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, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Overview and results The championships cost 1.5 million Deutsche Marks. Compulsory figures were held in Unna and began at 8 a.m. The German Ice Skating Union president Wolf-Dieter Montag, also served as president of the organizing committee.
Men Simond won compulsory figures. After the short program, Sabovčík was in first, followed by Schramm and Simond. Schramm would win the title.
Rank Name Nation TFP 1 Norbert Schramm 3.8 4 1 1 2 Jozef Sabovčík 7.0 2 2 5 3 Alexander Fadeev 8.6 5 9 2 4 Heiko Fischer 9.4 3 4 6 5 Vladimir Kotin 9.8 6 8 3 6 Jean-Christophe Simond 10.0 1 6 7 7 Rudi Cerne 10.2 7 5 4 8 Grzegorz Filipowski 8 9 Laurent Depouilly 10 Fernand Fédronic 8 11 Lars Åkesson 12 Falko Kirsten 13 Thomas Hlavik 14 Miljan Begovic 15 Mark Pepperday 16 Richard Furrer 17 Bruno Delmaestro 18 Petr Barna 19 Todd Sand 20 András Száraz 21 Fernando Soria
Ladies Rank Name Nation 1 Katarina Witt 2 1 1 2 Elena Vodorezova 1 3 Claudia Leistner 9 4 Manuela Ruben 6 5 Anna Kondrashova 6 Kristiina Wegelius 5 7 Anna Antonova 8 Janina Wirth 10 9 Sonja Stanek 4 10 Sanda Dubravčić 7 11 Karin Telser 12 Parthena Sarafidis 8 13 Sandra Cariboni 3 14 Karin Hendschke 15 Katrien Pauwels 16 Hana Veselá 17 Agnès Gosselin 18 Li Scha Wang 19 Hanne Gamborg 20 Susan Jackson 21 Catarina Lindgren 22 Elise Ahonen 23 Nora Miklosi 24 Rosario Esteban WD Karen Wood
Pairs Baeß / Thierbach repeated as European champions.
Rank Name Nation 1 Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach 1 1 2 Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev 4 2 3 Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert 2 3 4 Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov 3 5 Marina Avstriskaya / Yuri Kvashnin 5 6 Babette Preußler / Torsten Ohlow 7 Claudia Massari / Leonardo Azzola 6 8 Susan Garland / Ian Jenkins 7 9 Jana Havlova / René Novotný 10 Nathalie Tortel / Xavier Douillard 11 Birgit Kuß / Uwe Fischbeck 12 Naija Pekkala / Pekka Pekkala 8
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation 1 Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin 2 Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin 3 Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater 4 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 5 Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu 6 Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn 7 Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams 8 Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola 9 Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán 10 Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint 11 Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer 12 Marianne van Bommel / Wayne Deweyert
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