who won in the world of dance 2018
Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice dance


to skate were Virtue/Moir, who scored less than Papadakis/Cizeron in the free dance but still scored enough points overall to win the gold medal, setting another world record with a total score of 206.07. This was the third Olympic medal that Virtue/Moir had won in ice dance; they won their first gold in 2010 and they took silver in 2014. It was also their fifth Olympic medal overall (including two team medals in 2014 and 2018), making them the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history
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Maxim Nekrasov


placed fifth. In January 2018, Ushakova/Nekrasov took the bronze medal at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance. In March, they won bronze at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed third in both segments. Ushakova/Nekrasov started their season by competing in the 2018 JGP series. At their first JGP event of the season they won the gold medal in Kaunas, Lithuania. They were ranked first in both the rhythm dance and
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Arina Ushakova (ice dancer)


Championships after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance. In March, they won bronze at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed third in both segments. Ushakova/Nekrasov started their season by competing in the 2018 JGP series. At their first JGP event of the season they won the gold medal in Kaunas, Lithuania. They were ranked first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance and won the gold medal by a margin of more than 6 points over the silver
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Gabriella Papadakis


to claim the silver medal. Papadakis and Cizeron finished the season at the World Championships, where claimed their third title with world record scores in the short dance, free dance, and overall. For the 2018-2019 Grand Prix Season, Papadakis and Cizeron were assigned to 2018 NHK Trophy and 2018 Internationaux de France. However, they had to withdraw from NHK Trophy because of Cizeron's injury to his back. Competing at the 2018 Internationaux de France in Grenoble, they won the gold medal and set new world records in
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Guillaume Cizeron


the season at the World Championships, where they claimed their third title with world record scores in the short dance, free dance, and overall. For the 2018-2019 Grand Prix Season, Papadakis and Cizeron were assigned to 2018 NHK Trophy and 2018 Internationaux de France. However, they had to withdraw from NHK Trophy because of Cizeron's injury to his back. Competing at the 2018 Internationaux de France in Grenoble, they won the gold medal and set new world records in both programs and overall. Cizeron stated: "
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Ivan Bukin


in the short dance and third in the free dance. They were not sent to the 2018 Winter Olympics because it was announced by the Russian Figure Skating Federation on 23 January 2018 that the International Olympic Committee did not invite Bukin to compete. They later competed at the 2018 World Championships where they finished seventh after placing seventh in both the short dance and the free dance. Stepanova/Bukin started their season at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy where they won the gold medal with a personal best score of 200.78 points. This was
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Agata Biernat


Agata Biernat (born 1989) is a Polish beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Polonia 2017. she represented Poland at the Miss World 2018 pageant in China, in December. Biernat lives in Zduńska Wola, Poland. She has been involved in dance and sport since childhood, since she was a child she trained dance and athletics . She is a dance instructor in many dance styles, including pole dance , as well as fitness instructor and personal trainer. Biernat started to compete at Miss Polonia in 2009. She was placing
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Alexandra Stepanova


2018 Winter Olympics because it was announced by the Russian Figure Skating Federation on 23 January 2018 that the International Olympic Committee did not invite Bukin to compete. They later competed at the 2018 World Championships where they finished seventh after placing seventh in both the short dance and the free dance. Stepanova/Bukin started their season at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy where they won the gold medal with a personal best score of 200.78 points. This was already their third victory at the Finlandia Trophy since they had won this event also in 2014
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Andrew Poje


dancing. At the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships, Weaver/Poje won the bronze medal after placing third in the short dance and fourth in the free dance. For the 2018–19 season, Weaver/Poje chose for their free dance "S.O.S. d'un terrien en détresse", a song from the French musical "Starmania", after seeing it used by Kazakhstani figure skater Denis Ten. Ten was murdered in July 2018, at which point the pair came to regard the program as a tribute to their friend. They competed at
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World of Dance (season 2)


mentor. The acts competing in season 2 were released by "People" on May 1, 2018 and Bustle. The list of contestants who made it to The Duels is published by NewsWeek, except Elektro Elite and ThaMOST (s.below). The ages for each dance act were made available on the "World of Dance" website. This dance act competed on Season 1 of "World of Dance" The qualifier round took place between May 29, 2018 and July 24. In each round of the Qualifiers, the dance
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Cecilia Törn


Trophy, the final qualification opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. They ranked fifth in the short dance but dropped to ninth overall after the free dance, finishing as third alternates for a spot at the Olympics. They won gold at the 2017 Ice Challenge in November and their third national title the following month. In January, they finished 15th at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. In March, they placed 23rd in the short dance at the 2018 World Championships in Milan. As a result, they did not
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Jussiville Partanen


final qualification opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. They ranked fifth in the short dance but dropped to ninth overall after the free dance, finishing as third alternates for a spot at the Olympics. They won gold at the 2017 Ice Challenge in November and their third national title the following month. In January, they finished 15th at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. In March, they placed 23rd in the short dance at the 2018 World Championships in Milan. As a result, they did not advance to the
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Alper Uçar


elected to the ISU Athletes Commission as the ice dance representative. Agafonova/Uçar competed at two Grand Prix events and then won silver at the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy. In January, they finished 13th at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. In February, the two competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics and qualified to the final segment. They ranked 20th in the short dance, 18th in the free dance, and 19th overall in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They had the same result at the 2018 World Championships in
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Carolane Soucisse


