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11-12 WDSF Final Grand Slam 2011
Standard and Latin – Salou / Spain

XIII Spanish Open set the stage for this year`s WDSF Final Grand Slam competitions in standard and latin sections on December 3rd and 4th 2011 in Salou / Spain.

Six competitions belong to an annual run. In standard section the couples had to start in Seoul / Korea. Next station was Chengdu in China followed by Stuttgart / Germany and Aarhus / Denmark. Last chance for winning a ticket to the Final Grand Slam in Salou was in St. Petersburg / Russia. In latin section the couples started in Copenhagen / Denmark. Next competition was held in Chengdu followed by Stuttgart and Aarhus. Last chance for the latin couples to win a ticket to the Final Grand Slam was in Ostrava / Czech Republic.

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11-12 WDSF World Championship Formation Standard – Brunswick / Germany

The WDSF World Formation Championships Standard create their own rules. Last five years the winner of the World Formation Championship Standard was host of the event. In 2006 Vera Tyumen from Russia won in Moscow. In 2007 1.TC Ludwigsburg from Germany won in Stuttgart. In 2008 the DSC CoDreanca Team from Moldova won in Chisinau. The winner of the 2009 competition was 1. TC Ludwigsburg again. The event took place in Ludwigsburg. In 2010 the formation teams competed in Elblag/Poland. The lucky winner was ST Lotos Jantar Elblag.

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11-11 WDSF World Championship Ten Dance – Shanghai / China

Bjoern Bitsch & Ashli Williamson, Denmark

“The World Ten Dance Championship is the most difficult event for our athletes”. With these words WDSF President Carlos Freitag opened the championship on November 12th this year in Shanghai. 34 couples had come to compete for the title.

Last year in Vienna, Bjørn Bitsch & Ashli Williams from Denmark could win the title ahead of Timur Imametdinov & Ekaterina Nikolaeva from Russia. At the European Championship Ten Dance in Moscow in April we had experienced a rum start. Timur and Ekaterina were lucky to turn the situation. They won the European Championship Ten Dance ahead of Bjørn and Ashli. Is it time for a revenge now, I asked the couple during an interview in Moscow two weeks before the championship?

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11-11 DTV German Championship Standard – Nürnberg / Germany

German Dancesport Federation (DTV) had invited to “Meistersinger Halle” in Nuremberg to find the German champion in standard section at November 5th 2011.

Only seven days ago we saw the world championship standard in Moscow. This had not been a lucky day for Benedetto & Claudia. We saw hard fight between the German couple, who had been world champions standard twice, and challenger Emanuel Valeri & Tania Kehlet from Denmark. At least, Emanuel & Tania won the title.

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11-10 WDSF World Championship Standard
Moscow / Russia

It happened around 11 p. m. at International Expo & Conventional Center “Crocus-Expo” in Moscow on November 29th: the finals rounds of the World Championship Standard 2011 were completed. The finalists had come back to the floor waiting for the results. The speaker called on the couples who had won 6th place, … 5th place … 4th place … 3rd place … Same procedure (ranking) as last year in Wetzlar. Then he called on the couple with the number 27 for 2nd place!

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