USA International Ballet Competition
USA IBC Award winners
Winners' information is from the USA IBC press releases posted on the USA IBC web site. Note that you can click on the symbol in each column heading to sort the table by that column.

USA International Ballet Competition

Section Title: USA IBC Award winners
Table Section Text: Winners' information is from the USA IBC press releases posted on the USA IBC web site. Note that you can click on the symbol in each column heading to sort the table by that column.

Given Name	Family Name	Country	IBC Yr	J/S	M/F	Medal	Couple	Comment

Lubomir	Kafka	CZ	1979	Sr	M	2-Gold	best cpl	Berlin Ballet, deceased

Koenraad	Onzia	Belgium	1979	Jr	M	2-Gold

Deirdre	Carberry	USA	1979	Jr	F	3-Silver	American Ballet Theatre in 1987

David	McNaughton	USA	1979	Sr	M	3-Silver	choreographer

Yanis	Pikieris	Venezuela	1979	Sr	3-Silver	Miami Youth Ballet (Director)

Jessica	Funt	USA	1979	Jr	F	3-Silver	best cpl	Hamburg Ballet

Julian	Montaner	USA	1979	Jr	M	3-Silver	San Francisco Ballet in 2006, actor, painter

Jana	Kurova	CZ	1979	Sr	F	3-Silver	best cpl	Prague Ballet

Davide	Bombana	Italy	1979	Sr	4-Bronze	Bavarian State Ballet

William	Starrett	USA	1979	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Artistic Director of Columbia City Ballet, SC in 2006

Gregory	Osborne	USA	1979	Sr	M	4-Bronze	died 1994, cancer

Libor	Vaculik	CZ	1979	Sr	4-Bronze	National Theatre, Brno, CZ http://www.ndbrno.cz/eballet.php in 2006

Owen	Montague	Canada	1979	Jr	M	4-Bronze	Quinte Ballet School in 2006

Etsuko	Adachi	Japan	1979	Sr	4-Bronze	Tokyo, choreographer

Jo Ann	McCarthy	USA	1979	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Flint's Dance Studio in 2007

Dennis	Marshall	USA	1979	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Pittsburg Ballet Theatre in 2007

Paola	Cantalupa	Italy	1979	Sr	4-Bronze

Gretchen	Newburger	USA	1979	Jr	F	4-Bronze	Zurich Ballet in 1996

Bronwyn	Thomas-Hodgson	USA	1979	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Michelle in Fame TV show, Debbie Allen Dance Academy in 2006

Janie	Parker	USA	1982	Sr	F	2-Gold	best cpl	retired Houston Ballet

Gina Gail	Hyatt-Mazon	W Germany	1982	Jr	F	2-Gold	artistic director of Georgia Ballet in 2007

Katherine	Healy	USA	1982	Jr	F	3-Silver	actress

Li	Cunxin	China	1982	Sr	M	3-Silver	Australian Ballet, director, author

Kathy	Thibodeaux	USA	1982	Sr	F	3-Silver	Ballet Magnificat

William	Pizzuto	USA	1982	Sr	M	3-Silver	best cpl	New England Ballet in 2006

Alexi	Zubiria	Venezuela	1982	Sr	M	3-Silver	San Francisco Dance Center in 2006

Pierre	Quinn	Canada	1982	Jr	M	3-Silver	stagehand in 2006, sailor

Pavlo	Savoye	Italy	1982	Jr	M	3-Silver

Rachel	Beard	USA	1982	Sr	F	4-Bronze	retired Houston Ballet

Carla	Stallings	USA	1982	Sr	F	4-Bronze	ABT, Boston Ballet, and Severance/Fresno Ballet instructor in 1996

Mami	Inamura	Japan	1982	Sr	F	4-Bronze

Marek	Stasiewicz	Poland	1982	Sr	M	4-Bronze	principal with Polish Nat. Opera in 2006

Zhang Wei	Qiang	China	1982	Sr	M	4-Bronze	actor

Brigitte	Martin	Canada	1982	Jr	F	4-Bronze	De Rotterdamse Dansacademie/Codarts in 2005

Mark	Lanham	USA	1982	Sr	M	4-Bronze	California Ballet, San Diego in 1998

Wang	Qifeng	China	1982	Jr	F	7-jury	Shanghai Ballet in 2003

Nina	Ananiashvili	USSR	1986	Sr	F	1-Grand Prix	principal with American Ballet Theatre in 2006