two were "ecstatic" at the result, having achieved their goal of a medal. Following the 2018 Winter Olympics, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir withdrew from Canada's delegation to the 2018 World Championships in Milan. Soucisse/Firus, as the first alternates, took their places, making their World Championship debut. They placed eleventh in the short dance, fourteenth in the free dance, and fourteenth overall. Soucisse/Firus began their season at the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, where they won the bronze medal after placing
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Misato Komatsubara


ice dance title at the 2018-19 Japan Championships in December 2018. They placed ninth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships after placing ninth in both segments. Komatsubara/Koleto represented Japan at their first World Championships, held in Saitama, where they placed twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the free dance by one ordinal. To conclude the season, they participated in the 2019 World Team Trophy as part of Team Japan, which won the silver medal, though Komatsubara/Koleto placed sixth of sixth competitors in each
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Christopher Dean


Bolero routine in the same arena where they won the gold. In 2018, Dean choreographed the free program of Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, who won the gold medal in Pair skating with a world record at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. 28 April 1983 Dean was appointed Honorary Freeman of the City of Nottingham. Dean was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1999. Between 1991 and 1993 Dean was married to French-Canadian World ice dance champion Isabelle Duchesnay whom he met while choreographing for her and
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Théo Le Mercier


. They debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in August of the same year. Demougeot/Le Mercier qualified to the final segment at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. They ranked 14th in the short dance, 15th in the free dance, and 15th overall. In February 2019, they won the French national junior title. They placed 7th in the rhythm dance, 9th in the free dance, and 8th overall at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. "JGP: Junior Grand
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Tim Koleto


application. At the 2018–19 Japanese Championships, they won the event after placing first in both segments. They placed ninth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships after placing ninth in both segments. Komatsubara/Koleto represented Japan at their first World Championships, held in Saitama, where they placed twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the free dance by one ordinal. To conclude the season, they participated in the 2019 World Team Trophy as part of Team Japan, which won the silver medal, though Komatsubara/Koleto placed sixth
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Michael Petr


has over 2000 teachers compete in it. It is the biggest Pro/Am Dance competition series in the World. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 He has won Top Teacher Award for the California Gold Rush Dancesport Series. Gold Rush Series is made out of 13 dance competitions with over 500 teachers and spread out over a calendar year. It is a top teacher award for the West Coast of USA. In 2016 two of his students won World Pro/Am Championship held in Irvine, California. Petr was born in former
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Dance You Off


"Dance You Off" is a 2018 song by Swedish singer Benjamin Ingrosso. The song won Melodifestivalen 2018, and made it to the final from the first semifinal. It was released in February 2018. The song won Melodifestivalen and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. Being Ingrosso's second participation in the Swedish Eurovision selection, "Dance You Off" participated in the first semi-final of the 2018 Melodifestivalen which was held in Karlstad's Löfbergs Arena on 3 February 2018. The song was
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Dmitri Soloviev


December 2017 they first won the gold medal the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb and then they won another gold medal at the 2018 Russian Championships. This was the 7th time that they had won the gold medal at the Russian Championships. A month later they won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships after placing 4th in the short dance and 2nd in the free dance. At the 2018 Europeans they scored their personal best score of 187.13 points. In February 2018 Bobrova/Soloviev placed 5th at the 2018 Winter Olympics after
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Raising the Bar (film)


Raising the Bar is a 2016 documentary film that follows six young individuals with Down syndrome from Australia and India who perform a dance routine at the World Down Syndrome Congress 2015 in Chennai, India. The film is directed by Onir and co-produced by Mitu Bhowmick Lange (Behen Jee) and e.motion21, a non-profit Australian organisation. The film won the Best Documentary award at the Melbourne City Independent Film Awards 2018 and the Best Feature Documentary – Jury award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2018. It also was
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Benjamin Ingrosso


"Benjamin" Daniele Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 14 September 1997) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. As a child, he appeared in the leading role in several musicals, and in 2006 he won Lilla Melodifestivalen with the song "Hej Sofia". He won the celebrity dancing TV-show "Let's Dance 2014", and has competed twice in Melodifestivalen in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He won in 2018 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Dance You Off
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Chris Mazdzer


's singles event in the luge sprint in the second ever to be held and to be competed in event at the World Cup level in the discipline. Mazdzer was therein victorious at the FIL "Sprint" World Cup event at the Calgary track. On February 11, 2018, Mazdzer won a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. In April 2018, Mazdzer was announced as one of the celebrities for season 26 of "Dancing with the Stars". He was partnered with professional dancer Witney Carson. He was
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Ekaterina Bobrova


medal at the 2017 Cup of China. In December 2017 they first won the gold medal the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb and then they won another gold medal at the 2018 Russian Championships. This was the 7th time that they had won the gold medal at the Russian Championships. A month later they won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships after placing 4th in the short dance and 2nd in the free dance. At the 2018 Europeans they scored their personal best score of 187.13 points. In February 2018 Bobrova/
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Vadym Kolesnik


JGP Slovenia to qualify for their first JGP Final. They placed fifth overall at the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final after placing fifth in the rhythm dance and fifth in the free dance. At the 2019 U.S. Championships they won the silver medal behind Caroline Green / Gordon Green after placing second in the rhythm dance and winning the free dance. At the 2019 World Junior Championships, Nguyen/Kolesnik placed fifth in the rhythm dance, but moved up to fourth overall after placing third in the free dance. They were awarded a small
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Daniella Karagach


