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Benedetto Capraro and Marta Faiola (Italy)
IPDSC World Latin Champions!!!

Once again, Benedetto Capraro and Marta Faiola from Italy won the IPDSC World Professional Latin Championship.
Benedetto and Marta won the title in 2007 also.

In the final round there were 3 couples from Italy and 3 couples from Russia.
Couples from 11 nations took part in the 2008 championship.

The beautifully decorated hall in Bassano, Italy was full to capacity.
The organizers and their team of workers must be congratulated on organizing such a wonderful event.  During the evening session William Pino and Alessandra Bucciarelli gave an outstanding demonstration and received a standing ovation for their world class performance.

Also attending the event was Honorary President Mr. Ferruccio Galvagno.
The judges for the competition were:
Elio Basan (Croatia), Monique De Maesschalck (Belgium), László Öze (Hungary), Alexander Melnikov (Russia), Daniela Novak (Slovenia), Gheorghe Raducan (Romania), Ana Rodriguez (Spain), Tomohiro Tamaoki (Japan), Pat Thompson (England), Robert Wota (Poland), Joanne Wilkinson (Italy). Chairman the IPDSC Vice President Mr. Daniele Tondon

Joanne Wilkinson stepped in to replace Italian judge Carolyn Smith, Carolyn's mother died the previous day.  The IPDSC Presidium would like to send their deepest sympathies to Carolyn at this time.

The final results were: 
1st     Benedetto Capraro - Marta Faiola (Italy)
2nd    Maurizio Ghigiarelli - Manuela Andracchio (Italy)
3rd     Ilya Svintsov & Liubov Bondareva (Russia)
4th     Ivan Bessonov & Elena Pashkova (Russia)
5th     Denis Starostin & Elena Gabdrakhmanova (Russia)
6th     Alessandro Toffoletto & Roberta Zoia (Italy)