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WDSF - World DanceSport Federation is the World
Federation of all national Dancesport Federations and the sole administer
of the Dancesport. WDSF represents a hundred thousand dancesport athletes
and organizes competitions of all levels around the world. Dancesport
competitions already took place back in 1920, although the WDSF was
only founded in 1957.
Nowadays IDSF groups 84 affiliated countries out of 5 continents.
The WDSF is managed by a Presidium of 12 members, under the chairmanship
of Carlos Freitag from Spain. The other members come from the
Germany, Finland, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia
and Japan.
The "Belgische DansSport Federatie" (BDSF) is the only Belgian
federation membre of the WDSF. |
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On the operational level, the WDSF Managing Committee – made up of the President, the First Vice- President, the Treasurer, the Secretary General and the Sports Director – tends to the day-to-day running of the federation. The committee is supported in its task by 10 standing commissions, by consultants, and by the administration, i.e. the full-time WDSF Office, the Sports and the Communications Departments. Some of their workload is outsourced to contractors. |
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