Big event in the Dutch Tilburg
World Championship Senior IV Standard and world ranking competitions
For a lot of competitive dancers the small Dutch city Tilburg has been the centre of all happening this weekend. At the World Championship Senior IV Standard 127 couples took part. Among them there have been various German couples, too, but none of them made it to the final. The best German couple has been Hans-Georg and Barbara Strunk with a 14th place in the semi-final. Already in the quarter-fi...
by Sonja Schäufler
Victory for Imametdinov/Bezzubova and Glass/Holzwarth
Results from Copenhagen
Understandably, global news were more characterised by the assassination in Copenhagen than by the excellent results of the German couples in Denmark. Besides the title of the European Champion for Benedetto Ferruggia/Claudia Köhler in the Professional Division Standard there have been two more victories for Germany: At the WDSF World Open Latin competition the new combination Timur Imametdinov/Ni...
by Sonja Schäufler
Competition results from… close to Budapest
… and Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Almost unpronouncable for German participants was the city for world ranking competitions in Hungary: Szigetszentmiklós, a small town close to Budapest. Luckily, dance was the language that was well spoken by the participants of the DTV: at the WDSF International Open Latin competition Kirill Ganopolsky / Kim Pätzug finished third, at the International Open Standard competition Dani...
by Peter Chen
Florian Fürll / Ingrid Disput split
Florian Fürll / Ingrid Disput from TSC Casino Dresden have announced the termination of their partnership. Ingrid now wants to focus on her studies, while Florian is looking for a new dancepartner. Both were members of the state team of Saxonia and in the D/C national team Standard.
by Peter Chen
Ferruggia / Köhler win European Championship PD Standard
Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Köhler clearly won the first three dances in the European Championship of the Professional Division in Copenhagen, Slow Foxtrot went to the runners-up Emanuel Valeri / Tania Kehlet from Denmark. In Quickstep, Benedetto and Claudia again received seven out of nine first places and therefore were crowned champions. The second German couple was Sas...
by Peter Chen
Jan Dvoracek / Malika Dzumaev split
A successful latin couple split: Jan Dvoracek / Malika Dzumaev (Grün-Gold-Club Bremen) were third in the German Championship S Latin and the second best DTV couple on the recent WDSF ranking list. Malika Dzumaev terminated the partnership and wants to return to the floor as soon as possible. In a letter to the federation she wrote: "Thank you to all who have believed in us…" She nam...
by Peter Chen
Ranking List win for Thorsten Strauß / Alma Marit Herrmann
Ranking List Senior I S Standard
Couples of Senior I S Standard opened the ranking list season in Wolfsburg. With nearly 40 couples, the participation was far below the expectations. For the first time, the couples and the audience in Congress Park experienced closed marking in a ranking list competition. The winners were decided in the last dance. Thorsten Strauß / Alma Marit Herrmann won with one point ahead, last years' winne...
by Peter Chen
Second win for Braunschweig
1st National League Standard
"Winning with all first places", was the message by NTV vice president Wolfgang Rolf after the second National League competition in Formation Standard in Oldenburg. Already after the first round he wrote: "The World Champions are dancing without blame and blamish." On the second league competition in Oldenburg, reigning World Champions left no doubt on their skills and won with all first places...
by Peter Chen
Segatori / Sudol enchanted Wolfsburg
Ranking List Adult S Standard
What a more glamorous end to a ranking list weekend can you wish for? Highlight of the weekend in Wolfsburg was the ranking list competition of the Adults S Standard. 25 of 25 registered couples not only thrilled the audience in Wolfsburg but also the adjudicators. Simone Segatori / Annette Sudol, an exceptionally likeable couple, celebrated dancesport on a world class level and w...
by Peter Chen
Lehmann / Kleinschmidt win European Cup 10 Dance
WDSF Competitions in Dnepropetrovsk
Bouncing up and the down were the results in the final of the European Cup 10 Dance in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine. Vadim Lehmann / Maria Kleinschmidt (TC Seidenstadt Krefeld) took four 1 st, four 2 nd and two 3 rd places and won the competition. Final 1. Vadim Lehmann / Maria Kleinschmidt, TC Seidenstadt Krefeld (18) 2. Andrii Kamyhinyi / Karina Shpakovskaya, Ukraine ...
by Peter Chen