| 2023 European Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | 25 – 29 January |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Host: | Finnish Figure Skating Association |
| Venue: | Espoo Metro Areena |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Adam Siao Him Fa | |
Women's singles:  Anastasiia Gubanova | |
Pairs:  Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii | |
| Ice dance: Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | |
| Previous: 2022 European Championships | |
| Next: 2024 European Championships | |
The 2023 European Figure Skating Championships were held from 25 to 29 January 2023 at the Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland.[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition determined the entry quotas for each skating federation at the 2024 European Championships.
Qualification[edit]
Age and minimum TES requirements[edit]
The competition was open to skaters from all European member nations of the International Skating Union. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2023 Four Continents Championships.
Skaters were eligible if they turned 15 years of age before 1 July 2022 and met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepted scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions during the ongoing season at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships or during the preceding season.[1]
| Discipline | SP / RD | FS / FD |
|---|---|---|
| Men | 28 | 46 |
| Women | 25 | 42 |
| Pairs | 25 | 42 |
| Ice dance | 28 | 45 |
- SP/RD and FS/FD scores may be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline[edit]
Based on the results of the 2022 European Championships, each European ISU member nations could field one to three entries per discipline.[2] However, on 1 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee, the International Skating Union (ISU) banned figure skaters and officials from Russia and Belarus from attending all international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
| Spots | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Italy Russia |
Russia |
Italy Russia |
Russia Spain
|
| 2 |  Azerbaijan Czech Republic France Georgia Latvia
|
Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Estonia Georgia Poland Switzerland
|
Belarus Georgia Germany Hungary Spain
|
France Great Britain Italy Lithuania Ukraine
|
- If not listed above, one entry is allowed.
Schedule[edit]
| Date | Disc. | Time | Segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 25 January | Pairs | 13:15 | Short program |
| — | 16:45 | Opening ceremony | |
| Men | 17:40 | Short program | |
| Thursday, 26 January | Women | 13:35 | |
| Pairs | 19:25 | Free skating | |
| Friday, 27 January | Ice dance | 13:15 | Rhythm dance |
| Men | 18:00 | Free skating | |
| Saturday, 28 January | Women | 13:00 | |
| Ice dance | 18:30 | Free dance | |
| Sunday, 29 January | — | 15:30 | Exhibition gala |
- All times are listed in local time (UTC+02:00).[4]
Entries[edit]
Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2022. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 3 January 2023.[5]
Changes to preliminary assignments[edit]
| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January | Pairs | Anastasia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman
|
— | Metelkina & Parkman split. | [10] |
| Karina Safina / Luka Berulava
|
Injury (Safina) | [11] | |||
| 17 January | Men | Vladimir Litvintsev
|
Visa issue | [12] | |
| 18 January | Ivan Shmuratko
|
Kyrylo Marsak
|
Injury | [13] | |
| Women | Aleksandra Golovkina
|
Jogailė Aglinskytė
|
[14] | ||
| 19 January | Barbora Vránková
|
Nikola Rychtaříková
|
Illness | [15] | |
| 21 January | Jogailė Aglinskytė
|
Meda Variakojytė
|
Injury | [16][17] | |
| 23 January |  Mariia Seniuk
|
— | [18] | ||
| 24 January |  Maia Sørensen
|
[19] |
Medal summary[edit]
Medalists[edit]
Medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest overall placements in each discipline:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Adam Siao Him Fa
|
Matteo Rizzo
|
 Lukas Britschgi
|
| Women | Anastasiia Gubanova
|
Loena Hendrickx
|
Kimmy Repond
|
| Pairs | Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
|
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini
|
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
|
| Ice dance | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
|
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
|
 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
|
Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest short program or rhythm dance placements in each discipline:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Adam Siao Him Fa
|
Matteo Rizzo
|
Deniss Vasiļjevs
|
| Women | Anastasiia Gubanova
|
Loena Hendrickx
|
Kimmy Repond
|
| Pairs | Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
|
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
|
Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert
|
| Ice dance | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
|
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
|
Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
|
Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest free skating or free dance placements in each discipline:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Matteo Rizzo
|
Adam Siao Him Fa
|
Lukas Britschgi
|
| Women | Anastasiia Gubanova
|
Kimmy Repond
|
Loena Hendrickx
|
| Pairs | Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini
|
Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
|
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
|
| Ice dance | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
|
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
|
Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
|
Medals by country[edit]
Table of medals for overall placement:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Table of small medals for placement in the short/rhythm segment:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Results[edit]
Men's singles[edit]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Adam Siao Him Fa | France
|
267.77 | 1 | 96.53 | 2 | 171.24 |
|
Matteo Rizzo | Italy
|
259.92 | 2 | 86.46 | 1 | 173.46 |
|
Lukas Britschgi | Switzerland
|
248.01 | 5 | 79.26 | 3 | 168.75 |
| 4 | Kévin Aymoz | France
|
240.92 | 4 | 83.75 | 4 | 157.17 |
| 5 | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Latvia
|
236.35 | 3 | 84.81 | 6 | 151.54 |
| 6 | Daniel Grassl | Italy
|
230.83 | 8 | 77.03 | 5 | 153.80 |
| 7 | Nika Egadze | Georgia
|
220.65 | 12 | 72.96 | 7 | 147.69 |
| 8 | Mihhail Selevko | Estonia
|
218.30 | 11 | 73.74 | 8 | 144.56 |
| 9 | Andreas Nordebäck |  Sweden
|
212.95 | 9 | 75.98 | 10 | 136.97 |
| 10 | Gabriele Frangipani | Italy
|
211.62 | 7 | 77.35 | 12 | 134.27 |
| 11 | Maurizio Zandron |  Austria
|
207.68 | 13 | 72.57 | 11 | 135.11 |
| 12 | Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté | Spain
|
205.19 | 14 | 71.65 | 13 | 133.54 |
| 13 | Mark Gorodnitsky | Israel
|
202.34 | 22 | 64.94 | 9 | 137.40 |
| 14 | Valtter Virtanen | Finland
|
198.28 | 18 | 68.33 | 14 | 129.95 |
| 15 | Nikita Starostin | Germany
|
197.97 | 10 | 74.70 | 17 | 123.27 |
| 16 | Morisi Kvitelashvili | Georgia
|
194.59 | 16 | 70.55 | 16 | 124.04 |
| 17 | Vladimir Samoilov | Poland
|
191.59 | 6 | 78.26 | 21 | 113.33 |
| 18 | Adam Hagara |  Slovakia
|
189.72 | 21 | 65.15 | 15 | 124.57 |
| 19 | Jari Kessler |  Croatia
|
182.83 | 19 | 67.87 | 19 | 114.96 |
| 20 | Burak Demirboğa |  Turkey
|
182.82 | 23 | 64.33 | 18 | 118.49 |
| 21 | Kyrylo Marsak | Ukraine
|
181.98 | 17 | 70.41 | 22 | 111.57 |
| 22 | Davide Lewton Brain |  Monaco
|
179.54 | 20 | 66.07 | 20 | 113.47 |
| 23 | Graham Newberry | Great Britain
|
174.64 | 15 | 70.85 | 24 | 103.79 |
| 24 | Aleksandr Vlasenko | Hungary
|
173.94 | 24 | 62.49 | 23 | 111.45 |
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||
