2008 Coupe Internationale de Nice
# 2008 Coupe Internationale de Nice

The 2008 Coupe Internationale de Nice (English: 2008 International Cup of Nice) was the 13th edition of an annual international figure skating competition held in Nice, France. It was held between October 15 and 19, 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, and pair skating on the levels of senior, junior, and novice.

## Senior results

### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Yannick Ponsero | France | 222.34 | 2 | 72.45 | 1 | 149.89 |
| 2 | Alban Préaubert | France | 190.71 | 1 | 73.06 | 5 | 117.65 |
| 3 | Igor Macypura | Slovakia | 187.71 | 3 | 65.75 | 2 | 121.96 |
| 4 | Konstantin Menshov | Russia | 185.58 | 4 | 65.67 | 3 | 119.91 |
| 5 | Peter Liebers | Germany | 180.86 | 5 | 63.15 | 4 | 117.71 |
| 6 | Aleksandr Kazakov | Belarus | 161.22 | 10 | 52.04 | 6 | 109.18 |
| 7 | Jonathan Cassar | United States | 160.77 | 9 | 52.48 | 7 | 108.29 |
| 8 | Yoann Deslot | France | 156.84 | 7 | 56.69 | 9 | 100.15 |
| 9 | Jamal Othman | Switzerland | 153.99 | 11 | 51.93 | 8 | 102.06 |
| 10 | Clemens Brummer | Germany | 147.31 | 6 | 57.95 | 10 | 89.36 |
| 11 | Michael Solonoski | United States | 142.55 | 8 | 53.40 | 11 | 89.15 |
| 12 | Paolo Bacchini | Italy | 134.73 | 13 | 46.96 | 12 | 87.77 |
| 13 | Justus Strid | Denmark | 131.75 | 12 | 49.64 | 13 | 82.11 |
| 14 | Thomas Paulson | United Kingdom | 120.71 | 14 | 45.39 | 14 | 75.32 |
| 15 | Robert McNamara | Australia | 96.66 | 15 | 35.24 | 16 | 61.42 |
| 16 | Jesper Kristiansen | Denmark | 93.36 | 16 | 30.92 | 15 | 62.44 |
| WD | Ostojic Damjan | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Constanze Paulinus | Germany | 131.08 | 3 | 43.72 | 1 | 87.36 |
| 2 | Alena Leonova | Russia | 127.41 | 4 | 43.40 | 2 | 84.01 |
| 3 | Stefania Berton | Italy | 125.80 | 2 | 45.38 | 4 | 80.42 |
| 4 | Candice Didier | France | 124.01 | 1 | 49.54 | 6 | 74.47 |
| 5 | Sonia Lafuente | Spain | 119.13 | 9 | 37.90 | 3 | 81.23 |
| 6 | Linnea Mellgren | Sweden | 115.79 | 6 | 39.10 | 5 | 76.69 |
| 7 | Abigail Legg | United States | 112.06 | 7 | 38.94 | 8 | 73.12 |
| 8 | Viviane Käser | Switzerland | 108.87 | 8 | 38.66 | 10 | 70.21 |
| 9 | Maria Taljegard | Sweden | 108.56 | 12 | 34.84 | 7 | 73.72 |
| 10 | Martina Bocek | Czech Republic | 106.19 | 15 | 33.72 | 9 | 72.47 |
| 11 | Gwendoline Didier | France | 104.54 | 5 | 42.14 | 11 | 62.40 |
| 12 | Amy Nunn | United States | 95.66 | 14 | 33.94 | 12 | 61.72 |
| 13 | Kerstin Frank | Austria | 92.27 | 11 | 35.14 | 15 | 57.13 |
| 14 | Sonia Radeva | Bulgaria | 90.76 | 10 | 36.72 | 17 | 54.04 |
| 15 | Henriikka Hietaniemi | Finland | 90.73 | 19 | 30.00 | 13 | 60.73 |
| 16 | Maria Lykke Kristensen | Denmark | 87.83 | 18 | 30.26 | 14 | 57.57 |
| 17 | Viktória Pavuk | Hungary | 86.54 | 13 | 34.10 | 18 | 52.44 |
| 18 | Helena Stenbacka | Finland | 83.38 | 20 | 29.04 | 16 | 54.34 |
| 19 | Mérovée Ephrem | Monaco | 83.04 | 17 | 30.68 | 19 | 52.36 |
| 20 | Charlotte Gendreau | France | 82.61 | 16 | 31.20 | 20 | 51.41 |
| 21 | Christina Grill | Austria | 73.76 | 23 | 23.32 | 21 | 50.44 |
| 22 | Kirsten Verbist | Belgium | 67.69 | 21 | 26.48 | 22 | 41.21 |
| WD | Bettina Heim | Switzerland | | 22 | 24.98 | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 154.40 | 2 | 51.07 | 1 | 103.33 |
| 2 | Chloé Katz / Joseph Lynch | United States | 151.24 | 1 | 52.83 | 2 | 98.41 |
| 3 | Adeline Canac / Maximin Coia | France | 140.08 | 3 | 49.80 | 3 | 90.28 |
| 4 | Marika Zanforlin / Federico Degli Esposti | Italy | 106.79 | 7 | 33.90 | 4 | 72.89 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Sokolova / Fedor Sokolov | Israel | 103.52 | 6 | 38.69 | 5 | 64.83 |
| 6 | Jessica Crenshaw / Chad Tsagris | Greece | 103.17 | 4 | 40.59 | 6 | 62.58 |
| 7 | Mélodie Chataigner / Medhi Bouzzine | France | 100.24 | 5 | 40.19 | 7 | 60.05 |
| 8 | Marina Aganina / Dmitry Zobnin | Uzbekistan | 75.50 | 8 | 31.99 | 8 | 43.51 |