Andris	Liepa	USSR	1986	Sr	M	1-Grand Prix	movie producer/director in 2006

Kiki	Lammersen	W Germany	1986	Sr	F	2-Gold	Bavarian Nat Ballet in 2004

Jennifer	Gelfand	USA	1986	Jr	F	2-Gold	Boston Ballet in 2003

Edward	Stierle	USA	1986	Jr	M	2-Gold	deceased (1991)

Vadim	Pisarev	USSR	1986	Sr	M	2-Gold	Donetsk State Ballet Theatre in 1999

Oliver	Matz	E Germany	1986	Sr	M	2-Gold

Zoltan	Solymosi	Hungary	1986	Jr	M	3-Silver	Hungarian Dance Academy in 2006

Bart	De Block	Belgium	1986	Jr	M	3-Silver	Les Ballets Grandiva in 2006

Sian	Stokes	Australia	1986	Sr	F	3-Silver	retired from Australian Ballet in 1995

Sarah	Green	USA	1986	Sr	F	4-Bronze	retired from [1] in 1995

Cristina	Gallardo	Venezuela	1986	Jr	F	4-Bronze	retired from Teresa Carreño Theatre

Frederic	Gafner	Switzerland	1986	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Jeremy	Ransom	Canada	1986	Sr	M	4-Bronze

Daniel	Meja	USA	1986	Sr	M	4-Bronze	https://web.archive.org/web/20071212215911/http://www.ballet.co.uk/td/meja.htm

Tibor	Kovats	Hungary	1986	Sr	M	4-Bronze

Henrietta	Muus	Denmark	1986	Sr	F	5-couple	best cpl

Alexander	Kolpin	Denmark	1986	Sr	M	5-couple	best cpl

Helena	Ross	USA	1986	Jr	F	7-jury	Principal at Los Angeles Classical Ballet, Demi-Soloist at Vienna State Opera Ballet, Teacher/Choreographer at Ballett Ried

Jose Manuel	Carreño	Cuba	1990	Sr	M	1-Grand Prix	Principal at American Ballet Theatre in 2006

Martha	Butler	USA	1990	Sr	F	2-Gold	Soloist at American Ballet Theatre in 1998

Diana Enid	Perez	USA	1990	Jr	F	2-Gold

Irina	Dvorovenko	USSR	1990	Jr	F	3-Silver	Retired principal dancer at American Ballet Theater in 2013

Pierre	Quinn	Canada	1990	Sr	M	3-Silver	[2]

Luis	Ortigoza	Argentina	1990	Sr	M	3-Silver

Simona	Noja	Romania	1990	Sr	F	3-Silver

Vladimir	Malakhov	USSR	1990	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Principal at American Ballet Theatre in 2006

Lauren	Gelfand	USA	1990	Jr	F	4-Bronze

Irma	Nioradze	USSR	1990	Sr	F	4-Bronze

Irma	Morales	Mexico	1990	Sr	F	4-Bronze

Morihiro	Iwata	Japan	1990	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Toomas	Edur	USSR	1990	Sr	M	4-Bronze	best cpl	Principal at English National Ballet (1990-2009), Artistic Director of Ballet at Estonian National Opera (2009-)

Age	Oks	USSR	1990	Sr	F	5-couple	best cpl	Principal at English National Ballet (1990-2009)

Alice	Lau	Canada	1990	Jr	F	5-couple	best cpl

Boyd	Lau	Canada	1990	Jr	M	5-couple	best cpl

Stephane	Elizabe	France	1990	Sr	F	6-Joffrey

Lauren	Anderson	USA	1990	Sr	F	7-jury	Principal at Houston Ballet in 2006

Tamas	Solymosi	Hungary	1990	Jr	M	7-jury	Hungarian Dance Academy in 2006

Simon	Ball	USA	1990	Jr	M	8-scholarship	Principal at Houston Ballet in 2003

Elizabeth	Gaither	USA	1990	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Stephanie	Walz	USA	1990	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Rennie B.	Mirro	USA	1990	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Reagan	Messer	USA	1990	Jr	M	8-scholarship

Katherine	Lydon	USA	1990	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Johan	Kobborg	Denmark	1994	Sr	M	1-Grand Prix	principal at Royal Ballet, London in 2005

Simon	Ball	USA	1994	Jr	M	2-Gold	Principal at Houston Ballet in 2003

Dai	Sasaki	Japan	1994	Sr	M	2-Gold	independent artist in 2006

Zenaida	Yanowsky	Spain	1994	Jr	F	2-Gold	Principal at Royal Ballet, London in 2006

Beate	Vollack	Germany	1994	Sr	F	3-Silver	choreographer at Bayerisches Staatsballett in 2006

