# 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy

The 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy was held between September 23 and 26, 2009 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It served as the final Olympic qualifier to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.

## Olympic qualification

This competition served as the final Olympic qualifier to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Eligible skaters qualified a spot to the Olympics for their country in order of their placement at this competition; there was no individual skater qualification. Countries who had already qualified a spot to the Olympics at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships were not eligible to qualify more spots here, and their results were discounted from the overall results when allotting spots to countries. Unlike at the World Championships, where countries could qualify more than one spot depending on the placement of the skater, at this competition, countries who qualified were allotted only one spot to the Olympics, regardless of placement.
There were six Olympic spots available in men's singles, seven in ladies' singles, four in pairs, and five in ice dance. There were originally only six spots available in the ladies event; however, Georgia gave up one of its ladies spots before the competition, which allowed a seventh spot to become available.
If a country later declined to use one or more of its qualified spots, the vacated spot was awarded using the results of the Nebelhorn Trophy in descending order of placement.

### Qualified countries

The following countries qualified an entry to the Olympics. In the event that a country chooses not to fill a spot, the next alternate in line is allotted the spot.
| Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Switzerland Austria Germany North Korea Romania Finland | China Hungary Slovenia Austria Spain Belgium Israel* | Switzerland Estonia Poland Italy | China Czech Republic Hungary Estonia Georgia |
| First Three Alternates ||||
| Belarus Estonia United Kingdom | Czech Republic Uzbekistan Australia | North Korea Chinese Taipei Greece | Greece |
* Georgia, which had earned two spots in the ladies event at the World Championships, informed the ISU before the competition that they would not be filling their second spot. Therefore, Israel qualified an entrant here.

## Schedule

(UTC+2)

### 24/09/2009

* 09:45 Ice dance: Compulsory dance
* 12:10 Men: Short program
* 17:10 Pairs: Short program
* 20:30 Ice dance: Original dance

### 25/09/2009

* 08:30 Ladies: Short program
* 13:50 Men: Free skating
* 19:45 Pairs: Free skating

