{{Short description|International dog show}} thumb|right|200px|World Show Agility Trial, 2006 The '''World Dog Show''' (WDS) is a Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI)-sanctioned, four- to six-day-long<ref name="Storer1997" /> international dog show. In its current iteration, it has been held yearly in conjunction with the FCI General Assembly meeting since 1974.<ref name=":1" /> Several FCI international dog shows informally dubbed "world dog shows" were sporadically held prior to 1974;<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Newsletter May 2, 2016 |url=http://newsletter33.dogdotcom.be/en/YDC.aspx |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=newsletter33.dogdotcom.be}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> information for those shows will be included where available.
The WDS has been called "the most important dog show in the world".<ref name="WalkowiczWilcox1994">{{cite book |author1=Chris Walkowicz |author2=Bonnie Wilcox |title=Successful Dog Breeding: The Complete Handbook of Canine Midwifery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ib1YAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=22 June 2013 |date=16 January 1994 |publisher=Wiley |page=66 |isbn=978-0-87605-740-7}}</ref> The World Show includes agility, obedience, junior handler, conformation, and other events and demonstrations.<ref name="ChoronChoron2005" /> Dogs who win in any category are awarded the title "World Winner".<ref name="Silverstone1997">{{cite book|author=Patches Silverstone|title=Dalmatians Today|url=https://archive.org/details/dalmatianstoday0000silv|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 June 2013|year=1997|publisher=Howell Book House|isbn=978-0-87605-136-8}}</ref> It is one of the largest dog shows in the world, with shows attracting upwards of 10,000 entrants, sometimes exceeding 20,000 to rival Crufts in total entry count.<ref name="Storer1997">{{cite book|author=Pat Storer|title=Your Puppy, Your Dog: A Kid's Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy Dog|url=https://archive.org/details/yourpuppyyourdog0000stor|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 June 2013|date=January 1997|publisher=Storey Communications|isbn=978-0-88266-959-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/yourpuppyyourdog0000stor/page/146 146]}}</ref><ref name="DeVitoDeVito2008">{{cite book|author1=Carlos DeVito|author2=Dominique DeVito|title=The Everything Dog Book: Learn to train and understand your furry best friend!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhHWcSNbqSIC&pg=PT305|accessdate=22 June 2013|date=1 June 2008|publisher=Adams Media|isbn=978-1-4405-1249-0|page=305}}</ref> It is held in a different country each year.<ref name="ChoronChoron2005">{{cite book|author1=Sandra Choron|author2=Harry Choron|title=Planet Dog: A Doglopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/planetdog00sand|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 June 2013|year=2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-618-51752-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/planetdog00sand/page/99 99]}}</ref> The show is for all three of FCI’s Sections: European Section, Sección de las Américas y el Caribe, and Asia, Africa & Oceania, which all also have an individual dog show each year.
The top title at the event is '''''Certificat d'Aptitude au Championnat International de Beauté''''' (French for 'Certificate of Aptitude at the International Championship of Beauty'), abbreviated '''CACIB''', for which only purebred specimens of fully recognised, standardised breeds, not provisionally recognised or experimental breeds, may qualify. Dogs of provisionally recognized breeds are still eligible to earn "World Winner" titles, however. Some people feel that a win at the World Dog Show is worth more, reputation-wise, than the same win at the Westminster Kennel Club show.