The World Championship Standard Youth will be hosted by Romania for the first time

Newsroom 20/09/2013 | 07:20

Athletes from more than 40 countries on four continents will come to Romania for the World Dancesport Championship Youth Standard (16-18 years category), which will be carried out simultaneously with the World Open Transylvanian Grand Prix, over September 20-22, in Brasov.

According to the official press release, this is for the first time in the history of the Romanian dance sport when the World Federation grants Romania permission to organize such an important competition. The main contestants for the first place on behalf of Romania will be Vlad Paslariu and Eszter Pop (in picture), a pair of Romanian ‘ambassadors’, who took gold in competitions 67 times, the second place 28 times and the third place 11 times. They have also won the title of national champions seven times and four times Romania’s Dancesport Cup. The pair ranked 4th in the European Championships this year, carried out in Cambrils (Spain), 3rd in the World Championship in Moscow, in 2010, 3rd in the German Open Championship, the biggest dancesport event of the world, in 2008 and also 2nd in 2010 and 2013.

Once with this year’s edition of the World Championship, Brasov City will also host the World Open WDSF Standard and Latino Transylvanian Grand Prix, a competition to bring together more than 2,000 athletes from all over the world, to participate in different age categories: 6-9 years, 10-11 years, 12-13, 14-15, 16-18, 19-35 years respectively, both in the standard and latino sections.