Dancing with the Stars' judging leaderboard was topped by 2012 Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Alexandra "Aly" Raisman and NFL football player Jacoby Jones during Monday night's broadcast of the sixteenth season's ninth performance show.
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Aly and Mark danced the rumba which earned a perfect score of 30 from the judges and then followed it up with an Afro Jazz routine which received an additional 29 points.
Jacoby and Karina initially performed an Argentine tango that received a perfect score of 30 as well. They then took the stage again with a Lindy Hop routine which earned them 29 more points.
Former American Idol finalist and country singer Kellie Pickler and partner Derek Hough finished in third place on the judges' leaderboard with a total of 58 points. They first danced the Argentine tango worth a perfect score of 30 points and then performed a Flamenco routine, which received 28 points from the judges.
Fourth place went to Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman and partner Val Chmerkovskiy. The pair earned a total score of 55 points after they performed a quickstep routine which received 25 points and a hip hop dance that earned 30 additional points from the judges.
Soap star Ingo Rademacher and partner Kym Johnson finished in fifth -- and last -- place on the judges' leaderboard with 51 total points. After taking the stage with a samba routine that received 24 points from the judges, the couple came back to perform a Charleston routine which earned 27 more points.
The scores of last night's judging leaderboard will now be combined with the home viewer voting results to determine which of the five couples will be eliminated on Dancing with the Stars' eighth sixteenth-season results show Tuesday night at 9PM ET/PT. Next week's performance show begins the finals.
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