Reaching the Goals 25/11/2019

Vladislav Untu – Polina Baryshnikova (MDA) have dominated the Youth age group this year, and they concluded the year of title events with another World Championship title in Timisoara (ROU) on Saturday. The new World Champions in Youth Standard have also won the World titles in Latin and Ten Dance, and the European titles in all three disciplines, making it a perfect row of six titles in 2019 for the couple.

This time, the title did not come that easily, as the runners-up Zicoane Heler Sebastian Alin - Copos Anca (ROU) kept on getting marks for the first place in all dances. Even though it was extremely tight in all dances, in the end the Moldovans won four dances of the final and the Romanians won the Tango. The adjudicator panel was unanimous about the third place, which was awarded to Ivan Reshetnikov - Elizaveta Kharinova (RUS).

The Russian couples were taking over the podium in Istanbul (TUR) on Saturday, as the 2019 World Championship Junior II Latin gathered the couples to dance for the Championship title. After an extremely tight final Kirill Kurbatov - Alexandra Revel-Muroz (RUS) were awarded the World Championship trophy. The couple won three dances of the final, ranked second in Samba and the third in Rumba. The runners-up, Vadana Rares Emanuel - Neculae Maria Tea (ROU) won Samba and Rumba, and were marked for the second place in three dances. To determine the winners, the rule 10 of the skating system was required. The bronze medals were awarded to Nikolay Puzyrev - Alexandra Volkova (RUS).

The third title event of the week took place in Moscow (RUS) as the WDSF Associate Member, the World Rock’n’Roll Confederation hosted World Championships in Rock’n’Roll Main Class Free Style and Boogie Woogie. Alexey Kondrashin – Darina Kozlova (RUS) won the World title in Rock’n’Roll. The Germans, Tobias Bludau – Michelle Uhl won the silver medals and the Russians Ivan Kudryashov – Margarita Charkovskaya won the bronze.

In Boogie Woogie the World title headed to Norway, as the reigning European Champions Sondre Olsen Bye – Tatiana Georgiievska secured their second title of the year. The Finnish runners-up Juho Päivinen – Mari Munne were leading after the slow round of the final, but the Norwegians had an amazing fast round and the Finns were awarded the silver medals. Jonathan Haug – Emma Danielsson (SWE) won the bronze. The World title for Boogie Woogie Juniors headed to Germany as Anton Graßl – Magdalena Schmid secured the win. The World title of the Seniors was awarded to Stéphane Martins – Stéphanie Arnaud (FRA).

The World title events continue this week as one of the most anticipated World Championship events, the 2019 WDSF World Championship Standard takes place in Vilnius (LTU). The 2019 World Para DanceSport Championships take place in Bonn (GER), and we will keep you updated of it, too.