<ref name="Gingold2005">{{cite book|author=Alfred Gingold|title=Dog World: And the Humans Who Live There|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILHu81VHrGcC&pg=PA162|accessdate=22 June 2013|date=8 February 2005|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-7679-2021-6|page=162}}</ref> Entries in the World Show are from Fédération Cynologique Internationale member clubs, and non-member clubs (such as the American Kennel Club) by invitation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://classic.akc.org/events/conformation/world_show/2007/index.cfm | title=Mexico World Dog Show 2007 | accessdate=2013-06-22 | archive-date=2014-04-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424161716/http://classic.akc.org/events/conformation/world_show/2007/index.cfm | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Show locations and conformation show winners== {|class="wikitable sortable" |- !style="background-color:#cfcfcf;" align="center" |Name !Home Country !Breeder!!Owner!!Breed!!Year!!Location!!Number of entries!!class="unsortable"|References |- | | | | | |Early to mid 1930s |Western Europe | |<ref name=":3" /> |- | | | | | |1950s |Western Europe | |<ref name=":3" /> |- | | | | | |1956 |Dortmund, Germany | |<ref name=":2" /> |- | | | || ||||1971||Budapest, Hungary||~3,500||<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexey S. Zlygostev, E-Mail webmaster.innobi@gmail.com |title=Всемирная выставка собак (А. Мазовер) [1973 - - Твой друг. Сборник по собаководству] |url=http://kinlib.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000049/st034.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203213351/http://kinlib.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000049/st034.shtml |archive-date=2020-02-03 |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=kinlib.ru |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ildikó |first=Vámosi |date=2021-09-02 |title=Calendar of FCI World Dog Shows from 1971 to the present day |url=https://ildikovamosi.hu/calendar-of-fci-world-dog-shows-from-1971-to-the-present-day/ |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=Vámosi Ildikó |language=hu}}</ref> |- |Donnar de Nordval |Brazil |Angelo de Agostini||Olney Diaz||German Shepherd||1972||Brazil||732||<ref name=":3">{{cite web | url=https://www.ourdogs.co.uk/News/2004/March2004/News260304/worldshow.htm | title=The World Show 2004 | publisher=OurDogs | accessdate=2013-06-22 | author=Russell, Sandra}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> |- | | | || ||||1973||Dortmund, Germany||4,900||<ref name=":0" /> |- |Ungos de Laketania | | || ||Catalan Shepherd||1974||Paris, France||2,832||<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Newsletter 1 September 2016 |url=http://newsletter35.dogdotcom.be/en/YDC.aspx |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=newsletter35.dogdotcom.be}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> |- |Sugar River Foxfire |USA (born); Italy (residence) | || ||Alaskan Malamute||1975||Rabat, Morocco||509||<ref>[http://www.wds2015.com/blog/en/i-campioni-del-passato-sugar-river-foxfire/ World Dog Show 2015 Blog]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- | | | || ||||1976||Innsbruck, Austria||4,478||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Dark von der Bismarckquelle |Germany |Axel Möhrke|| ||Wire Fox Terrier||1977||Herning, Denmark||3,883||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Mundial Cinko Duda Csebi |Mexico |Roberto Hernández Ávalos||Karen Daly de Hernandez||Puli||1978||Mexico City, Mexico||4,000||<ref>{{citation |title=Small Hungarian Sheepdogs |last=Horter |first=Ria |magazine=The Canine Chronicle |date=December 2014 |number=194 |url=http://caninechronicle.com/current-articles/small-hungarian-sheepdogs-puli-pumi-mudi/ }}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- | | | || ||||1979||Bern, Switzerland||5,500||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Beseeka Knight Errant of Silkstone |UK (born); South Africa (residence) |M & M (Mesdames) Lumb and Hughes||Anna Kartsounis; Gary Kartsounis;
