World Championship Junior 2 Standard took place on Saturday in Sibiu, Romania. The winners, Yaroslav Kiselev and Sofia Philipchuk from Russia continued their amazingly successful autumn.

They won World Championship Junior 2 Latin in Bilbao in October, WDSF Open Junior 2 Standard in Russian Open DanceSport Championships just a week ago, and now they finalized their hat trick within a month by securing the World Championship title in Junior 2 Standard, and doing it by winning all five dances. We'd better keep an eye on this young couple, who knows what the future might bring for them!

The result:
1. Yaroslav Kiselev - Sofia Philipchuk, RUS
2. Egor Perepelitsyn - Maria Barykina, RUS
3. Batranu Razvan-George - Dica Ana-Maria, ROU
4. Philipp Vovk - Angelina Gensrich, GER
5. Mikhail Vinokurov - Mayya Spirina, AZE
6. Riccardo Perretta - Eleonora Petronilli, ITA

World Championship Senior 1 Ten Dance was danced in Sibiu on Sunday. The silver medalists of 2017, Simon Sorin Dumitru - Constantinescu Florentina from Romania, won the title by winning all ten dances. The couple has already won silver in World Latin and ranked fifth in World Standard earlier in October.

The result:
1. Simon Sorin Dumitru - Constantinescu Florentina, ROU
2. Erik Heyden - Julia Luckow, GER
3. Ruben Viciana Lopez - Eva Moya, ESP
4. Yevgen Dmytrenko - Mery Lenz, ARG
5. Duarte Sousa - Elisabete Pera, POR
6. Szantho Peter - Juhasz-Szantho Szilvia, HUN

One age group more experienced dancers, Senior 2 age group, had their World Championship Ten Dance on Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland. It was the same top two as last year, but to the delight of the home crowd the winners were Tomasz Kucharczyk - Roza Kucharczyk from Poland. They won seven dances out of ten in the final and brightened their silver medal from last year to golden. The runners-up, Jordi Mayral Esteban and Eva Aguilera Llobera from Spain won three dances and were second in seven dances.

The result:
1. Tomasz Kucharczyk - Roza Kucharczyk, POL
2. Jordi Mayral Esteban - Eva Aguilera Llobera, ESP
3. Oleg Sadyrev - Angelique Maasik, EST
4. Oleg Eskov - Julia Mikhina, RUS
5. Vaino Miil - Kaia Linkberg, EST
6. Dirk Regitz - Fabienne Regitz, GER

Congratulations to all finalists and medalists of these three World Championships in Sibiu and Wroclaw!

The first European Championship Show Dance Standard and Latin took place in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic on Saturday. 

European Championship Show Dance Standard had 11 couples participating. It was the same top three as in World Championship in Bratislava in September. Russian couple Dmitry Pleshkov - Anastasia Kulbeda won gold medals, Matej Stec - Elena Popova from Slovakia got silver, and Jacek Jeschke - Hanna Zudziewicz from Poland received bronze medals.

European Championship Show Dance Latin had 13 couples participating. Anton Aldaev - Natalia Polukhina from Russia, silver medalist couple of World Championship in September, reached the top podium and received the European Championship title. Artur Balandin - Anna Salita from Germany got silver and Vladislav Artiushkov - Sofia Vershinina from Russia secured bronze.

There was also an interesting European Cup Ten Dance in Usti nad Labem. World Championship Ten Dance is within a week, and the competition might have become a sort of prelude to Warsaw. Total of 19 couples were present. The winners were Mstislav Kazakov - Alena Kazakova from Russia, who repeated their win of 2017. Silver medals were presented to bronze medalists of 2017, Andrea Roccatti - Flaminia Iannone from Italy, and the Finnish couple Marius Toperczer Muresan - Claudia Ketonen received bronze.




Congratulations to new European Champions and medalists of Show Dance Standard and Latin, and to European Cup Ten Dance winners and medalists!

Russian Open DanceSport Championships has grown to not only a huge but also a multi-disciplined event. Russian Open Breaking Championships, a three days fest of head-spinning Breaking and world top B-boys and B-girls, took place on October 19-21 in Moscow under the aegis of the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll, and started the ROC-week with a bang! The pioneer WDSF Open Breaking B-boys and WDSF Open Breaking B-girls were held in frames of the ROBC-2018.

