2008 German Figure Skating Championships Explained

2008 German Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	National Championship
Startdate:	January 3
Enddate:	6
Skatingseason:	2007–08
Location:	Dresden
Venue:	Freiberger Arena
Defendmen:	Stefan Lindemann
Defendladies:	Kristin Wieczorek
Defendpairs:	Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy
Defenddance:	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
Defendsynchro:	Team Berlin 1
Championmen:	Clemens Brummer
Championladies:	Sarah Hecken
Championpairs:	Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy
Championdance:	Christina Beier / William Beier
Championsynchro:	Team Berlin 1
Previouscomp:	2007 German Championships
Nextcomp:	2009 German Championships

The 2008 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen) took place on January 3–6, 2008 at the Freiberger Arena in Dresden. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior, junior, and novice levels.

The first senior compulsory dance was the Yankee Polka and the second was the Argentine Tango. The first junior compulsory dance was the Cha-Cha Congelado and the second was the Blues.

Medalists

Senior
Discipline	align=center bgcolor=gold	Gold	align=center bgcolor=silver	Silver	align=center bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
Men	Clemens Brummer	Peter Liebers	Martin Liebers
Ladies	Sarah Hecken	Isabel Drescher	Annette Dytrt
Pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Mari-Doris Vartmann / Florian Just	Ekaterina Vasilieva / Daniel Wende
Ice dance	Christina Beier / William Beier	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Carolina Hermann / Daniel Hermann
Synchronized skating	Team Berlin I	Magic Diamonds	United Angels
Junior
Discipline	align=center bgcolor=gold	Gold	align=center bgcolor=silver	Silver	align=center bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
Men	Daniel Dotzauer	Patrick Stein	Christopher Berneck
Ladies	Briana Munoz	Nathalie Weinzierl	Bettina Bayer
Ice dance		Jana Werner / Tim Giesen	Ekaterina Zabolotnaya / Julian Wagner
Synchronized skating	Team Berlin Junior	Skating Graces
Youth
Discipline	align=center bgcolor=gold	Gold	align=center bgcolor=silver	Silver	align=center bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
Boys	Matthias Hechler	Michael Zenkner
Girls	Jennifer Nitsche	Melanie Kasperek	Ariane Wittmann
Novice
Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys	Markus Ramisch	Panagiotis Polizoakis	Niko Ulanovsky
Girls A	Carolin Riesenweber	Anna-Katharina Kreisfeld	Shira Willner
Girls B	Julia Pfrengle	Luisa Weber	Christina Erdel
Pairs	Juliana Gurdzhi / Alexander Völler	Kim Schiffner / Paul Fentz	Vanessa Schöche / Andreas Müller
Ice dance	Dina Sophia König / Kai Constantin König	Alina Ivancikov / Sean Basler	Shirleen Schönfeld / Justin Gerke
Synchronized skating	Saxony Ice Pearls	Team Berlin Novice	Little Graces

Senior results

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1		SCC	BER	183.44	1	69.30	2	114.14
2		SCB	BER	175.04	3	56.00	1	119.04
3		SCB	BER	166.48	2	58.60	3	107.88
4	Michael Biondi	MEV	BAY	135.42	4	45.45	4	89.97
5	Norman Keck	MERC	B-W	124.49	5	39.57	5	84.92
6	Ferenc Kassai	EVGAP	BAY	99.39	6	35.70	6	63.69

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1		MERC	B-W	134.28	7	41.42	1	92.86
2		TSCD	NRW	130.77	2	46.58	2	84.19
3		ECO	BAY	129.25	1	51.82	5	77.43
4		USGC	SAS	125.57	5	42.02	3	83.55
5		BTSC	BER	125.13	4	43.14	4	81.99
6		MERC	B-W	121.26	3	43.94	6	77.32
7	Melanie Schäffer	TECW	B-W	112.23	9	37.46	7	74.77
8	Jessica Hujsl	KEK	NRW	106.03	10	37.18	8	68.85
9	Katja Grohmann	ESCE	THR	105.79	8	40.72	12	65.07
10		EVK	NRW	104.72	11	37.12	10	67.60
11	Mira Sonnenberg	DEG	NRW	103.13	6	41.68	13	61.45
12	Isabel Heintges	DSCK	NRW	102.79	12	36.38	11	66.41
13	Anita Ruttkies	ERCM	BAY	102.30	13	34.66	9	67.64
14	Laura Linde	SCB	BER	88.21	17	28.52	15	59.69
15	Anne Sachtler	SCB	BER	85.06	19	24.48	14	60.58
16	Jenny Pavlu	DEG	NRW	82.80	14	30.84	18	51.96
17	Desiree Löbel	EVU	B-W	82.01	15	30.78	19	51.23
18	Ina Seterbakken	ECO	BAY	81.95	18	26.00	16	55.95
19	Anissa Frank	DEG	NRW	81.51	16	28.88	17	52.63

Pairs

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1		CEC	SAS	214.67	1	77.98	1	136.69
2		DEG / EJE	NRW	136.71	2	47.38	2	89.33
3		EJE	NRW	113.54	3	42.98	3	70.56

