Charles-Guillaume Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA, came in sixth at the 2011 IDSF European DanceSport Championship Latin in Marseille. After having won the World Youth Latin here in 2008, the two made a triumphant return as finalists ... and as the darling of the crowd in the 'Palais des Sports' once more.
We must leave now but will continue on this blog well into tomorrow. We have recorded the entire final and post as soon as we can.
Everyone at the 'Palais des Sports' observed a minute of silence at the conclusion of the European Latin, remembering the dead, injured and displaced after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Many of the couples who competed here in Marseille were in Tokyo when the earthquake struck on 11 March at 2:46 p.m.
IDSF urges all visitors to worlddancesport.org to express their solidarity and to donate to the relief efforts by the Japanese Red Cross Society (here).
Place |
Couple |
Country |
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1. |
Zoran Plohl / Tatsiana Lahvinovich |
Croatia |
2. |
Andrey Zaitsev / Anna Kuzminskaya |
Russian Federation |
3. |
Aniello Langella / Kyrtyna Moshenka |
Italy |
4. |
Martino Zanibellato / Michelle Abildtrup |
Denmark |
5. |
Vladimir Karpov / Maria Tzaptashvilli |
Russian Federation |
6. |
Charles-Guillaume Schmitt / Elena Salikhova |
France |
Who will be the champions in 2011 ...