The 2008
British Figure Skating Championships The British Figure Skating Championships (known in some years as the ''British Ice Figure and Dance Championships'' and the ''British Ice Figure & Synchronized Skating Championships'') are a figure skating competition held annually to crown the nati ...
were held from 7 to 12 January 2008 in
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ...
. Skaters competed across the levels of senior (Olympic-level), junior, and novice, and across the disciplines of
men's singles,
ladies' singles,
pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
,
ice dancing
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
, and
synchronized skating
Synchronized skating is an ice skating sport where between 8 to 16 skaters perform together as a team. They move as a flowing unit at high speed over the ice, while performing elements and footwork.
This complex sport originated in 1956 and was ...
. The event was used to help pick the British teams to the
2008 World Championships, the
2008 European Championships, and the
2008 World Junior Championships.
The senior
compulsory dance
The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and ge ...
was the Yankee Polka and the junior compulsory dance was the Viennese Waltz. The first novice compulsory dance was the Rocker Foxtrot and the second one was the Paso Doble.
Senior results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Synchronized
Junior results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Novice results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Synchronized
External links
2008 John Wilson/MK British Ice Figure & Synchronized Skating Championships results
{{2007–08 in figure skating
British Figure Skating Championships, 2008
British Figure Skating Championships
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