And over the next few hours we will also report from the 2012 WDSF PD World Latin from Leipzig, GER.
WDSF Communications team member Helmut Roland is on location and reports that ithe championship is about to go into the second round. Here are the couples that that have qualified.
Quarterfinal | PD World Latin
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Mikko Kaasalainen / Adrienn Fitori
Finland
2
Vadim Usovich / Marianna Chernoshey
France
3
Pierre Vallée / Marion Duguest
France
6
Saverio Loria / Zeudi Zanetti
Italy
7
Daniele Sargenti / Uliana Fomenko
Italy
8
Shusaki Katsuraya / Satoko Kobayashi
Japan
11
Gediminas Grigonis / Sandra Kniazevičiūté
Lithuania
12
Stefan Green / Adriana Sigona
New Zealand
13
Danilo Campisi / Julia Burghardt
Austria
14
Edgar Filipe Branco Medinas / Milene Matias
Portugal
16
Pavel Alexeevsky / Ekaterina Zhupleva
Russian Federation
17
Dmitry Cheshaev / Julia Cheshaeva
Russian Federation
20
Ruslan Podkolzin / Maria Kukushkina
Russian Federation
21
Sergey Savitsky / Irina Pechenova
Russian Federation
22
Vladislav Silde / Margarita Novitskaya
Russian Federation
23
Mikhail Solovyev / Kristina Tsvetkova
Russian Federation
24
Miša Cigoj / Nika Bagon
Slovenia
25
Zoran Plohl / Tatsiana Lahvinovich
Slovenia
27
Andrey Babiy / Irina Dengina
Ukraine
28
Maxym Litiyushkin / Kateryna Yovyk
Ukraine
29
Evgeniy Stepanov / Hanna Mosolkova
Ukraine
30
Stefan Erdmann / Sarah Latton
Germany
31
Andrey Mangra / Ekaterina Kalugina
Germany
32
Sergey Tatarenko / Viktoria Tatarenko
Germany
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By WDSF Communications on
03 November 2012 17:37
We have been given the code to embed a player here with the live stream from the Latvia Open in Riga. Several high-profile competitions take place there today, among them:
WDSF World Junior II Ten Dance
WDSF World Open Standard
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By WDSF Communications on
03 November 2012 17:16
Here we are trying to bring quality videos of the previous GrandSlam legs to you through the TV programmes that WDSF has produced since March. We just found a solution for the GrandSlam Stuttgart.
This particular highlights programme on the 2012 GrandSlam Standard Stuttgart is still being aired by our broadcast partners around the world. For the time being, we're only able to show you this 10-minute excerpt in low resolution. From December, you will have the opportunity to watch the full-length 52-minute programme right here on https://www.youtube.com/dancesporttotal.
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By WDSF Communications on
03 November 2012 00:22
The third installment in our series about the 2012 Series: the GrandSlam Standard in the Chinese capital played out in front of an enthusiastic crowd. It will become an annual fixture from 2013 and induce even more Chinese people to take an interest in DanceSport!
Beijing, CHN
The Chinese DanceSport Federation organised two separate GrandSlam legs during 2012: a Latin in Chengdu, in July, and the Standard in the capital two months later. From 2013, when Latin and Standard competitions will always concur in date and place, Hong Kong and Beijing will be the perennial GrandSlam hosts through 2017. With the Finals having been awarded to Shanghai until then too, traffic on the Silk Road is bound to remain heavy for years to come.
Emanuel and Tania were in great form at the Ditan Gymnasium and ended up winning the 2012 GrandSlam Beijing ahead of Simone Segatori – Annette Sudol, GER, and Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS. In the Series Ranking the Danish couple jumped to first place too. Having accrued 3209 ranking points in three competitions, Emanuel and Tania were certain to get an invitation to the December Finals already. What remains to be done until then? “We will take it step by step,” says Emanuel.
“There are still two more GrandSlam competitions and, prior to the Finals, there is the World Championship in Melbourne, AUS.”
