2012 Nebelhorn Trophy
# 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy

The 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy was held on September 27–29, 2012 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf. The event is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain.

It is one of the first international senior competitions of the season. Skaters are entered by their respective national federations and compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The Fritz-Geiger-Memorial Trophy is presented to the team with the highest placements across all disciplines.

## Entries

| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | Mark Webster | Brooklee Han | | |
| Austria | | Kerstin Frank | | Kira Geil / Tobias Eisenbauer |
| Azerbaijan | | | | Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov |
| Belarus | Vitali Luchanok | | | |
| Belgium | Jorik Hendrickx | | | |
| Brazil | Kevin Alves Luiz Manella | Isadora Williams | | |
| Canada | Elladj Balde Andrei Rogozine | Kaetlyn Osmond | | Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill |
| Czech Republic | Michal Březina Tomáš Verner | Eliška Březinová | | Gabriela Kubová / Dmitri Kiselev Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown |
| Estonia | | Jelena Glebova | | |
| Finland | Valtter Virtanen | Rosaliina Kuparinen Juulia Turkkila Nea Viiri | | |
| France | | | Daria Popova / Bruno Massot Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones Tiffany Zahorski / Alexis Miart |
| Germany | Paul Fentz Peter Liebers | Sarah Hecken Nathalie Weinzierl | Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi |
| Hungary | | | | Zsuzsanna Nagy / Máté Fejes |
| Israel | Alexei Bychenko | | Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski | Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov |
| Italy | Paolo Bacchini Paul Bonifacio Parkinson | Carol Bressanutti | | Federica Bernardi / Christopher Mior |
| Japan | Nobunari Oda | Haruka Imai | | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion |
| Kazakhstan | Denis Ten | | | |
| Lithuania | | | | Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas |
| Luxembourg | | Fleur Maxwell | | |
| Mexico | | Reyna Hamui | | |
| Philippines | Michael Christian Martinez | | | |
| Poland | Maciej Cieplucha | | | |
| Puerto Rico | | Victoria Muniz | | |
| Romania | Zoltán Kelemen | | | |
| Russia | Ivan Bariev Zhan Bush | Polina Shelepen Adelina Sotnikova | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin |
| Serbia | | Marina Seeh | | |
| Slovakia | | Dominika Murckova | | Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley |
| South Africa | | Lejeanne Marais | | |
| Spain | | | | Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz |
| Sweden | Alexander Majorov | Viktoria Helgesson | Ronja Roll / Gustav Forsgren | |
| Switzerland | | Romy Bühler | | Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost |
| Ukraine | Yakov Godorozha | | | Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun |
| United Kingdom | Phillip Harris | | | Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne |
| United States | Stephen Carriere Keegan Messing | Caroline Zhang | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | Madison Chock / Evan Bates |

## Results

### Men

Japan's Nobunari Oda returned from injury to win gold at Nebelhorn, while Russia's Konstantin Menshov took silver, and the United States' Keegan Messing took bronze.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nobunari Oda | Japan | 233.33 | 1 | 79.64 | 1 | 153.69 |
| 2 | Konstantin Menshov | Russia | 212.94 | 2 | 69.30 | 2 | 143.64 |
| 3 | Keegan Messing | United States | 210.78 | 3 | 68.56 | 4 | 142.22 |
| 4 | Stephen Carriere | United States | 209.11 | 8 | 65.68 | 3 | 143.43 |
| 5 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 201.71 | 5 | 67.78 | 7 | 133.93 |
| 6 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | 199.98 | 10 | 60.69 | 5 | 139.29 |
| 7 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 198.39 | 4 | 67.88 | 8 | 130.51 |
| 8 | Ivan Bariev | Russia | 196.54 | 11 | 60.05 | 6 | 136.49 |
| 9 | Andrei Rogozine | Canada | 196.27 | 7 | 67.31 | 9 | 128.96 |
| 10 | Peter Liebers | Germany | 195.59 | 6 | 67.41 | 10 | 128.18 |
| 11 | Paul Bonifacio Parkinson | Italy | 179.25 | 12 | 58.93 | 11 | 120.32 |
| 12 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden | 175.22 | 9 | 61.55 | 14 | 113.67 |
| 13 | Paolo Bacchini | Italy | 175.04 | 13 | 60.69 | 13 | 118.57 |
| 14 | Elladj Baldé | Canada | 171.83 | 18 | 54.41 | 12 | 119.82 |
| 15 | Alexei Bychenko | Israel | 165.59 | 17 | 53.29 | 15 | 112.30 |
| 16 | Paul Fentz | Germany | 163.15 | 16 | 53.44 | 16 | 109.71 |
| 17 | Maciej Cieplucha | Poland | 154.95 | 22 | 47.51 | 17 | 107.44 |
| 18 | Phillip Harris | United Kingdom | 154.80 | 14 | 52.01 | 18 | 100.39 |
| 19 | Yakov Godorozha | Ukraine | 148.81 | 15 | 51.41 | 19 | 94.47 |
| 20 | Zoltán Kelemen | Romania | 142.10 | 21 | 48.68 | 20 | 93.42 |
| 21 | Vitali Luchanok | Belarus | 141.11 | 20 | 48.68 | 21 | 91.43 |
| 22 | Valtter Virtanen | Finland | 136.97 | 19 | 51.41 | 22 | 85.56 |
| 23 | Luiz Manella | Brazil | 131.96 | 23 | 47.33 | 23 | 84.63 |
| 24 | Mark Webster | Australia | 117.05 | 24 | 40.53 | 24 | 76.52 |

