Even prior to the start of the 2012 World DanceSport Championship Latin in Vienna, AUT, the event seems bound to go down in WDSF history. At three days out, there's good indication that the previous participation record (2009 Maribor, 87 couples) could be broken. The Austrian organisers have published the starting list with 97 couples on it. The World Latin's internationality is similarly impressive: 55 National Member Bodies have entered couples (2011 Singapore had 49).
Even if there could be some last-minute changes to both figures, the 2012 World Latin is likely to set new benchmarks!
1 |
Baran Adisen - Cigdem Guler |
TUR |
2 |
Ivan Angelkovski - Simona Spirovska |
MKD |
3 |
Sigurdur Mar Atlason - Sara Ros Jakobsdottir |
ISL |
4 |
Marius-Andrei Balan - Nina Bezzubova |
GER |
5 |
Brodie Barden - Lana Skrgic De-Fonseka |
AUS |
6 |
Salvatore Bellavita - Natalia Poliakova |
ALB |
7 |
Anton Belyayev - Antoaneta Popova |
CAN |
8 |
Svyatoslav Bibyaev - Valeriya Kachalko |
KGZ |
9 |
Andrea Borrelli - Chantal Green |
England |
10 |
Victor Burchuladze - Kateryna Kozma |
GEO |
11 |
Jie Cai - Chang Liu |
CHN |
12 |
Daniel Camacho - Estefania Perez |
ECU |
13 |
Simone Casula - Laura Jottay |
BEL |
14 |
Shimriel Davidov - Olga Chupilov |
ISR |
15 |
Andrea De Angelis - Frederikke Flyvbjerg |
DEN |
17 |
Niels Didden - Gwyneth Van Rijn |
NED |
18 |
Lars Olav Eltervaag - Melanie Kegel |
NOR |
19 |
Yvo Eussen - Elisabeth Novotny |
SWE |
20 |
Adam Fedko - Paulina Dabek |
POL |
21 |
Giuseppe Fiamingo - Valentina Emanuele |
ARG |
22 |
Paul Frlicka - Svetlana Guggenbuehl |
SUI |
23 |
Artem Gaylit - Elizaveta Shibaeva |
BLR |
24 |
Sergiy Georgiyev - Lena Khablenko |
AUT |
25 |
Roman Gerbey - Vera Bondareva |
UKR |
26 |
Alfio Germana - Nicole Harrington |
NZL |
27 |
Serghei Gherman - Bourla Vasiliki |
GRE |
28 |
Alan Gilin - Anastasiya Trutneva |
CAN |
29 |
Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus |
MDA |
30 |
Juan Manuel Gomez - Marina Mangione |
ESP |
31 |
Damir Haluzan - Anna Mashchyts |
SLO |
32 |
Yao Hou - Ting Zhuang |
CHN |
33 |
Dzenan Jahic - Beata Sebestyen |
BIH |
34 |
Juri Kagan - Marina Nikolaeva |
EST |
35 |
Dawid Kaleta - Frida Steffensen |
SWE |
36 |
Filip Karasek - Sabina Piskova |
CZE |
37 |
Ivan Karastoyanov - Nikol Nikolova |
BUL |
38 |
Islam Prokopis Katiaj - Aliona Stefanidou |
ALB |
39 |
Tomoya Kawashima - Matsuri Kojima |
JPN |
40 |
Laszlo Kovacs - Erika Kelemen |
HUN |
41 |
Yumiya Kubota - Rara Kubota |
JPN |
42 |
Erhan Kus - Seda Arigul |
TUR |
43 |
Aniello Langella - Khrystyna Moshenska |
ITA |
44 |
Yosef Laskin - Evgenia Libman |
ISR |
45 |
Bojan Lazareski - Tjasa Novak |
SRB |
46 |
Artem Lazarev - Ekaterina Isakovich |
UKR |
47 |
Valeriu Leontiev - Natalia Luchiv |
MDA |
48 |
Chinawat Lerson - Kanokrat Krujit |
THA |
49 |
Leo Lin - Ya Yen Chen |
TPE |
50 |
Janick Loewe - Pia Lundanes |
NOR |
51 |
Ivans Lubenko - Helen Pearce |
England |
52 |
Sergiu Luca - Maria Pia Arces |
ROU |
53 |
Federico Maccioni - Olga Turbin |
CYP |
54 |
Boris Maltsev - Zarina Shamsutdinova |
KAZ |
55 |
Vincenzo Mariniello - Sara Casini |
ITA |
56 |
Mikko Matikka - Kerttu Sakki |
FIN |
57 |
Farid Mehtiyev - Nargiz Osmanova |
AZE |
58 |
Vjatseslav Molkin - Daria Chentsova |
EST |
59 |
Craig Monley - Sriani Argaet |
AUS |
60 |
Ervin Muratspahic - Enisa Durmo |
BIH |
61 |
Sebastian Mureddu - Melissa Ferraro |
BEL |
62 |
Alexander Nabiullin - Barbara Ribeiro |
POR |
63 |
Balazs Nagymihaly - Agnes Szalai |
HUN |
64 |
Archa Nakloung - Apichaya Kuptawanith |
THA |
66 |
Freythor Ossurarson - Hrefna Dis Halldorsdottir |
ISL |
67 |
Domenico Palmisano - Maria Birosova |
SVK |
68 |
Guillem Pascual - Rosa Carne |
ESP |
69 |
Pavel Pasechnik - Marta Arndt |
GER |
70 |
Spiridon Pavlidis - Ourania Koliou |
GRE |
71 |
Lukas Petkevicius - Migle Klupsaite |
LTU |
72 |
Dario Pizzo - Karen D Albundo |
FRA |
73 |
Vukasin Prvulovic - Vanja Vasiljevic |
SRB |
74 |
Krystian Radziejowski - Sylwia Maczek |
POL |
75 |
Ciflicli Roman - Toncean Mirona |
ROU |
76 |
Jose Romero - Veronica Padron |
ECU |
77 |
Ch-Guillaume Schmitt - Elena Salikhova |
FRA |
78 |
Marian Sivak - Kristina Raczova |
SVK |
79 |
Marts Smolko - Viktoria Puhovika |
LAT |
80 |
Pavel Stepanchuk - Anastasiya Danilova |
USA |
82 |
Jevgenijs Suvorovs - Tiina Bazokina |
LAT |
83 |
Viktor Szabo - Vanja Vujic |
CRO |
84 |
Konstantin Todorov - Andra Linte |
BUL |
85 |
Gennadiy Tsynkevich - Mzia Orvelashvili |
BLR |
86 |
Jaak Vainomaa - Taina Savikurki |
FIN |
87 |
Michal Vajcik - Carmen Huber |
SUI |
88 |
Cristiano Valente - Filipa Lamolinaire Cruz |
POR |
89 |
Istvan Varga - Gabriela Pilic |
CRO |
90 |
Jokubas Venckus - Jomante Dapkeviciute |
LTU |
91 |
Miha Vodicar - Nadiya Bychkova |
SLO |
92 |
Valentin Voronov - Alina Imrekova |
RUS |
93 |
Martino Zanibellato - Michelle Abildtrup |
DEN |
94 |
Zufar Zaripov - Anna Ludwig-Tchemodourova |
AUT |
95 |
Andrey Zaytsev - Anna Kuzminskaya |
RUS |
96 |
Frank Zegels - Ania Shevliakova |
NED |
97 |
Radek Mucha - Vitalija Tyrnova |
CZE |