2003 Worlds Dance CD 'Austrian Waltz' (Swedish/Svenska)

Swedish coverage compulsory dance (CD) (designated pattern: Austrian Waltz'), ice dance event. 2003 World Figure Skating Championships (MCI Center, Washington, D.C., USA). Performances shown here marked with (^) below: Rank Name Nation TFP CDA^ CDB^ OD FD 1 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada 2.6 1^ 2 1 2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia 3.0 1^ 1 2 3 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski Bulgaria 5.6 2^ 3 3 4 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov Russia 7.6 3^ 4 4 5 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov Ukraine 8.8 2^ 5 5 6 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski Israel 10.8 3^ 6 6 7 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto United States 12.8 4^ 7 7 8 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev United States 14.4 4^ 8 8 9 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder France 16.4 5^ 9 9 10 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon Canada 18.0 5^ 10 10 25 Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond Australia 13^ 25 -------------- [Golden Skate excerpt] The dance competition at the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships produced a lot of firsts. It was the first time that skaters competed in only one compulsory dance, the first time the Austrian Waltz was skated at Worlds. The event began with two groups of skaters competing in different groups for the compulsory dance. One group was won by the defending world champions, Lobacheva and Averbukh. They were followed by Ukraine’s Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov, who won three Grand Prix events this season, and Israel’s Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski, last year’s bronze medalists. For the Russians, it was their first and last time competing with the Austrian Waltz, while the Ukrainians has already skated it twice during the Grand Prix series. “We didn’t have much time to prepare,” Averbukh stated. “We really started to work on it only two weeks ago.” In the second group, last year’s world silver medalists, Bourne and Kraatz, were the leaders over Bulgaria’s Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski and Russia’s Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, the European silver and bronze medalists respectively. Only the Russians had competed with the dance previously. “It was awesome,” Bourne stated. “We’re at the top of our game.” Staviski noted that “This is our weakest compulsory. We can do the others with our eyes closed.” full read: https://www.goldenskate.com/2003-worl... -------------- ice-dance.com: Austrian Waltz Music – Waltz 3/4 Tempo – 60 measures of 3 beats per minute – 180 beats per minute The Austrian Waltz is characterized by elegance of line combined with the typical lightness of the Viennese Waltz. It should be skated with strongly curved edges, bending of the skating knee and wide extended movements of the arms and free legs maintaining a soft flow throughout the waltz. Inventors – Susi and Peter Handschmann First performance – Vienna 1979 more info: https://www.ice-dance.com/site/refere... ------------ #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique #icedance special thanks to Kim!