The 2017

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were held 25–29 January 2017 in

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. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles,

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Records

For complete list of figure skating records, see

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. The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Eligibility

Skaters were eligible for the event if they represented a European member nation of the

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and had reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2016, in their place of birth. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters is the 2017 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the European Championships.

Minimum TES

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2016 European Championships, the ISU allows each country one to three entries per discipline.

Entries

National associations began announcing their selections in December 2016. The ISU published a complete list on 4 January 2017:

Changes to initial assignments

Results

Men

Fernandez won his fifth European title.

Ladies

Evgenia Medvedeva Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva (alt. spelling: Yevgenia Medvedeva; rus, Евгения Армановна Медведева, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪjə mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪvə; born 19 November 1999), is a competitive Russian Figure skating, figure ska ...

won her second European title. Medvedeva set a new

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for the free skating (150.79 points) and for the combined total (229.71 points).

Pairs

Bronze medalists the previous two years, Tarasova/Morozov won their first European title after placing first in the short program and second in the free skate. Ranked third in the short and first in the free, Savchenko/Massot received silver for the second consecutive year. Bronze medalists James/Ciprès were the first French pair to win a European medal in fourteen years (since

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/ Stéphane Bernadis took silver).

Ice dancing

Papadakis/Cizeron became European champions for the third consecutive year.

Medals summary

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement: Table of small medals for placement in the short segment: Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

Medalists

Medals for overall placement Small medals for placement in the short segment Small medals for placement in the free segment

References

External links

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