On Friday, ROBC opened with workshops, which gathered more than 60 young B-boys and B-girls who got the opportunity to train with real Breaking legends.

On Saturday, selection rounds were held in seven groups: B-boys and B-girls Pro, 5vs5 Crews, B-boys Youth, B-girls Youth, Kids and Kids Show. More than 250 kids took part in the ROBC Kids and Kids Show nominations, about 600 B-boys and B-girls representing 11 countries: Japan, Republic of Korea, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

TOP 8 in each group were selected to continue performances at the ROBC decisive stages. World top B-boys and B-girls were invited to take part in the main events together with TOP 8 selected on Saturday. The first ever Breaking Olympic champion B-boy Bumblebee and YOG participant B-girl Matina who arrived from Buenos Aires on Saturday took part in the Russian Open Breaking Championships on Sunday.

The first ROBC champions and prizewinners:

WDSF Open Breaking B-boys
1 B-boy Jamal/Russian Federation
2 B-boy Khalil /France
3 B-boy Killa-Kolya/Kazakhstan
4 B-boy Alkolil/Russian Federation

WDSF Open Breaking B-girls
1 B-girl Ayumi/Japan
2 B-girl Narumi/Japan
3 B-girl Kastet/Russian Federation
4 B-girl Maxime/Belgium

5vs5 Crews
1 Illusion of Exist/Russian Federation
2 Gamblerz/Republic of Korea
3 Original Breakers Crew (OBC)/Russian Federation
4 Vagabond/France

ROBC B-boys Youth
1 DopeDog/Russian Federation
2 Dyak/Russian Federatio
3 Saffa/Russian Federation
4 D-Way/Russian Federation

ROBC B-girls Youth
1 Uzelok/Russian Federation
2 Belka/Russian Federation
3 Lizzy/Russian Federation
4 Lisa/Russian Federation

ROBC 1vs1 Kids
1 Grom/Russian Federation
2 Denver/Ukraine
3 Pauk/Russian Federation
4 Angry Boy/Russian Federation

ROBC Kids show
1 Kill Joy/ Breakoniers/Russian Federation
3 Dominant/Russian Federation
4 Staff Original/Russian Federation

The first international Breaking competitions hosted by the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll – the Russian Open Breaking Championships – appeared to be a great success. WDSF Presidium member Lena Arvidsson attended the ROBC as a special guest and took part in the opening and awards ceremonies of the final competition day.

After WDSF President Lukas Hinder announced his resignation to bring the constituent parties closer together in how they interpret dance as sport at the 2018 Annual General Meeting on 17 June in Lausanne with a transitionary period of five months, an official handover ceremony was held during the 2018 WDSF World Championship Standard in Vienna, Austria, on 17 November 2018. 

Mr. Hinder transferred the President’s gavel as a symbol for the President of the World DanceSport Federation to Mr. Shawn Tay, who has previously served WDSF in roles of General Secretary, First Vice-President, and the Vice-President for Sports during a period of 21 years. 

Mr. Shawn Tay from Singapore assumed the office of WDSF President according to Article 16(2) of the Statutes. Under the Statutes the next quadrennial presidential elections are scheduled for 2021, but Mr. Tay had already at 2018 Annual General Meeting made a commitment to stand for election at the 2019 WDSF AGM to ask WDSF Member Bodies to confirm his mandate to 2021. 

In his speech the newly declared WDSF President Mr. Tay emphasized his commitment to DanceSport with its multiple disciplines and thanked the Presidium and his family for support. Mr. Tay also spoke about his vision and innovative changes that will bring DanceSport disciplines games-ready for the IOC, as well as improvements for athletes via better competitions and effective competition formats. 

At the official handover ceremony Mr. Hinder was officially named the Honorary Life President for WDSF for his outstanding services for the World DanceSport Federation. For over two decades, Mr. Hinder was a member of the WDSF Presidium and served the organization in the roles of Treasurer and 1^st Vice-President (2007-2016) before assuming the presidency in 2016. During the presidency of Mr. Lukas Hinder DanceSport made its Olympic debut at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG). Mr. Hinder is currently the Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the International World Games Association (IWGA), he will continue to serve the IWGA will the full support of the WDSF Presidium.

