Oona Kivelä’s work with pole dancing continues as a coach.
At the Pole Dance World Championships in Jyväskylä, there was a shower of Finnish medals. A legend of the sport I am Kivelä ended her competitive career with a fifth world championship, taking the gold in the exciting final of the women’s division with 153.900 points.
Despite the flu, Kivelä’s stage charisma and choreography were enough to bring a new gold medal to the medal cabinet of the former professional dancer.
Last year’s champion, an Italian, finished second in the series Beatrice Cogo with a score of 151.533 and a bronze medal for the fifth-place finisher last year Heta Kiljunen with a score of 151,400. The difference between silver and bronze was a paltry 0.133 points.
See Oona Kivelä’s gold medal performance from here.
Kivelä had previously won the pole dancing world championships in 2012–2015. The pioneer of the sport, who turned 40 this month, has said that he will continue to coach the sport.
His gold medal is new from last year in the Junior A series Mandi Koskela, who attends Kivelä’s school from Ranua. Koskela, who started in second place in Sunday’s final, improved his semi-final performance in the final by no less than 17 points, which is a tough class improvement in the sport.
In the competitions, both hobby and competition level championships were contested in different series. After the four-day contract, 22 medals were returned to Finland, six of which were gold medals at the competition level.
Last year’s medal from silver to gold brightened in the Masters +40 series Tea Savio. At the competition level, they also took gold from their series Blue Sjöblom (parapole), Julius Koivuniemi (junior A men) and Sanni Pietarinen and Jasmin Läspä (women’s doubles).