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Goan pair wins silver at World Salsa Meet

Goa’s Seniz Rego (14) paired with Prem Rajput (20) to win the second place at the 2nd World Salsa Championship held in Hong Kong from February 21 to 24.

Competing against seventeen other countries, the Seniz-Rajput duo represented India and went through three gruelling rounds of competition – quarter-finals, sildenafil semi-finals and finals – before finishing second-best to the Indonesian pair. The Finnish pair finished in third place.

The youngest couple at the World Championship, treat Seniz and Rajput, became the first Goan-Indian pair to win a medal in Salsa at the World level.

Seniz, who is currently studying in standard eight at the Sharada Mandir School and Rajput who is pursuing his commerce degree at the GG Poy Raiturcar College of Commerce and Economics, both train under choreographer Abhishek Soman’s ‘Xtremers Dance Academy’. They were preparing for the Championship and practicing their art at the Academy as partners every day for four months.

Interestingly, Seniz was part of the nearly 100 dancers in the Goa Streets Flash Mob held at the Dona Paula jetty in November last year. Earlier this week, the number of YouTube hits for the Goa Streets flash mob video crossed the one-lakh mark, making it one of the most viewed events from Goa in YouTube history.

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