They are all here - we hope - and ready to do battle! All the top professional couples that have marked Standard dancing over the past two years, ever since the retirement of Mirko Gozzoli - Edita Daniute, LTU, following the 2014 PD World Championship in Nanjing, CHN, should be dancing in the 2016 edition of the WDSF PD World DanceSport Championship Standard in Aarhus, DEN.
The 2015 World Champions Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Koehler, GER, will go head-to-head with the 2016 European Champions Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN. The couples had avoided each other in championships after the 2015 European in Copenhagen, DEN, but they both danced the 2016 PD Super GrandPrix in Stuttgart, GER. And what a closely fought battle that turned out to be! Ferruggia - Koehler won four dances, but Valeri - Kehlet got just as much applause from the expert public at the Beethoven Hall as did the Germans - plus they claimed the Quickstep very convincingly.
As in last year's PD World Standard in Leipzig, GER, the Judging System 2.1 will again be used to determine the winners. If we take the total score of Ferruggia - Koehler in 2015 as a reference - 194.4 points out of a possible 200 - we will see where the journey goes this time around.
The third couple that will also fight for the title are Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute, LTU, who had been runners-up in both the recent World and the European.
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