Blue Swords
Blue Swords (German: Pokal der Blauen Schwerter) is an international figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union. It is usually held in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Champions of the event win the "Blue Swords Trophy".
History[]
Blue Swords began as a senior international competition in East Germany, and was held annually between 1961 and 1998. In 1985, it became a junior-level event.[1] Since 1997, it is chosen in some years by the International Skating Union to be part of the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. These are the only years when the event is still held.
The German name for the event is "Pokal der Blauen Schwerter", referring to the blue swords trademark of Meissen porcelain. The Blue Sword Trophy is made of that porcelain.
Senior medalists[]
Men[]
Men's medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold[1] | Silver | Bronze | Details |
Bodo Bockenauer | ||||
Bodo Bockenauer | Valeri Meshkov | |||
Ralph Borghard | ||||
Robert Dureville | Ondrej Nepela | Günter Zöller | ||
1965 | Ralph Borghard | Robert Dureville | Günter Zöller | |
1966 | Günter Zöller | Marian Filc | Reinhard Ketterer | |
1967 | Günter Zöller | Vladimir Kurenbin | Günter Anderl | |
1968 | Günter Zöller | Valeri Meshkov | Vladimir Kurenbin | |
1969 | Günter Zöller | Vladimir Kovalev | Jan Hoffmann | |
1970 | Jan Hoffmann | Igor Bobrin | Ralf Richter | |
1971 | Jan Hoffmann | Bernd Wunderlich | ||
1972 | Jan Hoffmann | Bernd Wunderlich | Konstantin Kokora | |
1973 | Jan Hoffmann | Igor Bobrin | Ronald Koppelent | |
1974 | Konstantin Kokora | Bernd Wunderlich | Hermann Schulz | |
1975 | Jan Hoffmann | Mario Liebers | ||
1976 | Konstantin Kokora | Mario Liebers | Gilles Beyer | |
1977 | Mario Liebers | |||
1978 | Hermann Schulz | Heiko Fischer | ||
1979 | Jan Hoffmann | Mario Liebers | Norbert Schramm | |
1980 | Grzegorz Głowania | Falko Kirsten | ||
1981 | Alexander König | Thomas Wieser | ||
1982 | Falko Kirsten | Fernand Fedronic | Didier Manaud | |
1983 | Falko Kirsten |
Ladies[]
Ladies' medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold[1] | Silver | Bronze | Details |
Gabriele Seyfert | ||||
Eva Grožajová | Gabriele Seyfert | Heidemarie Steiner | ||
Gabriele Seyfert | ||||
Gabriele Seyfert | Jana Mrazkova | Beate Richter | ||
1965 | Gabriele Seyfert | Beate Richter | ||
1966 | Gabriele Seyfert | Martina Clausner | Beate Richter | |
1967 | Beate Richter | Martina Clausner | ||
1968 | Sonja Morgenstern | Christine Errath | ||
1969 | Sonja Morgenstern | Christine Errath | ||
1970 | Sonja Morgenstern | Christine Errath | ||
1971 | Christine Errath | Anita Johansson | Marina Titova | |
1972 | Christine Errath | Marion Weber | ||
1973 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber | |
1974 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber | |
1975 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | ||
1976 | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber | Carola Weissenberg | |
1977 | Natalia Strelkova | Marion Weber | ||
1978 | Katarina Witt | Sonja Stanek | ||
1979 | Anett Pötzsch | Katarina Witt | Carola Weissenberg | |
1980 | Anett Pötzsch | Svetlana Frantsuzova | Janina Wirth | |
1981 | Katarina Witt | Anna Kondrashova | ||
1982 | Janina Wirth | |||
1983 | Janina Wirth | Beatrice Gelmini |
Pair skating[]
Ice dancing[]
Ice dancing medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold[1] | Silver | Bronze | Details |
No ice dancing event in 1961 | [1] | |||
/ | ||||
Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | ||||
Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | / | ||
1965 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | / | Dana Novotná / Jaroslav Hainz | |