April	Ball	USA	1994	Jr	F	3-Silver	Boston Ballet in 2002

Yury	Yanowsky	Spain	1994	Sr	M	3-Silver	Principal at Boston Ballet in 2006

Marina	Antonova	Russia	1994	Sr	F	3-Silver	best cpl	Slovene Nat. Theatre Opera in 2006

Kusha	Alexi-Angst	Switzerland	1994	Jr	F	3-Silver

Igor	Antonov	Ukraine	1994	Sr	M	4-Bronze	best cpl	Richmond Ballet in 2005

Tiekka	Schofield	USA	1994	Sr	F	4-Bronze

Roman	Rykin	Russia	1994	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Adela	Pollertova	CZ	1994	Jr	F	4-Bronze

Ramon	Moreno	Cuba	1994	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Mariko	Miyauchi	Japan	1994	Sr	F	4-Bronze

Michal	Matys	CZ	1994	Jr	M	4-Bronze	best cpl

Alexandra	Koltun	USA	1994	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Ballet San Jose in 2006

Alexander	Pereda	Cuba	1994	Sr	M	6-Joffrey

Yu	Xin	China	1994	Sr	M	7-jury	Master teacher at Ballet San Jose School in 2006

Alma	Munteanu	Romania	1994	Sr	F	7-jury	Grand Theatre de Geneve in 2006

Anna	Dorosh	Ukraine	1994	Sr	F	7-jury	Instructor at Viva Dance, Toronto in 2006

Wei Ying	Zhang	China	1994	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Jose Martin	Trujillo	Spain	1994	Jr	M	8-scholarship

Tamara Marie	House	USA	1994	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Gillian	Murphy	USA	1994	Jr	F	9-finalist	principal at American Ballet Theatre in 2006

Rasta	Thomas	USA	1998	Sr	M	2-Gold	Bad Boys of Dance in 2009

Rolando Sarabia	Oquendo	Cuba	1998	Jr	M	2-Gold	Ballet National de Cuba

Anna	Antonicheva	Russia	1998	Sr	F	2-Gold	Bolshoi Ballet in 2006

Adrienne	Canterna	USA	1998	Jr	F	2-Gold	Bad Boys of Dance in 2009

Dmitri	Belogolovtsev	Russia	1998	Sr	M	3-Silver	Bolshoi Ballet in 2005

Ruta	Jezerskyte	Lithuania	1998	Sr	M	3-Silver	Steps on Broadway in 2006

Yosvani Ramos	Fontes	Cuba	1998	Jr	M	3-Silver	English National Ballet 1999-2008, The Australian Ballet 2008-13

Bernard Courtot	de Bouteiller	France	1998	Sr	M	3-Silver

Renata Pavam	Maia	Brazil	1998	Jr	F	3-Silver

Luis	Serrano	Cuba	1998	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Principal at Miami City Ballet in 2006

Melissa	Wishinski	USA	1998	Jr	F	4-Bronze	The Royal Ballet, London

Friedemann	Vogel	Germany	1998	Jr	M	4-Bronze	principal at Stuttgart Ballet in 2006

Julia	Polgorodnik	Ukraine	1998	Jr	F	4-Bronze

Yusuke	Osozawa	Japan	1998	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Ji Young	Kim	S Korea	1998	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Principal at Korean National Ballet, Korea in 2006

Lénaïg	Guégan	France	1998	Sr	F	6-Joffrey	English National Ballet

Nao	Sakuma	Japan	1998	Sr	F	7-jury	Principal at Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2006

Felipe Diaz	Gomez	Colombia	1998	Jr	M	7-jury

Maria	Bystrova	USA	1998	Jr	F	8-scholarship	American Ballet Theatre in 2006

Shingo	Yoshimoto	Japan	1998	M	8-scholarship	Soloist at Houston Ballet in 2006

Joseph	Phillips	USA	2002	Jr	M	2-Gold	Principal at Miami City Ballet in 2007

Wu	Haiyan	China	2002	Sr	F	2-Gold	Principal at Miami City Ballet in 2007

Sarah	Lamb	USA	2002	Sr	F	3-Silver	Principal at The Royal Ballet in 2003

Danny	Tidwell	USA	2002	Jr	M	3-Silver	Bad Boys of Dance in 2009

Li	Jun	China	2002	Sr	M	3-Silver	principal at National Ballet of China in 2005

Sarah Kathryn	Lane	USA	2002	Jr	F	3-Silver	Soloist at American Ballet Theatre in 2007; stand in for Natalie Portman in Black Swan (film)

