Past winners of the Genée International Ballet Competition
Many past winners of the Genée have become professional dancers with companies all
over the world. For many, their careers have been long and varied as directors,
artistic directors, ballet masters, teachers, administrators, dance critics, choreographers,
TV producers and directors.
Held exclusively in London until 2001, the Genée is now staged around the world thanks
to the efforts of our members.
Chronology:
1930
Dame Adeline Genée proposes the institution of a prize medal.
1931
Felicity Garratt (gold).
1932
Beryl Laverick (gold).
1933
No competition.
1934
Felicity Andreae, now Gray (gold) Joan Burnett (silver).
1935
Laurel Gill, now Martyn (gold).
1936
Pamela Foster (gold).
1937
Joan Negus (gold) Peggy Rainbird (silver).
1938
Pattie Sharo (gold), Joan Phillips, now Sheldon (silver).
1939
Valerie Entwistle, now Joan Valerie Entwistle (gold), Marcelle Espinosa (silver),
John Hart (gold).
1940
Avril Jowett, now Navarre (silver).
1941
Anne Surén (gold), Ivy Cammish, now Herida May (silver).
1942
Betty Coomes (gold) Audrey Carter (silver).
1943
Audrey Carter (silver) John Gilpin (gold).
1944
Margaret Roseby, now Margaret Crews (gold).
1945
Maureen Sims (gold).
1946
Gwen Carter (silver), Keith Beckett (silver).
1947
Rowena Jackson (gold), Gwen Carter (silver), Bryan Ashbridge (gold).
1948
Joyce Lyndon (silver).
1949
Ted Lane (silver).
1950
No competition.
1951
Judith Sinclair (gold), Patricia Sander (silver).
1952
Valerie Reece (gold), Elaine Thomas (silver).
1953
Margaret Wing (silver).
1954
Doreen Wells (gold), Anne Muggeridge (silver), David Drew (gold), David
Edwards, now David Howard (silver).
1955
Brenda Last (gold), Cynthia Boyd (silver), Teddy Green (silver).
1956
Sally Judd (silver), Janet Kedge (bronze), John Stevens (gold).
1957
Pamela Merson (silver).
1958
Gaye Fulton (silver), Vivienne Karras (bronze).
1959
No competition.
1960
No competition.
1961
Diana Fox, now Diana Vere (gold), Vergie Derman (silver).
1962
No competition.
1963
Noriko Kobayashi (gold), Gwendoline Looker (silver), Alain Dubreuil (silver).
1964
Jane Leach (gold), Gail Monahan, née Thomas (silver), Wendy Goldstein (bronze).
1965
Kathryn Brown (gold), Elizabeth Pal (silver), Laura Connor (bronze).
1966
Georgina Sibley (gold), Heather Hems (silver), Barbara Rhodes (bronze).
1967
Jill Coke (silver), Annette Renee (bronze).
1968
Maria Guerrero Romero (gold), Julie Wood (silver), Carmen Olivera (bronze),
John Fletcher (gold).
1969
Jennifer Russell (gold), Susan Wood, now Susan Darwood (silver).
1970
Linda Papworth (bronze), Graham Stewart (silver).
1971
Christine Keith (silver), Colleen Finneran (bronze).
1972
No competition.
1973
Jane Devine (gold), Angailika MacArthur (silver), Sheila Styles (bronze).
1974
Nicola Katrak (gold), Amanda Wilkinson (silver), Catherine Weguelin (bronze),
Nigel Jones (gold), Kenneth Burke (silver).
1975
Summer Rhatigan (gold), Flora Cheong-Leen (silver).
1976
Jill Taylor (gold), Deborah Kinsey (silver), Sharon Hamilton (bronze).
1977
Sharon Elizabeth McGorian (gold), Samira Miriam Saide (silver), Julie Mitchell
(bronze).
1978
Ravenna Tucker (gold), Alison Townsend (silver), Kim Miller (bronze), Roland
Price (gold) Kenneth Burke (silver).
1979
Madonna Marie Benjamin (gold), Madeleine Naomi Sheehan (silver), Karen Ann
Donovan (bronze), Craig Robert (silver).
1980
Janet Helen Lindup (silver), Karen Hendrikz (bronze).
1981
Leanne Benjamin (gold), Julie Francis (bronze).
1982
Simone James (silver), Timothy Rushton (bronze).
1983
Amanda Jane Davies (gold), Fiona Gillian Marshall (silver), Julie Ann Francis
(silver), Muriel Yvonne Marianne Valtat (bronze), Yuri Ng (gold), Tristan Borrer
(silver), Bryan Hewison (bronze).
1984
Yurie Shimoura (gold), Kathryn Dunn (bronze), Muriel Valtat (bronze), Errol
Pickford (silver), Tristan Borrer (bronze).
1985
Kathryn Dunn (silver), Maria Roselli (bronze), Hinh Nhu Phuoc (bronze).
1986
Dana Fouras (silver), Ann Little (bronze), Nadia Thompson (bronze), Juichi
Kobayashi (gold), Michael Nunn (bronze).
1987
Dana Fouras (silver), Natasha Noble (bronze), Andrea Tredinick (bronze).
1988
Lisa-Marie Cullum (gold), Chan Hon Goh (silver), Dana Just (bronze).
1989
Jane Finnie (gold), Angela Gendall (silver), Eleanor O’Connell (bronze), Dione
Ware (bronze), Hubert Essakow (silver), Damian Palmer (bronze).
1990
Gabrielle Davidson (silver), Helen Tardent (bronze), Nicola Wheatley (bronze),
David Cranson (gold).
