2016 WDSF European Championship Latin

Originally planned to be held in Paris, FRA, in spring, the 2016 European finally takes place in the heat of the summer and a famous coastal resort in Italy. Benvenuto a Rimini! As a consequence of the terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015, the Paris organisers reported that they were not able to comply with the enhanced security measures imposed by the national government and renounced from hosting the championship. That's when the Italian DanceSport Federation FIDS offered to include it into its flagship event "Sportdance 2016," a sort of Italian Open that gathers some 35,000 dancers for eight days of national and international competitions in a multitude of DanceSport disciplines. The 71 Latin couples dancing the European on 9 July were easily accommodated. So here we are, late in the year and with the European Latin title still vacant. What we have had so far are three GrandSlam legs, all won by Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, with Armen Tsaturyan and Svetlana Gudyno, RUS, coming in second every time. In Wuhan, CHN, and in Hong Kong, the German couple made up of Marius-Andrei Balan and Khrystyna Moshenska were in third, but only decimals behind the Russians. Particularly Wuhan produced great drama, with the three top-ranked couples all winning dances. A 6-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the 2016 European Latin. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, interviews with the finalists, the full-length final and interviews with the medallists. Produced by the WDSF Communications team in collaboration with the host broadcaster Provinciali and the Italian DanceSport Federation.