World Championship Senior II Standard
"Here are our World Champions! Michael and Beate Lindner have
mastered the marathon of the IDSF Senior II Open Standard with
flying colours!", German sports director Michael Eichert reported
live from the Palais de Con-gress in Liège (Belgium). 167 couples
started early at 9 am in the morning, with the German delegation
repre-sented most strongly with 72 couples.
The Lindners took the lead in the huge field with five
victorious dances. The two of them joined the Senior II cate-gory
only this year. Last year's finalists Claus and Britta Halfmeier
had to make do with rank 9 in the semi finals.
The following German couples reached the quarter finals: 19.
Wolfgang Koschier/Birgit Fehrmann-Koschier, 20. Alexander
Hick/Petra-Alexandra Lessmann, 22. Wilfried Tiwald/Barbara
Tiwald
1. Michael and Beate Lindner, Germany
2. Walter Valenta/Irmtraud Maurer, Austria
3. Bernd Farwick/Petra Voosholz, Germany
4. Giuseppe Luciano Mannello/Patrizia Presti, Italy
5. Raymund Reimann/Antje Schulz, Germany
6. Lonny und Susie Tsang, USA
Text: DTV-Webteam
by Ulrike Sander-Reis Uhr