Watch the professional pole dance photos from the Pole Art Italy 2016 awards. In this artistic pole dance competition took part the greatest pole dance athletes and acrobats of international fame, participating in the following Categories: Young Elite, Men Elite, Women Elite, Double Elite, and Master.

The Young Elite Podium shared: Olga Trifonova, Romane Moscaritolo and Anais Maillat.

The winners of the Men Elite Category are: Slava Ruza (1° place), Denis Terrones (2° place) and Dimitry Fedotov (3° place).

In the Master Category, we saw: Greta Pontarelli (1° place), Mary Serritella (2° place) and Eva Zelenkova (3° place).

The Double Elite Podium was shared by: Fedotov and Gordienko (the winners), Karbownik and Majer (the runner-ups) and the Italian couple Badessi and Lombardelli (the third-place winners).

The winners of the Women Elite Category are: Anna-Maija Nyman (1° place), Anna Valfsson (2° place) and Polina Syniachenko (3° place). The fourth and the fifth place was won by, respectively, Natalia Tatarintseva and Vane Lunatica. Bianca Breschi, the highest-placed Italian contestant, won a participation to the Pole World Cup.