Kies/Ribas Turon defend world title
With an absolute suspense after the closed marked finals
Christoph Kies/Blanca Ribas Turon won again the Ten Dance World
Championship. Now they defended the title for the second time. Even
in the Standard discipline they were on the winning path and with
enough second places in Latin they made perfect their title
defense. The silver medal went to the Slovenians Misa
Cigoj/Alexandra Malai, who improved a place compared to last year,
while the Russian couple Andrey Zaytsev/Anna Kuzminskaya this time
had to be satisfied with the bronze medal. The other three
finalists were newcomer in this final.
33 couples represented 33 countries in Berlin's
Max-Schmeling-Halle which offered the best conditions for the
hardest discipline in Dance Sport. Around 5,000 spectators took
care for high spirits and supported heavily the couples. Dr. Thomas
Bach, president of the German Olympic Sports Federation and IOC
vice-president, shouted enthusiastic: "A great event, great sport
and congratulations to Berlin." The organizing team of the National
Dance Association in Berlin offered a perfect World Championship
and made this event to a great dance sport show with an impressive
program. This included the "Dance of the Vampires" formed by group
of children, two Standard formation teams from Berlin, jazz and
modern dance teams, a presentation of the American Dance Sports
Cheerleading / Cheer Dance, a gymnastics show group, the women's
orchestra Salome and the staff orchestra of the German Armed
Forces. (Photo: Bolcz)
For those who could not be in Berlin the RBB will televise on
Sunday, 30.11.2008, 14:35 - 15:20 h, and on Monday, 01.12.2008 at
03:20 h.
Final round
1st Christoph Kies / Blanca Ribas Turón, Germany (23)
2nd Misa Cigoj / Alexandra Malai, Slovenia (31)
3rd Andrey Zaytsev / Anna Kuzminskaya, Russia (35)
4th Bjorn Bitsch / Ashli Williamson, Denmark (37)
5th Domenico Cannizzaro / Agnese Junkure, Italy (40)
6th Laszlo Csaba / Anna Mikes, Hungary (44)
Complete results at
by Heidi Estler Uhr