The 1997 Nations Cup was the second event of six in the 1997–98 ISU Champions Series, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Gelsenkirchen on October 30 – November 2. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1997–98 Champions Series Final.
Results Men Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Elvis Stojko 1.5 1 1 2 Igor Pashkevich 4.0 2 2 3 Alexander Abt 5.5 5 3 4 Philippe Candeloro 7.0 6 4 5 Michael Weiss 7.0 4 5 6 Dmitri Dmitrenko 7.5 3 6 7 Andrejs Vlascenko 11.0 8 7 8 Szabolcs Vidrai 12.5 7 9 9 Steven Cousins 13.0 10 8 10 Michael Hopfes 14.5 9 10 11 Sven Meyer 16.5 11 11
Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Tanja Szewczenko 1.5 1 1 2 Irina Slutskaya 4.5 5 2 3 Elena Liashenko 4.5 3 3 4 Szusanna Szwed 5.0 2 4 5 Krisztina Czakó 7.0 4 5 6 Julia Vorobieva 9.0 6 6 7 Shizuka Arakawa 11.0 8 7 8 Eva-Maria Fitze 13.0 10 8 9 Jennifer Robinson 13.5 9 9 10 Sydne Vogel 14.5 7 11 11 Laëtitia Hubert 15.5 11 10
Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer 1.5 1 1 2 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze 3.0 2 2 3 Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko 5.0 4 3 4 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller 5.5 3 4 5 Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet 8.0 6 5 6 Maria Petrova / Teimuraz Pulin 9.0 5 6 WD Line Haddad / Sylvain Privé 7
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD OD FD 1 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsiannikov 2.0 1 1 1 2 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 4.0 2 2 2 3 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko 6.0 3 3 3 4 Tatiana Navka / Nikolai Morozov 8.6 4 5 4 5 Kati Winkler / René Lohse 9.4 5 4 5 6 Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo 12.0 6 6 6 7 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhanovsky 14.0 7 7 7 8 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet 16.0 8 8 8 9 Eve Chalom / Mathew Gates 18.0 9 9 9 10 Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka 20.6 10 11 10 11 Stephanie Rauer / Thomas Rauer 21.4 11 10 11
External links 1997 Nations Cup