UK Professional Championships 2013 - Results

The 2013 United Kingdom Ballroom and Latin Championships (Open to the World) were held this week January 15 - 17. This event was run in Bournemouth in the South of England

There were at total of 13 Adjudicators in each of the Ballroom and Latin Championships.

In the Ballroom event there were 2 Judges from the USA: Mr. John Kimmins and Mr. Jonathan Wilkins and 2 Judges from Japan:  Mr. Isao Nakagawa and Mr. Tommy Sakuramoto.

In the Latin event there were no judges from the USA and 2 Judges from Japan: Mr. Hirotada Torii and Mr. Hidemi Yamamoto.

PROFESSIONAL BALLROOM:
1. Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova (USA)
2. Victor Fung and Anastasia Muravyeva (USA)
3. Andrea Ghigiarelli and Sara Andracchio (England)
4. Domen Krapez and Monica Nigro (Slovenia)
5. Valerio Colantoni and Yulia Spesivtseva (Russia)
6. Sascha Karabey and Natascha Karabey (Germany)

PROFESSIONAL LATIN:
1. Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis (England)
2. Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko (USA)
3. Sergey Surkov and Melia (Russia)
4. Maurizio Vescovo and Andra Vaidilaite (Canada)
5. Andrej Skufca and Melinda (Slovenia)
6. Emanuele Soldi and Elisa Nasato (Italy)

RISING STAR PROFESSIONAL BALLROOM:
1. Andrea Zaramella and Kristie Simmonds (USA)
2. Alex Sindila and Katie Gleeson (England)
3. Gianni Caliandro and Arianna Esposito (USA)
4. Kristjan Kuusk and Anri Kokkonen (Finland)
5. Stanislav Zelyanin and Irina Cherepanova (Russia)
6. Ronen Zinshtein and Mariam Izmaylova (USA)
7. Takahiro Niikura and Yukiko Nakata (Japan)

RISING PROFESSIONAL LATIN:
1. Martino Zanibellato and Michelle Abildtrup (Denmark)
2. Manuel Favilla and Natalia Maidiuk (Ukraine)
3. Vitaly Sevastijanov and Anna Stepunina (Ireland)
4. Oleg Dashkevich and Tatiana Gorokhova (Russia)
5. Andre Strinadko and Tatiana Banko (USA)
6. Oleksandr Altukhov and Natalia Barantseva (USA)