor, trainer and the breeder behind Kennel Diragos.\n          In KwaZulu-Natal, she carries the full judging brief: every level and every phase.\n        <\/p>\n\n        <div class=\"judge26-meta\" aria-label=\"Event information\">\n          <span><strong>15\u201316 August 2026<\/strong><\/span>\n          <span>Settlers Park \u00b7 Pietermaritzburg<\/span>\n          <span>IGP 1\u20133 \u00b7 Tracking, Obedience and Protection<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"judge26-actions\">\n          <a class=\"judge26-btn judge26-btn-primary\"\n             href=\"https:\/\/www.k9sportfundraising.co.za\/\"\n            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<\/figcaption>\n      <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <div class=\"judge26-stats\" aria-label=\"Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist career highlights\">\n    <div class=\"judge26-stat\">\n      <strong>2006<\/strong>\n      <span>Active in IGP since 2006.<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"judge26-stat\">\n      <strong>2017<\/strong>\n      <span>International FCI IGP judge since 2017.<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"judge26-stat\">\n      <strong>9<\/strong>\n      <span>IDC World Championship appearances with four different dogs.<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"judge26-stat\">\n      <strong>19<\/strong>\n      <span>Kennel Diragos IDC World Championship starts by 11 individual dogs.<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"judge26-article\">\n    <div class=\"judge26-intro\">\n      <p>\n        At a serious IGP event, the judge sets the line for the whole weekend. The work changes from the track\n        to the obedience field and then again in protection, but the standard cannot drift. At\n        <strong>CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026<\/strong>, one judge will follow the complete trial:\n        <strong>Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist<\/strong> of Sweden.\n      <\/p>\n      <p>\n        Camilla will judge IGP 1, IGP 2 and IGP 3 across all three phases. Every team will therefore be seen\n        through the same experienced international lens, from its first points in tracking to its final work\n        in protection.\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"judge26-layout\">\n      <div class=\"judge26-copy\">\n        <section id=\"experience\">\n          <h2>Experience from the other side of the clipboard<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            Camilla has been active in IGP since 2006 and has served as an international FCI IGP judge since\n            2017. Her published profile records nine IDC World Championship appearances with four different\n            dogs, participation at the 2024 FCI World Championship and a national IGP championship.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            That background matters. She knows the sport as a judge, but she also knows it as the person walking\n            onto the field with a dog she has prepared herself. A three-phase result can look tidy on paper.\n            Getting there is rarely tidy. It takes years of selection, training, setbacks, rebuilding and showing\n            up again.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            A judge with real competition mileage understands the weight of that work. It does not lower the\n            standard. It gives the standard context.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/section>\n\n        <div class=\"judge26-pull\">\n          <p>\n            Camilla\u2019s record makes a useful point: serious IGP work is possible with a breed that is not always\n            the obvious or fashionable choice.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <section id=\"dobermann\">\n          <h2>The Dobermann makes her story different<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            The Dobermann is not always the obvious choice in modern IGP. Camilla did not treat that as\n            a reason to lower the ambition. She built her work around the breed through Kennel Diragos and kept\n            taking those dogs into serious international competition.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            The kennel\u2019s public record lists 19 IDC World Championship starts by 11 individual dogs. One\n            exceptional dog can happen. Different dogs reaching that level over time point to something deeper:\n            a repeatable body of work.\n          <\/p>\n\n          <div class=\"judge26-breed-panel\">\n            <div>\n              <strong>Unusual does not mean unserious.<\/strong>\n              <p>\n                Breed choice changes the work in front of the handler. It does not cancel the possibility of\n                high-level work. Camilla\u2019s career with Dobermanns puts that argument on the field rather than\n                leaving it as theory.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-breed-number\">\n              <b>11<\/b>\n              <span>individual Kennel Diragos dogs represented in 19 IDC World Championship starts<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n          <p>\n            Her public training philosophy grew out of that experience. She describes a system built on\n            relationship-based communication and clear rules, while preserving energy and cooperation between\n            dog and handler. The aim is not a flat, mechanical picture. It is a team that remains alive while the\n            work stays clear.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/section>\n\n        <section id=\"judging\">\n          <h2>Training philosophy is not a score sheet<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            There is an important distinction here. A judge applies the FCI IGP rules; she does not score teams\n            according to a private training system. Camilla\u2019s training philosophy should therefore not be read as\n            a forecast of individual marks at CACIT KZN 2026.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            It does, however, show what she has spent years learning to read: clarity, energy, control and the\n            relationship between dog and handler. IGP becomes difficult precisely because these things have to\n            exist together. Precision without life is empty. Drive without control is unfinished.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/section>\n\n        <section id=\"full-event\">\n          <h2>One judge. Three phases. Every level.<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            Camilla is the main judge for the full event. She will assess teams from IGP 1 through to IGP 3 in\n            Tracking, Obedience and Protection. That gives the weekend continuity. A team cannot be understood\n            from one spectacular exercise or one strong phase alone. The complete result has to hold together.