User:Oksana Iurchenko/Влох Дмитро Святославович

Dmytro Vlokh (born 15 November 1983, Lviv, Ukraine) -is a professional Ukrainian dancer, who won a record number of victories in the National Championship (43), multiple absolute winner of world and European tournaments in ballroom dancing in standard and Latin American programs and 10 dances, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine, head coach of "KST" Supadans " Kyiv, a lecturer at the National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine, represents Ukraine in the "Professional" category , a judge of the international category.

First victories
Dmytro starts his professional career in Lviv at the age of 9 and in three years will win the championship of Ukraine in the European program in the junior category with Anna Suslovets, and at the age of 15 together with Olga Uryumova he becomes the world champion in sports dances in the age category " Juniors-2 " Standard.

Absolute champion
From 1996 to 2009, the talented and successful couple of Dmytro Vlokh and Olga Uryumova, being the absolute champions of Ukraine, has won an extraordinary number of victories, including the World Championship in the category of "Youth" in the program of ten dances, the Eastern European Championship among adults in the Latin American program, Bronze World Cup in the program of ten dances in the category "Adults", European Cup 2003 among adults, First place in the European Championship in 10 sport dances, Bronze award at the Blackpool Dance Festival in May 2007, which for Ukraine in Blackpool, despite regular performances of couples, became the first medal in 15 years, the first place "IDU World Championship 2008" in the Standard and many others.

Later, Dmytro represented Ukraine in a pair with Kateryna Vaganova, taking first place in the tournament at the IDSA World Championship, third place at the WDC World Cup, and becoming the world champion in China "World Open Champioship" 2009 IDSA.

The new partnership with Victoria Kharchenko, among others, brings victory in the 2011 IDSA World Cup Latin with 66 pairs, winning the IDSA European Championship in Ashdod (Israel, 2012), 2nd place at the Italian Open under the auspices of the WDC.

At the same time, Dmytro's students Jan Stepanenko and Polina Ryabovil were also successful at the Junior Blackpool Festival in England in 2011, winning bronze in two programs in their age category Juniors 1. In 2012, Dmytro Vlokh's wards, Stepanenko and Ryabovil, will win Gold at the Blackpool Festival in the Standard and Latin American programs.

Professional
The next period of the professional career of the charismatic Dmytro Vlokh is paired with Tetyana Borovik. The debut of this pair took place simultaneously with the debut in the Professional category, within the WDC Professional World Series Latin, where in their first performance the pair took second place, behind of only Maurizio Veskovo and Andre Vaidilaite, in January 2013. The victory and gold medal at IDSA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2013, 4th place at XXIX Feinda - Italian Open Championship 2013 WDC World Series were also remarkable.

The creative tandem Vlokh - Krysanova was distinguished not only by gold at Zeus Open 2016 Greece, silver at Paris Joss Dance Grand Prix Professional Open WDC Latin, bronze at Italian Open Championship Italy - Rimini and The All England Latin American Championships Professional Open WDC Latin, and other awards, semifinals at the UK Open Championship 2015 (Professional Latin), but also by performances in the dance shows (fourth place at the Ralf Lepehne Trophy Germany - Bonn World Championship Pro Latin Show Dance, 2016).

Since 2017, Dmytro has represented Ukraine in the Professionals category in a pair with Violetta Kitaeva, making their debut as a pair by 2nd place in the Autumn Dance Classic 2017 USA - San Francisco (CA) Rising Star Professional Latin and winning bronze at the WDC Open World Championship Germany - Bonn Professional Latin 2019.

Coaches
Between main Dmytor's coaches are Paul Kilick, Donnie Burns, Joanna Leunis, Slavik Kryklyvyj, Karina Smirnoff, Lech Romankevych, Marcus and Karen Hilton, Lindsey Hiller, Colin James, Espen Salberg, Ralf Lephen, Lorna Lee, Mick Stilianos, Bianka Shraiber, Juka and Sirpa Hapalainen, Graham Oswick, Jerry Abrate, Maxim Kozhevnikov, Hans Galke, Brian Watson, Alan and Hazel Fletcher, Richard Porter, Allan Tornsberg, Alison Fulhem, Lynn Harman, Barbara Maccoll, Rud Vermej, Carmen, Sergey Rupin та ін.

Attitude to dance as life, deep respect for couples, perception of competitors as motivation and mistakes as a way to development, strength to find new motivation, inspiration, happiness in daily hard professional work - all this became a guarantee of outstanding achievements of Dmitry Vlokh and an example for all comers to start ballroom dancing, both for children and adults, vividly illustrating his words: “The main thing is to have a desire. And if you have a strong desire, you can find both patience and opportunity. "