1966 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw | |
1967 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | / | |
1968 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Ilona Berecz / Istvan Sugar | |
1969 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | |
No ice dancing event 1970–1984 | [1] |
Junior medalists[]
Men[]
Junior men's medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
1984 | Vladimir Petrenko | Daniel Weiss | ||
1985 | Vladimir Petrenko | Rudy Galindo | Yuriy Tsymbalyuk | [1][2] |
1986 | Yuriy Tsymbalyuk | Rico Krahnert | Mirko Eichhorn | [1][2] |
1987 | Ronny Winkler | Philippe Candeloro | Elvis Stojko | [1][2] |
Viacheslav Zagorodniuk | Scott Davis | Mirko Eichhorn | [1][2] | |
Mirko Eichhorn | Zsolt Kerekes | [1] | ||
1990 | Dmitri Dmitrenko | [1] | ||
1991 | Konstantin Kostin | John Bevan | [1][2] | |
1992 | Evgeni Pliuta | [1][2] | ||
1993 | Naoki Shigematsu | Yvan Desjardins | Markus Leminen | [1][2] |
1994 | Gabriel Monnier | Jens ter Laak | Michael Hopfes | [1] |
1995 | Alexei Yagudin | Gabriel Monnier | David Jäschke | [1][3] |
1996 | Evgeni Plushenko | Timothy Goebel | Vincent Restencourt | [4][2] |
1997 | Matthew Savoie | Alexei Vasilevski | David Jäschke | [1][2] |
1998 | Vincent Restencourt | Stefan Lindemann | Scott Smith | [5] |
2000 | Stanislav Timchenko | Evan Lysacek | [6][7] | |
2002 | Sergei Dobrin | Tomáš Verner | Nicholas LaRoche | |
2004 | Jamal Othman | Alexander Uspenski | Princeton Kwong | [8][9] |
2007 | Brandon Mroz | Michal Březina | Takahito Mura | [10] |
2009 | Song Nan | Artur Gachinski | Gordei Gorshkov | [11] |
2010 | Richard Dornbush | Gordei Gorshkov | Ryuichi Kihara | [12] |
2012 | Maxim Kovtun | Shoma Uno | Alexander Samarin | [13][14] |
2014 | Andrei Lazukin | He Zhang | Yaroslav Paniot | [15] |
Ladies[]
Junior ladies' medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
1984 | Inga Gauter | Natalia Skrabnevskaya | Evelyn Großmann | |
1985 | Natalia Gorbenko | Inga Gauter | Cornelia Renner | [1][2] |
1986 | Inga Gauter | Tanja Krienke | [1][2] | |
1987 | Karen Preston | [1][2] | ||
Tanja Krienke | Tisha Walker | [1][2] | ||
Tanja Krienke | Kaisa Kella | [1][2] | ||
1990 | [1] | |||
1991 | Anna Rechnio | [1][2] | ||
1992 | Tanja Szewczenko | Astrid Hochstetter | [1][2] | |
1993 | Kateřina Beránková | Astrid Hochstetter | [1][2] | |
1994 | Tara Lipinski | Yulia Lavrenchuk | [1] | |
1995 | Sydne Vogel | Elena Pingacheva | Fumie Suguri | [1][3] |
1996 | Elena Pingacheva | Angela Nikodinov | Veronika Dytrt | [4][2] |
1997 | Amber Corwin | Julia Soldatova | [1][2] | |
1998 | Irina Nikolaeva | Anna Jurkiewicz | Sara Wheat | [5] |
2000 | Kristina Oblasova | Sara Wheat | Tamara Dorofejev | [6][7] |
2002 | Olga Naidenova | Adriana DeSanctis | Jenna McCorkell | |
2004 | Kiira Korpi | Danielle Kahle | Katy Taylor | [8][9] |
2007 | Sarah Hecken | Rachael Flatt | Rumi Suizu | [10] |
2009 | Kiri Baga | Angela Maxwell | Polina Agafonova | [11] |
2010 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Christina Gao | Ira Vannut | [12] |
2012 | Anna Pogorilaya | Miyabi Oba | Maria Stavitskaia | [13][14] |
2014 | Wakaba Higuchi | Elizabet Turzynbaeva | Alexandra Proklova | [15] |
Pairs[]
Junior pairs medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
1984 | Irina Mironenko / Dmitri Shkidchenko | / | Katrin Kanitz / Alexander König | |
1985 | / | / | Ekaterina Murugova / Artem Torgashev | [1][2] |
1986 | / | / | / | [1][2] |
1987 | / | / | Jodi Barnes / | [1][2] |
Elena Nikonova / Nikolai Apter | Sherry Ball / Christopher Bourne | / | [1][2] | |
/ | / | Shae-Lynn Bourne / | [1][2] | |
1990 | ||||
1991 | Natalia Krestianinova / Alexei Torchinski | / Bruno Marcotte | / | [1][2] |
