2006 European Figure Skating Championships

Figure skating competition 2006 European Figure Skating Championships Irina Slutskaya 2006.jpg Irina Slutskaya ISU Championship January 17 22 2005–06 Lyon, France Palais des Sports de Lyon RUS Evgeni Plushenko RUS Irina Slutskaya RUS Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin RUS Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov 2005 European Championships 2007 European Championships The 2006 European Figure Skating Championships were a senior international figure skating competition in the 2005–06 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France, from January 17 to 22, 2006. Qualifying The competition was open to skaters from European ISU member nations who reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2005. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2006 Four Continents Championships. Based on the results of the 2005 European Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria. Medals table 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Overview Russia swept all four gold medals. In men's singles, Russia's Evgeni Plushenko won his fifth European title. Switzerland's Stéphane Lambiel and France's Brian Joubert won silver and bronze respectively. Russia's Irina Slutskaya won a record seventh European ladies' title, which put her ahead of Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie. Teammate Elena Sokolova took silver and Italy's Carolina Kostner the bronze. In the pairs' event, Russia's Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin won their fifth consecutive European title. Germany's Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy took silver and Russia's Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov the bronze. The Czech Republic's Olga Prokuronova / Karel Štefl, who were 10th in the short program, suffered a fall on a lift in the free skate. Prokuronova lay on the ice for several seconds before Štefl helped her to her feet and she exited the ice. They withdrew from the event. An ISU doctor said Prokuronova had not sustained a serious injury but was taken to the hospital for further examination. In ice dancing, Russia's Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov trailed in the compulsory dance but rebounded in the original and free dances to take their third consecutive European title, while Ukraine's Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov won silver and Lithuania's Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas the bronze. Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Evgeni Plushenko 245.33 1 82.80 1 162.53 2 Stéphane Lambiel 228.87 3 74.73 2 154.14 3 Brian Joubert 222.95 2 77.85 3 145.10 4 Frédéric Dambier 200.16 4 71.21 5 128.95 5 Ilia Klimkin 197.42 8 64.10 4 133.32 6 Alban Préaubert 190.18 5 69.08 8 121.10 7 Kevin van der Perren 182.32 11 59.98 7 122.34 8 Silvio Smalun 181.73 9 63.88 9 117.85 9 Gheorghe Chiper 181.51 6 66.46 11 115.05 10 Tomáš Verner 178.26 7 66.13 14 112.13 11 Ivan Dinev 177.18 16 54.30 6 122.88 12 Stefan Lindemann 176.70 10 60.70 10 116.00 13 Sergei Davydov 170.51 15 56.70 13 113.81 14 Kristoffer Berntsson 167.37 13 57.68 16 109.69 15 Sergei Dobrin 165.63 14 57.10 17 108.53 16 Anton Kovalevski 164.49 22 49.87 12 114.62 17 Gregor Urbas 162.95 18 52.99 15 109.96 18 Viktor Pfeifer 159.27 12 57.89 19 101.38 19 Karel Zelenka 158.96 19 52.98 18 105.98 20 Adrian Schultheiss 149.10 17 54.19 22 94.91 21 Jamal Othman 148.85 23 49.37 20 99.48 22 Roman Serov 148.10 21 50.05 21 98.05 23 Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari 137.11 20 51.14 23 85.97 24 Aidas Reklys 128.51 24 46.12 24 82.39 Free skating not reached 25 John Hamer 25 45.99 26 Zoltán Tóth 26 44.93 27 Michael Chrolenko 27 44.22 28 Przemysław Domański 28 42.55 29 Trifun Zivanovic 29 42.38 30 Igor Macypura 30 42.00 31 Zeus Issariotis 31 38.53 32 Alper Uçar 32 36.38 33 Boris Martinec 33 35.05 34 Adrian Matei 34 34.79 35 Yediel Canton 35 34.52 Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Irina Slutskaya 193.24 1 66.43 1 126.81 2 Elena Sokolova 177.81 2 60.88 2 116.93 3 Carolina Kostner 172.45 5 60.04 3 112.41 4 Sarah Meier 167.16 3 60.87 4 106.29 5 Elene Gedevanishvili 153.27 4 60.19 6 93.08 6 Kiira Korpi 146.37 11 47.74 5 98.63 7 Susanna Pöykiö 144.75 7 56.05 8 88.70 8 Alisa Drei 141.55 9 49.76 7 91.79 9 Viktoria Volchkova 131.88 6 57.08 15 74.80 10 Annette Dytrt 131.11 12 47.39 9 83.72 11 Idora Hegel 127.15 10 48.63 11 78.52 12 Viktória Pavuk 126.88 8 50.70 12 76.18 13 Tuğba Karademir 124.72 17 41.42 10 83.30 14 Júlia Sebestyén 121.90 13 46.61 13 75.29 15 Jelena Glebova 116.59 14 42.32 16 74.27 16 Sonia Radeva 114.24 21 39.29 14 74.95 17 Nadège Bobillier 112.88 15 41.89 19 70.99 18 Andrea Kreuzer 111.95 20 39.92 17 72.03 19 Valentina Marchei 111.66 19 40.31 18 71.35 20 Teodora Poštič 111.15 18 41.15 20 70.00 21 Martine