Crystal Skate of Romania

Crystal Skate of Romania
Crystal Skate of Romania
Status	Active
Genre	International competition
Frequency	Annual
Countries	Romania
Inaugurated	1999
Organizer	Romanian Skating Federation

The Crystal Skate of Romania is an annual figure skating competition organized by the Romanian Skating Federation (Romanian: Federatia romana de patinaj). The inaugural competition took place in January 2000 in Miercurea Ciuc and featured skaters from Estonia, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, as well as Romania. Since 2000, the Romanian Figure Skating Championships have occasionally been held in conjunction with the Crystal Skate of Romania. The top Romanian competitors are recognized as the Romanian national champions. Beginning in 2011, events for junior-level men and women were added.

Medals are awarded in men's and women's singles at the senior and junior levels, although each discipline may not necessarily be held every year due to a lack of participants. Gheorghe Chiper of Romania holds the record for winning the most Crystal Skate titles in men's singles (with five), while Roxana Luca and Julia Sauter, also of Romania, are tied for winning the most Crystal Skate titles in women's singles (with three each).

Senior results

The 2027 Crystal Skate of Romania champions (from left to right): Luc Economides of Romania (men's singles) and Ekaterina Kurakova of Poland (women's singles)

Men's singles

Senior men's event medalists
Season	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1999–2000	Miercurea-Ciuc	Alexei Kozlov	Gheorghe Chiper	Cornel Gheorghe
2000–01	Bucharest	Gheorghe Chiper	Hristo Turlakov	Balint Miklos
2001–02			Thierry Cerez	Oleksandr Smokvin
2002–03			Zoltán Tóth	Patrick Meier
2003–04	Miercurea-Ciuc	Anton Kovalevski	Zoltán Tóth	Mikko Minkkinen
2004–05	Bucharest	Gheorghe Chiper	Anton Kovalevski	Gregor Urbas
2005–06	Bucharest	Gheorghe Chiper	Alexander Shubin	Samuel Contesti
2006–07	No competition held
2007–08	Galați	Yoann Deslot	Mark Vaillant	Alexei Bychenko
2008–09		Przemysław Domański	Alexei Bychenko	Mark Vaillant
2009–10		Kristoffer Berntsson	Adrian Schultheiss	Chafik Besseghier
2010–11	Brașov	Chafik Besseghier	Zoltán Kelemen	Mikael Redin
2011–12		Chafik Besseghier	Jorik Hendrickx	Zoltán Kelemen
2012–13		Michael Christian Martinez	Zoltan Kelemen	Paolo Bacchini
2013–14		Zoltan Kelemen	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Maurizio Zandron
2014–15		No men's competitors
2015–16		Tomi Pulkkinen	Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors
2016–17	Miercurea-Ciuc	Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors
2017–18	Otopeni	Philip Warren	Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors
2018–19	Otopeni	Marco Klepoch	Manuel Drechsler	Andrei Tanase
2019–20	No competition held
2020–21	Bucharest	Competitions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021–22	Otopeni	Competitions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022–23	Bucharest	Maurizio Zandron	Emanuele Indelicato	Filip Kaimakchiev
2023–24	Bucharest	Competition cancelled
2024–25	Otopeni	Beat Schümperli	Alexander Zlatkov	Larry Loupolover
2025–26	Otopeni	No men's competitors
2026–27	Bucharest	Luc Economides	No other competitors

Women's singles

Senior women's event medalists
Season	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1999–2000	Miercurea-Ciuc	Roxana Luca	Martine Adank	Marion Krijgsman
2000–01	Bucharest		Claudia di Constanzo	Simona Pungă
2001–02			Lea Bottacini	Olha Orlova
2002–03		Miia Marttinen	Vanessa Giunchi	Viktória Pavuk
2003–04	Miercurea-Ciuc	Viktória Pavuk	Tytti Tervonen	Simona Pungă
2004–05	Bucharest	Galina Maniachenko	Roxana Luca	Roxana Simionescu
2005–06	Bucharest	Galina Maniachenko	Nadège Bobillier	Sonia Radeva
2006–07	No competition held
2007–08	Galați	Chloé Depouilly	Sonia Radeva	Roxana Luca
2008–09		Stefania Berton	Iryna Movchan	Viktória Pavuk
2009–10		Júlia Sebestyén	Kerstin Frank	Shoko Ishikawa
2010–11	Brașov	Anne Line Gjersem	Sıla Saygı	Kerstin Frank
2011–12		Jelena Glebova	Gerli Liinamäe	Kana Muramoto
2012–13		Roberta Rodeghiero	Anine Rabe	Sabina Măriuţă
2013–14		Laurine Lecavelier	Francesca Rio	Anine Rabe
2014–15		Julia Sauter	Carol Bressanutti	Kwak Min-jeong
2015–16		Kim Tae-kyung	Frances Howell	Michelle Callison
2016–17	Miercurea-Ciuc	Julia Sauter	No other competitors
2017–18	Otopeni	Elżbieta Gabryszak	Sallianna Öztürk	Karolina Luhtonen
2018–19	Otopeni	Alexandra Feigin	Julia Sauter	Eliška Březinová
2019–20	No competition held
2020–21	Bucharest	Competitions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021–22	Otopeni	Competitions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022–23	Bucharest	Lara Naki Gutmann	Julia Sauter	Aleksandra Golovkina
2023–24	Bucharest	Competition cancelled
2024–25	Otopeni	Julia Sauter	Elena Agostinelli	Eliška Březinová
2025–26	Otopeni	Olivia Lisko	Mariia Dmitrieva	Marietta Atkins
2026–27	Bucharest	Ekaterina Kurakova	Julia Sauter	Lilian Musgrave