### 26/09/2009

* 08:54 Ladies: Free skating
* 15:00 Ice dance: Free dance

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 232.36 | 1 | 77.45 | 1 | 154.91 |
| 2 | Ivan Tretiakov | Russia | 206.23 | 5 | 67.05 | 2 | 139.18 |
| 3 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 205.34 | 2 | 73.23 | 3 | 132.11 |
| 4 | Ryan Bradley | United States | 195.68 | 3 | 68.18 | 6 | 127.50 |
| 5 | Viktor Pfeifer | Austria | 194.66 | 6 | 65.32 | 5 | 129.34 |
| 6 | Yannick Ponsero | France | 187.56 | 13 | 55.50 | 4 | 132.06 |
| 7 | Akio Sasaki | Japan | 179.16 | 7 | 64.30 | 9 | 114.86 |
| 8 | Stefan Lindemann | Germany | 178.88 | 8 | 63.95 | 8 | 114.93 |
| 9 | Joey Russell | Canada | 174.91 | 4 | 67.80 | 13 | 107.11 |
| 10 | Maciej Cieplucha | Poland | 173.42 | 12 | 56.35 | 7 | 117.07 |
| 11 | Ri Song Chol | North Korea | 172.14 | 9 | 60.41 | 10 | 111.73 |
| 12 | Anton Kovalevski | Ukraine | 168.13 | 11 | 57.23 | 11 | 110.90 |
| 13 | Zoltán Kelemen | Romania | 164.72 | 15 | 54.49 | 12 | 110.23 |
| 14 | Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari | Finland | 164.67 | 10 | 57.68 | 14 | 106.99 |
| 15 | Alexandr Kazakov | Belarus | 159.45 | 14 | 55.38 | 17 | 104.07 |
| 16 | Viktor Romanenkov | Estonia | 154.61 | 19 | 51.00 | 18 | 103.61 |
| 17 | Matthew Parr | United Kingdom | 154.52 | 21 | 49.16 | 15 | 105.36 |
| 18 | Gregor Urbas | Slovenia | 151.38 | 23 | 46.59 | 16 | 104.79 |
| 19 | Wu Jialiang | China | 151.35 | 18 | 51.23 | 19 | 100.12 |
| 20 | Kim Min-seok | South Korea | 147.23 | 17 | 54.19 | 22 | 93.04 |
| 21 | Peter Reitmayer | Slovakia | 144.51 | 16 | 54.45 | 23 | 90.06 |
| 22 | Tigran Vardanjan | Hungary | 139.94 | 24 | 46.49 | 21 | 93.45 |
| 23 | Kevin Alves | Brazil | 138.16 | 20 | 50.82 | 24 | 87.34 |
| 24 | Stephen Li-Chung Kuo | Chinese Taipei | 137.01 | 27 | 43.00 | 20 | 94.01 |
| 25 | Maxim Shipov | Israel | 131.37 | 25 | 45.89 | 25 | 85.48 |
| 26 | Boris Martinec | Croatia | 124.14 | 22 | 46.63 | 27 | 77.51 |
| 27 | Kutay Eryoldas | Turkey | 117.60 | 26 | 45.32 | 29 | 72.28 |
| 28 | Damjan Ostojič | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 111.97 | 32 | 32.70 | 26 | 79.27 |
| 29 | Justin Pietersen | South Africa | 109.71 | 29 | 36.81 | 28 | 72.90 |
| 30 | Luis Hernández | Mexico | 105.70 | 28 | 37.64 | 31 | 68.06 |
| 31 | Robert McNamara | Australia | 104.79 | 31 | 34.96 | 30 | 69.83 |
| 32 | Pierre Balian | Armenia | 86.42 | 30 | 35.68 | 32 | 50.74 |
| WD | Fedor Andreev | Azerbaijan | | | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alissa Czisny | United States | 151.40 | 1 | 60.38 | 6 | 91.02 |
| 2 | Kiira Korpi | Finland | 150.01 | 2 | 58.34 | 4 | 91.67 |
| 3 | Liu Yan | China | 147.87 | 5 | 48.18 | 1 | 99.69 |
| 4 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 146.76 | 3 | 53.68 | 2 | 93.08 |
| 5 | Teodora Poštič | Slovenia | 139.97 | 6 | 47.82 | 3 | 92.15 |
| 6 | Miriam Ziegler | Austria | 132.38 | 4 | 52.54 | 11 | 79.84 |
| 7 | Sarah Hecken | Germany | 130.73 | 7 | 47.58 | 8 | 83.15 |
| 8 | Sonia Lafuente | Spain | 130.30 | 16 | 39.10 | 5 | 91.20 |
| 9 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | 129.33 | 9 | 46.02 | 7 | 83.31 |
| 10 | Katharina Häcker | Germany | 126.24 | 8 | 47.10 | 12 | 79.14 |
| 11 | Isabelle Pieman | Belgium | 123.74 | 12 | 43.36 | 9 | 80.38 |
| 12 | Tamar Katz | Israel | 121.40 | 10 | 45.24 | 14 | 76.16 |
| 13 | Nella Simaová | Czech Republic | 119.60 | 15 | 41.60 | 13 | 78.00 |
| 14 | Anastasia Gimazetdinova | Uzbekistan | 117.93 | 18 | 38.08 | 10 | 79.85 |
| 15 | Cheltzie Lee | Australia | 113.14 | 13 | 42.34 | 16 | 70.80 |
| 16 | Gwendoline Didier | France | 112.07 | 11 | 43.54 | 21 | 68.53 |
| 17 | Chaochih Liu | Chinese Taipei | 111.04 | 14 | 41.72 | 20 | 69.32 |
| 18 | Joshi Helgesson | Sweden | 109.17 | 25 | 34.72 | 15 | 74.45 |
| 19 | Manouk Gijsman | Netherlands | 108.04 | 20 | 37.28 | 17 | 70.76 |
| 20 | Karina Johnson | Denmark | 106.81 | 19 | 37.32 | 19 | 69.49 |
| 21 | Eleonora Vinnichenko | Ukraine | 102.75 | 26 | 32.32 | 18 | 70.43 |
| 22 | Ana Cecilia Cantu | Mexico | 102.63 | 22 | 35.84 | 22 | 66.79 |
| 23 | Choi Ji-eun | South Korea | 101.22 | 17 | 39.08 | 24 | 62.14 |
| 24 | Fleur Maxwell | Luxembourg | 99.79 | 23 | 35.20 | 23 | 64.59 |
