Published April 20, 2021, 2:30 PM
Anne Charlaine Santos
Anne Charlaine Santos and six other dancers took the spotlight in the first Freestyle & Showdance Online Competition for differently-abled athletes.
Clad in a red sleeveless gown on her wheelchair, the 21-year-old Santos won the women’s singles freestyle new category ahead of Mexicans Antya Guadalupe Estrada Muñoz and Itzia Sarahi Escamilla Hernandez.
Other winners were Cleyton dos Santos Bentes of Brazil (men’s single freestyle class 1), Mexico’s Diego Armando Sanchez Garcia (men’s single freestyle new), Finland’s Prijo Pappila (women’s single freestyle power wheelchair), and Russia’s Maksim Sedakov (men’s single freestyle class 2), Iuliia Davydova (women’s single freestyle class 1), and Galina Ryzhkova (women’s single freestyle class 2).