Ten of our champions in the WDSF Standard, Latin and Professional Divisions will remember the ”Hyundai Card Super Match 12 – DanceSport” as a most important event whereby our DanceSport champions were honoured at one of the greatest DanceSport shows in the world.
The “Hyundai Card Super Match 12-DanceSport” is certainly the biggest DanceSport show ever staged. The 8,000-strong audience set the stage for a most memorable performance for both our top athletes as well as their fans who packed the newly renovated SK Handball stadium in the Olympic Park of South Korea over the 2-day show.
The organiser, SEMA Sports Marketing, is a top marketing agency in Korea that represents Hyundai Card, a subsidiary of the business giant Hyundai. SEMA is also an event organizer that has brought in renowned names like Andrea Bocelli and Whitney Houston to Korea. The Super Match is a sports event organized annually by SEMA, which has included the superstars in Golf and Tennis in past events. This year, SEMA has introduced DanceSport into their Super Match series.
SEMA first contacted KFD, our member body in Korea, Sutu Ok from KFD was tasked to coordinate the project between SEMA and the WDSF. The plan was finalized only in early October. I had the unenviable task of putting up a team that will impress the organiser in just one week.
On the first day of the show, all couples presented three of their favorite show numbers. The crowd was extremely warm and receptive, making it a little difficult for each of our champions to leave the floor after every number. Eventually three numbers were cancelled as the show exceeded the broadcast time of the television. The entire event was broadcasted by two out of three television stations in Seoul.
For me, seeing four of our PD champions working together with six of our Standard and Latin champions in great harmony gave me the greatest satisfaction and the assurance that we are in one big WDSF family.
Report by Shawn and Gladys Tay
And Shawn also sent us a video he recorded himself.
Very often when news cannot get the best pictures, they still have to use whatever material they can get! This is what I have got from my own camera in between organising the show - just in case we get nothing in the end. You should use this and if we are lucky enough, SEMA marketing will keep their promise to give some videos to us ...
Shawn
And whatever needed to be done to keep on going, it had to happen prior to the upcoming weekend and the Grand Slam Finals in Salou, ESP.
So here's the scoop: WDSF has finally made the switch from profile to page, moving its 4,999 friends along and creating a new presence on what is the uncontested # 1 among the social media. Staking out new claims on facebook, "Wdsf DanceSport" continues to exist - albeit under a new user name: wdsfisdancesporttotal.
Prior to Saturday's Grand Slam Final Standard, we hope to have everything set up properly for you to be able to follow the competition through facebook as well. All our other social media outlets - twitter and YouTube - remain unchanged.
The schedules for the two Grand Slam Finals have also been announced. They run late, with the winners to be announced past midnight EST for the Latin Final. But Spain is different, and the week from 5 December 9 December is one marked by two national holidays - 6 December is Constitution Day, 8 December is Immaculate Conception - and altogether making for one very long weekend from 3 December ...
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Start |
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End |
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19:50 |
Round 1 – 13 couples |
20:10 |
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21:15 |
Semi-Final – 9 couples |
21:35 |
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22:15 |
Final – 6 couples |
23:15 |
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23:18 |
Awards |
23:25 |
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Start |
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End |
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21:25 |
Round 1 – 13 couples |
21:45 |
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22:05 |
Semi-Final – 9 couples |
22:25 |
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23:05 |
Final – 6 couples |
00:05 |
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00:10 |
Awards |
00:20 |
It is with great pleasure that we follow Daniel Bachmann's suggestion and incorporate these videos into our Gallery ... and post one of them right here. The top three couples in the Main Class with their performances in the final of the WRRC World Championship 2011!
1. Jacek Tarczylo - Anna Miadzielec, POL
2. Maurizio and Jade Mandorino, SUI
3. Florian Baron - Buylaine Golf, FRA
WRRC has its own YouTube channel "The WRRC" with a few more videos.
10,000 km flight distance!
Some of the couples who will be in Salou this weekend passed the last one in Seoul, KOR. It was billed as the ultimate match in DanceSport - more precisely, the "Hyundai Card Super Match 12" - and it pitched (something almost unheard of until now) "regular" couples against professionals. The DanceSport invitational held at the handball arena of Seoul's Olympic Park saw an extravaganza that (some say) set new standards in terms of spectacle and involved only very few couples: 10! Here are the results ...
Hyundai Card Super Match 12 | DanceSport | Standard
1. Domenico Soale and Gioia Cerasoli ITA – PD
2. Federico Di Toro and Anastasia Tarlykova RUS – PD
3. Beneditto Ferruggia and Claudia Kohler GER
4. Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova RUS
5. Evgenny Moshenin and Genny Favero ITA
1. Alexey Silde and Anna Firstova RUS PD
2. Zoran Plohl and Tatsiana Lahvinovich CRO
3. Aniello Langella and Khrystyna Moshenska ITA
4. Vladimir Karpov and Mariya Tzaptashvilli RUS
5. Evegeny Imrekov and Liza Novak RUS PD
A carefully selected panel of WDSF Adjudicators will be the ones who will decide over what is "outstanding" and what is "very poor".
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10 |
Outstanding |
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9 |
Superior |
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8 |
Very good |
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7 |
Good |
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6 |
Above average |
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5 |
Average |
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4 |
Fair |
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3 |
Weak |
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2 |
Poor |
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1 |
Very poor |
Prior to that spectacular stage in the competition, the same adjudicators will decide on a comparison-based basis, i.e. on the virtues of the traditional skating system, as to who will move from round one to two and on to the final.