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	CD1		CD2		OD		FD
1		TSCE	NRW	167.85	1	15.24	1	15.54	1	53.30	1	83.77
2		USGC / SCB	S / B	164.58	2	14.79	2	14.93	2	51.81	2	83.05
3		ERCW	NRW	151.30	3	13.82	3	13.74	3	47.02	3	76.72

Synchronized

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1	Team Berlin I	BTSC	BER	203.07	1	71.74	1	131.33
2	Magic Diamonds	ERCM	BAY	148.22	3	56.55	2	91.67
3	United Angels	TUSS	B-W	147.92	2	56.70	3	91.22

Junior results

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1		USGC	SAS	133.76	1	48.80	4	84.96
2	Patrick Stein	SCB	BER	133.68	2	44.65	1	89.03
3		SCB	BER	130.57	4	43.89	3	86.68
4		ESCE	THR	128.75	5	40.02	2	88.73
5		USBC	SAS	127.47	3	44.15	5	83.32
6		SCB	BER	115.89	7	36.60	6	79.29
7	Alexander Schöpke	DREC	SAS	111.23	12	32.69	7	78.54
8	Jurij Gnilozubov	ERCW	NRW	108.91	6	37.94	9	70.97
9	Viktor Kremke	EVA	BAY	107.08	8	34.25	8	72.83
10		SCB	BER	100.50	10	33.24	10	67.26
11	Samuel Kießling	ERCM	BAY	99.94	9	33.90	11	66.04
12	Imin Kurashvili	ECO	BAY	90.54	11	32.93	12	57.61
13	Konrad Hocker-Scholler	TECW	B-W	84.98	14	27.51	13	57.47
14	Peter Pfahl	ESCE	THR	81.71	13	32.53	14	49.18

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1	Briana Munoz	MERC	B-W	114.01	4	39.22	1	74.79
2		MERC	B-W	113.82	1	45.46	4	68.36
3	Bettina Bayer	EVA	BAY	112.12	3	40.02	2	72.10
4		DREC	SAS	108.61	5	38.52	3	70.09
5	Nicole Gurny	USGC	SAS	107.05	2	44.84	5	62.21
6	Giulia Sanna	ECO	BAY	93.70	6	35.08	6	58.62
7	Jeanny-Ann Kaiser	USGC	SAS	87.99	8	32.72	9	55.27
8	Sandra Weigmann	DREC	SAS	87.36	9	32.04	8	55.32
9	Jacqueline Drange	EJE	NRW	86.78	7	33.82	10	52.96
10	Christina Kelasidou	ESGE	B-W	86.62	15	28.32	7	58.30
11	Juliane Wagner	DREC	SAS	81.42	10	31.28	12	50.14
12	Julia Grünwald	SERC	B-W	80.09	13	29.72	11	50.37
13	Marielle Schuster	TECW	B-W	80.02	11	30.88	14	49.14
14	Stephanie Scholz	ESCE	THR	77.86	14	29.40	15	48.46
15	Aline Mai	BTSC	BER	77.70	16	27.92	13	49.78
16	Monique Szesny	DOEV	NRW	75.51	17	27.80	18	47.71
17	Jessica Exner	MERC	B-W	74.33	12	30.14	20	44.19
18	Kristina Semjonow	ERCW	NRW	73.70	19	25.52	17	48.18
19	Carolin Morlock	MERC	B-W	71.65	22	23.32	16	48.33
20	Diana Kurashvili	ECO	BAY	68.23	20	25.30	21	42.93
21	Tirza Imenkamp	ERCW	NRW	65.52	25	19.80	19	45.72
22	Sharon Prinz	SCB	BER	63.74	21	25.26	24	38.48
23	Christine Anstätt	EVA	BAY	63.40	18	27.18	25	36.22
24	Sonya Gonzales-Mier	BTSC	BER	63.07	23	22.42	22	40.65
25	Daniela Appiah	TUSS	B-W	60.87	24	20.68	23	40.19
WD	Megan Trogen	MEV	BAY

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	CD1		CD2		OD		FD
1	Ashley Foy / Benjamin Blum	TSCD	NRW	147.36	1	14.71	1	15.18	1	48.58	1	68.89
2		NSK	NRW	133.82	2	13.35	3	13.28	2	44.34	2	62.85
3	Ekaterina Zabolotnaya / Julian Wagner	MEV	BAY	129.70	3	12.64	2	13.45	3	42.88	3	60.73
4	Juliane Haslinger / Tom Finke	CEC	SAS	120.42	5	9.93	4	12.11	4	39.45	4	58.93
5	Dominique Dieck / Timo König	ERCW	NRW	113.55	4	11.35	5	12.07	5	36.79	5	53.34

Synchronized

Rank	Name	Club	Region	Total points	SP		FS
1	Team Berlin Junior	BTSC	BER	155.68	1	62.55	1	93.13
2	Skating Graces	USGC	SAS	112.05	2	46.28	2	65.77

External links

• 2008 German Championships: Senior, junior, novice pairs, novice ice dancing, and novice synchronized results
• 2008 German Championships: Youth and novice singles results