World Championships Latin in Melbourne
In the Hisense Arena in Melbourne (Australia) some 5,000 spectators provided a great atmosphere for the 64 couples of the World Championships in the Latin American dances. The two German couples danced into the semifinal, where they were forced to terminate the competition. DTV sports director Michael Eichert together with the DTV coaches Oliver Wessel-Therhorn and Hans Galke took care for the cou...
by Heidi Estler
World Championships Youth Standard in Salou
At their first together danced World Championships in Salou (Spain) Anton Skuratov/Alena Uehlin (Art of Dance Cologne) reached the 4th place. Only one point separated them from the bronze rank, which went to the Polish champions Jeschke/Wior. Evgeny Vinokurov and Christina Luft (TC Blau-Gold Solingen) missed despite their best performance just the final and occupied the 7th place (Photo: Exeler) ...
by Heidi Estler
Kies/Ribas Turon defend world title
With an absolute suspense after the closed marked finals Christoph Kies/Blanca Ribas Turon won again the Ten Dance World Championship. Now they defended the title for the second time. Even in the Standard discipline they were on the winning path and with enough second places in Latin they made perfect their title defense. The silver medal went to the Slovenians Misa Cigoj/Alexandra Malai, who impr...
by Heidi Estler
World Championships Professionals Latin
For their first participation in a World Championship of professionals Franco Formica and Oxana Lebedev made the third place in Innsbruck (Austria) below 61 couples. 1. Michal Malitowski / Joanna Leunis, Poland (6) 2. Riccardo Cocchi / Yulia Zagoruychenko, USA (9) 3. Franco Formica / Oxana Lebedew, Germany (15) 4. Sergey Surkov / Melia, Poland (21) 5. Peter Stokkebroe / Kristina Juel Stokkebroe, ...
by Heidi Estler
Bremen disappointed, Velbert cheers
With a bitter disappointment the World Championship of Latin formations ended for the defending champion Grün-Gold Club Bremen. Despite a faultless performance Bremen lost the title to the Lithuanian team Zuvedra with one missing "one". Very pleasing from the German perspective was the third place for TSZ Velbert. 22 teams from 13 nations entered the World Championship in the Arena Nova in Wiener ...
by Heidi Estler
World Championship Standard Professionals
Absolutely outstanding the Italians Mirko Gozzoli / Alessia Betti defended their World Champion title of Professionals Standard. 41 couples entered the competition at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn (Germany). The German representatives Sascha and Natascha Karabey were fifth in the final. Stanislaw Massold / Christine Deck, the second german couple, who changed recently from amateur to professional, fin...
by Heidi Estler
World Standard: Ferruggia/Köhler defending silver medal
Benedetto Ferruggia/Claudia Köhler defended impressively their second place at the World Championships Standard in Vienna (Austria). The judges placed the couple in all five dances on the second place. So they won again the silver medal and could take home again the vice champion title. The second German couple Simone Segatori/Annette Sudol finished with the fifth place and therefore one place bet...
by Heidi Estler
World Championship Junior II Ten Dance at Minsk
Maxim Sosunov and Evgeniya Kazarina (Art of Dance, Cologne) did not lack more than three crosses to enter the finals at their first World Championship in chilly Minsk. Not a bad start for the two German champions, the more so as they eventually found themselves on the same rank with the Latvian vice world champions Standard, who had been anticipated much farther ahead. As expected, the winners wer...
by Ulrike Sander-Reis
First IDSF World Ten Dance competition in Germany (Zwickau- Saxonia)
The third tournament of the Saxonian Ten Dance Cup took place on 8. November at the Zwickauer Stadthalle before a full audience with 22 couples. What could be observed was a sensational final with a very convincing performance of the acting world champions Christoph Kies/Blanca Ribas Turon winning all of the ten dances. The third rank was occupied by Michal Stukan/Susanne Miscenko narrowly behind ...
by Ulrike Sander-Reis
German Championships Formation Latin - Furious victory for Bremen
The teams from Bremen got the spectators in the AWD Dome crazy. Both teams of Grün-Gold Bremen presented themselves with an incredible sovereignty from the first minute of the German Championship Formation Latin in Bremen. With its new theme "Noi Siamo" (this we are) the A team defended the German title. The B-team returned with "Move" to the third place and is back again as "the best all time B-t...
by Heidi Estler