Yang	Jiao	China	2002	Jr	M	4-Bronze	Principal at Liaoning Ballet in 2006

Mikhail	Ilyin	Russia	2002	Sr	M	4-Bronze

Katia	Carranza	Mexico	2002	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Guest artist at Miami City Ballet in 2009

Sang Yi	Han	S Korea	2002	Jr	F	4-Bronze	Soloist at Universal Ballet, Korea in 2011

Yudai	Fukuoka	Japan	2002	Jr	M	4-Bronze	Zurich Ballet in 2006

Eve	Andre	Estonia	2002	Sr	F	5-couple	best cpl	First soloist at Estonian National Opera in 2006

Sergei	Upkin	Estonia	2002	Sr	M	5-couple	best cpl	Estonian National Opera(?) in 2003

Emi	Hariyama	Japan	2002	Sr	F	6-Joffrey	Berlin Staatsopera in 2003

Ashley	Canterna	USA	2002	Jr	F	7-jury	actress

Melissa	Hough	USA	2002	Jr	F	7-jury	Boston Ballet in 2006

Agnieszka	Szymanska	Poland	2002	Sr	F	7-jury	Miami City Ballet in 2006

Troy	Schumacher	USA	2002	Jr	M	7-jury	New York City Ballet in 2006

Zhang	Jing	China	2002	Jr	F	8-scholarship	Ballet San Jose in 2006

Keigo	Fukuda	Japan	2002	Jr	M	8-scholarship

Michelle	Carpenter	USA	2002	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Eun Ji	Ha	S Korea	2002	Jr	F	8-scholarship	Principal at Finland National Ballet in 2008

Sara	Webb	USA	2002	Sr	F	9-finalist	principal at Houston Ballet in 2006

Misa	Kuranaga	Japan	2006	Sr	F	2-Gold	Principal at Boston Ballet in 2009

Daniil	Simkin	Germany	2006	Sr	M	2-Gold	Soloist at American Ballet Theatre in 2009

Isaac	Hernandez	Mexico	2006	Jr	M	2-Gold	FONCA, México; The Rock School for Dance Education en Filadelfia, E.E.U.U. y del American Ballet Theatre.

Brooklyn	Mack	USA	2006	Sr	M	3-Silver	Washington Ballet in 2008

Jurgita	Dronina	Lithuania	2006	Sr	F	3-Silver	Swedish Royal Ballet in 2006

Denys	Cherevychko	Ukraine	2006	Jr	M	3-Silver

Sae-eun	Park	S Korea	2006	Jr	F	3-Silver	Paris Opera Ballet in 2011

Masayoshi	Onuki	Japan	2006	Sr	M	4-Bronze	actor, The Company

Yui	Yonezawa	Japan	2006	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Ballet San Jose

Joseph	Gatti	USA	2006	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Soloist at Cincinnati Ballet in 2005

Jeffrey	Cirio	USA	2006	Jr	M	4-Bronze

Christine	Shevchenko	USA	2006	Jr	F	4-Bronze	American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in 2006

Kayo	Sasabe	Japan	2006	Jr	F	4-Bronze

Davit	Karapetyan	Armenia	2006	Sr	M	5-couple	best cpl	Principal at San Francisco Ballet in 2006

Mathias	Dingman	USA	2006	Jr	M	5-couple	best cpl

Sasha	De Sola	USA	2006	Jr	F	5-couple	best cpl	Apprentice at San Francisco Ballet in 2006

Vanessa	Zahorian	NCP	2006	NCP	F	5-couple	best cpl	San Francisco Ballet in 2006

Marija	Kicevska	Macedonia	2006	Sr	F	6-Joffrey	Volksoper Wien, Vienna

Caitlin	Valentine	USA	2006	Sr	F	7-jury	Orlando Ballet

Francesca	Dugarte	Venezuela	2006	Jr	F	7-jury	The Washington Ballet [3]

Zherlin	Ndudi	Ukraine	2006	Sr	M	7-jury

Ryo	Izawa	Japan	2006	Jr	M	7-jury	Reiko Yamamoto Ballet School, Ota, Japon

Amy Marie	Briones	USA	2006	Jr	F	8-scholarship	Ballet San Jose in 2006

Carolyn Rose	Ramsay	Canada	2006	Sr	F	8-scholarship	Miami City Ballet in 2006

Toshiro	Muraoka-Abbley	USA	2006	Jr	M	8-scholarship

Elena	Kazakova	Russia	2006	Jr	F	8-scholarship

Randy	Herrera	USA	2006	Sr	M	9-finalist	Houston Ballet in 2006

Natalia	Domracheva	Russia	2006	Sr	F	9-finalist	Kiev Nat Opera Ballet in 2007

Ji A	Kim	S Korea	2006	Jr	F	9-injury	Donetsk National Ballet Theatre in 2012

Cao	Shuci	China	2010	Sr	F	2-Gold	best cpl	National Ballet of China in 2010

Candice	Adea	Philippines	2010	Sr	F	3-Silver	Soloist at Hong Kong Ballet in 2012

Kosuke	Okumura	Japan	2010	Sr	M	3-Silver	Principal at Jinushi Kaoru Ballet in 2010

