Hundreds of adorable corgis compete to be top dog in international competition

Cute and adorable Welsh corgis, wide known for their association pinch nan British royal family, are successful truth a breed of passionate racers.

That’s astatine slightest according to nan 120 teams from astir Europe taking portion successful nan Corgi Race Vilnius, successful Lithuania’s capital, which drew an world bunch of furballs and their owners from countries including Poland, Latvia, Germany, Austria and Italy.

Thousands of Lithuanians gathered successful nan capital’s largest parkland connected Saturday and Sunday to watch nan events — a solo sprint, a title for nan “mightiest voice,” costume challenges, and group racing.

The arena is group to culminate connected Sunday pinch nan alleged World Corgi Meetup, wherever dogs successful Lithuania will beryllium connected via a unrecorded broadcast pinch their peers successful nan United States, Ireland and Poland.

“This is truthful overmuch nosy and awesome emotion for nan full family, thing agleam that galore group are craving for these days,” said retired coach Janina Stoniene, who attended nan title pinch her 3 grandchildren. The children said they admired nan costume situation arsenic dogs were dressed successful eye-catching outfits for illustration Batman, a princess aliases an airplane.

A corgi named Amigo, sporting a factory-themed costume complete pinch 2 mini chimneys and “Fur Factory” lettering, was named nan proud victor of that contest.

Another called Mango, whose owners are from Lithuania, was nan champion of nan solo race.

“So this is simply a mango, for illustration a consequence mango, and we are participating (for the) 2nd clip successful Corgi Race 2025,” said Ignas Klimaika, a proud Corgi person from Vilnius. “Last twelvemonth we didn’t negociate to extremity nan title perfectly. We had a really bully training. We had trained each day, but this twelvemonth we decided we conscionable spell without training, conscionable to participate, conscionable to bask each nan tons of corgis,” he said.

But this year, Mango won nan racing competition, while his owners screamed and waved to effort to animate him to triumph.

“He knows what he did and he’s really proud of himself,” said Ignas, who is already readying for 2026.