1991
Claire Thomas (gold), Rachel Reed (bronze), Pamela Smith (bronze), Justin
Meissner (gold), Nigel Burley (silver).
1992
Holly Smart (gold), Alison Smith (silver), Rachel Rawlins (bronze), Sally Crockett
(bronze).
1993
Simone Goldsmith (gold), Caroline Small (silver), Sacha Wakelin (silver), Shimon
Kalichman (silver), Melissa Carroll (bronze), Natalie Hammond (bronze), Darren
Goldsmith (bronze).
1994
Olivia Bell (silver), Nicolina Campbell (silver), Emma Sandall (silver), Felicia
Pelanca (bronze), Marc Cassidy (gold), Matthew Donnelly (bronze).
1995
Stella Abrera (gold), Kirsty Martin (silver), Lei Zhao (bronze), Leslie Millard (gold),
Robert Curran (silver).
1996
Elisha Willis (silver), Alison Beeby (bronze), Gaylene Cummerfield (bronze),
Madeline Eastoe (bronze), Matthew Donnelly (silver).
1997
Veronica Mahon (gold), Sally Brown (silver), Natalie Decorte (silver), Sara-Marie
Barton (bronze), Yoshiko Kondo (bronze), Pantelis Zikas (silver), James Grundy
(bronze), Cameron McMillan (bronze).
1998
Catherine Eddy (silver), Kristie-Ann Ferguson (silver), Yasmin Isaacs (silver),
Amber Hunt (bronze), Andrea Parkyn (bronze), Milos Mutavdic (gold), Alexis
Oliveira (bronze), Andre Portasio (bronze).
1999
Kate Cornish (gold), Lana Jones (silver), Elisha Willis (silver), Nicolle Moffitt
(bronze), Amber Scott (bronze), Andre Portasio (silver), Iain Mackay (bronze),
Stephen Wilson (bronze).
2000
Frances Chung (silver), Anita Hutchins (silver), Natasha Oughtred (silver).
2001
Nutnaree Pipithsuksunt (gold), Lauren Cuthbertson (silver), Emma-Jane Maguire
(bronze), Hikota Taira (silver), James Wilkie (bronze), Jonathan Barton (bronze).
2002
Alison McWhinney (silver), Nathalie Harrison (silver), Jacinta Christos (bronze),
Steven McRae (gold), Philip Brock-Atkinson (silver), Martyn Garside (silver), Paul
Kay (bronze).
Sydney,
Australia
2003
Birmingham,
UK
2004
Athens,
Greece
2005
London, UK
2006
Hong Kong,
China
Romany Pajdak (silver), Pattra Sarikaputra (bronze), Carrie Johnson (bronze),
Alexander Campbell (silver), Joseph Caley (silver), Alex Wong (bronze and
Audience Choice Award).
Ayako Ono (gold and Audience Choice Award), Callie Roberts (silver), Kristen
McGarrity (bronze), Annabel Fawcett (bronze), Alexander Jones (gold), Xander
Parish (silver), William Moore (silver), Shevelle Dynott (bronze).
Céline Gittens (gold and Audience Choice Award), Nicki Moffatt (silver), Annie
Carroll (silver), Jade Hale- Christofi (silver), Julia Davies (bronze), Nathan Young
(bronze).
Ye Fei Fei (silver and Audience Choice Award), Gemma Graves (silver),
Kostantyn Keshyshev (silver), Jessica Morgan (bronze), Valentino Zucchetti (gold),
David Moore (bronze), Jia Yong Sun (bronze).
2007
No competition.
2008
Chelsea Andrejic (silver), Nicole Ciapponi (silver), Yuma Kozuki (silver), Hong
Tao Lin (silver), Alexandra Bertram (bronze), Aaron Smyth (gold and Audience
Choice Award), Ya Xuan Xu (bronze).
Toronto,
Canada
2009
Singapore
Claudia Dean (gold and Audience Choice Award), Nicola Wills-Jones (silver),
Daniela Oddi (bronze), Takeaki Muira (bronze), Paul Russell (gold), Daniel
Roberge (silver).
2010
Francesca Hayward (silver and Audience Choice Award), Sean Bates (silver),
London, UK
Tierney Heap (bronze), Lachlan Monaghan (bronze), Orazio Di Bella (bronze).
2011
Mana Ogawa (silver), Si Jia Miao (silver), Jin Hao Zhang (silver), Ashley Scott
(bronze), Mlindi Kulashe (bronze), Jessica Brown (Audience Choice Award).
Cape Town,
South Africa
2012
Wellington,
New Zealand
2013
Glasgow,
Scotland
2014
Antwerp,
Belgium
2015
London, UK
Montana Rubin (gold), Kaena Ahern (silver), Ariana Hond (silver and Audience
Choice Award), Aurelian Childde-Brocas (gold), Harry Davis (silver).
Isabelle Brouwers (silver), Sasha Leong (silver), Natasha Watson (bronze), Rory
Ferguson (bronze), John Rhys Halliwell (bronze and Audience Choice Award),
Padua Eaton (Choreographic Award).
Vida Polakov (gold), Mikaela Johnson (silver), Lucinda Strachan (silver), Rachel
Hickey (bronze), Isabella Swietlicki (bronze), Weslley Vitalino Carvalho Da Silva
(bronze), Honoka Ishihara (Audience Choice Award), Jessica Allison-Walker
(Choreographic Award).
Leroy Mokgatle (gold and Margot Fonteyn Audience Choice Award), Lania
Atkins (silver), Makensie Henson (bronze), Jana Baldovino (Choreographic
Award).