Vadim Garbuzov

In March 2016 Garbuzov and Menzinger won the European Professional Showdance Championship in Standard and in September of the same year, they won the WDSF PD European Championship Show Dance Latin. In April 2017, they again confirmed the title of world champions in a professional Latin show.

In June 2015 Garbuzov and Menzinger became world champions in professional show dance Latin and in November of the same year they became world champions in professional show dance Standard.

In 2015 Garbuzov took part in the eighth season of Let's Dance, on German RTL Television, paired with the German actress Beatrice Richter. In 2016 he performed on the ninth season of this program, paired with the German actresses Franziska Traub and Sonja Kirchberger.

The second TV victory came to Garbuzov in the ninth season of Dancing Stars, in 2014, when he was coupled with Austrian actress Roxanne Rapp. In the same year he took part in the New Years Concert of the Viennese Philharmonic Orchestra, performing with his dance partner Menzinger the famous Blue Danube Waltz live at the Wiener Musikverein to a worldwide audience of more than 50 million TV spectators.

In October 2014 Garbuzov and Menzinger came second in the World Professional Freestyle Championship in Latin. In November 2014, they became European Latin show dance champions in Dresden, and in December they took second place out of 13 couples at the show dance Standard at Professional World Championships in Salou.

Since 2012, Garbuzov and Menzinger have regularly taken part in the world championships of the show dance category. In September 2012, in Beijing, they became finalists of the World Latin Freestyle Championship. In early 2013, Garbuzov and Menzinger turned professionals of World DanceSport Federation. At their first professional competition in Merano they took fourth place in Freestyle Latin World Cup. In 2014 in Vienna, they came second in Standard at the Professional European Show Dance Championship.

In 2011 Garbuzov started the television line of his career as a professional dancer in the sixth season of Dancing Stars with TV presenter Alfons Haider. First in the world he danced with another man in this Dancing with the Stars TV format. In the same year with his competition partner Kathrin Menzinger, Garbuzov starred in the ORF eins program Starnacht am Wörthersee, which brought him an entry in the International Movie Database (IMDb) as a show dancer. In 2012, with the singer Petra Frey, Garbuzov won the seventh season of Dancing Stars.

In 2009, he again paired up with Kathrin Menzinger, and in 2010 they made it into the final of European Ten-Dance Cup in Minsk.

In 2007, Garbuzov was granted Austrian citizenship in addition to Canadian. In 2008 he graduated from the Faculty of Dance of Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture.

Vadim Garbuzov is a Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. He was the ten-dance world semi-finalist 2006 in amateurs, the winner of the Austrian TV program Dancing Stars in 2012 and 2014, and professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015-2017.

In the same year he started to dance with a new partner, Kathrin Menzinger. In 2005, he made it into the finals of the World Youth Ten-Dance Cup in Antwerp. In 2006, after switching to the adult category, he became Austrian ten-dance champion and reached the semi-finals in world ten-dance championship in Moscow.

In 2003 Garbuzov and his partner Nadiya Dyatlova won the Canadian Youth Championships in Latin, and in 2004 in Standard.

Vadim Garbuzov was born on 8 May 1987 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1994 his parents immigrated to Canada, and took him to dance school in Vancouver at the age of seven. For the next several years, frequently travelling between Kharkiv and Vancouver, he attended secondary school and dance training in both cities.