Results from all around the world
There is dancing all around the globe - and this weekend a lot of notifications about great results were sent to us from different countries: In Lisbon, Portugal, Marius-Andrei Balan / Khrystyna Moshenska won the WDSF World Open Latin competition. Evgeny Vinokurov / Christina Luft finished fifth. In Jelenia Gora, Poland, Marek Bures / Anastasija Khadjeh-Nouri were runner...
by Peter Chen
Double joy at International Open Latin in Graz
Results of WDSF ranking list competitions
A double joy for two couples from Tanzsport Deutschland in Austria: At the WDSF International Open Latin competition in Graz, Marek Bures / Anastasiia Iermolenko Khadjeh-Nouri won all five dances and were happy winners. Razyan Dumitrescu / Jacqueline Joos were very happy after leaving the floor as well: on their first competition together, they were already recalled to the final of ...
by Peter Chen
The wedding bells were ringing twice for four
The wedding bells rang quite loudly in August - loudly enough to reach our team. After the GOC Anatoliy Novoselov / Tasja Schulz went on holidays (proof: a picture taken at the beach on Facebook). Their next post came from the beach as well - but then in a wedding suit and a wedding gown. They were married on August 20 th. Tasja will use a double barreled name in the future: Schul...
by Peter Chen
Obituary for Daniel Shapilov
Tanzsport Deutschland mourns the passing of Daniel Shapilov. A young and ambitious dancer, a promising talent - his life came to an end, too early at the age of only 20. Many friends and companions received the news of the unexpected death of Daniel Shapilov with great dismay and disbelief. Our deepest sympathy goes to the Shapilov family. What remains are love, rememb...
by Peter Chen
Ferriggia /Köhler Win In Rimini
Benedetto Ferrugia and Claudia Köhler souvereignly won the WDSF PD Super Grand Prix in Italy. 27 couples were competing. Ferrugia/Köhler dominated the very strong final. They even won with a distance of 2 points. 1. Benedetto Ferruggia / Claudia Koehler, Germany 2. Emanuel Valeri / Tania Kehlet, Denemark 3. Donatas Vezelis / Lina Chatkeviciute, Lithuania 4. Marco Cavallaro / Letizia Ingrosso,...
by Kristina Scibor
World Championships Youth Standard: Both Couples in the quarter final
Janzen/Litvinova and Stöckl/Belz in Rimini
As part of the big event in Rimini, which lasted one week, the World Championships Youth Standard took place. Surprisingly, both couples only reached the quarter final. Their coaches and the national youth officer Sandra Bähr spoke in high terms of the two couples and would have expected better results. Jan Janzen/Victoria Litvinova reached place 21 and Dominik Stöckl/Katharina Belz place 22 of 66...
by Kristina Scibor
Bronze For Gert Faustmann / Alexandra Kley
273 At The Seniors II Standard World Championships
It was an important highlight in the dancing career of Gert Faustmann/Alexandra Kley: They won the bronze medal at the World Championships Seniors II Standard and were extremely happy. 237 couples had competed at these open World Championships in Rimini, Italy. Consequently, the rounds lasted very long and required lots of strength and nerves. The final was finished at 1am and the couple from Be...
by Kristina Scibor
Results from Budapest
From the Hungarian capital Razvan Dumitrescu/Jacqueline Joos reported their successful participation in the WDSF World Open Latin competition in which they finished 9th in the semi-final. In the WDSF Open Senior II Standard competition Albert and Andrea Rommel reached the final and finished 6th.
by Sonja Schäufler
Doga/Ertmer 4th again
World Championship 10-dance in Chengdu, China
Dumitru Doga/Sarah Ertmer reached just like last year in Riga the final of the World Championship 10-dance. With 32 couples in this competition they repeated with a 4th place their last year's result. The accompanying regions sports director Ivo Münster attested the couple an excellent performance. The three German couples having travelled with them to their competitions energetically cheered Doga...
by Sonja Schäufler
Bronze medal for Zirm/Schwarz
World Championship I Standard
With a constantly good performance over all rounds Thorsten Zirm/Sonja Schwarz could reach the 3rd place of the rostrum in the World Championship Senior I Standard in Prague. So they improved two places comparing to last year's result. "We have reached our maximum goal", Thorsten Zirm happily said after the award ceremony. The Italian couple Christian and Elena Bono defended their title. 2nd finis...
by Sonja Schäufler