| 25 | Megan Williams Stewart | Puerto Rico | 98.73 | 21 | 37.20 | 25 | 61.53 |
| 26 | Lejeanne Marais | South Africa | 96.12 | 24 | 34.86 | 26 | 61.26 |
| 27 | Mericien Venzon | Philippines | 88.78 | 27 | 31.66 | 28 | 57.12 |
| 28 | Alexandra Rout | New Zealand | 87.18 | 30 | 29.32 | 27 | 57.86 |
| 29 | Laura Kean | United Kingdom | 84.16 | 28 | 30.64 | 29 | 53.52 |
| 30 | Marina Seeh | Serbia | 82.05 | 29 | 30.16 | 30 | 51.89 |
| 31 | Emma Hagieva | Azerbaijan | 79.53 | 31 | 28.98 | 31 | 50.55 |
| 32 | Clara Peters | Ireland | 69.29 | 32 | 28.04 | 33 | 41.25 |
| 33 | Alessia Baldo | Brazil | 64.85 | 33 | 21.44 | 32 | 43.41 |
| WD | Ariana Tarrado Ribes | Andorra | | | | | |
| WD | Ani Vardanyan | Armenia | | | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 185.99 | 1 | 72.80 | 1 | 113.19 |
| 2 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 165.75 | 2 | 59.46 | 2 | 106.29 |
| 3 | Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay | Canada | 155.61 | 3 | 57.48 | 5 | 98.13 |
| 4 | Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski | United States | 151.95 | 4 | 51.70 | 3 | 100.25 |
| 5 | Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz | Switzerland | 151.49 | 5 | 51.32 | 4 | 100.17 |
| 6 | Vanessa James / Yannick Bonheur | France | 145.50 | 8 | 47.74 | 6 | 97.76 |
| 7 | Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende | Germany | 141.96 | 6 | 49.30 | 8 | 92.66 |
| 8 | Stacey Kemp / David King | United Kingdom | 139.02 | 11 | 45.04 | 7 | 93.98 |
| 9 | Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov | Estonia | 134.56 | 9 | 47.10 | 10 | 87.46 |
| 10 | Joanna Sulej / Mateusz Chruściński | Poland | 131.29 | 12 | 40.84 | 9 | 90.45 |
| 11 | Marika Zanforlin / Federico Degli Esposti | Italy | 120.46 | 10 | 46.46 | 13 | 74.00 |
| 12 | Sung Mi Hyang / Jong Yong Hyok | North Korea | 119.01 | 13 | 39.18 | 11 | 79.83 |
| 13 | Amanda Sunyoto-Yang / Darryll Sulindro-Yang | Chinese Taipei | 113.66 | 14 | 38.18 | 12 | 75.48 |
| 14 | Jessica Crenshaw / Chad Tsagris | Greece | 108.98 | 16 | 35.78 | 14 | 73.20 |
| 15 | Gabriela Čermanová / Martin Hanulák | Slovakia | 105.35 | 15 | 36.88 | 15 | 68.47 |
| 16 | Nicole Gurny / Martin Liebers | Germany | 102.05 | 17 | 35.52 | 16 | 66.53 |
| 17 | Marina Aganina / Dmitri Zobnin | Uzbekistan | 95.88 | 18 | 33.92 | 17 | 61.96 |
| WD | Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | Russia | | 7 | 48.44 | | |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 200.46 | 1 | 37.62 | 1 | 62.08 | 1 | 100.76 |
| 2 | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | Israel | 169.59 | 2 | 32.34 | 2 | 52.71 | 2 | 84.54 |
| 3 | Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas | Lithuania | 162.02 | 4 | 31.23 | 3 | 48.09 | 3 | 82.70 |
| 4 | Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko | Russia | 158.88 | 3 | 31.64 | 4 | 47.91 | 4 | 79.33 |
| 5 | Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun | China | 149.85 | 6 | 30.16 | 8 | 43.67 | 5 | 76.02 |
| 6 | Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák | Czech Republic | 148.47 | 8 | 28.85 | 5 | 45.64 | 7 | 73.98 |
| 7 | Nóra Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin | Hungary | 148.43 | 5 | 31.20 | 10 | 42.84 | 6 | 74.39 |
| 8 | Christina Chitwood / Mark Hanretty | United Kingdom | 146.22 | 7 | 29.02 | 6 | 45.06 | 9 | 72.14 |
| 9 | Caitlin Mallory / Kristian Rand | Estonia | 143.49 | 9 | 27.46 | 11 | 42.34 | 8 | 73.69 |
| 10 | Isabella Pajardi / Stefano Caruso | Italy | 140.29 | 11 | 25.53 | 9 | 43.52 | 10 | 71.24 |
| 11 | Carolina Hermann / Daniel Hermann | Germany | 136.06 | 10 | 26.13 | 7 | 44.73 | 12 | 65.20 |
| 12 | Allison Lynn Reed / Otar Japaridze | Georgia | 130.76 | 14 | 23.12 | 12 | 41.87 | 11 | 65.77 |
| 13 | Kira Geil / Dmitri Matsjuk | Austria | 130.03 | 12 | 25.42 | 13 | 41.06 | 14 | 63.55 |
| 14 | Tanja Kolbe / Sascha Rabe | Germany | 128.94 | 13 | 24.00 | 14 | 40.27 | 13 | 64.67 |
| 15 | Nikki Georgiadis / Graham Hockley | Greece | 113.01 | 15 | 19.16 | 15 | 36.03 | 15 | 57.82 |
| 16 | Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo | Finland | 96.56 | 16 | 19.04 | 16 | 24.95 | 16 | 52.57 |
| WD | Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman | Australia | | | | | | | |