It is one of the most visually attractive and beautiful competitions, which takes place in Pecs, Hungary on Saturday.

2018 World Championship Formation Standard will surely show us spectacular choreographies, colourful teams, and style and precision, which are the characteristics of formation dancing. 2017 World Champions, Vera Tyumen (RUS), is back and we can’t wait to see their new routine.

We have the updated list of the participating formations (15):

Adria-Szigo KTSE, Hungary

Szilver TSE, Hungary

TSC Schwarz-Gold, Austria

TK Chvaletice, Czech Republic

TK TS Starlet Brno, Czech Republic

Elegiya-Zhlobin, Belarus

Univers Minsk Belarus, Belarus

Vera Tyumen, Russian Federation

Triumph UFA, Russian Federation

Interklub Bratislava, Slovakia

Kadryl Bialystok, Poland

Fantan Krasnik, Poland

Khatantuul Mongolia, Mongolia

Braunschweiger TSC e.V., Germany

1.TC Ludwigsburg, Germany

Short presentations of these formations can be found at the competition website.

The first round begins at 14:00 CET, semifinal at 17:00 CET and the final at 20:15 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMbmHeR9R9YiVcQEZTd6zw/live

It was a true fireworks of colours, innovative choreographies and formations of dancers which were in perfect connection with each other.

The reigning European and World Champions, Vera Tyumen Standard Team (RUS), presented their "Champions League" -program and secured their fourth World title with it.

Triumph Ufa (RUS) won their first ever World Championship medal, silver, with a margin of only 0.017 points over Braunschweiger TSC from Germany, which received bronze.

The results:
1. Vera Tyumen Standard Team, RUS
2. Triumph Ufa, RUS
3. Braunschweiger TSC, GER
4. 1 TC Ludwigsburg, GER
5. Szilver TSE, HUN
6. Adria-Szigo KTSE, HUN

We had our photographer Helmut Roland in Pecs and he took some amazing photos of all finalist formations and prize presentation. Go and take a look at our gallery! And here is also an interview with Mr. Aleksey Litvinov, Chief of Vera Tyumen Standard Team.

For one year, the couples have been dancing their hearts out to be at the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai. From Helsinki to Taipei, Rimini, Stuttgart, Moscow... All these great competitions shining to the light of Swarovski crystals have built the road to the one and only one final and expected event: the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai.

Only 24 couples, and two special invited wild cards from China will make it to the red carpet.

And during 12 days we will build our special carpet in Instagram with all of them! 12 Latin and 12 Standard couples + a special with the two wild cards from China. So please, come and cheer for your favourites for Shanghai! 

Follow us:

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Do you remember the Walk of Fame 2017? Here it is again.

We were so happy to enjoy the World Championship Formation Standard from Pecs, Hungary last week, and this weekend Formation categories continue with Latin in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China.

As we don’t have the starting list yet, we can’t tell who is there and who isn’t. But as soon as we have that information, we will share it to you in this same article. And, at the same time we will let you know if there will be a live stream.

Meanwhile, we can take a look back at last year. 2017 World Championship Formation Latin was organized in Vienna, Austria in December. There were 18 formations on the starting list and the competition for the World Championship title started at quarterfinal.

It was a thriller between the finalists; two Russian teams, two German teams, one Austrian team and one Mongolian team were the top six. DUET-A Perm from Russia took home the World title with only 0.117-points margin over Grün-Gold-Club Bremen from Germany. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze. 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) were fourth, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin (AUT) fifth and Moon Dance from Mongolia sixth.

Earlier this year, in June in Kalisz, Poland, 2018 European Championship Formation Latin turned the table. Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) won the European title by margin of 0.666 points over DUET-A Perm (RUS). 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) won the bronze, DUET-B Perm (RUS) ranked fourth, and two Austrian formations, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin and HSV Zwölfaxing A-Team completed the final and ranked fifth and sixth respectively.

It will be interesting to see how the competition turns out this time. Please come back later for updated information.

There will be two generations of athletes dancing their best in Sibiu, Romania this weekend.

On Saturday the best Junior 2 Standard couples of the World will do their best for the title. There are 69 young couples from 42 countries registered, ready to dazzle us on the dance floor. All the finalists of 2017 have moved on to Youth age group, which means there will be new names on the podium.

There are some very experienced young dancers in Sibiu World Championships, but there are also some couples participating for the first time. Nevertheless, they have all been nominated by their National Member Bodies which means they all have shown and proven that they are ready to join the Big Dance Floor of the World Championships. We are really looking forward to seeing them all doing their best and showing all of them the support they deserve!

On Sunday the World Championships continue with Senior 1 Ten Dance. There are 26 couples from 17 countries participating, including all medallists and five out of six finalists of 2017. These couples have experience both on and off the dance floor and they show example to many of the Junior 2 couples of previous day. We wish all of them the best of luck to the competition!

Both Championships in Sibiu have their first rounds at 12:45 local time, which is 11:45 CET. There will be a multi-camera stream in Full HD image and sound quality available here!

We are also happy to support the organisers of METU Open in Turkey and provide you with a live stream link here. Draft broadcast timetable of the event is on Saturday with multi-camera from 16:00 to 19:00 CET, and on Sunday at 17:00-21:00 CET.

A weekend of DanceSport continues in Sportcentrum Sluneta, Usti nad Labem in Czech Republic, where the best European Show Dance couples in Standard and Latin hit the dance floor and show us their innovative and creative Show Dance routines. There are 12 couples in Show Dance Standard and 14 couples in Show Dance Latin. This is the first European Championship Show Dance in history.

In addition to Show Dance, there is also European Cup Ten Dance with 19 couples from 19 countries. This competition is leading us towards the World Championship Ten Dance next week.

The first rounds begin today at 12:00 CET and the evening part – the Champions Night – starts at 18:00 CET.

All the best for all couples in Usti nad Labem!

World Championship Junior 2 Standard took place on Saturday in Sibiu, Romania. The winners, Yaroslav Kiselev and Sofia Philipchuk from Russia continued their amazingly successful autumn.

They won World Championship Junior 2 Latin in Bilbao in October, WDSF Open Junior 2 Standard in Russian Open DanceSport Championships just a week ago, and now they finalized their hat trick within a month by securing the World Championship title in Junior 2 Standard, and doing it by winning all five dances. We'd better keep an eye on this young couple, who knows what the future might bring for them!

The result:
1. Yaroslav Kiselev - Sofia Philipchuk, RUS
2. Egor Perepelitsyn - Maria Barykina, RUS
3. Batranu Razvan-George - Dica Ana-Maria, ROU
4. Philipp Vovk - Angelina Gensrich, GER
5. Mikhail Vinokurov - Mayya Spirina, AZE
6. Riccardo Perretta - Eleonora Petronilli, ITA

World Championship Senior 1 Ten Dance was danced in Sibiu on Sunday. The silver medalists of 2017, Simon Sorin Dumitru - Constantinescu Florentina from Romania, won the title by winning all ten dances. The couple has already won silver in World Latin and ranked fifth in World Standard earlier in October.

The result:
1. Simon Sorin Dumitru - Constantinescu Florentina, ROU
2. Erik Heyden - Julia Luckow, GER
3. Ruben Viciana Lopez - Eva Moya, ESP
4. Yevgen Dmytrenko - Mery Lenz, ARG
5. Duarte Sousa - Elisabete Pera, POR
6. Szantho Peter - Juhasz-Szantho Szilvia, HUN

One age group more experienced dancers, Senior 2 age group, had their World Championship Ten Dance on Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland. It was the same top two as last year, but to the delight of the home crowd the winners were Tomasz Kucharczyk - Roza Kucharczyk from Poland. They won seven dances out of ten in the final and brightened their silver medal from last year to golden. The runners-up, Jordi Mayral Esteban and Eva Aguilera Llobera from Spain won three dances and were second in seven dances.

The result:
1. Tomasz Kucharczyk - Roza Kucharczyk, POL
2. Jordi Mayral Esteban - Eva Aguilera Llobera, ESP
3. Oleg Sadyrev - Angelique Maasik, EST
4. Oleg Eskov - Julia Mikhina, RUS
5. Vaino Miil - Kaia Linkberg, EST
6. Dirk Regitz - Fabienne Regitz, GER

Congratulations to all finalists and medalists of these three World Championships in Sibiu and Wroclaw!

The first European Championship Show Dance Standard and Latin took place in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic on Saturday. 

European Championship Show Dance Standard had 11 couples participating. It was the same top three as in World Championship in Bratislava in September. Russian couple Dmitry Pleshkov - Anastasia Kulbeda won gold medals, Matej Stec - Elena Popova from Slovakia got silver, and Jacek Jeschke - Hanna Zudziewicz from Poland received bronze medals.

European Championship Show Dance Latin had 13 couples participating. Anton Aldaev - Natalia Polukhina from Russia, silver medalist couple of World Championship in September, reached the top podium and received the European Championship title. Artur Balandin - Anna Salita from Germany got silver and Vladislav Artiushkov - Sofia Vershinina from Russia secured bronze.

There was also an interesting European Cup Ten Dance in Usti nad Labem. World Championship Ten Dance is within a week, and the competition might have become a sort of prelude to Warsaw. Total of 19 couples were present. The winners were Mstislav Kazakov - Alena Kazakova from Russia, who repeated their win of 2017. Silver medals were presented to bronze medalists of 2017, Andrea Roccatti - Flaminia Iannone from Italy, and the Finnish couple Marius Toperczer Muresan - Claudia Ketonen received bronze.




Congratulations to new European Champions and medalists of Show Dance Standard and Latin, and to European Cup Ten Dance winners and medalists!

Russian Open DanceSport Championships has grown to not only a huge but also a multi-disciplined event. Russian Open Breaking Championships, a three days fest of head-spinning Breaking and world top B-boys and B-girls, took place on October 19-21 in Moscow under the aegis of the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll, and started the ROC-week with a bang! The pioneer WDSF Open Breaking B-boys and WDSF Open Breaking B-girls were held in frames of the ROBC-2018.

On Friday, ROBC opened with workshops, which gathered more than 60 young B-boys and B-girls who got the opportunity to train with real Breaking legends.

On Saturday, selection rounds were held in seven groups: B-boys and B-girls Pro, 5vs5 Crews, B-boys Youth, B-girls Youth, Kids and Kids Show. More than 250 kids took part in the ROBC Kids and Kids Show nominations, about 600 B-boys and B-girls representing 11 countries: Japan, Republic of Korea, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

TOP 8 in each group were selected to continue performances at the ROBC decisive stages. World top B-boys and B-girls were invited to take part in the main events together with TOP 8 selected on Saturday. The first ever Breaking Olympic champion B-boy Bumblebee and YOG participant B-girl Matina who arrived from Buenos Aires on Saturday took part in the Russian Open Breaking Championships on Sunday.

The first ROBC champions and prizewinners:

WDSF Open Breaking B-boys
1 B-boy Jamal/Russian Federation
2 B-boy Khalil /France
3 B-boy Killa-Kolya/Kazakhstan
4 B-boy Alkolil/Russian Federation

WDSF Open Breaking B-girls
1 B-girl Ayumi/Japan
2 B-girl Narumi/Japan
3 B-girl Kastet/Russian Federation
4 B-girl Maxime/Belgium

5vs5 Crews
1 Illusion of Exist/Russian Federation
2 Gamblerz/Republic of Korea
3 Original Breakers Crew (OBC)/Russian Federation
4 Vagabond/France

ROBC B-boys Youth
1 DopeDog/Russian Federation
2 Dyak/Russian Federatio
3 Saffa/Russian Federation
4 D-Way/Russian Federation

ROBC B-girls Youth
1 Uzelok/Russian Federation
2 Belka/Russian Federation
3 Lizzy/Russian Federation
4 Lisa/Russian Federation

ROBC 1vs1 Kids
1 Grom/Russian Federation
2 Denver/Ukraine
3 Pauk/Russian Federation
4 Angry Boy/Russian Federation

ROBC Kids show
1 Kill Joy/ Breakoniers/Russian Federation
3 Dominant/Russian Federation
4 Staff Original/Russian Federation

The first international Breaking competitions hosted by the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll – the Russian Open Breaking Championships – appeared to be a great success. WDSF Presidium member Lena Arvidsson attended the ROBC as a special guest and took part in the opening and awards ceremonies of the final competition day.

