The highlight of this year´s German Open Championship again was the Grand Slam Standard competition. 307 couples started on Friday morning with the first round. The six finalists presented their five solo dances on Saturday evening. With high tension the duel between Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Köhler from Germany and Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet from Denmark was awaited by the audience. Who would be winner today?
12-08 WDSF Grand Slam Standard
12-08 WDSF Grand Slam Latin
GOC Stuttgart / Germany
26th German Open Championships took place from August 14th – 18th 2012 in Stuttgart´s Congress Center “Liederhalle”. Again, there were more than 5,000 starts in 36 competitions. So German Open Championship achieved to maintain the largest dance sport event in the world.
WDSF Grand Slam Latin competition started on Thursday morning with 315 couples. It took seven rounds to find the six finalists starting for the five solo dances. Five minutes before midnight on Friday evening, the presentation ceremony was held.