## Junior results

### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mark Vaillant | France | 156.30 | 3 | 49.42 | 1 | 106.88 |
| 2 | Javier Raya | Spain | 141.54 | 2 | 51.96 | 2 | 89.58 |
| 3 | Chafik Besseghier | France | 139.47 | 1 | 56.07 | 4 | 83.40 |
| 4 | Jakub Strobl | Slovakia | 129.85 | 5 | 42.08 | 3 | 87.77 |
| 5 | Sebastian Iwasaki | Poland | 127.15 | 4 | 48.17 | 5 | 78.98 |
| 6 | Ilya Gurylev | Russia | 111.65 | 6 | 40.08 | 6 | 71.57 |
| 7 | Alexandre Camacho | France | 108.80 | 7 | 39.71 | 7 | 69.09 |
| 8 | Timothy Leemann | Switzerland | 108.07 | 8 | 39.51 | 8 | 68.56 |
| 9 | Jelle Butzen | Belgium | 98.34 | 9 | 35.29 | 9 | 63.05 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sandra Sitbon | France | 117.65 | 1 | 43.50 | 1 | 74.15 |
| 2 | Malin Taljegard | Sweden | 108.59 | 6 | 36.54 | 2 | 72.05 |
| 3 | Maria Artemieva | Russia | 103.03 | 2 | 42.52 | 8 | 60.51 |
| 4 | Amélie Pierre | Belgium | 101.05 | 4 | 37.24 | 5 | 63.81 |
| 5 | Julie Cagnon | France | 100.91 | 8 | 34.72 | 3 | 66.19 |
| 6 | Coralie Grognet | France | 100.68 | 3 | 37.76 | 6 | 62.92 |
| 7 | Laurie Lougsami | Belgium | 94.51 | 7 | 35.46 | 9 | 59.05 |
| 8 | Reetta Romppanen | Finland | 94.35 | 9 | 33.54 | 7 | 60.81 |
| 9 | Alexandra Kunova | Slovakia | 93.76 | 19 | 28.88 | 4 | 64.88 |
| 10 | Ariana Tarrado | Andorra | 90.16 | 11 | 31.42 | 11 | 58.74 |
| 11 | Sofia Curci | Italy | 89.52 | 13 | 30.54 | 10 | 58.98 |
| 12 | Alice Velati | Italy | 88.94 | 5 | 37.08 | 17 | 51.86 |
| 13 | Virginie Clerc | Switzerland | 88.50 | 14 | 30.38 | 12 | 58.12 |
| 14 | Stefanie Pechnaler | Bulgaria | 88.03 | 15 | 30.02 | 13 | 58.01 |
| 15 | Deborah Pisa | Switzerland | 86.96 | 12 | 31.42 | 14 | 55.54 |
| 16 | Stina Keränen | Finland | 83.86 | 17 | 29.38 | 15 | 54.48 |
| 17 | Natascha Zangl | Austria | 80.22 | 10 | 32.32 | 21 | 47.90 |
| 18 | Ann-Julie Arnesen | Norway | 79.27 | 18 | 28.88 | 18 | 50.39 |
| 19 | Darya Zaychenko | Czech Republic | 79.07 | 20 | 28.80 | 19 | 50.27 |
| 20 | Patricia Ortiz | Spain | 76.92 | 16 | 29.74 | 22 | 47.18 |
| 21 | Paulina Turkowska | Poland | 76.83 | 26 | 23.56 | 16 | 53.27 |
| 22 | Anna Hofmann | Austria | 76.51 | 22 | 27.42 | 20 | 49.09 |
| 23 | Daisy Nevalainen | Finland | 73.87 | 21 | 27.68 | 23 | 46.19 |
| 24 | Beatrice Rozinskaite | Lithuania | 72.92 | 23 | 27.24 | 24 | 45.68 |
| 25 | Laura Lipp | Germany | 65.57 | 24 | 24.84 | 25 | 40.73 |
| 26 | June Falck-Larssen | Norway | 63.73 | 25 | 23.82 | 26 | 39.91 |
| 27 | Yvonne Moriel | Austria | 54.61 | 28 | 16.32 | 27 | 38.29 |
| 28 | Oksana Dolgopolova | Ukraine | 53.63 | 27 | 20.00 | 28 | 33.63 |

