Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Köhler
Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Köhler have been a German dance sport couple in standard dances since 2004 . The couple dances for TSC Astoria Stuttgart . They started out together as a couple in their youth. Together they were able to achieve national and international success. On June 12, 2012, Federal President Joachim Gauck presented it with the Silver Laurel Leaf as the highest national award for top athletic performance . They received this honor from Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich , in the presence of DOSB President and IOC Vice President Thomas Bach . On November 3rd, 2012 they were awarded the DTV Honor Plaque by DTV President Franz Allert as part of the German Championship , the highest honor in German dance sport.
Benedetto Ferruggia was born in Palermo and, with Jana Pokrovskaya, was among other things European champion in combination (also ten dances ). Until the new pair constellation in 2004 , Claudia Köhler, born in Leipzig , danced with Mark Friedmann. In the same year that Ferruggia and Köhler started their joint careers, they became German runner-up in the standard dances . This qualified them to take part in the 2005 European Championships, where they came in fourth straight away. In 2009 they became European and World Champions for the first time and were able to win the silver medal at the World Games in Kaoshiung (Taiwan). At these World Games they could only be beaten by the professional couple Paolo Bosco / Sylvia Pitton (Italy). At the World Games 2013 in Cali (Colombia) they were nominated again for Germany and won the gold medal as the world's best dance couple in the standard dances.
On February 25, 2013, they announced their retirement from amateur dance and thus announced their move to the professional camp. As a member of the DTV Professional Division, you also start nationally and internationally for the "TSC Astoria Stuttgart".
successes
Worldgames:
- 2009: Silver medal standard, making it the best amateur couple (in Kaoshiung, Taiwan)
- 2013: Gold Medal Standard (in Cali, Colombia)
World Championships:
- 2009: World Champion Amateurs Standard (in Aarhus, Denmark)
- 2010: World Champion Amateurs Standard (in Wetzlar, Germany)
- 2012: World Champion Amateurs Standard (in Melbourne, Australia)
- 2014: Vice World Champion Professionals Standard (in Nanjing, China)
- 2015: World Champion Professionals Standard (in Leipzig, Germany)
European Championships:
- 2009: European Champion Amateurs Standard (in Megéve, France)
- 2010: European Champion Amateurs Standard (in Moscow, Russian Federation)
- 2011: European Champion Amateurs Standard (in Kalisz, Poland)
- 2012: European Champion Amateure Standard (in Koblenz, Germany)
- 2014: European Champion Professionals Standard (in Magdeburg, Germany)
German championships:
- 2007: German Master Amateure Standard (in Zwickau)
- 2008: German Master Amateure Standard (in Stuttgart)
- 2009: German Master Amateure Standard (in Wetzlar)
- 2010: German Master Amateurs Standard (in Braunschweig)
- 2011: German Master Amateure Standard (in Nuremberg)
- 2012: German Master Amateure Standard (in Mülheim an der Ruhr)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silver Laurel Leaf 2012 Press release from the Office of the Federal President of June 12, 2012. Retrieved on November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Köhler switch to the professionals Article of the dance club Astoria Stuttgart from February 24, 2013. Retrieved on November 20, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Successes from Ferruggia - Kohler list of successes on tanzsport.de. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ 2009 IDSF World DanceSport Championship results list on worlddancesport.org. Retrieved November 20, 2017. (English)
- ↑ Benedetto Ferruggia & Claudia Köhler get their title back Article from the Swiss dance magazine dance! . Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Masters enchant the audience Article by Marcus Lemke for derwesten.de of November 4, 2012. Accessed on November 20, 2017.