Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The UK Championships

The UK Championships are presently being held in Bournemouth, England. This Championship is one of the most prominent events in the Dance World today.

USA’s Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova held off the challenge from Italy’s Mirko Gozzoli and Edita Danuite to become the first American couple to ever win a UK Championship.  Mirko was last year’s winner (with Alessia Betti) and Edita is a former partner of Arunas.
But US success did not end there!  In their first competition together, Victor Fung and Anastasia Muravyeva placed third, an incredible start to their partnership in a final that included every top player in the world!
Making the semi-finals were Gherman Mustuc and Iveta Lukosiute (Hawai'i' Star Ball's 10-dance show for 2010) as well as Linas Koreiva and Katya Afanasyeva (Ikaika Dowsett's former partner). Also making the semi-finals and dancing for the first time together - Angelo Madonia and Alessia Betti.

Also for the first time the USA had a finalist in the Amateur Latin as Valentine Chmerkovskiy and Daria Chesnokova placed an impressive 5th.

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