# 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, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. 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. Since 1997, it is chosen in some years by the International Skating Union to be part of the Junior Grand Prix circuit.
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 results
### Men's singles

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1961 | Bodo Bockenauer | | |
| 1962 | Bodo Bockenauer | Károly Ujlaky | Valeri Meshkov |
| 1963 | Ralph Borghard | | |
| 1964 | 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 | Michael Glaubitz |
| 1972 | Jan Hoffmann | Bernd Wunderlich | Konstantin Kokora |
| 1973 | Jan Hoffmann | Igor Bobrin | Ronald Koppelent |
| 1974 | Konstantin Kokora | Bernd Wunderlich | Hermann Schulz |
| 1975 | Jan Hoffmann | Andrei Yablokov | Mario Liebers |
| 1976 | Konstantin Kokora | Mario Liebers | Gilles Beyer |
| 1977 | Mario Liebers | Joachim Ehmann | Gerald Schranz |
| 1978 | Hermann Schulz | Heiko Fischer | Torsten Ohlow |
| 1979 | Jan Hoffmann | Mario Liebers | Norbert Schramm |
| 1980 | Grzegorz Głowania | Didier Monge | Falko Kirsten |
| 1981 | Alexander König | Joachim Ehmann | Thomas Wieser |
| 1982 | Falko Kirsten | Fernand Fedronic | Didier Manaud |
| 1983 | Boris Uspenski | Falko Kirsten | Pierre Seveno |

### Ladies' singles

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1961 | Gabriele Seyfert | | |
| 1962 | Eva Grožajová | Gabriele Seyfert | Heidemarie Steiner |
| 1963 | Gabriele Seyfert | | |
| 1964 | Gabriele Seyfert | Jana Mrazkova | Beate Richter |
| 1965 | Gabriele Seyfert | Beate Richter | Hilde Überlacher |
| 1966 | Gabriele Seyfert | Martina Clausner | Beate Richter |
| 1967 | Beate Richter | Martina Clausner | Sybille Stolfig |
| 1968 | Sonja Morgenstern | Eva Kriegelstein | Christine Errath |
| 1969 | Sonja Morgenstern | Simone Gräfe | Christine Errath |
| 1970 | Sonja Morgenstern | Christine Errath | Simone Gräfe |
| 1971 | Christine Errath | Anita Johansson | Marina Titova |
| 1972 | Christine Errath | Steffi Knoll | Marion Weber |
| 1973 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber |
| 1974 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber |
| 1975 | Christine Errath | Anett Pötzsch | Petra Wagner |
| 1976 | Anett Pötzsch | Marion Weber | Carola Weissenberg |
| 1977 | Natalia Strelkova | Marion Weber | Gabriela Voica |
| 1978 | Katarina Witt | Sonja Stanek | Kerstin Wolf |
| 1979 | Anett Pötzsch | Katarina Witt | Carola Weissenberg |
| 1980 | Anett Pötzsch | Svetlana Frantsuzova | Janina Wirth |
| 1981 | Katarina Witt | Anna Kondrashova | Carmen Hartfiel |
| 1982 | Janina Wirth | Petra Schruf | Kerstin Wolf |
| 1983 | Janina Wirth | Beatrice Gelmini | Marion Krause |

### Pairs

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1961 | Renate Rössler / Klaus Wasserfuhr | | Margit Senf / Peter Göbel |
| 1962 | Irene Müller / Hans Georg Dallmer | Brigitte Wokoeck / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | Tatiana Sharanova / Alexander Gorelik |
| 1963 | Brigitte Wokoeck / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | | |
| 1964 | Irene Müller / Hans Georg Dallmer | Renate Rössler / Klaus Wasserfuhr | Brigitte Weise / Michael Brychy |
| 1965 | Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer | Tatiana Tarasova / Georgi Proskurin |
| 1966 | Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | Renate Rössler / Klaus Wasserfuhr | Marianne Mirmsecker / Peter Göbel |
| 1967 | Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | Lyudmila Suslina / Alexander Tikhomirov | Brigitte Weise / Michael Brychy |
| 1968 | Lyudmila Suslina / Alexander Tikhomirov | Monika Heibig / Axel Salzmann | Galina Karelina / Georgi Proskurin |
| 1969 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | Beatrix von Brück / Reinhard Mirmsecker |
| 1970 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | Tatiana Sharanova / Anatoli Evdokimov | Marlies Radunski / Rolf Österreich |
| 1971 | Marlies Radunski / Rolf Österreich | Romy Kermer / Andreas Forner | Irina Vorobjeva / Alexander Vlasov |
| 1972 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov |
| 1973 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov |
| 1974 | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | Katja Schubert / Knut Schubert |
| 1975 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | | |
| 1976 | Katja Schubert / Knut Schubert | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorff | Kornelia Hauffe / Kersten Bellmann |
| 1977 | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorff | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | Galina Tairova / Alexei Golovkin |
| 1978 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | Elena Vasyukova / Alexei Pogodin | Kornelia Hauffe / Kersten Bellmann |
| 1979 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe | Kornelia Hauffe / Kersten Bellmann |
| 1980 | Inna Volyanskaya / Valery Spiridonov | Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert | Kornelia Hauffe / Kersten Bellmann |
| 1981 | Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert | Elena Kashinzeva / Alexei Pogodin | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko |
| 1982 | Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert | Inna Volyanskaya / Valery Spiridonov | Lyudmila Koblova / Andrei Kalitin |
| 1983 | Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert | Babette Preußler / Tobias Schröter | Tatiana Chozko / Oleg Efimov |

