2015 WDSF World Standard Vilnius | LTU

Vilnius

Saturday, 5 December 2015

Emotions were flying high at last year's World Standard in Vienna, AUT, when the fight for the title was between two couples that had never tasted victory at this level before. Simone Segatori - Annette Sudol, GER, and Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS, had won GrandSlams, but a world or continental title had escaped them so far in their career. The final tally of points in the Vienna final had the Germans in first with 191.685 and the Russians in second with 189.171, no landslide by any measure. Much has happened since then. Simone and Annette went on to win the European title and four GrandSlams in 2014. Dmitry and Olga held against it with one GrandSlam victory in Moscow. There were some very memorable dances too. One only needs to think back to GrandSlam Stuttgart, where the Russians convinced the panel with their Tango and shocked the Germans in the first dance of the final. Produced by the WDSF Communications team in collaboration with host broadcaster KTS & the Lithuanian DanceSport Federation