| 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy | |
| Comptype: | Senior International |
| Startdate: | September 27 |
| Enddate: | 29 |
| Skatingseason: | 2012–13 |
| Location: | Oberstdorf |
| Venue: | Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf |
| Championmen: |  Nobunari Oda |
| Championladies: |  Kaetlyn Osmond |
| Championpairs: |  Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov |
| Championdance: |  Madison Chock / Evan Bates |
| Previouscomp: | 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy |
| Nextcomp: | 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy |
The 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy was held on September 27–29, 2012 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf. The event is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain.
It is one of the first international senior competitions of the season. Skaters are entered by their respective national federations and compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The Fritz-Geiger-Memorial Trophy is presented to the team with the highest placements across all disciplines.
Japan's Nobunari Oda returned from injury to win gold at Nebelhorn, while Russia's Konstantin Menshov took silver, and the United States' Keegan Messing took bronze.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobunari Oda | 233.33 | 1 | 79.64 | 1 | 153.69 | ||
| 2 | Konstantin Menshov | 212.94 | 2 | 69.30 | 2 | 143.64 | ||
| 3 | Keegan Messing | 210.78 | 3 | 68.56 | 4 | 142.22 | ||
| 4 | Stephen Carriere | 209.11 | 8 | 65.68 | 3 | 143.43 | ||
| 5 | Michal Březina | 201.71 | 5 | 67.78 | 7 | 133.93 | ||
| 6 | Tomáš Verner | 199.98 | 10 | 60.69 | 5 | 139.29 | ||
| 7 | Denis Ten | 198.39 | 4 | 67.88 | 8 | 130.51 | ||
| 8 | Ivan Bariev | 196.54 | 11 | 60.05 | 6 | 136.49 | ||
| 9 | Andrei Rogozine | 196.27 | 7 | 67.31 | 9 | 128.96 | ||
| 10 | Peter Liebers | 195.59 | 6 | 67.41 | 10 | 128.18 | ||
| 11 | Paul Bonifacio Parkinson | 179.25 | 12 | 58.93 | 11 | 120.32 | ||
| 12 | Alexander Majorov | 175.22 | 9 | 61.55 | 14 | 113.67 | ||
| 13 | Paolo Bacchini | 175.04 | 13 | 60.69 | 13 | 118.57 | ||
| 14 | Elladj Baldé | 171.83 | 18 | 54.41 | 12 | 119.82 | ||
| 15 | Alexei Bychenko | 165.59 | 17 | 53.29 | 15 | 112.30 | ||
| 16 | Paul Fentz | 163.15 | 16 | 53.44 | 16 | 109.71 | ||
| 17 | Maciej Cieplucha | 154.95 | 22 | 47.51 | 17 | 107.44 | ||
| 18 | Phillip Harris | 154.80 | 14 | 52.01 | 18 | 100.39 | ||
| 19 | Yakov Godorozha | 148.81 | 15 | 51.41 | 19 | 94.47 | ||
| 20 | Zoltán Kelemen | 142.10 | 21 | 48.68 | 20 | 93.42 | ||
| 21 | Vitali Luchanok | 141.11 | 20 | 48.68 | 21 | 91.43 | ||
| 22 | Valtter Virtanen | 136.97 | 19 | 51.41 | 22 | 85.56 | ||
| 23 | Luiz Manella | 131.96 | 23 | 47.33 | 23 | 84.63 | ||
| 24 | Mark Webster | 117.05 | 24 | 40.53 | 24 | 76.52 | ||
Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond won her first senior international title, Russia's Adelina Sotnikova took the silver, and Japan's Haruka Imai won bronze.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaetlyn Osmond | 170.19 | 2 | 55.68 | 1 | 114.51 | ||
| 2 | Adelina Sotnikova | 168.23 | 1 | 58.48 | 2 | 109.75 | ||
| 3 | Haruka Imai | 153.64 | 9 | 47.70 | 3 | 105.94 | ||
| 4 | Jelena Glebova | 152.36 | 3 | 54.26 | 4 | 98.10 | ||
| 5 | Polina Shelepen | 147.59 | 4 | 53.63 | 6 | 93.96 | ||
| 6 | Viktoria Helgesson | 145.16 | 7 | 48.17 | 5 | 96.99 | ||
| 7 | Nathalie Weinzierl | 142.96 | 5 | 49.64 | 7 | 93.32 | ||
| 8 | Brooklee Han | 142.02 | 6 | 49.08 | 8 | 92.94 | ||
| 9 | Juulia Turkkila | 137.36 | 8 | 47.70 | 9 | 89.66 | ||
| 10 | Sarah Hecken | 125.66 | 11 | 43.12 | 11 | 82.54 | ||
| 11 | Isadora Williams | 124.91 | 12 | 41.96 | 10 | 82.95 | ||
| 12 | Caroline Zhang | 124.13 | 10 | 45.43 | 12 | 78.70 | ||
