Zirm/Schwarz 5th at the World Championship
World Championship Senior I Standard in Rimini
"We have a top result!" the DTV senior commissioner announced happily at the World Championship Senior I Standard in Rimini, when the composition of the final was published: one DTV couple in the final, one couple in the semi-final. Two finalists from last year were not in the last round - defeated by German couples that even had not taken part in the last years championship. Andreas Lippk/Karin E...
by Sonja Schäufler
Hoffmann/Krüger in the Latin Final
World Championship in Rimini
For the 5th time Andreas Hoffmann/Isabel Krüger were dancing the World Championship Senior I Latin and this year occupied the 4th place. The German and the Finnish couple (until then runner-up world champions) were the only couples from the last years final that made it again till the last round. The Russian title holder and both Spanish representatives had to end their competition already in the ...
by Sonja Schäufler
Results from all over the World
In the Polish Olsztyn Marc Becker/Nicole Giersbeck won the Senior I Latin tournament. At the Senior I Standard tournament Christof Andreas Schulz/Nadja Hartwig finished 4th, Günther and Antja Nagel ranked 6th. Three couples represented the DTV in the final of the Senior II Standard tournament: Damian Kukowa/Bettina Weimann finished 3rd, Günther and Antja Nagel ranked 5th and Gerhard Baier/Ingrid C...
by Sonja Schäufler
Good Results at the WDSF General Meeting in Bucharest
After six hours president Carlos Freitag finished the annual general meeting of the World Dance Sport Federation WDSF thanking Rumania for hosting the assembly. The representatives had their meeting in the Rumanian parliament, 61 nations were present. A longer period of discussion took the application of changing the competition rules announced by the WDSF executive committee. Some of the proposed...
by Sonja Schäufler
3rd Place for Khan/Küstner at the WDSF Junior II Standard tournament at the SuDaFe
On Sunday afternoon, 33 couples took part at the last of the four WDSF ranking tournaments in Berlin. In the semi-final four nations were represented in the Junior II Standard tournament, in the final there were six couples from three nations, while three boys were named Nikita. The proportion of the nations was three to two to one: three times Russia, two times Germany, one time Denmark. Nikita O...
by Sonja Schäufler
Results from Vienna, 2nd Tournament Days
At the Vienna Dance Concourse almost all the couples are starting two times as their tournaments are offered twice. Therefore, for a lot of couples there is further success to announce from Austria from the last weekend. So Andreas Lippok/Karin Eva Rode finished 3rd at the WDSF Open Senior I Standard tournament, Thorsten Strauß/Alma Marit Herrmann ranked 5th. Also Gert Faustmann/Alexandra Key impr...
by Sonja Schäufler
16th Summer Dance Festival – WDSF Youth Open victory for Poland
The victory of the 1st WDSF Youth Open Standard tournament of the 16th Summer Dance Festival goes to Poland. In a field of 42 couples Kewin Espenszyt/Aleksandra Siwek clearly won all dances in front of Dominik Stoeckl/Katharina Belz from Germany. The 3rd rostrum ascended Andis Kievens/Beate Anne Strauta from Latvia. Their rear gunners Lauris Paegle/Jelizavetta Rukosjeva pipped the Danish couple Al...
by Sonja Schäufler
World Dance Sport Federation meets in Bucharest
The representatives of the member federations are holding their annual assembly in the Rumanian Bucharest this year. So far the executive committee of our world federation WDSF were meeting, with Michael Eichert as 2nd Vice president. The newly founded commission "Sport for All", directed by Heidi Estler, had its statutory meeting. The European Commission with Franz Allert answered all questions r...
by Sonja Schäufler
Daniel Schmuck/Veronika Obholz Winner of the WDSF Junior II Latin in Berlin
60 couples took part at the WDSF Junior II B Latin tournament during the Summer Dance Festival. In the final four nations were represented. Apart from the two German couples Daniel Schmuck/Veronika Obholz and Nikita Yatsun/Elisabeth Yatsun, two Russian couples and one couple from Denmark as well as one couple from the Czech Republic were dancing. The Jive decided the victory of this tournament bet...
by Sonja Schäufler
Michael and Beate Lindner World Champions Senior III Standard
Markus and Stephanie Grebe 4th of the World Championship Senior II Latin
Michael and Beate Lindner crowned their dance sports career with another milestone: They won the WDSF World Championship Senior III Standard in Madrid, Spain. 152 couples took part. Lindners clearly dominated the field and got 38 of 45 possible ones. In the final and semi-final Lindners were the only German couple. In the quarter-final three more couples represented the DTV: Alexander Hick/Petra-A...
by Sonja Schäufler