1992 | Inga Korshunova / Dmitri Saveliev | / David Pelletier | / | [1][2] |
1993 | Silvia Dimitrov / Rico Rex | / | / | [1][2] |
1994 | Danielle Hartsell / Steve Hartsell | Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko | Olga Semkina / Andrei Chuvilaev | [1] |
1995 | / | Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | [1][3] |
1996 | Maria Petrova / | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | Sabrina Lefrançois / Nicolas Osseland | [4][16][2] |
1997 | / Jered Guzman | Julia Obertas / Dmitri Palamarchuk | Svetlana Nikolaeva / Alexei Sokolov | [1][2] |
1998 | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | Laura Handy / J. Paul Binnebose | / | [5] |
2000 | Amanda Magarian / Jered Guzman | Svetlana Nikolaeva / Pavel Lebedev | Julia Shapiro / Dmitri Khromin | [6][7] |
2002 | Jessica Dubé / | Maria Mukhortova / Pavel Lebedev | Tiffany Stiegler / Johnnie Stiegler | |
2004 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Brittany Vise / Nicholas Kole | Angelika Pylkina / Niklas Hogner | [8][9] |
2007 | Jessica Rose Paetsch / Jon Nuss | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | [10] |
2009 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Zhang Yue / Wang Lei | Britney Simpson / Nathan Miller | [11] |
2010 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran | Anna Silaeva / Artur Minchuk | [12] |
2012 | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev | Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry | [13][14] |
2014 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson | [15] |
Ice dancing[]
Junior ice dancing medalists | ||||
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Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Details |
No ice dancing event 1985–1990 | [1] | |||
1991 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński | Elizabeth ? / Pierre ? | [1][2] |
1992 | Olga Sharutenko / Dmitri Naumkin | Iwona Filipowicz / Michał Szumski | Olga ? / Vitali ? | [1][2] |
1993 | / | Dominique Deniaud / Martial Jaffredo | Magali Sauri / | [1][2] |
1994 | Olga Sharutenko / Dmitri Naumkin | / | / Romain Haguenauer | [1] |
1995 | Ekaterina Davydova / Roman Kostomarov | / Łukasz Zalewski | Natalia Gudina / Vitali Kurkudym | [1][3] |
1996 | Nina Ulanova / Michail Stifunin | Agata Błażowska / Marcin Kozubek | Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler | [4][2] |
1997 | Oksana Potdykova / Denis Petukhov | Federica Faiella / Luciano Milo | Jamie Silverstein / Justin Pekarek | [1][2] |
1998 | Jamie Silverstein / Justin Pekarek | Federica Faiella / Luciano Milo | Tatiana Kurkudym / Juri Kocherzhenko | [5] |
2000 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | Miriam Steinel / Vladimir Tsvetkov | Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev | [6][7] |
2002 | Nóra Hoffmann / Attila Elek | Mariana Kozlova / Sergei Baranov | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | |
2004 | Natalia Mikhailova / Arkadi Sergeev | Camilla Pistorello / Luca Lanotte | Alexandra Zaretsky / Roman Zaretsky | [8][9] |
2007 | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov | Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | [10] |
2009 | Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro | Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi | Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue | [11] |
2010 | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev | Charlotte Lichtman / Dean Copely | [12] |
2012 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov | [13][14] |
2014 | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | / | [15] |
References[]
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External links[]
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