Blackpool Dance Festival. Pasha and Daniella are the first US couple in 40 years to represent the US in all four styles at the world championships (Latin, Ballroom, Ten dance and Show dance). They were featured in the touring shows Dancing Pros (2014) and Dance Legends (2015). In 2017, after turning professional in the Latin Dancesport division, Karagach and Pashkov won the Blackpool (British Open) Rising Star Professional championship, as well as the UK Open Rising Star Professional championship. In 2018, they
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Herschel Walker


Walker has a fifth-degree black belt in tae kwon do. In 1988, while a member of the Dallas Cowboys, he danced with the Fort Worth Ballet for a single performance. He won back-to-back American Superstars competitions in 1987 and 1988. Walker married his college sweetheart, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman in 1983, they had one child, Christian, who was a competitive cheerleader, and part of the World Champion Cheer Athletics Cheetahs at the USASF World Championship in 2018. He was also a track athlete in
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Shane Firus


in Milan. Soucisse/Firus, as the first alternates, took their places, making their World Championship debut. They placed eleventh in the short dance, fourteenth in the free dance, and fourteenth overall. Soucisse/Firus began their season at the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, where they won the bronze medal after placing third in the rhythm dance and fourth in the free dance. Firus remarked that he felt they had left a few technical points on the table, but was otherwise satisfied with their performance. At their
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Carrie Swidecki


49 hours 3 minutes 22 seconds, thus becoming the only person in the world to hold a world record for marathon play on all three major dance games: Just Dance, Dance Central, and Dance Dance Revolution. She was formerly overweight and has lost 75 pounds through exergaming. On October 6, 2018, she was inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa. Of this milestone achievement Swidecki says, "Somewhere there is a little girl who is playing a video game, reading a Guinness World
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Pole dance


was taken by Jenyne Butterfly. The 2010 winner of "Miss Pole Dance Canada" was Crystal Lai, who went on to win the People's Choice Award at the worlds. World Pole Sport & Fitness 2009 (World Pole Dance) is a competition opened to all nationalities and all continents. The 2009 event in Jamaica was won by Cane, and she successfully defended her title in the 2010 Swiss event. For 2011 the event took place in Budapest and was won by Belarusian Alesia Vazmitsel. In 1993, in Madonna's
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Kaitlyn Weaver


Poje won the bronze medal after placing third in the short dance and fourth in the free dance. For the 2018–19 season, Weaver/Poje chose for their free dance "S.O.S. d'un terrien en détresse", a song from the French musical "Starmania", after seeing it used by Kazakhstani figure skater Denis Ten. Ten was murdered in July 2018, at which point the pair came to regard the program as a tribute to their friend. They competed at and won the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, before planning to
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Maëva Coucke


-up and dance workshops in hospitals to help women undergoing cancer treatment feel more confident in themselves. On October 1, 2018, she launched the Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the Eiffel Tower which was lit up in rosy pink lights to support Breast cancer awareness. Maëva Coucke represented France at Miss World 2018, where she placed in the top 12. At Miss World 2018, she won the Top Model fast track event, giving her direct access into the top thirty. She is the first French representative to win the Top
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Guillaume Cizeron


best of 82.07 points, and a new overall world record of 202.16. They won their 4th consecutive European Championships ice dancing title, the first team to accomplish that since Marina Klimova/Sergei Ponomarenko from 1989-1992, handily winning both programs. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Papadakis and Cizeron finished second in the short dance with a score of 81.93 despite Papadakis suffering a wardrobe malfunction, and first in the free skate with a world record score of 123.35, to claim the silver medal. Papadakis and Cizeron finished
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Nicholas Purnell


eights to King's Cup victories in 2018 and 2019. Purnell has a younger brother Alex, who also rows with the Sydney University Boat Club, has won the King's Cup for New South Wales, who rowed in Australian crews at the 2017 and 2018 World Championships and won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 2018. He made his Australian senior team debut at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. Though still eligible for the World Rowing U23 Championships, Purnell won a bronze medal in the senior
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Conference of the Birds (play)


Conference of the Birds is a celebrated literary masterpiece of Persian literature by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, which has been adapted for the stage by Falk Richter as a musical (2018), Sholeh Wolpé as a stage play (2018), ANIKAYA Dance Theater as dance (2018), and Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière as a stage play. (1977). In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their sovereign, as they have none. The hoopoe
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Caroline Green


to illness. Returning to competition, they won junior gold medals at the 2018 Golden Spin of Zagreb in December and at the Mentor Toruń Cup in early January. At the 2019 U.S. Championships, they outscored Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik by 1.48 points to become national junior champions. The Greens concluded the season at the 2019 World Junior Championships. In the rhythm dance, Caroline stumbled during the tango pattern dance segment, leading to an eighth-place finish. They improved in the free dance, moving up to seventh place.
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Gordon Green (figure skater)


their JGP assignments due to illness. Returning to competition, they won junior gold medals at the 2018 Golden Spin of Zagreb in December and at the Mentor Toruń Cup in early January. At the 2019 U.S. Championships, they outscored Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik by 1.48 points to become national junior champions. The Greens concluded the season at the 2019 World Junior Championships. In the rhythm dance, Caroline stumbled during the tango pattern dance segment, leading to an eighth-place finish. They improved in the free dance, moving up
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Betina Popova


dance and third in the free dance. In May 2018 Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Volkov became their new coaches. Popova/Mozgov started their season in mid September at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy where they won the bronze medal with a personal best score of 170.47 points. In early November they placed seventh at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki. Three weeks later they finished eighth at the 2018 Internationaux de France. In early December they won their second Challenger Series bronze medal of the season at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of
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Gabriella Papadakis


