The 2013 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2012–13 season. The competition was held from 23 to 27 January 2013 at the Dom Sportova in Zagreb, Croatia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Qualification Skaters were eligible for the event if they were representing a European member nation of the International Skating Union and had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2012 in their place of birth. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2013 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria, Still, the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the European Championships.
Minimum TES Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline SP / SD FS / FD Men 25 45 Ladies 20 36 Pairs 20 36 Ice dance 18 28 Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2012 European Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.
Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance 3 2 Great Britain Great Britain If not listed above, one entry was allowed.
Entries Entries submitted by member states: Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Viktor Pfeifer Kerstin Frank Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer Kira Geil / Tobias Eisenbauer Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov Pavel Ignatenko Kristina Zakharanka Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov Lesia Valadzenkava / Vitali Vakunov Kaat Van Daele Manol Atanassov Anna Afonkina Elizabeta Makarova / Leri Kenchadze Sarah Coward / Georgi Kenchadze Mirna Libric Michal Březina Pavel Kaška Tomáš Verner Eliška Březinová Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown Justus Strid Anita Madsen Viktor Romanenkov Jelena Glebova Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand Valter Virtanen Alisa Mikonsaari Juulia Turkkila Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm Florent Amodio Chafik Besseghier Brian Joubert Lenaelle Gilleron-Gorry Mae Berenice Meite Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres Daria Popova / Bruno Massot Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones Elene Gedevanishvili Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze Peter Liebers Nathalie Weinzierl Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi Great Britain Harry Mattick Jenna McCorkell Stacey Kemp / David King Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland Isabella Schuster-Velissariou Zsuzsanna Nagy / Mate Fejes Alexei Bychenko Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov Paolo Bacchini Paul Bonifacio Parkinson Carolina Kostner Valentina Marchei Roberta Rodeghiero Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri Alina Fjodorova Saulius Ambrulevičius Inga Janulevičiūtė Fleur Maxwell Kim Lucine Michelle Couwenberg Anne Line Gjersem Maciej Cieplucha Magdalena Klatka / Radosław Chruściński Alexandra Zvorigina / Maciej Bernadowski Zoltan Kelemen Sabina Mariuta Maxim Kovtun Evgeni Plushenko Sergei Voronov Nikol Gosviani Adelina Sotnikova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko Monika Simančíková Nicole Rajicova Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley Patricia Glescic Javier Fernandez Javier Raya Sonia Lafuente Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz Alexander Majorov Joshi Helgesson Viktoria Helgesson Stephane Walker Tina Stuerzinger Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost Ali Demirboga Sıla Saygı Alisa Agafonova / Alper Ucar Yakov Godorozha Natalia Popova Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun
Schedule Wednesday, January 23 11:45–16:00 – Short dance 18:00–18:20 – Opening ceremony 18:45–21:15 – Pairs' short Thursday, January 24 11:45–16:10 – Men's short 19:00–22:00 – Pairs' free Friday, January 25 10:45–15:55 – Ladies' short 18:30–21:50 – Free dance Saturday, January 26 12:45–16:50 – Men's free 18:00–21:55 – Ladies' free Sunday, January 27 15:00–17:00 – Exhibitions
Overview 2012 European ladies' silver medalist Kiira Korpi of Finland withdrew due to inflammation of her left Achilles tendon and was replaced by Alisa Mikonsaari. The defending ice dancing champions, France's Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat, withdrew due to a partial tear of Bourzat's adductor muscle. France did not have a substitute. The 2012 pair skating silver medalists, Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov of Russia, withdrew due to Larionov's wrist injury and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov were named as their replacements. Poor weather delayed some arrivals. Germany's Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy's flight was cancelled twice. A group of Russian skaters flying to Zagreb were stuck in Budapest, Hungary for ten hours due to weather and organizational problems.
France's Florent Amodio was first in the men's short program, one point ahead of Spain's Javier Fernández, while France's Brian Joubert finished third. Seven-time European champion Evgeni Plushenko withdrew after the short program due to aggravation of his back problem. Fernández placed first in the free skate, with Michal Březina of the Czech Republic in second and Amodio in third. Fernández finished first overall and won Spain's first ever European title in figure skating, silver went to Amodio, while Březina claimed the bronze medal and the first European podium of his career.
Russia's Adelina Sotnikova placed first in the ladies' short program, with Italy's Carolina Kostner and Valentina Marchei in second and third respectively. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia won the free skate ahead of Kostner and Sotnikova. Kostner finished first in the overall standings and won her fifth European title while Sotnikova and Tuktamysheva took their first continental medals, silver and bronze respectively.
Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov of Russia won the pairs' short program ahead of Germany's Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy and Italy's Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek. The top three maintained their respective positions in the free skate. Volosozhar / Trankov repeated as European champions, while Savchenko / Szolkowy took silver and Berton / Hotarek took the bronze, Italy's first European medal in pair skating.
Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev placed first in the short dance, with teammates Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov and Italy's Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte rounding out the top three. Bobrova / Soloviev won their first European title, silver medalists Ilinykh / Katsalapov were first in the free dance by 0.33 and second overall by 0.11, and bronze medalists Cappellini / Lanotte finished on the European podium for the first time in their career.