| 13 | Kerstin Frank | 114.35 | 13 | 41.60 | 16 | 72.75 | ||
| 14 | Reyna Hamui | 114.03 | 14 | 40.04 | 15 | 73.99 | ||
| 15 | Fleur Maxwell | 110.92 | 17 | 36.10 | 14 | 74.82 | ||
| 16 | Eliška Březinová | 109.42 | 20 | 34.22 | 13 | 75.20 | ||
| 17 | Carol Bressanutti | 105.26 | 15 | 39.16 | 17 | 66.10 | ||
| 18 | Marina Seeh | 102.68 | 16 | 37.11 | 18 | 65.57 | ||
| 19 | Nea Viiri | 99.31 | 19 | 35.02 | 19 | 64.29 | ||
| 20 | Rosaliina Kuparinen | 97.45 | 18 | 35.12 | 20 | 62.33 | ||
| 21 | Lejeanne Marais | 91.10 | 22 | 29.64 | 21 | 61.46 | ||
| 22 | Dominika Murckova | 83.84 | 21 | 30.76 | 22 | 53.08 | ||
Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov repeated as Nebelhorn champions, while the United States' Caydee Denney / John Coughlin took silver and France's Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres won bronze, their first international medal. There were two withdrawals following the short program – Russia's Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov withdrew due to a recurrence of an jury to Bazarova's right hip, while Germany's Mari Vartmann picked into her right foot when she fell on a throw triple loop during the short and was unable to put on her skate the next day due to swelling.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | 196.55 | 1 | 65.24 | 1 | 131.31 | ||
| 2 | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | 178.90 | 2 | 57.29 | 2 | 121.61 | ||
| 3 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | 151.52 | 3 | 55.00 | 4 | 96.52 | ||
| 4 | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | 145.35 | 6 | 43.21 | 3 | 102.14 | ||
| 5 | Daria Popova / Bruno Massot | 132.68 | 5 | 47.44 | 5 | 85.24 | ||
| 6 | Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski | 110.31 | 8 | 34.68 | 6 | 75.63 | ||
| 7 | Ronja Roll / Gustav Forsgren | 94.48 | 9 | 34.49 | 7 | 59.99 | ||
| WD | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | 4 | 52.43 | |||||
| WD | Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave | 7 | 37.50 | |||||
Madison Chock / Evan Bates of the United States won their first international title, while Julia Zlobina / Alexander Sitnikov of Azerbaijan took the silver, and Germany's Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi dropped from first after the short dance to finish third overall.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 147.79 | 2 | 56.97 | 1 | 90.82 | ||
| 2 | Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov | 143.59 | 3 | 56.95 | 2 | 86.64 | ||
| 3 | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | 142.00 | 1 | 59.58 | 5 | 82.42 | ||
| 4 | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | 139.70 | 4 | 54.92 | 3 | 84.78 | ||
| 5 | Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam | 137.92 | 5 | 54.50 | 4 | 83.42 | ||
| 6 | Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun | 132.61 | 6 | 54.44 | 6 | 78.17 | ||
| 7 | Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill | 130.42 | 7 | 53.79 | 7 | 76.63 | ||
| 8 | Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost | 118.33 | 9 | 46.62 | 9 | 71.71 | ||
| 9 | Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz | 118.11 | 11 | 45.68 | 8 | 72.43 | ||
| 10 | Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown | 117.49 | 8 | 47.73 | 12 | 69.76 | ||
| 11 | Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne | 116.69 | 10 | 46.12 | 11 | 70.57 | ||
| 12 | Federica Bernardi / Christopher Mior | 114.89 | 12 | 43.90 | 10 | 70.99 | ||
| 13 | Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov | 107.32 | 13 | 42.54 | 13 | 64.78 | ||
| 14 | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion | 103.50 | 14 | 41.82 | 14 | 61.68 | ||
| WD | Zsuzsanna Nagy / Máté Fejes | 15 | 41.73 | |||||