Helmut Roland
The Braunschweiger TSC set the stage for the 2022 WDSF World Championships Formation Standard and Latin on October 15th in Braunschweig Volkswagen Hall. In the standard competition 15 teams from 11 countries started for the title. And the winners are ... the A-Team from Braunschweiger TSC in Germany. Runners-up position was given to the European Champions, Tanzsportteam im ASC Göttingen. TSK Juventus Wien achieved 3rd place.
The GOC Stuttgart also set the stage for the 2022 WRRC World Championships Boogie Woogie. In the Junior Class Fabio Rovedoni - Arianna Martinucci from Italy win the title. In the Main Class Dimitri Masotti - Alessia Ghezzo from Italy win the final in the fast section (2nd in the slow section). Runners-up position is given to Masi Sauren - Anna Tyutyunyuk from Finland (1st in slow section and 2nd in fast section).
Second highlight in Leipzig on October 23rd at the "Messe Leipzig" area: 2021 WDSF Professional Division ShowDance Standard. 11 couples from 6 nations joined the championship. 11 very special shows were presented to the visitors and of course to the adjudicators. Valentin Lusin - Renata Lusin from Germany won the title ahead of Alexandru Ionel - Patricija Belousova from Germany. Bronze medal was given to Domenico Aliberti - Roberta Cardone from Italy.
Messe Leipzig was the place on October 23rd. The best couples of the WDSF Professional Division were invited to compete for the title of a World Champion Latin. 25 couples from 14 countries followed this invitation. Again Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus from Moldova won the title. Marts Smolko - Tina Bazykina from Latvia achieved Runners-up. 3rd place was given to Kirill Kolpashchikov - Julia Remizova.
The Lithuanian DanceSport Federation, founded in 1989, took the chance to celebrate the 30th anniversary by organizing the 2019 WDSF World Championships Standard in Vilnius / Lithuania. 77 couples from 44 nation were nominated to take part. After the change of last year`s World Champions Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova from Russian Federation to the WDSF Professional Division, new World Champions Standard for the Amateur Class had to be found. Congratulations to Evaldas Sodeika - Ieva Zukauskaite from Lithuania for winning the title in Vilnius last Saturday, Nov. 30th. Francesco Galuppo - Debora Pacini from Italy archived the runners-up position. Third place was given to Evgeny Moshenin - Dana Spitsyna from Russian Federation.
2017 German Open Championships set the stage for WDSF Open Senior IV competition on August 9th. 97 couples from all over the world had come to compete in Stuttgart. After 5 rounds seven finalists were identified. Six of them come from Italy, one from Japan. At the end Luciano Cerati - Rosa Nuccia Capello from Italy won the competition ahead of runners-up Nicholas Nero - Anna Maria Arzenton from Italy. Vittorio Guida - Fortuna Canta from Italy won 3rd place.