Andrey Kiselev - Anastasia Balaeva, RUS, dance the Cha Cha Cha at the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Latin in Shanghai, CHN.
Umberto Gaudino - Louise Heise, DEN, dance the Paso Doble in the first round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai, CHN, on 14 December.
Charles Guillaume-Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA, dance the samba at the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Latin in Shanghai, CHN.
Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN, dance the Quickstep in the final of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN, on 15 December.
Simone Segatori - Annette Sudol, GER, dance the Tango in the final of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN, on 15 December.
Heidi Goetz interviews Simone Segatori - Annette Sudol, GER, immediately prior to the first round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Standard on 15 December in Shanghai, CHN.
For some reason it was impossible to upload the results of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Standard from Beijing, CHN, to the results section of the WDSF website. Hence we have decided to publish a summary right here. Full results should be available by tomorrow in Europe.
One only needs to take a look at the narrow spread of points between the top couples to conclude: this was a tight competition to call by any standard!
Emanuel Valeri / Tania Kehlet |
DEN |
1. |
196,375 |
Simone Segatori / Annette Sudol |
GER |
2. |
196,25 |
Dmitry Zharkov / Olga Kulikova |
RUS |
3. |
189,125 |
Sergey Konovaltsev / Olga Konovaltseva |
RUS |
4. |
186,875 |
Bjoern Bitsch / Ashli Rose Williamson |
DEN |
5. |
178,25 |
Nikolay Darin / Natalia Seredina |
MDA |
6. |
174,375 |
Vaidotas Lacitis / Veronika Golodneva |
LTU |
7. |
174,625 |
Alexey Glukhov / Anastasia Glazunova |
RUS |
8. |
173,25 |
Anton Skuratov / Alena Uehlin |
GER |
9. |
171,875 |
Francesco Galuppo / Deborah Pacini |
ITA |
10. |
170,625 |
Vadim Shurin / Anastasia Meshkova |
RUS |
11. |
169 |
Evgeny Nikitin / Dana Spitsyna |
RUS |
12. |
168,625 |
Zhao Peng / Wang Qi |
CHN |
13. |
158,25 |
In less than three hours you are able to watch the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Standard from Shanghai on EUROSPORT 2 and EUROSPORT ASIA. The delayed broadcast starts at 22:00 UTC/GMT. We only recommend that you make whatever effort to tune in - as it was a GrandSlam Final that had all the proper ingredients. Superlative dancing, suspense, emotions - heaps of it, in fact - and everything else an expert audience could ask for.
Unfortunately, it proved to be rather difficult to upload the GrandSlam coverage to the WDSF YouTube channel and website all weekend long. YouTube and social media sites are not as freely accessible from here as one would wish for, and most of our videos had to get relayed in a very time consuming process. But don't worry: its all in the can and it will become available here (and on YouTube, facebook, etc.) really soon.
Quite a few of yesterday's videos are up (even if they're not labelled yet) - and even some of today's Standard Final are available. Here's an interview with Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN.
Marius-Andrei Balan - Nina Bezzubova, GER, dance the Cha Cha Cha in the first round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai, CHN, on 14 December.
The lady's a knock-out! A mishap without consequences ...
Armen Tsaturyan - Svetlana Gudyno, RUS, dance the Jive in the second round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai, CHN, on 14 December.
Yury Simachev - Anastasia Klokotova, RUS, dance the Paso Doble in the second round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai, CHN, on 14 December.
Charles Guillaume-Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA, dance the Rumba in the second round of the 2013 WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai, CHN, on 14 December.