PD World Championship Standard | Moscow
Let's take a look first at the events that have happened during the past year. The reigning World Champions, Benedetto Ferruggia – Claudia Koehler (GER) have retired this fall, which means the title is out there for grab. Runners-up in 2017, Donatas Vezelis – Lina Chatkeviciute (LTU) and Bjorn Bitsch – Ashli Williamson (DEN) had a good and even competition also in 2018 Europeans, where they reached the top two with Lithuanians as winners and the Danish winning silver.
But that is not all. The other finalists of 2017 Worlds or 2018 Europeans just might have some new tricks in their sleeves, or we might see new professional couples entering the scene and making the competition even more interesting and exciting. There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. And we are looking forward to that on Sunday!
Here is the starting list, there are 35 couples registered:
| Ezio Mattioli | Vesela Nedyalkova | Bulgaria |
| Bjorn Bitsch | Ashli Williamson | Denmark |
| Sean Smullen | Aimie Leak | Ireland |
| Alessandro D'Amora | Maria Gorelik | Italy |
| Alessandro Ilarioni | Aurora Sbardella | Italy |
| Christian Gallo | Laura Giova | Italy |
| Mario Cecinati | Rosaria Messina Denaro | Italy |
| Simone Santoro | Tiziana Morgillo | Italy |
| Oleksii Guzyr | Rikako Ota | Japan |
| Yoshiki Kitada | Chiyo Kitada | Japan |
| Yumiya Kubota | Natsumi Tokuno | Japan |
| Marts Punins | Dana Jakobsone | Latvia |
| Donatas Vezelis | Lina Chatkeviciute | Lithuania |
| Nikolay Darin | Natalia Seredina | Moldova |
| Ciccio Pecoraro | Jasmijn Pecoraro-van Jole | Netherlands |
| Cheng Dan | LI Zhenni | People's Republic of China |
| Li Lu | Guo Qing | People's Republic of China |
| Mo Ran | Zhou Jie | People's Republic of China |
| Zhao Peng | Wang Qi | People's Republic of China |
| Zhong Chi | Shao Yawen | People's Republic of China |
| Andrzej Sadecki | Karina Nawrot | Poland |
| Kamil Kedra | Aleksandra Fron | Poland |
| Stanislaw Wolyniec | Katarzyna Tunska | Poland |
| Sergio Lourenco | Catia Cerqueira | Portugal |
| Florea Adrian | Cordos Alexandra | Romania |
| Anatoly Kupchik | Julia Koliagina | Russia |
| Andrey Motyl | Ekaterina Kim | Russia |
| Evgeny Klochkov | Liliia Bogdalova | Russia |
| Gennadii Geraskin | Anna Geraskina | Russia |
| Konstantin Solomatin | Daria Solomatina | Russia |
| Pavel Nepomniashchikh | Anna Kharitonova | Russia |
| Sergey Ternovskikh | Valeria Afanasieva | Russia |
| Victor Presnetsov | Vera Nam | Russia |
| Thabo Lulama Khoza | Tina Dolwana | South Africa |
| Kim Kihwan | Park Ye Rang | South Korea |
Helmut Roland, member of the WDSF Communications Team, will be there in Moscow to capture the best moments from round one all the way to the prize presentation ceremony.
The schedule:
First round: 14:45 local time (12:45 CET)
Round 2: 16:15 local time (14:15 CET)
Semifinal: 20:25 local time (18:25 CET)
Final: 22:05 local time (20:05 CET)
Watch the competition live on YouTube.
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