Overview
- Georgia’s Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulawa won their first European crown with 215.76 points, ahead of Germany’s Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin on 203.87, with Hungary’s Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko third on 202.56.
- Hase fell on a throw Rittberger and on the final lift, and Volodin overrotated a triple toe loop, turning a narrow short‑program deficit into a decisive loss in the free skate.
- Germany’s second pair, Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, finished fourth with 188.27 after delivering their best free skate of the season.
- With the Olympics a month away, Hase/Volodin remain viewed as medal contenders who need two clean programs, as world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara loom and Italy’s Sara Conti/Niccolò Macii were absent due to Conti’s injury.
- Genrikh Gartung advanced to the men’s free skate in 24th with 64.45 after a triple Axel fall, on a day that also saw no German women’s singles entrant at Europeans for the first time in more than 70 years.