Let's dance Helsinki! is the "Festival for passionate dance lovers", according to its webpage. In Finland's biggest and best-known Expo and Convention Centre "Messukeskus", the WRRC Boogie Woogie and Acrobatic Rock 'n' Roll elite met for a showdown. Expectations formed through the  recent World Championship were confirmed by the Boogie Woogie couples and  two familiar faces won the Main Class Free Style competition in Acrobatic Rock 'n' Roll as well.

With the  recent World Championship's medallists missing in Helsinki, Finland's favourite couple  Mari Munne & Juho Päivinen won in the Boogie Main Class expectedly, but closely followed by  Stacy Aurel & Chanton Ludovic 

from France. With a 5 points margin to the 1st and 2nd place the podium was completed by  Munne/Päivinen's team mates  Anna Tyutyunyuk & Masi Saurén.

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Boogie Main Class
1  PÄIVINEN Juho - MUNNE Mari  Finland
2  CHANTON Ludovic - AUREL Stacy  France
3  SAURÉN Masi - TYUTYUNYUK Anna  Finland
4  LLAMAS Florent - VERON Roxane  France
5  GAVRILOV Alexey - GAVRILOVA Svetlana  Russian Federation
6  PREUHS Elian - SOMMERKAMP Theresa  Germany
7  CORSI Simone - CORNELLI Giulia  Italy

Semi final


Slow & Fast Final


 World Championship Bronze medallists  Patrizia Agati & Gianluca Burbassi went for Gold among the Seniors in Helsinki. In close race the Italians were followed by the french Vice World Champions  Laurence Nograbat & Raphaël Dupas and swiss couple  Cornelia Versteegen & Stephan Eichhorn, outperforming the remaining finalists by 4 points.

Boogie Seniors
1  BURBASSI Gianluca - AGATI Patrizia  Italy
2  DUPAS Raphaël - NOGRABAT Laurence  France
3  EICHHORN Stephan - VERSTEEGEN Cornelia  Switzerland
4  HASENFRATZ Roland - HASENFRATZ Susanne  Switzerland
5  ŽATKO Miroslav - PODMANICKA Michaela  Slovak Republic
6  KOUDACHE Karim - BARES Laurie  France
7  ADLER Thomas - ADLER Dagmar  Germany

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Reigning swedish World Champions  Emma Söderlund & Tobias Ramberg confirmed the expectations and won in the Junior category with a large margin before their national team mates  Sofia Ärleskog & Oscar Agren as well as the french couple  Carla Matarazzo & Tom Michel, the Bronze and Silver medallists, respectively, from the  recent World Championship.

Juniors
1  RAMBERG Tobias - SÖDERLUND Emma  Sweden
2  AGREN Oscar - ÄRLESKOG Sofia  Sweden
3  MICHEL Tom - MATARAZZO Carla  France
4  ZILOCCHI Luca - CORSI Carlotta  Italy
5  ANELLI Dario - MANZATO Carlotta  Italy
6  SIEGL Paul - GÖTZNER Nicola  Germany
7  SKARIN Jonas - JOHANSSON Johanna  Sweden

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Among the Acrobatic Rock 'n' Roll competitors russian couple  Olga Sbitneva & Ivan Youdin took the lead.  Margarita Charkovskaya & Ivan Kudryashov together with  Anastasia Gusarova & Konstantin Samoylov complete the russian-only podium in the Main Class Free Style category.

MC Free Style Final




Main Class Free Style
1  YOUDIN Ivan - SBITNEVA Olga  Russian Federation
2  KUDRYASHOV Ivan - CHARKOVSKAYA Margarita  Russian Federation
3  SAMOYLOV Konstantin - GUSAROVA Anastasia  Russian Federation
4  DIVOKÝ Marek - RICHTROVÁ Lenka  Czech Republic
5  KURAN-PELLEGATTA Nicolas - KURAN-PELLEGATTA Noëmi Switzerland
6  BELLUZZO Romain - PROBST Viviane  Switzerland
7  ERSHOV Mikhail - ZINCHENKO Maria  Russian Federation

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