# 1983 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1983 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Dortmund, West Germany from February 1 to 6, 1983. Elite skaters from European ISU member nations competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Overview and results

The championships cost 1.5 million Deutsche Marks. Compulsory figures were held in Unna and began at 8 a.m. The German Ice Skating Union president Wolf-Dieter Montag, also served as president of the organizing committee.

### Men

Simond won compulsory figures. After the short program, Sabovčík was in first, followed by Schramm and Simond. Schramm would win the title.
| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CF | SP | FS |
| 1 | Norbert Schramm | West Germany | 3.8 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Jozef Sabovčík | Czechoslovakia | 7.0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Alexander Fadeev | Soviet Union | 8.6 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| 4 | Heiko Fischer | West Germany | 9.4 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Vladimir Kotin | Soviet Union | 9.8 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| 6 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 10.0 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | Rudi Cerne | West Germany | 10.2 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | Grzegorz Filipowski | Poland | | | | 8 |
| 9 | Laurent Depouilly | France | | | | |
| 10 | Fernand Fédronic | France | | 8 | | |
| 11 | Lars Åkesson | Sweden | | | | |
| 12 | Falko Kirsten | East Germany | | | | |
| 13 | Thomas Hlavik | Austria | | | | |
| 14 | Miljan Begovic | Yugoslavia | | | | |
| 15 | Mark Pepperday | United Kingdom | | | | |
| 16 | Richard Furrer | Switzerland | | | | |
| 17 | Bruno Delmaestro | Italy | | | | |
| 18 | Petr Barna | Czechoslovakia | | | | |
| 19 | Todd Sand | Denmark | | | | |
| 20 | András Száraz | Hungary | | | | |
| 21 | Fernando Soria | Spain | | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS |
| 1 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elena Vodorezova | Soviet Union | 1 | | |
| 3 | Claudia Leistner | West Germany | 9 | | |
| 4 | Manuela Ruben | West Germany | 6 | | |
| 5 | Anna Kondrashova | Soviet Union | | | |
| 6 | Kristiina Wegelius | Finland | 5 | | |
| 7 | Anna Antonova | Soviet Union | | | |
| 8 | Janina Wirth | East Germany | 10 | | |
| 9 | Sonja Stanek | Austria | 4 | | |
| 10 | Sanda Dubravčić | Yugoslavia | 7 | | |
| 11 | Karin Telser | Italy | | | |
| 12 | Parthena Sarafidis | Austria | 8 | | |
| 13 | Sandra Cariboni | Switzerland | 3 | | |
| 14 | Karin Hendschke | East Germany | | | |
| 15 | Katrien Pauwels | Belgium | | | |
| 16 | Hana Veselá | Czechoslovakia | | | |
| 17 | Agnès Gosselin | France | | | |
| 18 | Li Scha Wang | Netherlands | | | |
| 19 | Hanne Gamborg | Denmark | | | |
| 20 | Susan Jackson | United Kingdom | | | |
| 21 | Catarina Lindgren | Sweden | | | |
| 22 | Elise Ahonen | Finland | | | |
| 23 | Nora Miklosi | Hungary | | | |
| 24 | Rosario Esteban | Spain | | | |
| WD | Karen Wood | United Kingdom | | | |

### Pairs

Baeß / Thierbach repeated as European champions.
| Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS |
| 1 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | East Germany | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | Soviet Union | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert | East Germany | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Soviet Union | 3 | |
| 5 | Marina Avstriskaya / Yuri Kvashnin | Soviet Union | 5 | |
| 6 | Babette Preußler / Torsten Ohlow | East Germany | | |
| 7 | Claudia Massari / Leonardo Azzola | West Germany | 6 | |
| 8 | Susan Garland / Robert Daw | United Kingdom | 7 | |
| 9 | Jana Havlova / René Novotný | Czechoslovakia | | |
| 10 | Nathalie Tortel / Xavier Douillard | France | | |
| 11 | Birgit Kuß / Uwe Fischbeck | France | | |
| 12 | Naija Pekkala / Pekka Pekkala | Finland | 8 | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| 1 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Soviet Union |
| 5 | Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu | France |
| 6 | Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn | West Germany |
| 7 | Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola | Italy |
| 9 | Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán | Czechoslovakia |
| 10 | Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint | Hungary |
| 11 | Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer | West Germany |
| 12 | Marianne van Bommel / Wayne Deweyert | Netherlands |