After WDSF President Lukas Hinder announced his resignation to bring the constituent parties closer together in how they interpret dance as sport at the 2018 Annual General Meeting on 17 June in Lausanne with a transitionary period of five months, an official handover ceremony was held during the 2018 WDSF World Championship Standard in Vienna, Austria, on 17 November 2018. 

Mr. Hinder transferred the President’s gavel as a symbol for the President of the World DanceSport Federation to Mr. Shawn Tay, who has previously served WDSF in roles of General Secretary, First Vice-President, and the Vice-President for Sports during a period of 21 years. 

Mr. Shawn Tay from Singapore assumed the office of WDSF President according to Article 16(2) of the Statutes. Under the Statutes the next quadrennial presidential elections are scheduled for 2021, but Mr. Tay had already at 2018 Annual General Meeting made a commitment to stand for election at the 2019 WDSF AGM to ask WDSF Member Bodies to confirm his mandate to 2021. 

In his speech the newly declared WDSF President Mr. Tay emphasized his commitment to DanceSport with its multiple disciplines and thanked the Presidium and his family for support. Mr. Tay also spoke about his vision and innovative changes that will bring DanceSport disciplines games-ready for the IOC, as well as improvements for athletes via better competitions and effective competition formats. 

At the official handover ceremony Mr. Hinder was officially named the Honorary Life President for WDSF for his outstanding services for the World DanceSport Federation. For over two decades, Mr. Hinder was a member of the WDSF Presidium and served the organization in the roles of Treasurer and 1^st Vice-President (2007-2016) before assuming the presidency in 2016. During the presidency of Mr. Lukas Hinder DanceSport made its Olympic debut at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG). Mr. Hinder is currently the Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the International World Games Association (IWGA), he will continue to serve the IWGA will the full support of the WDSF Presidium.

It is one of the most visually attractive and beautiful competitions, which takes place in Pecs, Hungary on Saturday.

2018 World Championship Formation Standard will surely show us spectacular choreographies, colourful teams, and style and precision, which are the characteristics of formation dancing. 2017 World Champions, Vera Tyumen (RUS), is back and we can’t wait to see their new routine.

We have the updated list of the participating formations (15):

Adria-Szigo KTSE, Hungary

Szilver TSE, Hungary

TSC Schwarz-Gold, Austria

TK Chvaletice, Czech Republic

TK TS Starlet Brno, Czech Republic

Elegiya-Zhlobin, Belarus

Univers Minsk Belarus, Belarus

Vera Tyumen, Russian Federation

Triumph UFA, Russian Federation

Interklub Bratislava, Slovakia

Kadryl Bialystok, Poland

Fantan Krasnik, Poland

Khatantuul Mongolia, Mongolia

Braunschweiger TSC e.V., Germany

1.TC Ludwigsburg, Germany

Short presentations of these formations can be found at the competition website.

The first round begins at 14:00 CET, semifinal at 17:00 CET and the final at 20:15 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMbmHeR9R9YiVcQEZTd6zw/live

It was a true fireworks of colours, innovative choreographies and formations of dancers which were in perfect connection with each other.

The reigning European and World Champions, Vera Tyumen Standard Team (RUS), presented their "Champions League" -program and secured their fourth World title with it.

Triumph Ufa (RUS) won their first ever World Championship medal, silver, with a margin of only 0.017 points over Braunschweiger TSC from Germany, which received bronze.

The results:
1. Vera Tyumen Standard Team, RUS
2. Triumph Ufa, RUS
3. Braunschweiger TSC, GER
4. 1 TC Ludwigsburg, GER
5. Szilver TSE, HUN
6. Adria-Szigo KTSE, HUN

We had our photographer Helmut Roland in Pecs and he took some amazing photos of all finalist formations and prize presentation. Go and take a look at our gallery! And here is also an interview with Mr. Aleksey Litvinov, Chief of Vera Tyumen Standard Team.

