The 2018 edition of the European DanceSport Championship Standard brought 61 couples from 30+ countries to the Tivoli Congress Centre. Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova continued where they had left off in the last competition they danced in. On 10 December 2017 they made it to the highest echelon of the podium in the GrandSlam Standard Final in Shanghai, CHN.