### Ice dance

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1962 | Eva-Maria Reuter / Bernd Egert | | |
| 1963 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | | |
| 1964 | Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Eva-Maria Reuter / Bernd Egert |
| 1965 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Norma Allwelt / Michael Schmidt | 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 | Fiona Hunt / Lynd Taylor |
| 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 |

## Junior results
### Men's singles

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1984 | Vladimir Petrenko | Rudy Luccioni | Daniel Weiss |
| 1985 | Vladimir Petrenko | Rudy Galindo | Yuriy Tsymbalyuk |
| 1986 | Yuriy Tsymbalyuk | Rico Krahnert | Mirko Eichhorn |
| 1987 | Ronny Winkler | Philippe Candeloro | Elvis Stojko |
| 1988 | Viacheslav Zagorodniuk | Scott Davis | Mirko Eichhorn |
| 1989 | Mirko Eichhorn | Sergei Minayev | Zsolt Kerekes |
| 1990 | Dmitri Dmitrenko | | |
| 1991 | Konstantin Kostin | John Bevan | Patrick-Rene Reinhardt |
| 1992 | Evgeni Pliuta | Cyril Deplace | Patrick-Rene Reinhardt |
| 1993 | Naoki Shigematsu | Yvan Desjardins | Markus Leminen |
| 1994 | Gabriel Monnier | Jens ter Laak | Michael Hopfes |
| 1995 | Alexei Yagudin | Gabriel Monnier | David Jäschke |
| 1996 | Evgeni Plushenko | Timothy Goebel | Vincent Restencourt |

### Ladies' singles

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1984 | Inga Gauter | Natalia Skrabnevskaya | Evelyn Großmann |
| 1985 | Natalia Gorbenko | Inga Gauter | Cornelia Renner |
| 1986 | Inga Gauter | Tanja Krienke | Alina Pisarenko |
| 1987 | Karen Preston | Atsuko Suda | Kathleen Fenske |
| 1988 | Tanja Krienke | Tisha Walker | Stephanie Ferrer |
| 1989 | Robyn Petroskey | Tanja Krienke | Kaisa Kella |
| 1990 | Maria Yerdzitskaya | | |
| 1991 | Anna Rechnio | Stephanie Fiorito | Susanne Mildenberger |
| 1992 | Tanja Szewczenko | Astrid Hochstetter | Yuko Fukuya |
| 1993 | Inna Zayets | Kateřina Beránková | Astrid Hochstetter |
| 1994 | Tara Lipinski | Yulia Lavrenchuk | Masayo Oishi |
| 1995 | Sydne Vogel | Elena Pingacheva | Fumie Suguri |
| 1996 | Elena Pingacheva | Angela Nikodinov | Veronika Dytrt |

### Pairs

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1984 | Irina Mironenko / Dmitri Shkidchenko | Antje Schramm / Jens Müller | Katrin Kanitz / Alexander König |
| 1985 | Antje Schramm / Jens Müller | Mandy Hannebauer / Marno Kreft | Ekaterina Murugova / Artem Torgashev |
| 1986 | Mandy Hannebauer / Marno Kreft | Antje Schramm / Jens Müller | Irina Saifutdinova / Andrei Bardykin |
| 1987 | Inna Svetacheva / Vladimr Shapov | Mandy Hannebauer / Marno Kreft | Jodi Barnes / Rob Williams |
| 1988 | Elena Nikonova / Nikolai Apter | Sherry Ball / Christopher Bourne | Angela Caspari / Marno Kreft |
| 1989 | Elena Vlasenko / Sergei Ostriy | Aimee Offner / Brian Helgenberg | Shae-Lynn Bourne / Andrew Bertleff |
| 1991 | Natalia Krestianinova / Alexei Torchinski | Isabelle Coulombe / Bruno Marcotte | Nicole Sciarrotta / Gregory Sciarrotta |
| 1992 | Inga Korshunova / Dmitri Saveliev | Julie Laporte / David Pelletier | Nadine Pflaum / Kristian Simeunovic |
| 1993 | Silvia Dimitrov / Rico Rex | Tatiana Lazarenko / Denis Garbusov | Sophie Guestault / François Guestault |
| 1994 | Danielle Hartsell / Steve Hartsell | Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko | Olga Semkina / Andrei Chuvilaev |
| 1995 | Irina Maslennikova / Konstantin Krasnenkov | Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski |
| 1996 | Maria Petrova / Teimuraz Pulin | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | Sabrina Lefrançois / Nicolas Osseland |

### Ice dance

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1991 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński | |
| 1992 | Olga Sharutenko / Dmitri Naumkin | Iwona Filipowicz / Michał Szumski | |
| 1993 | Karina Martirossian / Alexander Poddubskiy | Dominique Deniaud / Martial Jaffredo | Magali Sauri / Nicolas Salicis |
| 1994 | Olga Sharutenko / Dmitri Naumkin | Elena Piatash / Andrei Baka | Marianne Haguenauer / Romain Haguenauer |
| 1995 | Ekaterina Davydova / Roman Kostomarov | Jolanta Bury / Łukasz Zalewski | Natalia Gudina / Vitali Kurkudym |
| 1996 | Nina Ulanova / Michail Stifunin | Agata Błażowska / Marcin Kozubek | Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler |