Emanuel Valeri – Tania Kehlet from Denmark for the second time won the title. First time they had been successful at world championship standard 2011 in Moscow. Emanuel & Tania won all dances (5 points).
Simone Segatori – Annette Sudol from Germany achieved 2nd place in all dances and won the runners-up position with 10 points.
There was a very exciting fight between the two couples from Russian Federation for third place. At the end Dmitry Zharkov – Olga Kulikova attained 3rd place with 16 points ahead of …
… Sergei Konovaltsev – Olga Konovaltseva, who were set on 4th place with 19 points.
Insiders had expected this four couples to compete in the final. The question was who would be the two other couples being qualified for the finals.
The nine adjudicators voted for Salvatore Todaro – Violeta Yaneva from Bulgaria and for Yury Petrov – Yana Kozhukhar from Ukraine. At least, Salvatore and Violeta achieved 5th place with 26,5 points ahead of …
… Yury and Yana, who were set on 6th place with 28,5 points.
Congratulations to all finalists!
There were many more couples who showed excellent dancing. See some of these couples in the video of the semi-final rounds …
See the videos from the final rounds …
See more photos at the gallery …
