48th Savaria Dance Festival set the stage for this year´s European Championship Ten Dance. 31 European countries presented their national champions to compete for the title. Chairman Markus Sónyi and his team of adjudicators and organizers cared for a wonderful event for the couples and the audience in AGORA Hall in Szombathely / Hungary.
This year, a successor had to be found for Bjorn Bitch – Ashli Williamson from Denmark, who finished their career in ten dance section after winning the title of world champion ten dance for the third time in Oslo last year. So it was most exciting who would be able to persuade the nine adjudicators …
Anton Skuratov – Alena Uehlin from Germany, in second position last year at the European Championship Ten Dance in Aarhus/Denmark, saw their chance to win: they felt well prepared, wanted to be successful … and won the title with 15 points ahead of Miha Vodicar – Nadiya Bychkova from Slovenia, who achieved 23 points.
Anton and Alena won all five dances in ballroom section …
… and achieved 2nd place in all five dances in latin-american section.
Congratulations to the Anton and Alena!
Miha Vodicar –Nadiya Bychkova from Slovenia attained 18 points in ballroom section (2,4,4,5,3) …
… and won all five dances in latin-american section (1,1,1,1,1).
Congratulations to Miha and Nadiya!
Jaak Vainomaa – Taina Savikurki from Finland achieved 3rd place with 32 points. In ballroom section the couple attained 12 points (3,3,2,2,2).
In latin-america section Jaak and Taina came up to 20 points (5,5,3,4,3).
Congratulations to Jaak and Taina!
4th place was given to Oskar Dziedzic – Klaudia Iwanska from Poland. They achieved 38 points. (Ballroom 5,2,3,4,4); (Latin 4,3,4,5,4)
Volodymyr Lyatov – Veronika Mysko from Ukraine achieved 5th place with 43 points. (Ballroom 4,5,5,3,5); (Latin 3,4,5,3,6)
6th place was given to Maurizio Benenato – Tatiana Veselkina from Italy (59 points). (Ballroom 6,6,6,6,6); (Latin 6,6,6,6,5)
Congratulations to the finalists and to all couples participating for excellent dancing!
See the videos of the final rounds …
See more pictures at the gallery …
