The 12 countries competing for the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in February
Author:
Ana RodríguezTwelve teams are preparing for the grand final of the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, which will take place in Europain from 5 to 9 February.
Nine of the countries where chosen from tour regional classifiers held in 2015: Turkey and Mauritius for the Africa Mediterranean zone; Canada and Brazil for the Americas zone; the Netherlands, France and Russia for the Europe zone; and finally China and South Korea for the Asia Pacific zone.
The other three countries completing the panel of candidates were the first 3 overall from the 2012 edition: Japan, the United States, and Taiwan.
Name of contestants by country and specialty:
| Baguette and Bread |
Viennoiserie |
Artistic Creation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Amarildo Duarte | Antonio Carlos Cardoso | Eduardo Beltrame |
| Canada | Marcus Mariathas | Alan Dumonceaux | James Holehouse |
| China | Zhenghai Zhang | Zhiliang Xu | Bin Zhou |
| South Korea | Chang-Min Lee | Jong-Ho Kim | Yong-Joo Park |
| USA | Nicholas Scott Giusto | Jeffrey De Leon | Jacob Baggenstos |
| France | Cyrille Martin | Déborah Ott | Claude Casado |
| Mauritius | Sabeer Hookoomally | Ludovic Gopaul | Santaram Maneeram |
| Japan | Yoji Segawa | Hisato Chayama | Hiroyuki Chinen |
| Netherlands | Peter Bienefelt | Hiljo Hillebrand | Niek Van Waarde |
| Russia | Elena Ananina | Anna Gribanova | Vasilisa Ziatkovskaya |
| Taiwan | Chung-Yu Hsieh | Yu-Chih Chen | Peng-Chieh Wang |
| Turkey | Osman Gunduz | Muhammer SimselI | Sisalan Buke |
In the junior category, “Young Bakery Hopefuls”, there are five candidates who were selected for the grand final:
Florian Raymond (Mauritius)
Elien De Herdt (Canada)
Raquel Lopez Van Beek (Spain)
Rianne Kuijntjes (The Netherlands)
John Reminis (Australia)