Grand Prix Final, setting another new short program personal best of 82.07 points, and a new overall world record of 202.16. They won their 4th consecutive European Championships ice dancing title, the first team to accomplish that since Marina Klimova/Sergei Ponomarenko from 1989-1992, handily winning both programs. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Papadakis and Cizeron finished second in the short dance with a score of 81.93 despite Papadakis suffering a wardrobe malfunction, and first in the free skate with a world record score of 123.35,
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Alisa Agafonova


the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. It was the best continental result of their career. The two finished 17th at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to their result, Turkey qualified a spot in the ice dancing event at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Agafonova/Uçar competed at two Grand Prix events and then won silver at the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy. In January, they finished 13th at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. In February, the two competed at the 2018 Winter
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Maxim Nekrasov


their earlier short program, free skate and combined total World record scores. With two JGP gold medals they qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final. At the Final Ushakova/Nekrasov won the silver medal after placing second in the rhythm dance and first in the free dance. They were part of a Russian sweep of the ice dance's podium. Ushakova/Nekrasov beat the bronze medalists, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Nikita Nazarov, by about 6 points but the race for the gold medal were extremely tight. The gold medalists,
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Let's Dance (German season 11)


The eleventh season of "Let's Dance" started on March 9, 2018. Daniel Hartwich returned as host but Sylvie Meis was replaced by Victoria Swarovski who won Let's Dance in 2016. Motsi Mabuse, Joachim Llambi and Jorge Gonzalez also returned as the judges. This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows: According to the traditional 30-point scale. For the second time there was a launch show in which
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Andrew Poje


and won the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, before planning to skip the 2018–19 Grand Prix in favour of a nationwide tour organized by Virtue and Moir. Returning to competition for the 2019 Canadian Championships, Weaver/Poje placed first in the rhythm dance. As one of the few senior teams who had previously competed the Tango Romantica pattern when it was a compulsory dance in the 2009–10 season, Poje commented that this was both "a benefit and a detriment" due to the changing style of judging. They came second in the
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Rhythm dance


The rhythm dance (RD) is the first segment of an ice dance competition. The International Skating Union (ISU) renamed the short dance to the "rhythm dance" in June 2018, prior to the 2018–2019 season. It became part of international competitions in July 2018. French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron hold the highest RD score of 88.42 points, which they achieved at the 2019 World Figure Skating Championships. In March 2018, the ISU published the rules for the 2018–2019 season. Senior ice dancers had to
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2018 nine-pin bowling Single's World Championships


The 2018 nine-pin bowling Single's World Championships was the seventh edition of the single's world championships and was held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from 20 May to 26 May 2018 . All the men's competitions was dominated by Vilmoš Zavarko, who won gold medals in every event. In the women's sprint triumphed Ines Maričić (Croatia), in the single German Sina Beißer, while gold medal in the combination was won by Serbian Jasmina Anđelković, who set a new world record 890 pins. Mixed tandem
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Cheer Extreme Allstars


Cheer Extreme Allstars is a branch of cheerleading and competition dance gyms found throughout North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois and Virginia. Cheer Extreme is most well known for its Small Senior and Large Senior teams, which received numerous national titles and have ranked in the Cheerleading Worlds competitions, with Cheer Extreme Senior Elite winning the first-place title in 2010, 2012 2013. At the 2015 Cheerleading Worlds, Cheer Extreme's Coed Elite won first place. Also at the 2016, 2018 and 2019 Cheerleading Worlds Cheer Extreme's SSX won first
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2018 World Snooker Championship


the championship seven times. The previous year's championship was won by England's Mark Selby, who won the event defeating Scotland's John Higgins in the final 18–15. This was Selby's third championship, having won previously in 2014 and 2016. The champion of the 2018 event would win prize money of £425,000, from a total pool of £1,968,000. The 2018 World Snooker Championship was held between 21 April and 7 May 2018 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last of twenty rankings events in the 2017/2018
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Avonley Nguyen


at Midwestern Sectionals, they qualified to the 2018 U.S. Championships, where they would finish fifth. Nguyen/Kolesnik won the silver medal at 2018 JGP Lithuania, behind Russia's Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov, and the gold at 2018 JGP Slovenia to qualify for their first JGP Final. They placed fifth overall at the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final after placing fifth in the rhythm dance and fifth in the free dance. At the 2019 U.S. Championships they won the silver medal behind Caroline Green / Gordon Green after placing second in the
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Irish dance


also holds Oireachtas Rince na hÉireann, or "The All Irelands" which took place in Killarney in February 2019. It is the oldest Irish dancing competition in the world. An Comhdhail's World championships also take place each Easter week, with the competition being held in Dublin in 2018. WIDA (World Irish Dance Association), which is mainly dancers from European countries, also hold their own World and International Championships over the Easter week, with the competition being held in Maastricht in 2018. Old-style step dancing is
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Chris Reed (figure skater)