\n          <\/p>\n\n          <div class=\"judge26-phases\" aria-label=\"The three IGP phases\">\n            <div class=\"judge26-phase\">\n              <b>A<\/b>\n              <strong>Tracking<\/strong>\n              <span>Concentration, accuracy and sustained independent work.<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-phase\">\n              <b>B<\/b>\n              <strong>Obedience<\/strong>\n              <span>Technical control, speed, precision and a willing working picture.<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-phase\">\n              <b>C<\/b>\n              <strong>Protection<\/strong>\n              <span>Power and courage held inside clear, reliable control.<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n        <section id=\"international-standard\">\n          <h2>Why the international appointment matters<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            South African IGP needs more than local enthusiasm. It needs chances to place local work in front of\n            judges who operate across borders and who see different dogs, training systems and competition fields.\n            That creates a useful benchmark.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            The value is not that an international opinion is automatically better. The value is comparison.\n            Newer handlers get to see the standard applied in practice. Experienced teams find out where their\n            work stands. Clubs take those lessons back into training. The sport gets more honest.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            Camilla\u2019s appointment also gives CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026 the standing of a genuinely\n            international event rather than a local trial wearing an international label.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/section>\n\n        <section id=\"next-cacit\">\n          <h2>Use this event as a starting line<\/h2>\n          <p>\n            Not every handler reading this will be entered at KZN. That does not make the weekend irrelevant.\n            Follow the scores. Watch how the leaderboard moves from phase to phase. Look past the final total and\n            see where teams gained ground, where points slipped away and how the complete performance was built.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            Then take that information back into training. Teams working towards IGP 1 can see what the first\n            level asks under trial pressure. More experienced competitors can use the event as a harder benchmark.\n            When the next CACIT South Africa entry opens, enter when the work is ready enough to be tested\u2014not\n            when it feels perfect. Perfect usually arrives too late.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/section>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <aside class=\"judge26-sidebar\" aria-label=\"Judge profile summary\">\n        <div class=\"judge26-profile-card\">\n          <span class=\"judge26-card-kicker\">Judge profile<\/span>\n          <h3>Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist<\/h3>\n          <dl class=\"judge26-profile-list\">\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Country<\/dt>\n              <dd>Sweden<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Role<\/dt>\n              <dd>Main judge, CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Scope<\/dt>\n              <dd>IGP 1, IGP 2 and IGP 3<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Phases<\/dt>\n              <dd>A Tracking, B Obedience and C Protection<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Kennel<\/dt>\n              <dd>Diragos<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"judge26-profile-row\">\n              <dt>Breed<\/dt>\n              <dd>Dobermann<\/dd>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/dl>\n          <a class=\"judge26-instagram\"\n             href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diragos\/\"\n             target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n            FOLLOW @DIRAGOS\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"judge26-highlights\">\n          <h3>Published highlights<\/h3>\n          <ul>\n            <li>IGP competitor since 2006<\/li>\n            <li>International FCI IGP judge since 2017<\/li>\n            <li>Nine IDC World Championships with four dogs<\/li>\n            <li>FCI World Championship 2024<\/li>\n            <li>National IGP Champion<\/li>\n            <li>Recognised by the Swedish Kennel Club as a working-dog breeder<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <section class=\"judge26-live-cta\" aria-labelledby=\"judge26-live-title\">\n    <div>\n      <div class=\"judge26-live-label\">Live event coverage<\/div>\n      <h2 id=\"judge26-live-title\">Follow CACIT KZN 2026 score by score.<\/h2>\n      <p>\n        SportDogs will carry the official phase scores and overall standings as they are entered. Follow\n        Tracking, Obedience and Protection live, then return for the phase winners and final results.\n      <\/p>\n      <div class=\"judge26-cta-actions\">\n        <a class=\"judge26-btn judge26-btn-primary\"\n           href=\"https:\/\/www.k9sportfundraising.co.za\/\"\n           target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n          OPEN LIVE LEADERBOARD\n        <\/a>\n        <a class=\"judge26-btn judge26-btn-secondary\"\n           href=\"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/?page_id=319\">\n          VIEW MORE IGP EVENTS\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"judge26-qr\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.k9sportfundraising.co.za\/assets\/live-results-qr.png\"\n           alt=\"QR code for CACIT South Africa KZN 2026 live results\"\n           width=\"500\" height=\"500\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <strong>Scan for live results<\/strong>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <div class=\"judge26-source-note\">\n    Profile information was compiled from Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist\u2019s public professional biography and public\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diragos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@diragos profile<\/a>.\n    Read the published biography through the\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdy.fi\/tapahtumat\/camilla-ronnqvistin-koulutusviikonl\/\"\n       target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finnish Dobermann Association<\/a>.\n  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CACIT South Africa \u00b7 KZN 2026 Meet Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist Sweden\u2019s international FCI IGP judge, competitor, trainer and the breeder behind Kennel Diragos. In KwaZulu-Natal, she carries the full judging brief: every level and every phase. 15\u201316 August 2026 Settlers Park \u00b7 Pietermaritzburg IGP 1\u20133 \u00b7 Tracking, Obedience and Protection VIEW LIVE RESULTS FOLLOW @DIRAGOS Main judge \u00b7 Sweden Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist With a Dobermann \u00b7 Image used with permission 2006 Active in IGP since 2006. 2017 International FCI IGP judge since 2017. 9 IDC World Championship appearances with four different dogs. 19 Kennel Diragos IDC World Championship starts by 11 individual dogs. At a serious IGP event, the judge sets the line for the whole weekend. The work changes from the track to the obedience field and then again in protection, but the standard cannot drift. At CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026, one judge will follow the complete trial: Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist of Sweden. Camilla will judge IGP 1, IGP 2 and IGP 3 across all three phases. Every team will therefore be seen through the same experienced international lens, from its first points in tracking to its final work in protection. Experience from the other side of the clipboard Camilla has been active in IGP since 2006 and has served as an international FCI IGP judge since 2017. Her published profile records nine IDC World Championship appearances with four different dogs, participation at the 2024 FCI World Championship and a national IGP championship. That background matters. She knows the sport as a judge, but she also knows it as the person walking onto the field with a dog she has prepared herself. A three-phase result can look tidy on paper. Getting there is rarely tidy. It takes years of selection, training, setbacks, rebuilding and showing up again. A judge with real competition mileage understands the weight of that work. It does not lower the standard. It gives the standard context. Camilla\u2019s record makes a useful point: serious IGP work is possible with a breed that is not always the obvious or fashionable choice. The Dobermann makes her story different The Dobermann is not always the obvious choice in modern IGP. Camilla did not treat that as a reason to lower the ambition. She built her work around the breed through Kennel Diragos and kept taking those dogs into serious international competition. The kennel\u2019s public record lists 19 IDC World Championship starts by 11 individual dogs. One exceptional dog can happen. Different dogs reaching that level over time point to something deeper: a repeatable body of work. Unusual does not mean unserious. Breed choice changes the work in front of the handler. It does not cancel the possibility of high-level work. Camilla\u2019s career with Dobermanns puts that argument on the field rather than leaving it as theory. 11 individual Kennel Diragos dogs represented in 19 IDC World Championship starts Her public training philosophy grew out of that experience. She describes a system built on relationship-based communication and clear rules, while preserving energy and cooperation between dog and handler. The aim is not a flat, mechanical picture. It is a team that remains alive while the work stays clear. Training philosophy is not a score sheet There is an important distinction here. A judge applies the FCI IGP rules; she does not score teams according to a private training system. Camilla\u2019s training philosophy should therefore not be read as a forecast of individual marks at CACIT KZN 2026. It does, however, show what she has spent years learning to read: clarity, energy, control and the relationship between dog and handler. IGP becomes difficult precisely because these things have to exist together. Precision without life is empty. Drive without control is unfinished. One judge. Three phases. Every level. Camilla is the main judge for the full event. She will assess teams from IGP 1 through to IGP 3 in Tracking, Obedience and Protection. That gives the weekend continuity. A team cannot be understood from one spectacular exercise or one strong phase alone. The complete result has to hold together. A Tracking Concentration, accuracy and sustained independent work. B Obedience Technical control, speed, precision and a willing working picture. C Protection Power and courage held inside clear, reliable control. Why the international appointment matters South African IGP needs more than local enthusiasm. It needs chances to place local work in front of judges who operate across borders and who see different dogs, training systems and competition fields. That creates a useful benchmark. The value is not that an international opinion is automatically better. The value is comparison. Newer handlers get to see the standard applied in practice. Experienced teams find out where their work stands. Clubs take those lessons back into training. The sport gets more honest. Camilla\u2019s appointment also gives CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026 the standing of a genuinely international event rather than a local trial wearing an international label. Use this event as a starting line Not every handler reading this will be entered at KZN. That does not make the weekend irrelevant. Follow the scores. Watch how the leaderboard moves from phase to phase. Look past the final total and see where teams gained ground, where points slipped away and how the complete performance was built. Then take that information back into training. Teams working towards IGP 1 can see what the first level asks under trial pressure. More experienced competitors can use the event as a harder benchmark. When the next CACIT South Africa entry opens, enter when the work is ready enough to be tested\u2014not when it feels perfect. Perfect usually arrives too late. Judge profile Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist Country Sweden Role Main judge, CACIT South Africa \u2013 KZN 2026 Scope IGP 1, IGP 2 and IGP 3 Phases A Tracking, B Obedience and C Protection Kennel Diragos Breed Dobermann FOLLOW @DIRAGOS Published highlights IGP competitor since 2006 International FCI IGP judge since 2017 Nine IDC World Championships with four dogs FCI World Championship 2024 National IGP Champion Recognised by the Swedish Kennel Club as a working-dog breeder Live event coverage Follow CACIT KZN 2026 score by score. SportDogs will carry the official phase scores and overall standings as they are entered. Follow Tracking, Obedience and Protection live, then return for the phase winners and final results. OPEN LIVE LEADERBOARD VIEW MORE IGP EVENTS Scan for live results Profile information was compiled from Camilla R\u00f6nnqvist\u2019s public professional biography and public @diragos profile. Read the published biography through the Finnish Dobermann Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportdogs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}