Kyohei	Yoshida	Japan	2010	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Soloist at Slovak National Theatre Ballet in 2010

Zhang	Xi	China	2010	Sr	M	4-Bronze	best cpl	National Ballet of China in 2010

Maki	Onuki	Japan	2010	Sr	F	4-Bronze	Washington Ballet

Marcelino	Sambe	Portugal	2010	Jr	M	2-Gold	The Royal Ballet, 2013

Ji Young	Chae	S Korea	2010	Jr	F	2-Gold	best cpl	Washington Ballet

Ki-Min	Kim	S Korea	2010	Jr	M	3-Silver	best cpl	First Soloists at Marinsky Ballet Company in 2013

Fumi	Kaneko	Japan	2010	Jr	F	3-Silver	Soloist at The Royal Ballet, 2013

Alys	Shee	Canada	2010	Jr	F	3-Silver	Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2012

Derek	Dunn	USA	2010	Jr	M	4-Bronze	Houston Ballet, 2012

Mariana Layun	Prado	Mexico	2010	Jr	F	4-Bronze	John Cranko Schule, Stuttgart, Germany, 2014

Guixien	Chu	Taiwan	2010	Sr	M	6-Capezio	Ballet West in 2010

Exaterina	Oleynik	Belarus	2010	Sr	F	6-Capezio	Miami City Ballet in 2010

Seo-Hye	Han	S Korea	2010	Sr	F	6-Joffrey	Second Soloist Boston Ballet, 2012

Esteban	Hernandez	Mexico	2010	Jr	M	7-Jury	San Francisco Ballet, 2013

Amanda	Gomes	Brazil	2010	Jr	F	7-Jury

Andrei	Pisarev	Ukraine	2010	Sr	M	9-finalist

Gisele	Bethea	USA	2014	Jr	F	2-Gold	American Ballet Theatre Corp member

Taiyu	He	China	2014	Jr	M	2-Gold

Jeong	Hansol	S Korea	2014	Sr	M	2-Gold

Shiori	Kase	Japan	2014	Sr	F	2-Gold	English National Ballet

Jinsol	Eum	S Korea	2014	Jr	M	3-Silver

Tamako	Miyazaki	Japan	2014	Sr	F	3-Silver	Washington Ballet

Mackenzie	Richter	USA	2014	Jr	F	3-Silver	Houston Ballet II

Irina	Sapozhnikova	Russia	2014	Sr	F	3-Silver	Principal at Primorsky Opera Ballet

Byul	Yun	S Korea	2014	Sr	M	3-Silver	Korea Nat U of Arts

Paulia Guraieb	Abella	Mexico	2014	Jr	F	4-Bronze

Gustavo	Carvalho	Brazil	2014	Jr	M	4-Bronze	best cpl	Soloist at Cia Brasileira de Ballet

Ivan	Duarte	Brazil	2014	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Petite Danse, Rio

Ga-Yeon	Jung	S Korea	2014	Sr	F	4-Bronze	best cpl

Yasmin	Lomondo	Brazil	2014	Jr	F	4-Bronze	best cpl	Soloist at Compahina Brasileira de Ballet

Aaron	Smyth	Australia	2014	Sr	M	4-Bronze	Joffrey Ballet

Daniel Alejandro	McCormick-Quintero	Mexico	2014	Jr	M	6-Joffrey	San Francisco Ballet School

Romina	Contreras	Chile	2014	Jr	F	7-jury	Ballet de Santiago

Yue	Shi	China	2014	Jr	M	7-jury

Ji Seok	Ha	S Korea	2014	Sr	M	best cpl	best cpl

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In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky from Spain won silver and gold respectively.
In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky from Spain won the silver and gold respectively.
In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky of Spain, won silver and gold respectively.

final_sentence: In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky from Spain won silver and gold respectively.
final_sentence: In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky from Spain won the silver and gold respectively.
final_sentence: In 1994, Yury and Zenaida Yanowsky of Spain, won silver and gold respectively.