2012 NRW Trophy

The 2012 NRW Trophy was an international figure skating competition during the 2012–2013 season. An annual event organized by the Skating Union of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eislauf Union and the International Skating Union since 2007.

2012 NRW Trophy
Type:	Senior international
Date:	2–4 November (Ice dance) 5–9 December (Other)
Season:	2012–2013
Location:	Dortmund
Venue:	Eissportzentrum Westfalenhalle
Champions
Men's singles: Konstantin Menshov (S) Vladislav Smirnov (J) Deniss Vasiljevs (N)
Ladies' singles: Yuna Kim (S) Elizaveta Ukolova (J) Diana Nikitina (N)
Pair skating: Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (S) Annabelle Prolss / Ruben Blommaert (J)
Ice dance: Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones (S) Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern (J) Ksenia Konkina / Georgy Reviya (N)
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Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was held in Dortmund, Germany in two parts. The Ice Dance Trophy, in which ice dancers compete on the senior, junior, and novice levels, will be held from 2–4 November 2012.^[1] The singles and pairs portion, also with senior, junior, and novice levels, was held from 5–9 December 2012.^[2] 2010 Olympic champion Yuna Kim of Korea made her return to competition at the event.^[3] The senior gold medals were won by Kim in the ladies' singles event,^[4] Germany's Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy in pairs,^[5] Russia's Konstantin Menshov in men's singles, and France's Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones in ice dancing.

Entries

The entries were as follows.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing^[6]
Australia				Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman
Austria		Kerstin Frank Belinda Schönberger
Belgium	Jorik Hendrickx
Belarus	Pavel Ignatenko Mikhail Karaliuk Vitali Luchanok		Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov
Bulgaria			Elizabeta Makarova / Leri Kenchadze	Sarah May Coward / Georgi Kenchadze
Czech Republic	Michal Březina Petr Coufal Marco Zakouril	Eliška Březinová
Estonia	Viktor Romanenkov
Finland	Matthias Versluis Valtter Virtanen	Alisa Mikonsaari		Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo
France	Chafik Besseghier	Maé-Bérénice Meite	Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres Daria Popova / Bruno Massot	Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones
Germany	Franz Streubel Alexander Schöpke Denis Wieczorek Viktor Kremke Paul Fentz Peter Liebers	Sarah Hecken Nathalie Weinzierl Katharina Zientek Isabel Drescher	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Katharina Müller / Justin Gerke
United Kingdom	Harry Mattick			Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne Louise Walden / Owen Edwards
Israel				Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov
Italy	Paolo Bacchini	Valentina Marchei Roberta Rodeghiero	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Japan	Ryuichi Kihara	Satsuki Muramoto		Cathy Reed / Chris Reed
Kazakhstan	Denis Ten
South Korea	Kim Jin-seo	Yuna Kim Lee Ho-jung
Lithuania		Inga Janulevičiūtė		Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas
Luxembourg		Fleur Maxwell
Monaco	Kim Lucine
Philippines	Michael Christian Martinez
Poland	Maciej Cieplucha Patrick Myzyk			Natalia Kaliszek / Michal Kaliszek
Russia	Artur Gachinski Konstantin Menshov Mark Shakhmatov	Ksenia Makarova Kristina Zaseeva	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuiev
Slovakia		Monika Simančíková
Spain	Víctor Bustamente Javier Raya	Sonia Lafuente
Sweden	Alexander Majorov	Viktoria Helgesson Joshi Helgesson	Ronja Roll / Gustav Forsgren
Switzerland			Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer
Turkey				Alisa Agafonova / Alper Ucar
Ukraine	Dmytro Ihnatenko Igor Reznichenko	Natalia Popova	Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge

Senior results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Konstantin Menshov	Russia	238.68	1	79.73	1	158.90
2	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	213.09	2	70.29	5	142.80
3	Peter Liebers	Germany	211.75	4	67.77	3	143.98
4	Chafik Besseghier	France	210.75	5	67.63	4	143.12
5	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	210.66	6	65.01	2	145.65
6	Alexander Majorov	Sweden	193.74	7	60.82	6	132.92
7	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	193.68	3	69.95	7	124.03
8	Paul Fentz	Germany	181.63	12	58.49	8	123.14
9	Mark Shakhmatov	Russia	173.32	18	50.65	9	122.67
10	Franz Streubel	Germany	172.29	11	58.56	12	113.73
11	Denis Wieczorek	Germany	171.31	9	59.48	13	111.83
12	Dmytro Ihnatenko	Ukraine	169.33	17	53.72	11	115.61
13	Michael Christian Martinez	Philippines	167.42	8	59.90	18	107.52
14	Valtter Virtanen	Finland	167.15	10	58.79	15	108.36
15	Igor Reznichenko	Ukraine	164.16	14	56.29	17	107.89
16	Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	162.34	25	40.61	10	121.73
17	Javier Raya	Spain	162.28	19	50.59	14	111.69
18	Felipe Montoya	Spain	162.23	13	57.17	22	105.06
19	Petr Coufal	Czech Republic	161.18	16	54.51	20	107.30
20	Víctor Bustamente	Spain	161.16	15	55.74	21	105.42
21	Saverio Giacomelli	Italy	158.18	20	50.23	16	107.95
22	Harry Mattick	Great Britain	157.25	21	49.89	19	107.36
23	Matthias Versluis	Finland	150.31	22	48.37	23	101.84
24	Matthew Parr	Great Britain	137.27	23	44.31	24	92.96
25	Viktor Kremke	Germany	120.43	24	42.60	25	77.83
26	Florian Gostelie	Netherlands	106.60	26	38.32	27	68.28
27	Saulius Ambrulevicius	Lithuania	105.54	27	32.14	26	73.40
WD	Jorik Hendrickx

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuna Kim	South Korea	201.61	1	72.27	1	129.34
2	Ksenia Makarova	Russia	159.01	2	59.55	6	99.46
3	Viktoria Helgesson	Sweden	158.93	5	53.28	3	105.65
4	Maé Bérénice Méité	France	156.39	3	54.36	5	101.83
5	Satsuki Muramoto	Japan	154.98	11	46.74	2	107.34
6	Nathalie Weinzierl	Germany	154.41	6	51.46	4	102.95
7	Kristina Zaseeva	Russia	148.22	7	51.41	7	96.81
8	Natalia Popova	Ukraine	144.95	9	48.63	8	96.32
9	Joshi Helgesson	Sweden	144.03	4	54.42	10	89.61
10	Sonia Lafuente	Spain	138.10	13	45.80	9	92.30
11	Monika Simančíková	Slovakia	136.21	8	48.65	13	87.56
12	Kerstin Frank	Austria	135.49	12	47.12	11	88.37
13	Anne Line Gjersem	Norway	131.25	10	48.26	15	82.99
14	Inga Janulevičiūtė	Lithuania	129.35	16	43.30	14	86.05
15	Sarah Hecken	Germany	129.15	17	41.09	12	88.06
16	Kaat Van Daele	Belgium	126.27	14	44.11	17	82.16
17	Alisa Mikonsaari	Finland	123.07	15	43.73	19	79.34
18	Vera Vaisto	Finland	121.70	20	39.40	16	82.30
19	Fleur Maxwell	Luxembourg	121.16	18	41.06	18	80.55
20	Isabel Drescher	Germany	116.36	26	38.18	20	78.18
21	Caterina Andermarcher	Italy	115.31	21	38.70	22	76.71
22	Katharina Zientek	Germany	112.75	26	36.00	21	76.75
23	Katie Powell	Great Britain	109.87	19	40.74	27	69.13
24	Romy Bühler	Switzerland	109.05	22	38.57	24	70.48
25	Michelle Couwenberg	Netherlands	106.31	28	35.87	25	70.44
26	Lejeanne Marais	South Africa	105.51	29	33.19	23	72.32
27	Belinda Schönberger	Austria	104.67	25	36.51	28	68.16
28	Anna Khnychenkova	Ukraine	101.44	27	35.94	26	69.45
29	Alīna Fjodorova	Latvia	99.62	34	30.17	26	69.13
30	Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook	Thailand	99.36	24	36.64	32	62.72
31	Crystal Kiang	Chinese Taipei	99.09	31	32.71	29	66.38
32	Marina Seeh	Serbia	96.08	30	32.90	31	63.18
33	Reyna Hamui	Mexico	92.05	33	30.45	33	61.60
34	Kelly Harrison	Great Britain	91.95	32	31.43	34	60.52
35	Victoria Muniz	Puerto Rico	88.81	35	29.15	35	59.56
36	Joyce Den Hollander	Netherlands	78.84	36	26.87	36	51.97