For one year, the couples have been dancing their hearts out to be at the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai. From Helsinki to Taipei, Rimini, Stuttgart, Moscow... All these great competitions shining to the light of Swarovski crystals have built the road to the one and only one final and expected event: the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai.

Only 24 couples, and two special invited wild cards from China will make it to the red carpet.

And during 12 days we will build our special carpet in Instagram with all of them! 12 Latin and 12 Standard couples + a special with the two wild cards from China. So please, come and cheer for your favourites for Shanghai! 

Follow us:

WDSF in Instagram: WDSFDanceSport

Do you remember the Walk of Fame 2017? Here it is again.

We were so happy to enjoy the World Championship Formation Standard from Pecs, Hungary last week, and this weekend Formation categories continue with Latin in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China.

We can first take a look back at last year. 2017 World Championship Formation Latin was organized in Vienna, Austria in December. There were 18 formations on the starting list and the competition for the World Championship title started at quarterfinal.

It was a thriller between the finalists; two Russian teams, two German teams, one Austrian team and one Mongolian team were the top six. DUET-A Perm from Russia took home the World title with only 0.117-points margin over Grün-Gold-Club Bremen from Germany. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze. 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) were fourth, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin (AUT) fifth and Moon Dance from Mongolia sixth.

Earlier this year, in June in Kalisz, Poland, 2018 European Championship Formation Latin turned the table. Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) won the European title by margin of 0.666 points over DUET-A Perm (RUS). 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) won the bronze, DUET-B Perm (RUS) ranked fourth, and two Austrian formations, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin and HSV Zwölfaxing A-Team completed the final and ranked fifth and sixth respectively.

The starting list for Shenzhen shows we have a lot to look forward to:

SAVARIA TSE, Hungary
TSC Schwarz-Gold Wien, Austria
Austrian HSV Zwölfaxing, Austria
CMG Radom Poland, Poland
Elita - OSC Oswiecim, Poland
Double V, Netherlands
Grün-Gold-Club Bremen e.V, Germany
TSZ Velbert e.V., Germany
Moon Dance Mongola, Mongolia
Star Dance Mongola, Mongolia
FEST Vitebsk, Belarus
"Vera", Russia
DUET, Russia
Beijing Dancing Academy, China
Wu Han Dancesport school, China


It will be interesting to see how the competition turns out this time.

As expected, the duel between Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) and DUET-A Perm (RUS) continued in 2018 World Championship Formation Latin in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.

The reigning European Champions managed to perform their very best and finally secured the World Title by a narrow 0.333-points margin over 2017 World Champion, and silver medalist at 2018 Europeans, DUET-A Perm. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze, just like last year.

1. TSZ Velbert (GER) ranked fourth, and by a margin of 0.058 points Beijing Dancing Academy (CHN) were fifth over TSC Schwartz Gold A-Team Latin (AUT), who ranked sixth.

It was an exciting and sparkling day in Shenzhen! Congratulations to all formations!

We can seldom report that the crowd was so loud that you could barely hear the music. But this literally happened in Moscow on Sunday, when the Professional Division World Championship Standard came closer to the decisive stages.

The crowd showed their enthusiastic support already during the first rounds, but at the final - it was something amazing! You could just imagine the energy it gave to the couples as they were in the middle of the exciting final.

It might have been the overwhelming support of the crowd, or the fact that many couples had this event as the main event of the year, and all the hard work and concentration had been focused in Moscow. The final turned out to be high quality as the performance of all couples was excellent.

At the end of the day, Bjorn Bitsch and Ashli Williamson (DEN) were crowned the new World Champions. It was the eighth World title for Bjorn and Ashli: four in Adult Ten Dance, two in Professional Ten Dance and one in both ShowDance Standard and now this one in Professional Standard. 

Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute (LTU) won silver and Nikolay Darin - Natalia Seredina (MDA) won bronze. Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim (RUS) ranked fourth, Cheng Dan - Li Zhenni (CHN) fifth and Alessandro Ilarioni - Aurora Sbardella (ITA) sixth.

Go and have a look at photos in Gallery! And now you can also re-live the moments with videos of the semifinal and the final plus the Winners' interview below.

Congratulations to all couples!

Semifinal:

Final:

The Winners' interview: