1985 Prize of Moscow News
# 1985 Prize of Moscow News

The 1985 Prize of Moscow News was the 20th edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 4–8, 1985. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviet skaters swept the men's podium, led by world champion Alexandre Fadeev. American Caryn Kadavy won the ladies' category ahead of Anna Kondrashova. Olympic bronze medalists Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov took the pairs' title. The ice dancing event featured Olympic medalists Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin and Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko, who would take gold and silver respectively.

## Men

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Alexandre Fadeev | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Vladimir Kotin | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Vitali Egorov | Soviet Union |
| 4 | Christopher Bowman | United States |
| 5 | Leonid Kaznakov | Soviet Union |
| 6 | Gurgen Vardanjan | Soviet Union |
| 7 | Falko Kirsten | East Germany |
| 8 | Ralf Lewandowski | East Germany |
| 9 | Dmitri Gromov | Soviet Union |
| 10 | Andrei Torosian | Soviet Union |
| 11 | | |
| 12 | Jaimee Eggleton | Canada |
| 19 | Stephen Carr | Australia |
| 20 | | |

## Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Caryn Kadavy | United States | | | |
| 2 | Anna Kondrashova | Soviet Union | | | |
| 3 | Natalia Lebedeva | Soviet Union | | | |
| 4 | Tracey Wainman | Canada | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Inna Krundysheva | Soviet Union | | | |
| 6 | Nathalie Sasseville | Canada | | | |
| 7 | Larisa Zamotina | Soviet Union | | | |
| 8 | Ingrid Karl | West Germany | | | |
| 9 | Parthena Sarafidis | Austria | | | |
| 10 | Tamara Teglassy | Hungary | | | |
| 13 | Joanna O'Sullivan | Australia | | | |
| 14 | | |

## Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko | Soviet Union |
| 4 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Soviet Union |
| 5 | Elena Kvitchenko / Rashid Kadyrkaev | Soviet Union |
| 6 | Yulia Bystrova / Alexander Tarasov | Soviet Union |
| 7 | Lyudmila Koblova / Andrei Kalitin | Soviet Union |
| 8 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | East Germany |
| 9 | Karen Courtland / Robert Daw | United States |
| 10 | Svetlana Frantsuzova / Oleg Gorshkov | Soviet Union |
| 11 | Irina Klimova / Yuri Kvashnin | Soviet Union |
| 12 | Galina Sorokina / Igor Guenko | Soviet Union |
| 13 | Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr | Australia |

## Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Natalia Annenko / Genrich Sretenski | Soviet Union |
| 4 | Maya Usova / Alexander Zhulin | Soviet Union |
| 5 | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | Soviet Union |
| 6 | Irina Zhuk / Oleg Petrov | Soviet Union |
| 7 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | Austria |
| 8 | Svetlana Liapina / Gorsha Sur | Soviet Union |
| 9 | Susan Wynne / Joseph Druar | United States |
| 10 | Isabelle Cousin / Martial Mette | France |
| 11 | Kim Hanford / Julian LaLonde | Canada |
