2019 WDSF World Championship U21 Latin | Chengdu (CHN)
The second title event of the week took place in Chengdu (CHN) as the 2019 WDSF World Championship U21 Latin was competed on Sunday. The Championship ended with a Russian couple taking the win.
Semen Khrzhanovskiy - Elizaveta Lykhina (RUS) continued their good competition year. After winning the silver medals at the European Championship (Adult) Ten Dance in June, they earned the World Championship U21 Latin title on Sunday by winning all five dances of the final. The couple has also won the World U21 Ten Dance last year, and during their final year in Youth in 2017 they have won the World Championship Youth Latin and Youth Ten Dance.
To the great joy for the home crowd, Wang Tian - HE Jieruo (CHN) won the silver medals. They have won the bronze last year in World Championship Youth Latin, making it their second medal earned in title events on Sunday. Tomer Zveniatsky - Stefany Tzukerman (ISR) ranked third, earning them the first medal in title events.
In other competitions during the weekend, Evaldas Sodeika – Ieva Zukauskaite (LTU) won the WDSF International Open Standard and Marius-Andrei Balan – Khrystyna Moshenska (GER) the WDSF International Open Latin in Chengdu on Saturday.
The Estonian couples took home the World Open titles in Bratislava (SVK). Konstantin Gorodilov – Dominika Bergmannova (EST) climbed to the highest step of the podium of the WDSF World Open Latin on Saturday, and Madis Abel – Aleksandra Galkina (EST) won the WDSF World Open Standard on Sunday. Interestingly, the silver medal for the World Open Standard was tied between Dariusz Mycka – Madara Freiberga (POL) and Daniil Ulanov – Kateryna Isakovych (CYP) as both couples received the exactly same scores in the final.
Montreal (CAN) hosted a WDSF Open Standard for Senior II and III age groups. Horace Fenghua Hu - Agnes Xiaoguang Yuan (CAN) won all five dances of the final, and were awarded the win in Senior II. So Heung Sub - Lina Yu (CAN) had an equally good day and won the Senior III just as convincingly.
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