2023 European Figure Skating Championships

The 2023 European Figure Skating Championships were held from 25 to 29 January 2023 in Espoo, Finland.[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The competition determined the entry quotas for each federation at the 2024 European Championships.

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:
France Adam Siao Him Fa
Women's singles:
Georgia (country) Anastasiia Gubanova
Pair skating:
Italy Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
Ice dance:
Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Previous:
2022 European Championships
Next:
2024 European Championships

Finland previously hosted the competition in 1977, 1993 and 2009.

Qualification

Age and minimum TES requirements

The competition was open to skaters from all European member nations of the International Skating Union. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters is the 2023 Four Continents Championships.

Skaters were 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]

Minimum technical scores (TES)
Discipline SP / RD FS / FD
Men2846
Women2542
Pairs2542
Ice dance2845
Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event
in the ongoing or preceding season.
SP/RD and FS/FD scores may be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2022 European Championships, each European ISU member nations could field one to three entries per discipline.[2]

Spots Men Women Pairs Dance
3  Russia
 Italy		  Russia  Russia
 Italy		  Russia
 Spain
2  Latvia
 Georgia
 France
 Azerbaijan
 Czech Republic		  Belgium
 Poland
 Azerbaijan
 Georgia
 Estonia
 Belarus
  Switzerland		  Georgia
 Hungary
 Germany
 Spain
 Belarus		  Italy
 Great Britain
 Lithuania
 France
 Ukraine
If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Schedule
Date Discipline Time Segment
Wednesday, 25 January Pairs 13:15 Short program
All 16:45 Opening ceremony
Men 17:40 Short program
Thursday, 26 January Women 13:35 Short program
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 Free skating
Ice dance 18:30 Free dance
Sunday, 29 January All 15:30 Exhibition gala

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2022. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 3 January 2023.[4]

Country Men[5] Women[6] Pairs[7] Ice dance[8]
 Armenia Viktoriia Azroian / Artur Gruzdev
 Austria[9] Maurizio Zandron Olga Mikutina Sophia Schaller / Livio Mayr
 Azerbaijan Samantha Ritter / Daniel Brykalov
 Belgium[10] Loena Hendrickx
Nina Pinzarrone
 Bulgaria Larry Loupolover Alexandra Feigin
 Croatia Jari Kessler
 Cyprus Marilena Kitromilis
 Czech Republic[11] Petr Kotlařík
Georgii Reshtenko		 Nikola Rychtaříková Federica Simoli / Alessandro Zarbo Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
 Estonia[12] Mihhail Selevko Eva-Lotta Kiibus
Niina Petrõkina
 Finland[13] Valtter Virtanen Janna Jyrkinen Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
 France[14] Kévin Aymoz
Adam Siao Him Fa		 Léa Serna Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier
Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
 Georgia Nika Egadze
Morisi Kvitelashvili		 Anastasiia Gubanova Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
 Germany Nikita Starostin Nicole Schott Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel		 Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan
 Great Britain[15] Graham Newberry Natasha McKay Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
 Greece Alexandra Mintsidou
 Hungary Aleksandr Vlasenko Júlia Láng Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Leonyidovics Szemko
 Ireland[16] Samuel McAllister
 Israel Mark Gorodnitsky Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy
 Italy Gabriele Frangipani
Daniel Grassl
Matteo Rizzo		 Lara Naki Gutmann Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise
Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini		 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger
 Latvia[17] Deniss Vasiļjevs Sofja Stepčenko Aurelija Ipolito / Luke Russell
 Lithuania[18] Meda Variakojytė Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 Moldova Anastasia Gracheva
 Monaco Davide Lewton Brain
 Netherlands[19] Lindsay van Zundert Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein Hanna Jakucs / Alessio Galli
 Norway[20] Mia Caroline Risa Gomez Maria Bjørkli / James Koszuta
 Poland Vladimir Samoilov Ekaterina Kurakova Anastasia Polibina / Pavel Golovishnikov
 Romania Julia Sauter
 Serbia Antonina Dubinina
 Slovakia[21] Adam Hagara Alexandra Michaela Filcová Anna Šimová / Kirill Aksenov
 Slovenia David Sedej Daša Grm
 Spain Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté
 Sweden[22] Andreas Nordebäck Josefin Taljegård Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord
  Switzerland[23] Lukas Britschgi Livia Kaiser
Kimmy Repond		 Arianna Sassi / Luca Morini
 Turkey Burak Demirboğa
 Ukraine[24] Kyrylo Marsak Anastasia Gozhva Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov

Changes to preliminary assignments
Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Ref.
16 January 2023 Pairs Georgia (country) Anastasia Metelkina / Daniil Parkman Split [25]
Georgia (country) Karina Safina / Luka Berulava Injury (Safina) [26]
17 January 2023 Men Azerbaijan Vladimir Litvintsev Visa issue [27]
18 January 2023 Ukraine Ivan Shmuratko Ukraine Kyrylo Marsak Injury [28]
Women Lithuania Aleksandra Golovkina Lithuania Jogailė Aglinskytė Injury [29]
19 January 2023 Czech Republic Barbora Vránková Czech Republic Nikola Rychtaříková Illness [30]
21 January 2023 Lithuania Jogailė Aglinskytė Lithuania Meda Variakojytė Injury [31][32]
23 January 2023 Israel Mariia Seniuk Injury [33]
24 January 2023 Denmark Maia Sørensen [34]

Medal summary

Medalists

Medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest overall placements in each discipline:

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men France Adam Siao Him Fa Italy Matteo Rizzo Switzerland Lukas Britschgi
Women Georgia (country) Anastasiia Gubanova Belgium Loena Hendrickx Switzerland Kimmy Repond
Pairs Italy Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii Italy Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini Germany Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
Ice dance Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest short program or rhythm dance placements in each discipline:

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men France Adam Siao Him Fa Italy Matteo Rizzo Latvia Deniss Vasiļjevs
Women Georgia (country) Anastasiia Gubanova Belgium Loena Hendrickx Switzerland Kimmy Repond
Pairs Italy Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii Germany Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Germany Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert
Ice dance Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieve the highest free skating or free dance placements in each discipline:

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men Italy Matteo Rizzo France Adam Siao Him Fa Switzerland Lukas Britschgi
Women Georgia (country) Anastasiia Gubanova Switzerland Kimmy Repond Belgium Loena Hendrickx
Pairs Italy Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini Italy Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii Germany Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
Ice dance Italy Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy2204
2 France1001
 Georgia1001
4 Belgium0101
 Great Britain0101
6  Switzerland0022
7 Finland*0011
 Germany0011
Totals (8 entries)44412

Table of small medals for placement in the short/rhythm segment:

  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy2103
2 France1001
 Georgia1001
4 Germany0112
5 Belgium0101
 Great Britain0101
7 Finland*0011
 Latvia0011
  Switzerland0011
Totals (9 entries)44412

Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy3104
2 Georgia1001
3  Switzerland0112
4 France0101
 Great Britain0101
6 Belgium0011
 Finland*0011
 Germany0011
Totals (8 entries)44412

Results

Men
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Adam Siao Him Fa  France 267.77 1 96.53 2 171.24
2 Matteo Rizzo  Italy 259.92 2 86.46 1 173.46
3 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
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia 199.91 1 69.81 1 130.10
2 Loena Hendrickx  Belgium 193.48 2 67.85 3 125.63
3 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
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii  Italy 195.13 1 70.45 2 124.68
2 Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini  Italy 186.96 5 59.48 1 127.48
3 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
Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD
1 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 210.44 1 85.53 1 124.91
2 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson  Great Britain 207.89 2 84.12 2 123.77
3 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis  Finland 198.21 3 77.56 3 120.65
4 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius  Lithuania 195.67 4 77.33 4 118.34
5 Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud  France 191.85 6 76.49 5 115.36
6 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler  Czech Republic 188.34 5 76.91 6 111.43
7 Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier  France 179.96 7 72.55 7 107.41
8 Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya  Georgia 175.82 8 68.55 8 107.27
9 Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan  Germany 169.17 9 67.90 10 101.27
10 Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Szemko  Hungary 167.08 10 65.04 9 102.04
11 Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger  Italy 164.21 11 64.23 11 99.98
12 Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov  Ukraine 156.99 13 61.00 12 95.99
13 Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy  Israel 156.52 12 61.72 13 94.80
14 Anna Šimová / Kirill Aksenov  Slovakia 150.04 15 59.18 14 90.86
15 Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov  Ukraine 148.37 14 59.36 15 89.01
16 Anastasia Polibina / Pavel Golovishnikov  Poland 138.99 17 54.55 16 84.44
17 Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala  Lithuania 136.20 16 55.06 17 81.14
18 Samantha Ritter / Daniel Brykalov  Azerbaijan 132.18 19 51.55 18 80.63
19 Hanna Jakucs / Alessio Galli  Netherlands 130.35 18 53.46 19 76.89
20 Aurelija Ipolito / Luke Russell  Latvia 124.88 20 51.41 20 73.47
Did not advance to free dance
21 Arianna Sassi / Luca Morini   Switzerland 49.91 21 49.91 —
22 Maria Bjorkli / James Koszuta  Norway 47.71 22 47.71 —
23 Viktoriia Azroian / Artur Gruzdev  Armenia 40.89 23 40.89 —

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