Category: WDSF World Championships

Mallorca DanceSport Challenge set the stage for the first WDSF World Open Championship Standard for Senior IV couples. The participance of 104 couples at the event demonstrates the rightness of the decision of WDSF to offer competitions for this very active group of dancers. Senior IV fits to the spirit it of the age. These dancers show high enthusiasm ... and everyone can see the really good performance of this class. Make up your own mind and watch the semi-final and the final rounds!

Junior II dancers from all over the world had come to Moscow on March 30th to find their world champions. 67 couples started and performed tremendously. It was a great pleasure for the audience to live to see these young and very dedicated dancing latin. Semen Khrzhanovskiy - Vitalina Bunina from Russian Federation won the title ahead of Nikita Olinichenko - Elizaveta Pustornakova from Russian Federation too.

Grün-Gold Club Bremen the stage for this year`s WDSF World Championship Formation Latin again and the A-Team of Grün-Gold Club won the title once more. Congratulations! The European Champions - Klaipéda University Team Zuvédra I from Lithuania - were set on 4th place this time. The Vera Tyumen Latin Team form Russian Federation achieved runners-up position, while the second German formation team - FG TSZ Aachen / TD TSC Düsseldorf Rot-Weiss attained third place. Read more details, see the pictures and videos ...

November is the time for the World Championships. Every weekend a new competition. First we saw the 10Dance in Vienna, followed by the standard section in Kiev. On November 30th 87 couples from 49 nations gathered in Berlin / Germany to find the World Champions Latin 2013. Aniello Langella - Khrystyna Moshenska from Italy won the title for the second time. Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus from Moldova attained runners-up position ahead of Marius-Andrei Balan - Nina Bezzubova from Germany. See the videos of the final rounds and the photos at the gallery.

Ukrainian Open set the stage for this year´s world championship standard on November 23rd in Kiev. 70 couples from 39 countries joined the championship standard. Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet from Denmark won the title ahead of Simone Segatori - Annette Sudol from Germany, who attained runners-up position. See the videos and the pictures of the competition ...

Austrian Open Championships in Vienna set the stage for the 2013 World Championship 10Dance on November 16th. Thirty-eight countries were represented by their national champions in ten-dance section. Bjoern & Ashli from Denmark win the title for the 4th time. Last year the couple finished ten-dance section after the 3rd win of world championship. This year they "retired" and started again ... and won the title once again.

Stefano Bernardini - Stefania Martellini from Italy win the title. Titleholder Tassilo & Sabine Lax from Germany are set on 2nd place. Stefano & Stefania achieve 1st place in tango and slow foxtrot. Tassilo & Sabine win the waltz and the viennese waltz. In the quickstep both couples attain four 1st places and three 2nd places. So the result was very tight.

The Vera Tyumen Standard Team are the new world champions in formation standard . Braunschweiger TSC from Germany are 2nd runner-up ahead of TSC Ludwigsburg / Germany . Univers Minsk from Belarus attained 4th place followed by Step in Time Formation from the Netherlands. Second Russian Formation Team Olympia achieved 6th place in the final.

For the third time the WDSF World Championships Show-Dance Standard & Latin were organized by Chinese DanceSport Federation. It took place on September 7th and 8th in Beijing / China. 17 couples presented their magnificent shows. Eight couples qualified for the final rounds. Charles-Guillaume Schmitt – Elena Salikhova from Russia win the world championship show-dance with 42.19 points ahead of Simone Casula – Laura Marras from Italy (42.19 points). Third place is given to Fedor Poliansky – Dina Akhmetgareeva from Russia (40.46 points).

For the third time the WDSF World Championships Show-Dance Standard & Latin were organized by Chinese DanceSport Federation. It took place on September 7th and 8th in Beijing / China. 17 couples presented their magnificent shows in standard and 17 couples in latin. Eight couples qualified for the final rounds.