## Novice results

### Boys

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Charles Tetar | France | 113.96 | 3 | 32.82 | 1 | 81.14 |
| 2 | Grégoire Appelhans | France | 103.74 | 1 | 39.24 | 3 | 64.50 |
| 3 | Yaroslav Paniot | Ukraine | 102.90 | 2 | 34.64 | 2 | 68.26 |
| 4 | Alexander Kucher | Ukraine | 90.40 | 4 | 32.32 | 4 | 58.08 |
| WD | Markus Ramisch | Germany | | | | | |

### Girls

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia | 127.15 | 1 | 45.38 | 1 | 81.77 |
| 2 | Josefine Taljegard | Sweden | 114.45 | 2 | 44.34 | 3 | 70.11 |
| 3 | Léna Marrocco | France | 108.72 | 3 | 35.87 | 2 | 72.85 |
| 4 | Ira Vannut | Belgium | 99.70 | 4 | 35.48 | 5 | 64.22 |
| 5 | Maria Stavitskaia | Russia | 99.22 | 7 | 33.83 | 4 | 65.39 |
| 6 | Alina Fjodorova | Latvia | 91.11 | 6 | 34.04 | 6 | 57.07 |
| 7 | Camille Arcidiago | France | 86.98 | 8 | 32.69 | 9 | 54.29 |
| 8 | Dominika Murckova | Slovakia | 85.06 | 9 | 32.38 | 10 | 52.68 |
| 9 | Veronika Palickova | Czech Republic | 84.59 | 10 | 28.71 | 7 | 55.88 |
| 10 | Rimgaile Meskaite | Lithuania | 84.42 | 5 | 34.95 | 12 | 49.47 |
| 11 | Celia Robledo | Spain | 82.92 | 11 | 27.47 | 8 | 55.45 |
| 12 | Monique Maas | Belgium | 76.98 | 13 | 26.87 | 11 | 50.11 |
| 13 | Signe Krogh Jorgensen | Denmark | 69.20 | 12 | 27.10 | 13 | 42.10 |
| 14 | Dariya Burtseva | Ukraine | 65.93 | 14 | 23.90 | 14 | 42.03 |
| 15 | Natalia Potrokova | Slovakia | 62.63 | 15 | 21.13 | 15 | 41.50 |
| 16 | Yauthenia Kavaleva | Belarus | 47.26 | 16 | 15.23 | 16 | 32.03 |
| 17 | Vialeta Shostak | Belarus | 34.11 | 17 | 12.74 | 17 | 21.37 |
| WD | Yrétha Silete | France | | | | | |