### Ladies

Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond won her first senior international title, Russia's Adelina Sotnikova took the silver, and Japan's Haruka Imai won bronze.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada | 170.19 | 2 | 55.68 | 1 | 114.51 |
| 2 | Adelina Sotnikova | Russia | 168.23 | 1 | 58.48 | 2 | 109.75 |
| 3 | Haruka Imai | Japan | 153.64 | 9 | 47.70 | 3 | 105.94 |
| 4 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | 152.36 | 3 | 54.26 | 4 | 98.10 |
| 5 | Polina Shelepen | Russia | 147.59 | 4 | 53.63 | 6 | 93.96 |
| 6 | Viktoria Helgesson | Sweden | 145.16 | 7 | 48.17 | 5 | 96.99 |
| 7 | Nathalie Weinzierl | Germany | 142.96 | 5 | 49.64 | 7 | 93.32 |
| 8 | Brooklee Han | Australia | 142.02 | 6 | 49.08 | 8 | 92.94 |
| 9 | Juulia Turkkila | Finland | 137.36 | 8 | 47.70 | 9 | 89.66 |
| 10 | Sarah Hecken | Germany | 125.66 | 11 | 43.12 | 11 | 82.54 |
| 11 | Isadora Williams | Brazil | 124.91 | 12 | 41.96 | 10 | 82.95 |
| 12 | Caroline Zhang | United States | 124.13 | 10 | 45.43 | 12 | 78.70 |
| 13 | Kerstin Frank | Austria | 114.35 | 13 | 41.60 | 16 | 72.75 |
| 14 | Reyna Hamui | Mexico | 114.03 | 14 | 40.04 | 15 | 73.99 |
| 15 | Fleur Maxwell | Luxembourg | 110.92 | 17 | 36.10 | 14 | 74.82 |
| 16 | Eliška Březinová | Czech Republic | 109.42 | 20 | 34.22 | 13 | 75.20 |
| 17 | Carol Bressanutti | Italy | 105.26 | 15 | 39.16 | 17 | 66.10 |
| 18 | Marina Seeh | Serbia | 102.68 | 16 | 37.11 | 18 | 65.57 |
| 19 | Nea Viiri | Finland | 99.31 | 19 | 35.02 | 19 | 64.29 |
| 20 | Rosaliina Kuparinen | Finland | 97.45 | 18 | 35.12 | 20 | 62.33 |
| 21 | Lejeanne Marais | South Africa | 91.10 | 22 | 29.64 | 21 | 61.46 |
| 22 | Dominika Murckova | Slovakia | 83.84 | 21 | 30.76 | 22 | 53.08 |

### Pairs

Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov repeated as Nebelhorn champions, while the United States' Caydee Denney / John Coughlin took silver and France's Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres won bronze, their first international medal. There were two withdrawals following the short program – Russia's Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov withdrew due to a recurrence of an jury to Bazarova's right hip, while Germany's Mari Vartmann picked into her right foot when she fell on a throw triple loop during the short and was unable to put on her skate the next day due to swelling.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 196.55 | 1 | 65.24 | 1 | 131.31 |
| 2 | Caydee Denney / John Coughlin | United States | 178.90 | 2 | 57.29 | 2 | 121.61 |
| 3 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | France | 151.52 | 3 | 55.00 | 4 | 96.52 |
| 4 | Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff | United States | 145.35 | 6 | 43.21 | 3 | 102.14 |
| 5 | Daria Popova / Bruno Massot | France | 132.68 | 5 | 47.44 | 5 | 85.24 |
| 6 | Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski | Israel | 110.31 | 8 | 34.68 | 6 | 75.63 |
| 7 | Ronja Roll / Gustav Forsgren | Sweden | 94.48 | 9 | 34.49 | 7 | 59.99 |
| WD | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | Russia | | 4 | 52.43 | | |
| WD | Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave | Germany | | 7 | 37.50 | | |

### Ice dance

Madison Chock / Evan Bates of the United States won their first international title, while Julia Zlobina / Alexander Sitnikov of Azerbaijan took the silver, and Germany's Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi dropped from first after the short dance to finish third overall.

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 147.79 | 2 | 56.97 | 1 | 90.82 |
| 2 | Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov | Azerbaijan | 143.59 | 3 | 56.95 | 2 | 86.64 |
| 3 | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | Germany | 142.00 | 1 | 59.58 | 5 | 82.42 |
| 4 | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | Russia | 139.70 | 4 | 54.92 | 3 | 84.78 |
| 5 | Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam | Canada | 137.92 | 5 | 54.50 | 4 | 83.42 |
| 6 | Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun | Ukraine | 132.61 | 6 | 54.44 | 6 | 78.17 |
| 7 | Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill | Canada | 130.42 | 7 | 53.79 | 7 | 76.63 |
| 8 | Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost | Switzerland | 118.33 | 9 | 46.62 | 9 | 71.71 |
| 9 | Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz | Spain | 118.11 | 11 | 45.68 | 8 | 72.43 |
| 10 | Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown | Czech Republic | 117.49 | 8 | 47.73 | 12 | 69.76 |
| 11 | Charlotte Aiken / Josh Whidborne | United Kingdom | 116.69 | 10 | 46.12 | 11 | 70.57 |
| 12 | Federica Bernardi / Christopher Mior | Italy | 114.89 | 12 | 43.90 | 10 | 70.99 |
| 13 | Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov | Israel | 107.32 | 13 | 42.54 | 13 | 64.78 |
| 14 | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion | Japan | 103.50 | 14 | 41.82 | 14 | 61.68 |
| WD | Zsuzsanna Nagy / Máté Fejes | Hungary | | 15 | 41.73 | | |