In November, they appeared at a pair of Grand Prix events, finishing 9th at the 2018 NHK Trophy and 7th at the 2017 Skate America. They then won their third national title, outscoring the silver medalists by nearly 17 points. In January, Muramoto/Reed won the bronze medal at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in Taipei, Taiwan. In February, they competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. They placed 15th in the short dance, 13th in the free dance, and 15th overall.
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Scottish highland dance


the Adult World Championship was Hugh Bigney, who won the title in 1973. Indeed, the first three Adult World Championships were won by ladies: Nancy Cotter of New Zealand (1948), Margaret Samson (1949 and 1950). This feminisation of folk arts is a common pattern in the process of their 'gentrification', especially after they no longer serve a functional role in a male-centred, warrior culture. Males are still well represented at the world championships. Highland dancing competitions may be held solely or as
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Ivan Bukin


already their third victory at the Finlandia Trophy since they had won this event also in 2014 and 2016. In early November Stepanova/Bukin won their first Grand Prix gold medal at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki. They were ranked first in both the Rhythm dance and the free dance and won the gold medal by a margin of about 4 points over the silver medalists, Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri. Two weeks later they won their second Grand Prix gold medal at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup. They were ranked first in both
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Saniya Iyappan


Saniya Iyappan is an Indian actress and dancer who works in Malayalam cinema. She is best known for her role in the 2018 film "Queen", Jhanvi in the Mohanlal starring film Lucifer and Ashwathy Achu in mini web series Thera Para by Karikku. Saniya started her career in television as a contestant of a dance reality show,D 4 Dance-D2. She won the third prize at D2 - D 4 Dance, a dance reality show in Mazhavil Manorama. Saniya made her acting debut with the film ‘Balyakalasakhi’
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Touch (Sori song)


A teaser for "Touch"'s music video was released on August 30, 2018. It ultimately premiered on September 4, 2018. The music video was directed by the film director Hong Won-gi of the video production company Zanybros. A choreography-centered version of the music video premiered on September 11, 2018. The choreography was created by the choreographer Choi Hyo-jin of the dance studio 1Million Dance Studio. A dancing competition using the song's choreography was subsequently held from September 12, 2018 until October 10
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Alexandra Stepanova


they placed tenth. Stepanova/Bukin started their season by winning the silver medal at the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy. They then won two bronze medals in the Grand Prix series, the first bronze came at the 2017 Rostelecom Cup and the second bronze came at the 2017 Internationaux de France. They then won the silver medal at the 2018 Russian Championships. A month later they won the Bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships after placing second in the short dance and 3rd in the free dance. They were not sent to the
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Kirill Aleshin


senior and Grand Prix debut at the 2018 Skate Canada where they placed 10th. Two weeks later they finished 7th at the 2018 NHK Trophy. In late November Skoptsova/Aleshin won their first international senior medal at the 2018 CS Tallinn Trophy. Ranked first in the rhythm dance and third in the free dance they won the silver medal with their personal best score of 179.78 points. At the 2019 Russian Championships, they placed fifth. "GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix" With
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Nikita Nazarov


gold medal. They placed 8th at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships. Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov received their first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments in the 2017–2018 season. They won medals at both JGP events, first a bronze medal in late August in Brisbane, Australia and then the silver medal in October in Gdańsk, Poland. They placed fifth at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing second in the short dance and sixth in the free dance. Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won their first JGP gold medal in August at the 2018
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2018 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship


The 2018 WPA 9 World Junior Ball Championships was the 27th hosting of the Junior World Championship in the pool discipline 9-Ball. The event ran from 31 October to 3 November 2018 Moscow, Russia. Under 19 world champion was Yip Kin Ling from Hong Kong. In the final against his countryman Robbie Capito he won 11-10 against last year's finalist. In the Under 17 age group was won by Mahkeal Parris who won the final against the Norwegian Emil Andre Gangfløt 9-6. In the junior women, Chen Chia
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Ashley Banjo


Ashley Modurotolu Banjo (born 4 October 1988), is an English street dancer, choreographer and actor. He is leader of dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of "Britain's Got Talent". Banjo was a judge on the Sky1 talent show "Got to Dance" and co-presenter of the Saturday night BBC game show "Can't Touch This". Ashley has been a judge on the ITV show "Dancing on Ice" since January 2018. Following winning Britain's Got Talent in 2009,
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Kaitlyn Weaver


skip the 2018–19 Grand Prix in favour of a nationwide tour organized by Virtue and Moir. Returning to competition for the 2019 Canadian Championships, Weaver/Poje placed first in the rhythm dance. As one of the few senior teams who had previously competed the Tango Romantica pattern when it was a compulsory dance in the 2009–10 season, Poje commented that this was both "a benefit and a detriment" due to the changing style of judging. They came second in the free dance, behind Gilles/Poirier, but won the gold
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World Order (band)


condition, making the group a five-member unit. This left Akihiro Takahashi as the sole lead vocalist of the group. In January 2018, Genki Sudo announced his return as a dance member of World Order. In June 2018, Takashi Jonishi announced his departure as a dance member of World Order. He has organized a new group specialized in a style called "Pull-Up Dance." Jonishi hopes that his group and World Order can perform together someday. He still cooperates with World Order as technical staff. Released
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Anastasia Skoptsova


duo's training time leading up to the new season. In late October Skoptsova/Aleshin made their international senior and Grand Prix debut at the 2018 Skate Canada where they placed 10th. Two weeks later they finished 7th at the 2018 NHK Trophy. In late November Skoptsova/Aleshin won their first international senior medal at the 2018 CS Tallinn Trophy. Ranked first in the rhythm dance and third in the free dance they won the silver medal with their personal best score of 179.78 points. At the 2019 Russian Championships, they placed
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2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship


The 2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship is a blind football tournament and the seventh World Blind Football Championship. The competition was staged in Spain between 7 June and 17 June 2018, and involved sixteen teams of visually impaired players from around the world competing to be crowned world champion. It was won for the fifth time by Brazil, who defeated their fellow finalists, Argentina, 2-0 to take the title. The tournament got under way on 7 June with the opening match between Spain and Thailand. Brazil won the tournament
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Kana Muramoto


MNNT Cup in Poland. They placed 7th at the 2016 Four Continents Championships in February in Taipei, Taiwan. In March, they placed 16th in the short dance, 14th in the free dance, and 15th overall at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts. Muramoto/Reed won silver at the 2016 CS U.S. Classic in September, and placed 8th at the 2016 Skate America in October. They withdrew from their November Grand Prix event, the 2018 NHK Trophy. After winning their second national title, the duo took
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Alexandra Stepanova


and 2016. In early November Stepanova/Bukin won their first Grand Prix gold medal at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki. They were ranked first in both the Rhythm dance and the free dance and won the gold medal by a margin of about 4 points over the silver medalists, Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri. Two weeks later they won their second Grand Prix gold medal at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup. They were ranked first in both programs and beat the silver medalists, Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin by about 25 points.
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Pavel Roman


Pavel Roman (25 January 1943 - 30 January 1972) was a Czech figure skater who competed in pair skating and ice dancing. Together with his sister Eva Romanová he won four World Figure Skating Championships titles in ice dancing. The Romans started their competitive careers in pair skating rather than ice dance, placing third at the Czechoslovakian championships in 1957 and second in 1958 and 1959. They won the ice dancing title at the Czech championships in 1959, the first year that discipline was competed in Czechoslovakia. They competed in both disciplines
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2018 Women's Hockey World Cup


The 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Women's Hockey World Cup, a field hockey tournament. It was held from 21 July to 5 August 2018 at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London, England. Defending champions the Netherlands won the tournament for a record eighth time after defeating Ireland 6–0 in the final, who claimed their first ever World Cup medal. Spain won the third place match by defeating Australia 3–1 to claim their first ever World Cup medal as well. In March 2013
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2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony


The 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony took place on Thursday, 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia at 3:30 (BST), about a half hour before the opening match which Russia won 5–0 over Saudi Arabia. Zabivaka™ (English: "The one who scores"), was the official mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and was voted for by a 53% margin. The design is of a wolf who represents fun, charm, and charecter. Former world cup winning, Brazilian
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Maddie Ziegler


thanks in part to 12-year-old dance phenom Maddie Ziegler, who ... displayed power, vulnerability, and more than a little weirdness". Ziegler won a 2016 People's Choice Award, a 2016 Teen Choice Award and a 2017 Teen Choice Award. She was nominated for a 2016 Shorty Award and four 2017 Shorty Awards, where she won in one category and received an audience honor in another. In 2018, "The Hollywood Reporter" named Ziegler among Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen. In 2018, for
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Nikita Nazarov


Nikita Gennadievich Nazarov (, born 14 May 1998) is a Russian competitive ice dancer. With his skating partner, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva, he is the 2019 World Junior silver medalist and the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. He has also won four ISU Junior Grand Prix medals, including gold medals at 2018 JGP Slovakia and 2018 JGP Czech Republic. Nikita Nazarov was born on 5 May 1998 in Ryazan, Russia. Nazarov began learning to skate in 2006. He focused in ice dancing very early on and he competed ice
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Victoria Sinitsina


at the 2017 NHK Trophy and then they won the bronze medal at the 2017 Skate America. At the 2018 Russian Championships they had to withdrew after the short dance. Sinitsina/Katsalapov started their season at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy where they won the gold medal with a personal best score of 196.42 points. In late October they won the silver medal at the 2018 Skate Canada. In late November they won their second Grand Prix silver medal of the season at the 2018 Internationaux de France. At this event they also
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2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series


The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. There were six tournament events scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve teams competing in each tournament. The series also, for the second time, doubled as an Olympic qualifier. The series was won by who won four tour events on their way to claiming their fifth World Series title. Twelve teams compete at each event. The top-ranked teams at each tournament play off
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Sport in India


400 metres at 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships at Tampere, Finland, on 12 July 2018, clocking a time of 51.46 seconds. She is second gold medalist in athletics at IAAF World U20 Championships after Neeraj Chopra who won Men's javelin throw gold at 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships by setting world junior record with a throw of 86.48 m. Later Neeraj went on to win the Men's javelin throw gold at 2018 Commonwealth Games. Performances at Olympics Games are not satisfactory, till now no Indian athlete won any medal at the Olympics
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Mallory Franklin