And that is very high on their list of priorities. Rightfully so: this time they are the defending champions!
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By WDSF Communications on
02 November 2012 17:40
We continue with our look back at the four GrandSlam Standard legs held until now. Stuttgart, GER, was host to the second leg in August, but only after the Italian DanceSport Federation had to withdraw from staging one earlier in Rimini, ITA.
Stuttgart, GER
There is no GrandSlam Standard bigger than the one traditionally staged as part of the German Open Championships in Stuttgart. 307 entries made it again necessary to extend the competition over eight rounds and two days. With the final broadcast live in Germany and a sell-out crowd at the Beethoven Hall, the focus was on the couple that sought to break yet another record: four-time Stuttgart winners Ferruggia – Koehler danced for a fifth consecutive title.
While Valeri – Kehlet had won the Tango very convincingly in Stuttgart 2011, this time Ferruggia – Koehler made it five out of five dances and ended up winning with 244.32 points out of the “perfect 250.” Runners-up – and not at all far behind with 241.17 points – were once more the Danes.
Between their solo dances in that final, Benedetto was overheard as saying:
“If we win the fifth time, I think we must be very happy and probably – in the future – start to think about turning professional.”
“Five times is a lot,” Claudia seemed to concur.
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By WDSF Communications on
01 November 2012 16:54
Just to remind everyone: sports broadcaster EUROSPORT will air the finals of the 2012 GrandSlam Standard, the World Open Latin and the International Wheelchair DanceSport Open LIVE from Platja d'Aro, ESP, starting at 19:00 CET (UTC +1 hour).
In Europe, Eurosport is generally available on basic digital television service providers. Eurosport is above all the stand-alone channel Eurosport International which is the standardised version of the channel. Alongside the main outlet there are also Eurosport channels in France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland and Nordic region.
In the Asia-Pacific territories, Eurosport offers a specific channel to this region. The service is available in Australia through Foxtel, Austar and Optus subscribers.
Refer to an earlier post for the broadcast schedules on the different Eurosport channels here!
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By WDSF Communications on
01 November 2012 11:08
WDSF Communications produced a 52-minute highlights programme on the Standard GrandSlam (and the Latin too). It was shown on TV channels in determined countries throughout Europe. And obviously it accrued views on DanceSport Total, the WDSF YouTube channel, too.
Tokyo | Part III
Third and final part of the 52-minute highlights programme on the WDSF GrandSlam Standard leg in Tokyo, JPN, on 11 March 2012. Produced by WDSF Communications in collaboration with Japan DanceSport Federation. English captions available to lead into interviews.
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Tokyo | Part II
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Tokyo | Part I
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By WDSF Communications on
01 November 2012 10:25
As the regular part of the 2012 WDSF GrandSlam Standard Series is about to conclude with the fifth leg taking place in Platja d'Aro Spain, a look at the other four seems perfectly in order.
The 2012 WDSF GrandSlam Series has taken the top couples on a long journey around the globe. Five regular GrandSlam Standard legs were scheduled throughout the year at different locations.
Tokyo, JPN
Billed as the first rematch between reigning and former World and GrandSlam Champions, between Valeri – Kehlet, DEN, and Ferruggia – Koehler, GER, the Tokyo competition was a memorable one for one reason above all. Held on 11 March, one year to the day after an earthquake and tsunami had brought death and devastation to northeastern Japan, the very GrandSlam that had to be cancelled in 2011 was the occasion to remember – and to join an entire nation in the mourning.
After a moving ceremony that involved young dancers from the affected area, the 86 couples competing in the Standard section paid their tribute with superb performances in all five rounds. When Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Koehler bid farewell to a crowd of 5,000 at the Tokyo Gymnasium with their Viennese Waltz as dance of honour, they had taken revenge for the defeat in last year’s World Championship. But as their formidable opponents, Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet, pointed out:
“We still have that gold medal! It’s at home; stored away safely!”
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By WDSF Communications on
01 November 2012 09:59
