Italian dancers Paolo Bosco and Sylvia Pitton grabbed the only gold medal up for grabs in the Standard finals on the first day of the World Games Dance Sport tournament Friday. The victory was a big leap for the Italian duo, who took the bronze at the 2005 World Games. They received first place votes from all but one of the nine judges. Bengdetto Ferruggia and Claudia Koehler of Germany finished in second place to take the silver, while Russia's Marat Gimaev and Alina Basyuk won the bronze. The standard finals, comprised of five dance steps, began with the Slow Foxtrot. Each couple first performs a solo showdance (where each couple dances alone on the dance floor) and then all of the competitors step onto the floor to perform the dance. The dancers next perform the Waltz, the Tango, and the Viennese Waltz, before ending with the Quickstep, which like the Foxtrot features both individual couples performing and all the competitors performing at the same time. The Rock 'n' Roll qualifying round was also staged on Friday, with Switzerland's Christopher Gerdil and Jassica Prunier, Hungary's Miklos Horvath and Katalin Kis, France's Julien Foulon and Ingrid Foulon, Slovakia's Michal Kozmal and Dasa Danihelova advancing to the next round. Aside from Latin and Standard, Rock 'n' Roll, which features lifts, jumps, throws and flips, was included in the World Games Dance Sport event for the first time. In this competition, two couples go head-to-head in trying to outperform each other with a succession of high-difficulty elements such as double somersaults. 