Mallory Franklin (born 19 June 1994) is a British slalom canoeist who has competed internationally since 2009. She is a triple world champion, having won both the individual and team C1 events at the 2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and the C1 events at the 2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships . She has won eight medals in total at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (C1: 2017, C1 team: 2017, 2018), four silvers (C1: 2013, 2014, 2018; K1:
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Alex Shibutani


the 2009 World Junior Championships. At Junior Worlds, the Shibutanis placed 5th in the compulsory dance, 4th in the original dance, and 2nd in the free dance. At the ages of 14 and 17, they won the silver medal. The Shibutanis won both of their JGP events and won the bronze medal at the JGP Final. They again skated at the junior level at US Nationals, which they won. At 2010 Junior Worlds, they finished off the podium in fourth place. This was their final junior event.
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Tereza Fišerová


Tereza Fišerová (born 23 February 1998) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2013. She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three silvers (C1: 2017, C1 team: 2015, 2018) and two bronzes (C1: 2018, C1 team: 2017). She also won two silvers and two bronzes at the European Championships. Fišerová won the overall World Cup title in mixed C2 in 2018 together with Jakub Jáně. It was the first year when mixed
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Aleksandra Nacheva


Aleksandra Nacheva (; born 20 August 2001 in Plovdiv), is a Bulgarian athlete who competes in long jump and triple jump. During the 2017 season, Nacheva won silver at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya and finished 4th at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy. At the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships, Nacheva won silver in triple jump with 13.88m, behind Spaniard María Vicente with 13.95m. On 15 July 2018 she won gold in triple jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships
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Yulia Zagoruychenko


Turner, Bocelli, Christina Aguilera and the dance companies Pilobolus and Alvin Ailey. 2010-2017: World Professional Latin Champions 2009: World Professional Showdance Champions 2008-2016 and 2018: U.S. National Professional Latin Champions 2012, 2015-2017: Winners of the International Championships England 2008-2014: U.S. Open Champions 2016-2018: Blackpool Dance Festival Champions, England 2016-2017: Blackpool Dance Festival Champions, China 2016-2018: UK Championship Champions, England 2008-2011, 2013-2017: WDC Fred Astaire Cup
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Kirill Khaliavin


in September. The following month, making their Grand Prix debut, they placed fourth at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki and then won silver at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup, becoming the first Spanish ice dancers to stand on a Grand Prix podium. After winning their second Spanish national title, Hurtado/Khaliavin competed at the 2019 European Championships, placing seventh, almost four points ahead of Smart/Díaz. They were consequently assigned to Spain's lone dance spot for the 2019 World Championships, where they placed twelfth.. "GP
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Caroline Brown (bowls)


Caroline Brown (born 1980) is a Scottish international indoor and lawn and indoor bowls player. Brown won the 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship women's singles and five years later who won a gold and bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. She became the first Scottish woman to win the World Cup. She won the gold medal at the 2014 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia. In 2018 she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast
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Annemiek van Vleuten


Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team . In 2011, she won the UCI Women's Road World Cup and in 2018 she was the UCI Women's World Tour winner. She is the 2017 and 2018 winner of the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships. In 2018 she won both the points and the overall ranking in the Giro Rosa, considered the most prestigious stage race of the women's road cycling calendar. Only two
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Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva


dance, free dance and combined total scores at this competition were the highest scores achieved in an international junior ice dance competition at the time, subsequently surpassed by others. At their second JGP event of the season in Ostrava, Czech Republic, they won a second gold medal. Again they were ranked first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance. With two JGP gold medals they qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final. At the Final, Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won the bronze medal after placing third in the rhythm
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Evan Bates


bronze at both. They won the silver medal at the 2014 U.S. Championships and were named in the U.S. Olympic team. They finished eighth at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Chock/Bates placed fourth in the short dance, fifth in the free, and fifth overall at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan. Chock/Bates took silver at the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event, and then won both their Grand Prix events at the 2014 Skate America and 2014 Rostelecom Cup. The
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2018 Seniors Masters


The 2018 Seniors Masters was a senior snooker tournament which took place on 12 April 2018 at in Sheffield, England. It was the fourth and final event on the newly created World Seniors Tour. Cliff Thorburn won the title beating Johnathan Bagley 2–1 on a re-spotted black ball which replaced the final frame decider in the final. Thorburn, at the age of 70, became the oldest winner of a World Seniors title; the previous record belonged to Steve Davis, who was 60 when he won the 2018 Seniors Irish Masters
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Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand series 7)


The seventh series of "Dancing with the Stars" premiered on 29 April 2018 on Three, and was hosted by Dai Henwood and Sharyn Casey. Camilla Sacre-Dallerup, Julz Tocker, and Rachel White are the series' judges; Sacre-Dullerup serves as the head judge. Sam Hayes won the competition on 1 July 2018. This table only counts for dances scored on a 30-point scale. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows: Scores are based upon a
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Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva


and then the silver medal in October in Gdańsk, Poland. They placed fifth at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing second in the short dance and sixth in the free dance. Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov won their first JGP gold medal in August at the 2018 JGP event in Bratislava, Slovakia, after placing first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance. They scored their personal best score of 159.62 points and they beat the silver medalists, their teammates Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy, by about seven points. Their rhythm
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Jonathan Guerreiro


