Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, make it two in a row and successfully defend their title won last year in Vienna. The first and second runners-up of 2016 repeated in their respective positions too: Armen Tsaturyan - Svetlana Gudyno, RUS, as second and Andrei Balan - Khrystyna Moshenska, GER, as third. The ones to change their places were the couples from fourth to sixth: Timur Imametdinov - Nina Bezzubova came in fourth, Yury Simachev - Anastasia Klokotova, RUS, fifth and Charles-Guillaume Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA, last year's fourth, were sixth. Yes, the whole final had some traits of a déjà-vu. But there were some real surprises too: Gabriele and Anna and Armen and Svetlana are stablemates now.