Results
Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Javier Fernández 274.87 2 88.80 1 186.07 2 Florent Amodio 250.53 1 89.82 3 160.71 3 Michal Březina 243.52 4 79.84 2 163.68 4 Brian Joubert 232.47 3 83.93 5 148.54 5 Maxim Kovtun 226.57 7 74.46 4 152.11 6 Alexander Majorov 211.88 8 74.29 6 137.59 7 Sergei Voronov 210.18 5 78.38 7 131.80 8 Viktor Pfeifer 194.77 10 67.34 9 127.43 9 Chafik Besseghier 189.67 11 66.93 10 122.74 10 Peter Liebers 187.96 17 56.67 8 131.29 11 Tomáš Verner 177.41 9 68.99 19 108.42 12 Kim Lucine 175.61 12 63.27 16 112.34 13 Pavel Ignatenko 171.18 14 58.38 15 112.80 14 Alexei Bychenko 171.12 18 56.42 12 114.70 15 Yakov Godorozha 170.29 15 57.44 14 112.85 16 Javier Raya 169.58 19 54.21 11 115.37 17 Viktor Romanenkov 167.98 13 59.66 20 108.32 18 Zoltan Kelemen 167.33 16 57.44 18 109.89 19 Maciej Cieplucha 167.29 23 52.84 13 114.45 20 Stephane Walker 163.11 24 50.93 17 112.18 21 Justus Strid 160.08 22 53.14 21 106.94 22 Manol Atanassov 133.21 21 53.58 22 79.63 WD Pavel Kaška 20 53.76 WD Did not advance to free skating 24 Paolo Bacchini 25 50.68 25 Valtter Virtanen 26 48.41 26 Harry Mattick Great Britain 27 48.08 27 Saulius Ambrulevičius 28 43.85 28 Ali Demirboga 29 43.47 29 Paul Bonifacio Parkinson 30 40.35 WD Evgeni Plushenko 6 74.82
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Carolina Kostner 194.71 2 64.19 2 130.52 2 Adelina Sotnikova 193.99 1 67.61 3 126.38 3 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 188.85 4 57.18 1 131.67 4 Valentina Marchei 171.06 3 58.22 4 112.84 5 Viktoria Helgesson 155.72 6 54.77 7 100.95 6 Nikol Gosviani 154.41 12 50.92 5 103.49 7 Sonia Lafuente 152.29 11 51.07 6 101.22 8 Joshi Helgesson 150.40 5 55.04 9 95.36 9 Nathalie Weinzierl 147.52 8 52.28 10 95.24 10 Maé Bérénice Méité 147.14 13 50.79 8 96.35 11 Lénaëlle Gilleron-Gorry 143.74 7 53.32 14 90.42 12 Kerstin Frank 143.56 15 49.60 12 93.96 13 Jelena Glebova 143.45 9 51.90 13 91.55 14 Elena Gedevanishvili 142.71 16 48.75 11 93.96 15 Monika Simančíková 137.47 14 50.27 15 87.20 16 Anita Madsen 133.35 17 47.97 16 85.38 17 Juulia Turkkila 130.79 10 51.47 21 79.32 18 Kaat Van Daele 130.00 18 47.18 18 82.82 19 Natalia Popova 128.54 24 45.60 17 82.94 20 Tina Stuerzinger 128.38 22 45.73 19 82.65 21 Jenna McCorkell Great Britain 126.98 19 47.17 20 79.81 22 Anne Line Gjersem 124.48 23 45.72 22 78.76 23 Sıla Saygı 119.27 21 46.17 23 73.10 24 Fleur Maxwell 113.01 20 46.66 24 66.35 Did not advance to free skating 25 Anna Afonkina 25 44.89 26 Alina Fjodorova 26 44.87 27 Roberta Rodeghiero 27 44.71 28 Patricia Gleščič 28 43.36 29 Alisa Mikonsaari 29 41.34 30 Eliška Březinová 30 40.98 31 Inga Janulevičiūtė 31 35.53 32 Michelle Couwenberg 32 35.28 33 Isabella Schuster-Velissariou 33 35.09 34 Sabina Mariuta 34 33.89 35 Mirna Libric 35 33.73 36 Kristina Zakharanka 36 31.73
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov 212.45 1 73.23 1 139.22 2 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 205.24 2 70.21 2 135.03 3 Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek 187.45 3 64.28 3 123.17 4 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès 178.81 4 59.27 4 119.54 5 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov 175.48 5 56.20 5 119.28 6 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov 167.23 8 53.70 6 113.53 7 Daria Popova / Bruno Massot 157.12 7 53.75 7 103.37 8 Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave 141.79 6 55.14 10 86.65 9 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 140.89 9 47.26 8 93.63 10 Stacey Kemp / David King Great Britain 131.51 10 45.39 11 86.12 11 Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk 128.79 11 41.66 9 87.13 12 Elizaveta Makarova / Leri Kenchadze 115.96 13 37.15 12 78.81 13 Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer 112.29 12 39.07 13 73.22 14 Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov 103.13 14 37.06 14 66.07 15 Magdalena Klatka / Radosław Chruściński 99.65 15 34.73 15 64.92
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