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1983 European Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 1 – 6
Season:1982–83
Location: Dortmund, West Germany
Venue: Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen
Champions
Men's singles:
West Germany Norbert Schramm
Ladies' singles:
East Germany Katarina Witt
Pairs:
East Germany Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach
Ice dance:
Soviet Union Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin
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The 1983 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Dortmund, West Germany from February 1 to 6, 1983. Elite skaters from European ISU member nations competed in the disciplines of men's singles, [1] ladies' singles, [2] pair skating, [3] and ice dancing. [4]

Overview and results

The championships cost 1.5 million Deutsche Marks. [5] Compulsory figures were held in Unna and began at 8 a.m. [5] The German Ice Skating Union president Wolf-Dieter Montag, also served as president of the organizing committee. [6]

Men

Simond won compulsory figures. [7] After the short program, Sabovčík was in first, followed by Schramm and Simond. [8] Schramm would win the title.

Rank Name Nation TFP CF SP FS
1 Norbert Schramm   West Germany 3.8 4 1 1
2 Jozef Sabovčík   Czechoslovakia 7.0 2 2 5
3 Alexander Fadeev   Soviet Union 8.6 5 9 2
4 Heiko Fischer   West Germany 9.4 3 4 6
5 Vladimir Kotin   Soviet Union 9.8 6 8 3
6 Jean-Christophe Simond   France 10.0 1 6 7
7 Rudi Cerne   West Germany 10.2 7 5 4
8 Grzegorz Filipowski   Poland 8
9 Laurent Depouilly   France
10 Fernand Fédronic   France 8
11 Lars Åkesson   Sweden
12 Falko Kirsten   East Germany
13 Thomas Hlavik   Austria
14 Miljan Begovic   Yugoslavia
15 Mark Pepperday   United Kingdom
16 Richard Furrer   Switzerland
17 Bruno Delmaestro   Italy
18 Petr Barna   Czechoslovakia
19 Todd Sand   Denmark
20 András Száraz   Hungary
21 Fernando Soria   Spain

Ladies

Rank Name Nation CF [8] SP FS
1 Katarina Witt   East Germany 2 1 1
2 Elena Vodorezova   Soviet Union 1
3 Claudia Leistner   West Germany 9
4 Manuela Ruben   West Germany 6
5 Anna Kondrashova   Soviet Union
6 Kristiina Wegelius   Finland 5
7 Anna Antonova   Soviet Union
8 Janina Wirth   East Germany 10
9 Sonja Stanek   Austria 4
10 Sanda Dubravčić   Yugoslavia 7
11 Karin Telser   Italy
12 Parthena Sarafidis   Austria 8
13 Sandra Cariboni   Switzerland 3
14 Karin Hendschke   East Germany
15 Katrien Pauwels   Belgium
16 Hana Veselá   Czechoslovakia
17 Agnès Gosselin   France
18 Li Scha Wang   Netherlands
19 Hanne Gamborg   Denmark
20 Susan Jackson   United Kingdom
21 Catarina Lindgren   Sweden
22 Elise Ahonen   Finland
23 Nora Miklosi   Hungary
24 Rosario Esteban   Spain
WD Karen Wood   United Kingdom

Pairs

Baeß / Thierbach repeated as European champions. [9]

Rank Name Nation SP [7] FS
1 Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach   East Germany 1 1
2 Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev   Soviet Union 4 2
3 Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert   East Germany 2 3
4 Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov   Soviet Union 3
5 Marina Avstriskaya / Yuri Kvashnin   Soviet Union 5
6 Babette Preußler / Torsten Ohlow   East Germany
7 Claudia Massari / Leonardo Azzola   West Germany 6
8 Susan Garland / Robert Daw   United Kingdom 7
9 Jana Havlova / René Novotný   Czechoslovakia
10 Nathalie Tortel / Xavier Douillard   France
11 Birgit Kuß / Uwe Fischbeck   France
12 Naija Pekkala / Pekka Pekkala   Finland 8

Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation
1 Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin   Soviet Union
2 Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin   Soviet Union
3 Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater   United Kingdom
4 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko   Soviet Union
5 Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu   France
6 Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn   West Germany
7 Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams   United Kingdom
8 Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola   Italy
9 Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán   Czechoslovakia
10 Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint   Hungary
11 Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer   West Germany
12 Marianne van Bommel / Wayne Deweyert   Netherlands

References

  1. ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Men" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-03.
  2. ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-03.
  3. ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Pairs" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-12.
  4. ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Ice Dance" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-05.
  5. ^ a b "EISKUNSTLAUF: Das Schlimmste". Der Spiegel (in German). 7 February 1983.
  6. ^ "Wolf-Dieter Montag – Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch-Traumatologische Sportmedizin (in German). 19 November 2014. p. 3.
  7. ^ a b "Skating Results At Dortmund, West Germany, Jan. 31". UPI. 31 January 1983. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Figure Skating Results European Championship At Dortmund, W. Germany, Feb. 1". UPI. 1 February 1983. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
  9. ^ "East Germany's Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach comfortably retained..." UPI. 2 February 1983. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.

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