Overview
- Georgia’s Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulawa won their first European championship with 215.76 points after leading the short program.
- Germany’s Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin settled for silver on 203.87 after a fall on the throw Rittberger and problems on a lift in the free skate.
- Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko took bronze for Hungary with 202.56, and Germany’s Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel placed fourth with 188.27.
- Olympic picture notes: world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara remain key rivals, and Italy’s Sara Conti/Niccolò Macii skipped Europeans due to Conti’s injury.
- Germany’s Genrikh Gartung reached the men’s free skate in 24th after a triple Axel fall, and Charise Matthaei/Max Liebers joined ice dance as replacements as Germany fields no women’s singles entrant for the first time in over 70 years.