Zuiderwijk 104.77 16 41.69 21 63.08 22 Ekaterina Proyda 96.47 24 37.17 22 59.30 23 Jacqueline Belenyesiová 94.93 23 37.27 23 57.66 24 Lina Johansson 90.61 22 38.09 24 52.52 Free skating not reached 25 Fleur Maxwell 25 37.10 26 Ivana Hudziecová 26 33.62 27 Cindy Carquillat 27 31.10 28 Željka Krizmanić 28 29.82 29 Olga Zadvornova 29 29.62 30 Kirsten Verbist 30 29.16 31 Ksenia Jastsenjski 31 23.00 32 Rūta Gajauskaitė 32 22.69 WD Roxana Luca Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin 195.87 1 68.04 1 127.83 2 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 188.08 3 64.46 2 123.62 3 Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov 187.04 2 66.07 3 120.97 4 Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov 173.90 4 62.21 4 111.69 5 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek 153.67 5 49.53 5 104.14 6 Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur 138.20 7 47.04 6 91.16 7 Eva-Maria Fitze / Rico Rex 134.44 8 46.02 7 88.42 8 Rebecca Handke / Daniel Wende 130.70 6 47.81 8 82.89 9 Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov 116.40 9 38.87 9 77.53 10 Julia Beloglazova / Andrei Bekh 108.95 11 36.45 10 72.50 11 Stacey Kemp / David King 106.80 13 35.98 11 70.82 12 Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks 103.06 14 35.47 12 67.59 13 Alina Dikhtiar / Filip Zalevski 101.02 12 36.04 13 64.98 WD Olga Prokuronova / Karel Štefl 10 37.51 Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD 1 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov 202.32 3 38.21 1 60.79 1 103.32 2 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov 196.73 1 38.82 3 58.79 4 99.12 3 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 196.18 2 38.34 5 56.95 2 100.89 4 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 194.49 4 35.66 2 59.02 3 99.81 5 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski 188.91 5 34.79 4 57.03 5 97.09 6 Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin 175.72 7 32.69 6 53.31 6 89.72 7 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali 167.86 6 33.21 7 51.54 10 83.11 8 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr 167.19 8 31.96 9 51.00 7 84.23 9 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin 165.62 9 30.06 8 51.52 9 84.04 10 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski 162.65 10 28.64 10 49.79 8 84.22 11 Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat 156.46 11 28.63 11 47.61 11 80.22 12 Nóra Hoffmann / Attila Elek 152.25 13 27.08 12 45.64 12 79.53 13 Christina Beier / William Beier 151.04 12 28.62 13 45.41 13 77.01 14 Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azroyan 144.52 14 26.25 14 44.09 14 74.18 15 Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski 138.47 17 22.70 15 42.39 15 73.38 16 Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych 135.91 16 23.74 17 39.20 16 72.97 17 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko 135.87 15 24.53 16 41.42 17 69.92 18 Alessia Aureli / Andrea Vaturi 128.07 19 20.89 18 39.12 18 68.06 19 Kamila Hájková / David Vincour 127.77 18 22.31 20 37.70 19 67.76 20 Phillipa Towler-Green / Phillip Poole 122.92 20 20.84 19 39.03 21 63.05 21 Zsuzsanna Nagy / György Elek 118.89 21 18.91 21 35.40 20 64.58 22 Leonie Krail / Oscar Peter 109.94 22 17.80 22 33.92 22 58.22 References http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/10909008/ Slutskaya sets record with 7th European title Associated Press MSNBC.com January 20, 2006 September 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111113184056/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/10909008 November 13, 2011 dead https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/winter/2006-01-21-european-figure-skating_x.htm Plushenko wins fifth skating title at Europeans Salvatore Zanca Associated Press USA Today.com January 21, 2006 September 15, 2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/sports/olympics-roundup-plushenko-wins-a-fifth-title-and-russia-has-a-gold.html Plushenko Wins a Fifth Title, And Russia Has a Gold Sweep The New York Times January 22, 2006 September 15, 2011 https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/winter/2006-01-17-euro-figure-skating_x.htm Russians lead pairs, trail in ice dance Salvatore Zanca Associated Press USA Today.com January 17, 2006 September 15, 2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/sports/sportsspecial1/19skating.ready.html Czech Pairs Suffers Nasty Spill Reuters The New York Times 19 January 2006 External links isuresults.org ec2006 Eurosport's page about the Championships Photos of the European Championships 2006 European Figure Skating Championships, 2006 Category:European Figure Skating Championships E Category:International figure skating competitions hosted by France European Figure Skating Championships European Figure Skating Championships, 2006