Ice dance

Senior ice dance event medalists
Season	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012–13	Brașov	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	Ekaterina Pushkash Jonathan Guerreiro	Zsuzsanna Nagy Máté Fejes

Junior medalists

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2011–12	Brașov	Jamie Whiteman	Osman Akgün	Charles Parry-Evans
2012–13		Osman Akgün	Nicola Todeschini	Sondre Oddvoll Boe
2013–14		Sondre Oddvoll Bøe	Genki Suzuki	Giorgio Settembrini
2014–15		Slavik Hayrapetyan	Carlo Vittorio Palermo	Alessandro Fadini
2015–16		Mikhail Medunitsa	Olexander Khilinichenko	Ruaridh Fisher
2016–17	Miercurea-Ciuc	Ruaridh Fisher	No other competitors
2017–18	Otopeni	Nikolaj Memola	No other competitors
2018–19	Otopeni	No junior men's competitors
2019–22	No competitions held
2022–23	Bucharest	Christian-Stephan Nainer	Tommaso Barison	Tudor Dominic Andrei
2023–24	Bucharest	Competition cancelled
2024–25	Otopeni	Nikita Sheiko	Kirill Sheiko	Jack Donovan
2025–26	Otopeni	Jakub Tykal	Daniel Ruis	Wendell Hansson-Östergaard
2026–27	Bucharest	Bohdan Pomohaibo	Razvan Cionac	No other competitors

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2011–12	Brașov	Rebecka Emanuelsson	Anna Hoffmann	Regina Glazman
2012–13		Amani Fancy	Guia Tagliapietra	Laure Nicodet
2013–14		Nicole Schott	Chiara Calderone	Vilma Lehtinen
2014–15		Daisy Vreenegoor	Regina Glazman	Lena Slagter
2015–16		Julia Sauter	Suzi Murray	Yancey Chan
2016–17	Miercurea-Ciuc	Morgan Swales	Zselyke Aletta Kenéz	Cristina Mihaela Silca
2017–18	Otopeni	Anna Memola	Ana Sofia Beșchea	Emma Kivioja
2018–19	Otopeni	Ivelina Baicheva	Maria Levushkina	Esther Schwarz
2019–22	No competitions held
2022–23	Bucharest	Arabella Sear-Watkins	Anastasiia Vasylchenko	Tara Maria Ienciu
2023–24	Bucharest	Competition cancelled
2024–25	Otopeni	Amanda Ghezzo	Simona Tkachman	Chiara Minighini
2025–26	Otopeni	Maria Eliise Kaljuvere	Inga Gurgenidze	Jana Horcicková
2026–27	Bucharest	Leyla Çetin	Simona Tkachman	Elena Martinenghi

Ice dance

Junior ice dance event medalists
Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2011–12	Brașov	Tamara Turóczi Dániel Majer	Eugenia Tkachenka Yuri Hulitski	No other competitors

Records

From left to right: Gheorghe Chiper of Romania won five Crystal Skate titles in men's singles, while Julia Sauter of Romania has won three Crystal Skate titles in women's singles.

