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2014 German Figure Skating Championships

figure skating competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ16980683 ↗
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The 2014 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen 2014) was held on December 14–15, 2013 at the Erika-Hess-Eisstadion in Berlin. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results were among the criteria used to choose the German teams to the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 World Championships, and 2014 European Championships.

Medalists

Senior

Junior

Senior results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Annabelle Prölß & Ruben Blommaert and Shari Koch & Christian Nüchtern withdrew from the event.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014 German Figure Skating Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.