2492 individual competition starts were made by 1369 different couples from all over the world (from the USA to Australia). A total of 33 nations were represented. Several world and European champions were also at the start. The new inclusion of the WDSF Open Senior III Latin as the 15th world ranking competition in the […]
While fake reports about live streams that didn’t exist were unfortunately circulating on social media – as is now the case with many major competitions – we had a visit from “real” television on Friday.Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) was a guest at “Hessen tanzt” with presenter Kate Menzyk and recorded three short reports that were […]
The final of the Senior II Standard formed the conclusion of this year’s Hessen tanzt. To ensure that the eleven international judges were really challenged once again, seven of the 82 competing couples reached the final after three intermediate rounds. Here, the current European champions and runners-up from Lithuania met the world champions and runners-up […]
In the standard section, the U21 European combined champions also dominated the starting field and clearly won all the dances. But the other placings were also equal in all dances, resulting in a very clear overall result. Second place went to the Lithuanians Matas Puplevicius and Gabija Vilciauskaite. Third and fourth place went to Kiril […]
A total of 58 couples took part in the World Ranking Tournament for Junior II Latin dances. The final was a neck-and-neck race between the German champions Largo Zofcin and Eliana Pfaffenroth from Frankfurt and the worldranking number two Kristiyan Donchev and Martina Kondaklieva from Bulgaria. After the first two dances went to Zofcin/Pfaffenroth, Donchev/Kondaklieva […]
There was a scary moment quite early in the World Ranking Competition of the Latin Adults, as Jacqueline Joos injured her neck in the jive of the 48th round, so that she was not able to continue the competition with her partner Razvan Dumitrescu. We wish her a speedy recovery!After two more rounds, the six […]
Of the six finalists, who were determined over three rounds, four German couples were joined by one couple from Hungary and one from Sweden. The first two places were very clearly awarded. Hungary’s Mate Kovacs and Andrea Zsila won all the dances and thus the tournament. The German runners-up Georg Rauchhaus and Sonja Stegemann from […]
The final of the WDSF Youth Latin was made up of couples from five different nations. Only Germany had two finalists, who came from the same city but not the same club. The tournament victory in all dances went to the European U21 combined champions from Spain – Adria Hernandez and Emilija Ulcinaite. The other […]
81 couples competed in the International Open Standard, six of whom were allowed to skip the preliminary round and enter the competition one round later. An exciting duel between the two top German couples was to be expected in the final, and almost all the top scores were distributed between them. In the first two […]
With 145 couples competing, the WDSF Open Senior III Standard was the most numerous WDSF competition of the weekend. As a result, there were also 15 star couples and a total of six competition rounds before the winners were decided. Having already won the WDSF Open Senior III Latin the day before, Slawek Lukawczyk and […]