Records
Discipline	Most championship titles
Discipline	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Gheorghe Chiper	5	2001–03; 2005–06
Women's singles	Roxana Luca	3	2000–02
Women's singles	Julia Sauter	3	2015; 2017; 2025

Cumulative medal count (senior medalists)

Men's singles

Total number of Crystal Skate medals in men's singles by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	8	5	4	17
2	France	4	2	3	9
3	Bulgaria	1	2	2	5
3	Ukraine	1	2	2	5
5	Austria	1	1	0	2
5	Sweden	1	1	0	2
7	Slovakia	1	0	2	3
8	Finland	1	0	1	2
9	Estonia	1	0	0	1
	Philippines	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
12	Hungary	0	2	0	2
13	Italy	0	1	2	3
14	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
17	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
18	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		21	19	19	59

Women's singles

Total number of Crystal Skate medals in women's singles by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	6	4	5	15
2	Italy	3	6	0	9
3	Finland	2	2	1	5
4	Ukraine	2	1	1	4
5	France	2	1	0	3
6	Hungary	2	0	2	4
7	Poland	2	0	1	3
8	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
8	Norway	1	1	1	3
10	Estonia	1	1	0	2
11	South Korea	1	0	1	2
12	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
13	Austria	0	1	1	2
14	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
17	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
17	Japan	0	0	2	2
19	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
19	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		23	22	22	67

Total medals

This table includes one gold medal and one silver medal each for Russia, and one bronze medal for Hungary, from the ice dance competition in 2012.

Total number of Crystal Skate medals by nation
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	14	9	9	32
2	France	6	3	3	12
3	Italy	3	7	2	12
4	Ukraine	3	3	3	9
5	Finland	3	2	2	7
6	Poland	3	0	1	4
7	Bulgaria	2	3	3	8
8	Hungary	2	2	3	7
9	Estonia	2	1	0	3
10	Austria	1	2	1	4
11	Russia	1	2	0	3
12	Norway	1	1	1	3
13	Sweden	1	1	0	2
14	Slovakia	1	0	2	3
15	South Korea	1	0	1	2
16	Philippines	1	0	0	1
17	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
17	Switzerland	0	1	2	3
19	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
23	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
23	Japan	0	0	2	2
25	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		45	42	42	129

References

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↑ "Competition Results – Julia Sauter (ROU)". International Skating Union. 21 May 2026. Archived from the original on 26 March 2026. Retrieved 21 May 2026.

External links

Romanian Skating Federation
Crystal Skate of Romania at Skating Scores

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[CS2012-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2011 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 26 August 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2026.

[CS2000-5] 1 2 "2000 Crystal Skate of Romania". The Figure Skating Corner. Archived from the original on 25 June 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2007.

[CS2001-6] 1 2 "2000 Crystal Skate of Romania". The Figure Skating Corner. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.

[CS2002-7] 1 2 "2001 Crystal Skate". Tracings. Archived from the original on 21 May 2026. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

[CS2003-8] 1 2 "2002 Crystal Skate". Tracings. Archived from the original on 21 April 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

[AH11262003-9] 1 2 "Patinaj artistic: Cupa Patina de Cristal şi campionatele naţionale de seniori" [Figure skating: Crystal Skate Cup and national senior championships]. Adevărul Harghitei (in Romanian). 26 November 2003. p. 6-a. Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via Arcanum Newspapers.

[PS12062004-10] 1 2 "Patine de cristal" [Crystal Skate]. Pro Sport (in Romanian). 6 December 2004. p. 12. Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via Arcanum Newspapers.

[AH11082005-11] 1 2 "Patinaj artistic: Gheorghe Chiper – două titluri" [Figure skating: Gheorghe Chiper – two titles]. Adevărul Harghitei (in Romanian). 8 November 2005. p. 2-a. Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via Arcanum Newspapers.

[CS2008-12] 1 2 "2007 Crystal Skate of Romania". Tracings. Archived from the original on 12 October 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

[CH11182008-13] 1 2 "Galacon versenyeztek a műkorcsolyázók" [Figure skaters compete in Galac]. Csíki Hírlap (in Hungarian). 18 November 2008. p. 9. Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via Arcanum Newspapers.

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[CS2011-15] 1 2 "2010 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 26 August 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

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[CS2015-18] 1 2 3 4 "2014 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2026.

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[CS2018-21] 1 2 3 4 "2017 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2026.

[CS2019-22] 1 2 3 4 "2018 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 25 January 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

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[CS2022-24] 1 2 "Cancelled – 2021 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 21 May 2026. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

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[CS2024-26] 1 2 3 4 "Cancelled – 2023 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 21 May 2026. Retrieved 19 May 2026.

[CS2025-27] 1 2 3 4 "2024 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 22 August 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

[CS2026-28] 1 2 3 4 "2026 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 21 May 2026. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

[CS2027-29] 1 2 3 4 "2026 Crystal Skate of Romania". Skating Scores. Retrieved 31 October 2026.

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