Roma E. Wright-Smith |Whippet |1980 |Verona, Italy |4,300 |<ref>[http://thewhippetarchives.net/details.php?id=4309 The Whippet Archives]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Saliha Deianira |Germany (born); Netherlands (residence) |Dr. Egon Knoll; Angela Knoll |Tim Teillers||Saluki||1981||Dortmund, Germany||8,836||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Fujimiland Julia |Japan | || ||Yorkshire Terrier||1982||Tokyo, Japan||1,404||<ref>[http://www.wds2015.com/blog/en/i-campioni-del-passato-fujimiland-julia/ World Dog Show 2015 Blog]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Tigre |Spain | ||Luis Esquiro Bolanos||Spanish Mastiff||1983||Madrid, Spain||3,097||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Kishniga's Diaghilev |Canada (born); Mexico (residence) |Richard Meen; John Reeve-Newson |Carlos & Mirna Cantu||Borzoi||1984||Acapulco, Mexico||784||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theborzoifiles.net/details.php?id=90118 |title=The Borzoi Files |access-date=2012-05-31 |archive-date=2016-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314013905/http://theborzoifiles.net/details.php?id=90118 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Abrisa vom Felsenkeller |Germany (born); Netherlands (residence) |Claus Hess||Tim Teillers||Saluki||1985||Amsterdam, Netherlands||10,093||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Abrisa vom Felsenkeller |Germany (born); Netherlands (residence) |Claus Hess||Tim Teillers||Saluki||1986||Tulln, Austria||7,952||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Northwind's Rising Star |USA |Jacob Feinberg||Jacob Feinberg||Samoyed||1987||Tel Aviv, Israel||1,274||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Northwind's Rising Star |USA |Jacob Feinberg||Jacob Feinberg||Samoyed||1988||Lima, Peru||730||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Chouan Gimlet |Denmark |Gunner Nymann; Holger Busk |Gunner Nymann; Holger Busk;
Helen Ingher |Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen |1989 |Copenhagen, Denmark |9,473 |<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Chakpori's Mao |Netherlands |Anke & Ruud de Wijs||Bianca Saasen||Lhasa Apso||1990||Brno, Czechoslovakia||11,942||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Fanto vom Hirschell |Germany | || ||German Shepherd||1991||Dortmund, Germany||13,427||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Caligola di Ponzano |Italy |Mario Querci||Antonio Pegoli||Neapolitan Mastiff||1992||Valencia, Spain||6,664||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Eddie Tato von Norwalfer |Argentina |Norma & Walter Soler||Alberto Sanchez||Great Dane||1993||Buenos Aires, Argentina||2,178||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Arctic Blue Senator |Spain | || ||Siberian Husky||1994||Bern, Switzerland||15,571|||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Humphrey dos Sete Moinhos |Portugal | ||José Homem de Mello||Basset Hound||1995||Brussels, Belgium||14,164||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Sanallah's Jerome |USA (born); Italy (residence) |Sandra L & Al F Weinraub||Roberto Bongiovanni||Afghan Hound||1996||Vienna, Austria/Budapest, Hungary||11,833||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1448475401626638315&hl=en&fs=true |title=video of 1996 Budapest World Show, including agility, working dog, brace, and Group events, and Best in Show |access-date=2009-09-28 |archive-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629115914/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1448475401626638315&hl=en&fs=true |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Afton's Absolut |USA |Jeanne Silva||Carolee Douglas; Jeanne & Christopher Silva |American Cocker Spaniel||1997||San Juan, Puerto Rico||4,060||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Loteki Supernatural Being |USA |Lou Ann King||Lou Ann King & John Oulton||Papillon||1998||Helsinki, Finland||15,295||<ref name="Hungerland2003">{{cite book|author=Dr Jacklyn E. Hungerland|title=Papillons: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Behavior, and Training|url=https://archive.org/details/papillonseveryth0000hung|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 June 2013|year=2003|publisher=Barron's Educational Series|isbn=978-0-7641-2419-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/papillonseveryth0000hung/page/11 11]}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Tacara's Santer Savar |USA |Sandra Pritchard; Terry Pritchard;
Linda L Newsome |Kim Smirl; Wanda Sako; Linda L Newsome |Belgian Shepherd Tervueren |1999 |Mexico City, Mexico |4,000 |<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Giaccherebbe dell'Angelo del Summano |Italy |Tranquillo Segalla||I. Maeder||Bracco Italiano||2000||Milan, Italy||15,200||<ref>[https://www.canitalia.it/world2000/ World Dogshow Milano 2000]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Atwater Crazy-Diamond Borgoleonardo |Portugal |Maria Amelia Taborda||Fernando Bastos Gomes||Newfoundland||2001||Porto, Portugal||7,282||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Topscore Contradiction |Norway | ||Mr and Mrs Glenna||Standard Poodle||2002||Amsterdam, Netherlands||14,520||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Propwash Syzygy |USA |Leslie Frank||Leslie Frank||Australian Shepherd||2003||Dortmund, Germany||18,716||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Double D Cinoblu's Masterpiece |USA (born); Brazil (residence) |Silvia Beloff; Sonia Couto |Ann Joe Sampaio||Pug||2004||Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||2,060||<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Homero del Alcazar |Argentina | || ||Lhasa Apso||2005||Buenos Aires, Argentina||2,806||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aniwa.com/en/general/document/en/general/magazine/fci-world-dog-show/world-dog-show-2005-in-argentina--a-hairy-final/index.htm |title=World Dog Show 2005 in Argentina: a hairy final by Emmanuel Pacitto |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-date=2008-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202123752/http://www.aniwa.com/en/general/document/en/general/magazine/fci-world-dog-show/world-dog-show-2005-in-argentina--a-hairy-final/index.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Axel del Monte Alago |Italy | ||Bitte Ahrens Primavera||Bracco Italiano||2006||Poznan, Poland||20,869||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ourdogs.co.uk/newsletters/issue122.htm |title=World Dog Show 2006 article in Our Dogs |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305001226/http://www.ourdogs.co.uk/newsletters/issue122.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Smash JP Talk About |Japan |Yujijo Omura||Mamoro Oyama||Toy Poodle||2007||Mexico City, Mexico||5,528||<ref name="Goldish2009">{{cite book|author=Meish Goldish|title=Toy Poodle: Oodles of Fun|url=https://archive.org/details/toypoodleoodleso0000gold|url-access=registration|accessdate=22 June 2013|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Bearport Publishing Company Incorporated|isbn=978-1-59716-746-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/toypoodleoodleso0000gold/page/27 27]}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice |Canada (born); USA (residence) |France Bergeron||Margery Good; Richard Good;
Sandra Middlebrooks |Sealyham Terrier |2008 |Stockholm, Sweden |20,661 |<ref>[http://www.worlddogshow2008.se/wds/ Swedish Kennelclub World Dog Show 2008]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Northgate's As You Like It |Finland (born); Sweden (residence) |Hanna Ukura; Kari Ukura |Jenny Hall||Pharaoh Hound||2009||Bratislava, Slovakia||21,140||<ref>{{cite book|title=Dog Fancy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GNWAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=22 June 2013|date=February 2010|publisher=Fancy Publications|page=9}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |Smash JP Talk About |Japan |Yujijo Omura||Mamoro Oyama||Toy Poodle||2010||Herning, Denmark||18,988||<ref>[https://www.hundeweb.dk/dkk/public/openIndex?ARTICLE_ID=103&UTID=101001 Herning 2010 Show Results]</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |- |De Kaner's Wolverine Revenge |Italy (born); Spain (residence) |Francisco Garcia||Nati Diestro||American Akita||2011||Paris, France||21,588||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eurodogshow.info/world-dog-shows/5-world-dog-show-2011|title=World Dog Show 2011 France|publisher=Euro Dog Show.info|accessdate=13 March 2010}}</ref> |- |Shiraz California Dreamin' |USA (born); Sweden (residence) |Michael & Elena Edwards; Valerie Nunes-Atkinson |Nicklas Eriksson; Ingunn Solberg |Saluki||2012||Salzburg, Austria||18,608||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://worlddogshow.oekv.at/presse.html |title=Our Dogs Press release |access-date=2012-06-01 |archive-date=2015-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723123037/http://worlddogshow.oekv.at/presse.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |Bottom Shaker My Secret |Hungary |István Szetmár; Jozsef Koroknai |Jozsef Koroknai||Old English Sheepdog||2013||Budapest, Hungary||18,002||<ref>[https://www.wds2013.hu/ World Dog Show 2013]</ref> |- |Tricky Ricky From Yarrow-Hi Tech |Indonesia | ||Jongkie Budiman; Mieke Cooijmans |Affenpinscher||2014||Helsinki, Finland||21,266||<ref>[http://voittaja.kennelliitto.fi/EN/worlddogshow_2014/worlddogshow2014.htm Finnish Kennelclub - World Dog Show 2014]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2013/05/25/hungary-on-top-in-world-dogfight/ | title=Hungary on top in world dogfight | publisher=The Budapest Times | date=25 May 2013 | accessdate=2013-06-22 | author=Wilheim, Fruzsina | archive-date=2014-11-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129042032/http://budapesttimes.hu/2013/05/25/hungary-on-top-in-world-dogfight/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |Ops I Did It Again Del Cuore Impavido |Italy |Filippo Ripoli||Olga Klimova||Bearded Collie||2015||Milan, Italy||19,923||<ref>[http://www.wds2015.com/ World Dog Show 2015]</ref> |- |Fine Lady S Zolotogo Grada |Russia |Svetlana Zolotova||Ekaterina Zaytseva||Black Russian Terrier||2016||Moscow, Russia||19,295||<ref>[http://wds16.ru/en/results-best-show-june-26 World Dog Show 2016]</ref> |- |Queenie Eye Del Castelo Levante |Italy | ||Patrizia Vidano||Great Dane||2017||Leipzig, Germany||24,692||<ref>[http://www.wds2017.de/ World Dog Show 2017]</ref> |- |Frosty Snowman |Netherlands |Phil Reid||Gwen Huikeshoven; Phil Reid |Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen||2018||Amsterdam, Netherlands||17,628||<ref>[http://www.wds2018.com/ World Dog Show 2018]</ref> |- |Realline Final Boss |South Korea |Kim Jong-oh||Kim Jong-oh||Pembroke Welsh Corgi||2019||Shanghai, China||1,881||<ref>[http://www.wds2019.cn/ World Dog Show 2019]</ref> |- ||Funfair Foxhound |Italy |Davide Valli||Davide Valli||Wire Fox Terrier||2020 (Due to pandemic was held in 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Show Report 2022- Passion and emotion in colorful Madrid! |url=https://dognews.com/vince-hogan-reports-from-2022-world-dog-show-passion-emotion-colorful-madrid-spain |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=dognews.com}}.</ref>||Madrid, Spain||6,835||<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20240221172347/https://wdsmadrid2020.com/ World Dog Show 2020]}}</ref> |- |L'End Show Metti Surprise At Glare |Russia |Elena Pykhtar||Elena Pykhtar||Bedlington Terrier||2021||Brno, Czech Republic||12,159||<ref>[https://www.wds2021.cz/en/ World Dog Show 2021]</ref> |- |BR Pepper’s Shades Of Joy |Brazil |Charly Andrade||Charly Andrade; Edina Mendes |Shih Tzu||2022||São Paulo, Brazil||3,833||<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Dog Show 2022 |url= https://www.dogshow.com.br/Resultados/ativaresultadoget.asp?Evento=1182212A |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=dogshow.com.br}}.</ref>
|- |Aquafortis Robel The One |Norway |Runi Kristiansen||Runi Kristiansen; Terje Kristiansen |Portuguese Water Dog||2023||Geneva, Switzerland||13,406||<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Dog Show 2023 |url= https://www.onlinedogshows.eu/en/Show/Index/2549/WorldDogShow2023_GrandprixdeGen_ve_Specialties#statistics |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=onlinedogshows.eu}}.</ref> |- |Zaida Bint Muti Von Haussman |Chile |Ramón Podestá||Ramón Podestá; Scott Pfeil; James Donahue; Armando Sobrado |Afghan Hound||2024||Zagreb, Croatia||14,850||<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Dog Show 2024 |url= https://www.onlinedogshows.eu/en/Show/Index/3089/WorldDogShow2024_InternationalSpringDogShow_CroatiaWinnershow#statistics |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=onlinedogshows.eu}}.</ref> |- |Black Majesty Some Say |Croatia |Iva Raic||Iva Raic||Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen||2025||Helsinki, Finland||15,720||<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Dog Show 2025 |url= https://www.wds2025.fi/statistics/ |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=wds2025.fi}}.</ref> |- |TBD | | || ||TBD||2026||Bologna, Italy||TBD|| |- |TBD | | || ||TBD||2027||Wels, Austria||TBD|| |- |TBD | | || ||TBD||2028||Mexico City, Mexico||TBD|| |- |TBD | | || ||TBD||2029||Poland||TBD|| |- |TBD | | || ||TBD||2030||Brno, Czech Republic||TBD||
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