Karina Rubio (Spain)
Ralf Müller (Germany)
Giordano Vanone (Italy)
Peep Vardja (Estonia)
Irina Solomatina (Russia)
Peter Stokkebroe (Denmark)
Robert Wota (Poland)
Geir Bakke (Norway)
George Tan (Malaysia)
Marco Sietas (Chairman, Spain)
In a press conference, the organisers of the XIIIth Spanish Open and the representatives of the host city Salou outlined their expectations for an event that will bring 1,680 couples to the Golden Coast (Costa Daurada) between 2 and 6 December.
"The best DanceSport in the world will undoubtedly be shown in Salou this weekend," said Freitag, referring to the quality of the couples who will compete in the Grand Slam Finals.
Mayor Granados pointed to the economic situation in Spain and around the world when he stated that "in times of crisis it is even more important that institutions and the private sector work together in ventures that bring activity to the city and help it to regain dynamism".
Antonio Mas, the organiser of the Spanish Open, thanked the city of Salou for its continued support to DanceSportr and gave a brief rundown of what to expect over the six days at the Municipal Sports Hall. "Salou will get a good return in terms of exposure," Mas said. Six hours of television will be produced on the Grand Slam Finals and the other events, International Opens among them.
Additionally, the two Grand Slam Finals will be covered on this blog and through a YouTube live stream on 3 and 4 December.
A Spanish version of the brochure will be distributed to the public in Salou. All photographs in the publication have been taken by Prof Helmut Roland at World and Euopean Championships as well as Grand Slam events throughout the year.
As stated on page two of the publication, WDSF encourages everyone following the 2011 Grand Slam Finals to make another donation to the ongoing relief efforts by the Japan Red Cross Society after the earthquake and tsunami there.
IDSF urges all visitors to worlddancesport.org to donate to the Red Cross relief efforts in Japan (here).
Here are the Latin couples who will dance their Grand Slam Final on Sunday 4 December. Joel López - Kristina Bespechnova are the invited Spanish representatives.
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Langella, Aniello - Moshenska, Khrystyna |
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Italy |
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2 |
Zanibellato, Martino - Abildtrup, Michelle |
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Denmark |
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3 |
Karpov, Vladimir - Tzaptashvilli, Mariya |
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Russian Federation |
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4 |
Zaytsev, Andrey - Kuzminskaya, Anna |
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Russian Federation |
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5 |
Imametdinov, Timur - Nikolaeva, Ekaterina |
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Russian Federation |
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6 |
Kiselev, Andrey - Selivanova, Anastasia |
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Russian Federation |
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7 |
Panteleev, Vitaly - Glukhova, Daria |
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Russian Federation |
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8 |
Balan, Marius-Andrei - Bezzubova, Nina |
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Germany |
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9 |
Tatarenko, Sergey - Tatarenko, Viktoria |
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Germany |
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10 |
Gusev, Andrey - Cherevichnaya, Elizaveta |
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Russian Federation |
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11 |
Bager, Troels - Jeliazkova, Ina |
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Denmark |
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12 |
Zaripov, Zufar - Ludwig-Tchemodourova, Anna |
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Austria |
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Joel López - Kristina Bespechnova |
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13* |
Spain |
The couples who have qualified for the 2011 Grand Slam Finals in Salou, ESP, and who accepted the invitation have officially been announced today. Here are the 13 competing in Standard on Saturday 3 December. Adrián Esperón - Patricia Martínez, ESP, have been invited as representatives of the Garnd Slam host country.
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Valeri, Emanuel - Kehlet, Tania |
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Denmark |
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2 |
Segatori, Simone - Sudol, Annette |
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Germany |
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3 |
Ferruggia, Benedetto - Köhler, Claudia |
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Germany |
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4 |
Bitsch, Björn - Williamson, Ashli |
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Denmark |
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5 |
Zharkov, Dmitry - Kulikova, Olga |
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Russian Federation |
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6 |
Moshenin, Evgeny - Favero, Genny |
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Italy |
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7 |
Glukhov, Alexey - Glazunova, Anastasia |
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Russian Federation |
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8 |
Darin, Nikolay - Seredina, Natalia |
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Russian Federation |
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9 |
Shurin, Vadim - Meshkova, Anastasia |
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Russian Federation |
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10 |
Zoglauer, Steffen - Koperski, Sandra |
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Germany |
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11 |
Skuratov, Anton - Uehlin, Alena |
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Germany |
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12 |
Philippov, Andrey - Kuligina, Evgenia |
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Russian Federation |
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13* |
Adrián Esperón - Patricia Martínez |
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Spain |
* Host country representatives
Since some of us (photographers and videographers) at WDSF Communications are great fans of their very particular style in Standard (I hope we're allowed to mention that here without offending anyone, or, even worse, without influencing the judges), we can only say: "Air Konovaltsev shall be sorely missed!"
Another Russian couple, Danil Ulanov and Irina Gogoladze, will not compete either. But even so, Russia will field the strongest contingent with five couples.
Just to mention a few of the couples who will be contesting the title of 2011 World Games Champions Standard on 3 December in Salou, ESP. More information on them and the other 9 couples will be published here next week!
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