| 25 | Petr Kotlařík | Czech Republic
|
60.24 | 25 | 60.24 | — | |
| 26 | Georgii Reshtenko | Czech Republic
|
54.52 | 26 | 54.52 | ||
| 27 | Larry Loupolover |  Bulgaria
|
53.26 | 27 | 53.26 | ||
| 28 | Samuel McAllister |  Ireland
|
48.07 | 28 | 48.07 | ||
| 29 | David Sedej |  Slovenia
|
46.28 | 29 | 46.28 | ||
Women's singles[edit]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Anastasiia Gubanova | Georgia
|
199.91 | 1 | 69.81 | 1 | 130.10 |
|
|
Loena Hendrickx | Belgium
|
193.48 | 2 | 67.85 | 3 | 125.63 |
|
|
Kimmy Repond | Switzerland
|
192.51 | 3 | 63.83 | 2 | 128.68 |
| 4 | Ekaterina Kurakova | Poland
|
186.90 | 5 | 61.81 | 4 | 125.09 |
| 5 | Nina Pinzarrone | Belgium
|
185.92 | 6 | 61.35 | 5 | 124.57 |
| 6 | Niina Petrõkina | Estonia
|
183.74 | 7 | 61.05 | 6 | 122.69 |
| 7 | Janna Jyrkinen | Finland
|
176.96 | 8 | 60.77 | 7 | 116.19 |
| 8 | Lara Naki Gutmann | Italy
|
169.29 | 13 | 55.39 | 8 | 113.90 |
| 9 | Nicole Schott | Germany
|
163.82 | 16 | 54.33 | 9 | 109.49 |
| 10 | Julia Sauter |  Romania
|
160.42 | 11 | 56.58 | 12 | 103.84 |
| 11 | Sofja Stepčenko | Latvia
|
159.34 | 14 | 55.32 | 11 | 104.02 |
| 12 | Olga Mikutina | Austria
|
159.08 | 4 | 62.78 | 18 | 96.30 |
| 13 | Marilena Kitromilis |  Cyprus
|
158.91 | 18 | 53.71 | 10 | 105.20 |
| 14 | Lindsay van Zundert |  Netherlands
|
158.10 | 10 | 58.13 | 15 | 99.97 |
| 15 | Eva-Lotta Kiibus | Estonia
|
156.95 | 15 | 55.26 | 13 | 101.69 |
| 16 | Alexandra Feigin | Bulgaria
|
155.23 | 17 | 54.31 | 14 | 100.92 |
| 17 | Josefin Taljegård | Sweden
|
154.98 | 12 | 55.53 | 16 | 99.45 |
| 18 | Livia Kaiser | Switzerland
|
151.20 | 9 | 60.25 | 20 | 90.95 |
| 19 | Natasha McKay | Great Britain
|
148.00 | 20 | 51.94 | 19 | 96.06 |
| 20 | Anastasia Gozhva | Ukraine
|
143.69 | 22 | 46.78 | 17 | 96.91 |
| 21 | Daša Grm | Slovenia
|
143.05 | 19 | 52.47 | 21 | 90.58 |
| 22 | Mia Caroline Risa Gomez |  Norway
|
137.62 | 21 | 49.14 | 22 | 88.48 |
| 23 | Júlia Láng | Hungary
|
130.28 | 23 | 46.33 | 23 | 83.95 |
| 24 | Nikola Rychtařiková | Czech Republic
|
123.13 | 24 | 45.64 | 24 | 77.49 |
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||
| 25 | Alexandra Michaela Filcová | Slovakia
|
43.94 | 25 | 43.94 | — | |
| 26 | Léa Serna | France
|
43.93 | 26 | 43.93 | ||
| 27 | Antonina Dubinina |  Serbia
|
42.51 | 27 | 42.51 | ||
| 28 | Anastasia Gracheva |  Moldova
|
39.08 | 28 | 39.08 | ||
| 29 | Alexandra Mintsidou |  Greece
|
33.86 | 29 | 33.86 | ||
| WD | Meda Variakojytė | Lithuania
|
withdrew from competition | ||||
Pairs[edit]
| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii | Italy
|
195.13 | 1 | 70.45 | 2 | 124.68 |
|
|
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Italy
|
186.96 | 5 | 59.48 | 1 | 127.48 |
|
|
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel | Germany
|
184.26 | 2 | 67.08 | 3 | 117.18 |
| 4 | Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert | Germany
|
173.66 | 3 | 62.77 | 5 | 110.89 |
| 5 | Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko | Hungary
|
172.98 | 6 | 57.97 | 4 | 115.01 |
| 6 | Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev | France
|
169.94 | 4 | 62.46 | 6 | 107.48 |
| 7 | Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise | Italy
|
152.54 | 8 | 53.29 | 7 | 99.25 |
| 8 | Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein | Netherlands
|
148.94 | 7 | 54.16 | 9 | 94.78 |
| 9 | Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta | Ukraine
|
143.72 | 10 | 47.53 | 8 | 96.19 |
| 10 | Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby | Great Britain
|
137.49 | 9 | 49.43 | 10 | 88.06 |
| 11 | Federica Simioli / Alessandro Zarbo | Czech Republic
|
134.02 | 11 | 46.68 | 11 | 87.34 |
| 12 | Sophia Schaller / Livio Mayr | Austria
|
132.30 | 12 | 45.40 | 12 | 86.90 |
| 13 | Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord | Sweden
|
125.86 | 13 | 42.55 | 13 | 83.31 |
Ice dance[edit]
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