The 2000

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had been held at the Palais des Exposition Nice in

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from March 23 to April 3. The event was sanctioned by the

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. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and

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Medal table

Competition notes

Due to a large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. This event had originally been awarded to

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. However, in late August 1999, the ISU reassigned the event to Nice, allegedly due to the Australian organizers' failure to provide adequate broadcast services. There were two accidents resulting in withdrawals.

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/ Dmitri Palamarchuk, who were 10th after the short program, withdrew from the pairs event after a fall during the free skating. Palamarchuk caught an edge (right skate) while executing an overhead lift with Obertas – she was uninjured in the resulting fall but he hit his head on the ice. Palamarchuk lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up and leaving the ice on his own but then lost consciousness and was taken to hospital – no damage was found but he was kept overnight for observation. In the ice dancing event, Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski, who were 8th after the original dance also forced to withdraw. She was seriously injured in the practice before the free dance when

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's blade slashed her leg above her boot, severing two tendons and a muscle. Pair skater Stéphane Bernadis said he was attacked on March 28 by an unknown assailant with a razor – resulting in an eight-inch cut down his left forearm – when he opened his hotel room door. Bernadis said he had received a death threat three weeks earlier. Over 52,000 tickets were sold.

Results

Men

Referee: *

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Assistant Referee: * Ronald T. Pfenning International Skating Union

Judges: * Jane Garden * Christiane Miles * Alexander Pentchev * Laura McNair * Florin Gafencu *

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* Hideo Sugita * Zsofia Wagner * Philippe Meriguet Substitute judge: * Igor Obraztsov

Ladies

Referee: * Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee: *

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Judges: * Margo Pauw *

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* Hisashi Yoshikawa * Judit Fьrst-Tombor *

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* Nenad Orban * Adriana Ordeanu * Bjцrg Rosto Jensen *

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Substitute judge: * Hely Abbondati

Pairs

Referee: *

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Assistant Referee: *

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Judges: *

Marina Sanaya Marina Valterovna Sanaya (Melnyk) (russian: Марина Вальтеровна Саная (Мельник); 7 January 1959 – 6 October 2016) was a figure skating official and competitor who represented the Soviet Union. Competing at the age o ...

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* Marie Reine Le Gougne * Joseph L. Inman * Susan Blatz * Alexei Shirshov * Anna Sierocka * Adriana Domanska * Jarmila Portova Substitute judge: * Jiasheng Yang

Ice dancing

Referee: * Courtney Jones International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Ludmila Mikhailovskaya International Skating Union

Judges: * Jean-Bernard Hamel * Isabella Micheli * Elizabeth Clark *

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* Akos Pethes * Robert J. Horen * Halina Gordon-Poltorak * Mieko Fujimori Substitute judge: * Yury Kliushnikov

References

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