12-12 WDSF World Championship Standard
Melbourne / Australia


Hisense Arena in Melbourne set the stage for this special event on December 2nd 2012. 70 couples represented more than 40 countries in this year`s World Championship Standard. WDSF President Carlos Freitag thanked Event Director Margaret Lonsdale and her team for organizing this major dancesport competition, which was the highlight of the 67th Australian Dancesport Championship.

WDSF Sportsdirector Marco Sitas was the chairman of the nine adjudicators. They had the very difficult task to judge the performance of the couples. At the end the result was obvious.

Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Köhler from Germany won all dances and became the new World Champions Standard – now for the third time.

Last year in Moscow, Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet from Denmark had achieved to win the title against Benedetto and Claudia. This year they were set on 2nd place.

Simone Segatori and Annette Sudol from Germany successfully defended 3rd place, which they also had last year.

Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova from Russian Federation achieved 4th place this year ahead of fellow-countrycouple Sergei Konovaltsev and Olga Konovaltseva, who were set on 5th place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evgeny Moshenin and Genny Favero from Italy scored 6th place in this high performing final rounds of world championships standard 2012.

Congratulations to all finalists for the places and the very best thanks to all couples who participated this world championship in Australia.

 


See the videos of the final rounds …


Click to start the the video of final rounds – part 1

Continue with part 2 …


Click to start the the video of final rounds – part 2

 


See more photos from the event at the following gallery …

 
 

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