Hi Dragonfly fans! This time yoga fans ;-)
This year was the first time ever Yoga Sports
finals took place outside the US - in Europe. London is one of the best places
to host such an event – many yoga studios, hotels, bars, restaurants and beautiful
sightseeing. So when the competition is over, all the competitors and judges
can enjoy buzz about the city. But back to business! :-)
World championship was held in Logan Hall in
Central London on 31st May – 1st June 2014. 107 athletes
from all over the world showed up! Skill level was just amazing and is getting
better every year. Dragonfly team was more than proud to have one of our
teachers from Bikram Yoga Ceske Budejovice studio on the podium! Other Bikram
Yoga “celebrities” were among the judges or organizers headed by Rajashree
Choudhury.
On Saturday semifinals started in the morning.
Men and women showed their best and it was just wonderful spectacle. This year
was not only first time in Europe but also first time where could take part
also the champions from previous years. Familiar faces and world champions such
as Joseph Encinia, Jared McCann or Gloria Suen stepped up on the podium again
and left the audience with the mouth open. This exciting day finished up with
top ten men and women in the evening. Somebody went to bed or relaxed other way
and our team went to the city for a dinner and sightseeing – to celebrate our
Veronika who got to the finals :-)
Sunday morning we dropped off Veronika at
Bikram Yoga Highbury&Islington to get ready and warm up for the finals.
Meanwhile we got back to the Logan Hall and watched Youth division – these
girls and boys were pretty amazing! How flexible and strong at a time! Logan
Hall began to fill up with the audience passionate about yoga. Especially the
men division was a bit surprise but that is yoga – you have to calm down and
demonstrate the best you got and sometimes you just can’t or something happens
which disturbs you. Women division was thrilling especially for us, two Czech
girls were in top ten and the whole Dragonfly team was sitting there silently
and eagerly fingers crossed. In conclusion we got 7th place and
Bikram Yoga Prague studio 3rd place. How happy we were!!
Here are the results, congratulations to all
the participants!
YOUTH BOYS
RANK NAME COUNTRY TOTAL
SCORE
1 Delbaere-Sawchuk
Danton Canada 48.620
2 D’Quebec
Alan Kane USA 47.400
3 Basso
Riccardo Italy 45.370
4 Smets
Ansel Belgium 38.420
YOUTH GIRLS
RANK NAME COUNTRY TOTAL
SCORE
1 Sougata
Jana India 46.710
2 Ripley
Holly New Zealand 46.440
3 Martini
Agnese Italy 44.540
4 Fok
Reiko Alice Japan 42.910
5 Patterson
Aisha Australia 41.800
6 Bansal
Gargi New Zealand 41.190
7 Wachauf
Marlena Austria 39.120
8 Smets
Sophia Belgium 38.460
9 Fort
Ber Cristina Spain 37.000
10 Massaccesi
Mariana Italy 36.860
11 Guzman
Perez Mexico 36.100
MEN
Rank Name Country Score
1 Zeb
Homison USA 57.38
2 Jared
McCann USA 56.6
3 Erik
Persson Sweden 55.31
4 Jorge
Eduard Rodriguez Moreno Mexico 53
5 Joseph
Encinia USA 52.97
6 Mark
Valenton Australia 51.66
7 Michael
Tuang Australia 50.56
8 Kanisorn
Namchaiswadwong Thailand 49.92
9 Alessandro
Moura Venegas United Kingdom 48.98
10 Juan
Manuel Martin-Busutil Spain 42.18
WOMEN
Rank Name Country Score
1 Gloria
Suen USA 63.42
2 Gianna
Purcell USA 62.39
3 Anna
Cadkova Czech Republic 59.49
4 Lauren
Martone USA 57.34
5 Almania
Colombo Italy 56.06
6 Paulina
Lawson Mexico 55.84
7 Veronika
Fiserova Czech Republic 54.44
8 Fiona
McNamara Ireland 49.38
9 Karla
Gonzalez Mexico 47.67
10 Dippanita
Mondl India 42
We celebrated afterwards at the Vietnamese
restaurant and with one day off – Monday shopping in London ;-) The way back is
always more tiring, whole trip took almost 3000 kilometers! But we love
travelling ;-) See you in London in 2 months at WORLD POLE SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP
2014!
Love, Petra
Love, Petra
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