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany	207.52	1	73.55	1	133.97
2	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	178.64	3	58.85	2	119.79
3	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	France	171.03	2	60.49	3	110.54
4	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	150.41	4	55.81	4	94.60
5	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Germany	129.20	5	41.09	5	88.11
6	Elizaveta Makarova / Leri Kenchadze	Bulgaria	118.18	6	40.23	6	77.95
7	Angelina Ekaterinina / Philipp Tarasov	Azerbaijan	112.47	7	37.05	7	75.42
8	Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov	Belarus	102.71	8	33.01	8	69.70
9	Ronja Roll / Gustav Forsgren	Sweden	98.79	9	31.66	9	67.13

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones	France	147.47	1	59.74	1	87.73
2	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	Japan	140.83	2	55.88	2	84.95
3	Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuiev	Russia	135.23	4	50.88	3	84.35
4	Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov	Russia	130.21	5	49.34	4	80.97
5	Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne	Great Britain	126.23	6	47.41	5	78.82
6	Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov	Israel	124.35	3	51.95	8	72.40
7	Louise Walden / Owen Edwards	Great Britain	117.24	9	43.06	6	74.18
8	Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman	Australia	117.15	7	44.62	7	72.53
9	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	113.43	8	43.82	9	69.61
10	Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo	Finland	105.72	12	37.71	10	68.01
11	Katharina Muller / Justin Gerke	Germany	100.39	13	37.59	11	62.80
12	Natalia Kaliszek / Michał Kaliszek	Poland	94.95	10	38.51	12	56.44
13	Sarah May Coward / Georgi Kenchadze	Bulgaria	90.01	11	37.85	13	52.16
WD	Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov	Russia

Junior results

Junior men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Vladislav Smirnov	Russia	182.12	1		2
2	Feodosiy Efremenkov	Russia	180.36	3		1
3	Moris Kvitelashvili	Russia	163.87	2		3
4	Pavel Ignatenko	Belarus	150.87	4		4
5	Alexander Bjelde	Germany	145.83	5		5

16 total competitors

Junior ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Elizaveta Ukolova	Czech Republic	131.78	2		1
2	Guia Tagliapietra	Italy	131.06	1		2
3	Sara Casella	Italy	125.84	5		3
4	Micol Cristini	Italy	122.85	12		4
5	Maria-Katharina Herceg	Germany	122.43	8		6

34 total competitors

Junior pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Annabelle Prolss / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	140.63	1		1
2	Arina Chernyavskaya / Antonio Cordeyro	Russia	132.79	2		2
3	Anastasia Dolidze / Vadim Ivanov	Russia	117.34	3		3
4	Giulia Foresti / Leo Luca Sforza	Italy	112.17	4		4

8 teams in total

Junior ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Shari Koch / Christian Nuchtern	Germany	147.30	1		2
2	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	145.36	2		1
3	Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti	Italy	133.39	3		3
4	Maria Simonova / Dmitri Dragun	Russia	129.31	4		4
5	Cagla Demirsal / Berk Akalin	Turkey	124.83	6		5
6	Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov	South Korea	123.26	7		6
7	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	122.80	5		7

31 teams in total

Novice results

Advanced novice men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP	FS
1	Deniss Vasiljevs	Latvia	117.29	1	1
2	Ilya Khyazhuk	Russia	97.35	2	2
3	Roman Demyanov	Russia	89.37	3	3
4	Faris Heritz	Germany	82.99	5	4

14 total competitors

Advanced novice ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP	FS
1	Diana Nikitina	Latvia	99.72	5	1
2	Deimante Kizalaite	Lithuania	97.14	1	2
3	Lea Johanna Dastich	Germany	90.18	7	3
4	Karolina Luhtonen	Russia	90.13	2	5

27 total competitors

Advanced novice ice dancing

• P1 = Pattern dance: Kilian
• P2 = Pattern dance: Blues

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	P1	P2	FD
1	Ksenia Konkina / Georgy Reviya	Russia	68.31	1	1	1
2	Yulia Tultseva / Grigoriy Yakushev	Russia	65.73	3	2	2
3	Arina Makhrinova / Dmitriy Kotlov	Russia	63.36	9	4	3
4	Lilia Yutanina / Andrei Filatov	Russia	61.35	4	5	4

14 teams in total

References

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2. . International Skating Union. 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
3. Kany, Klaus-Reinhold (December 4, 2012). "Kim's return turns Dortmund event into fan frenzy". IceNetwork.
4. Kany, Klaus-Reinhold (December 9, 2012). "Kim shows some rust, still breaks 200-point mark". IceNetwork.
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6. . LEV NRW e.V. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2012.

External links

• Official site of the NRW Trophy
• Results: Singles and Pairs
• Results: Ice dancing