Prix series, they placed fourth at the 2017 Cup of China and sixth at the 2017 Skate America. In December 2017 they won the bronze medal at the 2018 Russian Championships. A month later they placed 6th at the 2018 European Championships after placing eighth in the short dance and sixth in the free dance. it was announced by the Russian Figure Skating Federation on January 23, 2018 that Ivan Bukin was not invited to the 2018 Winter Olympics. Because of this, Zahorski/Guerreiro were sent instead. Zahorski/Guerreiro placed
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2018 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship


The 2018 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship was the 2018 version of FIM the Individual Under-21 World Championship and was staged over three rounds, at Daugavpils, Leszno and Pardubice. Poland's Maksym Drabik was the defending champion having won the title in 2017. The title was won by Bartosz Smektała, who beat Drabik by two points. Smektała had trailed Drabik heading into the final round, however he scored a 21-point maximum to take the title. Great Britain's Robert Lambert took bronze. The meeting classification was according to the points
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2018 World Seniors Championship


was not eligible for this year's edition. Three of the eight invited players withdrew prior to the tournament. The five remaining seeds were defeated in the opening round. The Championship was won by Aaron Canavan, who beat Patrick Wallace 4–3 in the final. The breakdown of the tournament prizes is shown below: Players were seeded based on the titles won during their professional careers: Eight qualifying events for the 2018 World Seniors Championship took place during the World Seniors Tour 2017/2018: Each qualifier took their place alongside invited players and replacements
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2018 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial


The Men's time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 25th edition of the championship, for which Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 61 riders from 40 nations entered the competition. Rohan Dennis became the second Australian male to win the world time trial title – after Michael Rogers, who won three consecutive titles between 2003 and 2005 – finishing almost a minute and a half clear
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Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice dance


The ice dance competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 and 20 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. The short ice dance was held on 19 February and the free ice dance was held on 20 February. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir scored 83.67 in the short dance, breaking their own world record. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron finished in second place, 1.74 points behind Virtue/Moir. Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue finished in third place, and Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani were
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Nikita Katsalapov


Nikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov (; born 10 July 1991) is a Russian ice dancer. With Victoria Sinitsina, he is the 2019 World silver medalist, the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and 2019 Russian national champion. They have also won several medals on the Grand Prix and the Challenger Series, including winning the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy. With former partner Elena Ilinykh, he is a 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in ice dancing, a three-time European medalist (silver in
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Nikita Katsalapov


the 2018 Russian Championships they had to withdrew after the short dance. Sinitsina/Katsalapov started their season at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy where they won the gold medal with a personal best score of 196.42 points. In late October they won the silver medal at the 2018 Skate Canada. In late November they won their second Grand Prix silver medal of the season at the 2018 Internationaux de France. At this event they also scored their personal best score of 200.38 points. With two Grand Prix silver medals they qualified for the
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Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Ice dance


Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov, the reigning world champions, were the clear favorites. Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto, who won silver medals at the last World Championships, aimed to win the first Olympic medals in ice dance for USA since 1976. Teams from Ukraine, France, Canada, Israel, Lithuania, Italy, and Bulgaria were also vying for a medal. There were a few surprises during the Compulsory Dance, which saw reigning world champions (undefeated this season) Navka / Kostomarov finishing second to the Italian team of
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Betty Who


Who released "Ignore Me", which is Who's first single as an independent artist, after parting in 2017 with RCA Records. Backup dancers Ty Nedick and Richard Hurts also parted ways due to choreography issues, particularly, not being able to dance. They ultimately wished Who the best going forward. On 16 February 2018, the singer released a cover of Kylie Minogue's "Come Into My World" for "Made in Australia" compilation by Amazon Music. In 2018, Who released a remixed version of Widelife's
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Miss World 2018


finals in China. Miss France, Maëva Coucke won the Top Model Competition and became the first quarter-finalist of Miss World 2018. Miss Japan, Kanako Date won the Talent Competition and became the second quarter-finalist of Miss World 2018. Miss United States, Marisa Butler won the Sports Competition and became the third quarter-finalist of Miss World 2018. Miss Nepal, Shrinkhala Khatiwada won the Multimedia Challenge, securing her place in the finals of Miss World 2018. The Top 5 winners of the Beauty with a purpose
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Charles Dance


June 2013, Dance appeared with other celebrities in an episode of the BBC's "Top Gear" as a "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" for the debut of the Vauxhall Astra. In summer 2018, Dance narrated a documentary entitled "Spitfire", which featured the legendary Supermarine Spitfire and recounted the efforts of the RAF pilots who flew them during the Second World War. In 2019, he played an antagonist in "". He is also due to appear as Lord Mountbatten in series 3 of "The Crown
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Natalia Carvajal


Natalia Carvajal Sánchez (born September 14, 1990) is a Costa Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Universe Costa Rica 2018 on April 27, 2018 in Costa Rica. She is the sixty-third Miss Costa Rica who competed in the Miss Universe history, and the only fifth contestant from Costa Rica to make the cut. Carvajal is a TV host, a publicist, a literature student and ex contestant of the Costa Rican version of Dancing with the Stars. Carvajal was crowned as Miss Eco International 2016
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Hanna Begovic


Hanna Begovic (born 27 December 1998) is a Canadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Canada 2018. She represented Canada at the Miss World 2018 pageant. Begovic was born and raised in Toronto. She loved being glamorous and wearing sparkles of all kinds and playing with makeup. That love for makeup and glitter and costumes brought her to the world of dance. She started taking ballet when she was 3 years old, fell in love with the way music made her feel, and continued to train in
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