The 1983 Blue Swords was a senior international figure skating competition in East Germany. Skaters from fourteen countries participated at the competition in East Berlin. The competition was held November 23–26 1983. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating. Boris Uspenski won the men's title for the Soviet Union. Janina Wirth and Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert won gold for East Germany in the ladies' and pairs' categories, respectively.

Men

Rank Name[1][2] Nation
1 Boris Uspenski  Soviet Union
2 Falko Kirsten  East Germany
3 Pierre Seveno  France
4 Nils Koepp  East Germany
5 Alessandro Riccitelli  Italy
6 Andrzej Strzelec  Poland
...
DNF Alexander König  East Germany

Ladies

Rank Name[1][2] Nation
1 Janina Wirth  East Germany
2 Beatrice Gelmini  Italy
3 Marion Krause  East Germany
4 Tamara Teglassy  Hungary
5 Sabine Paal  Austria
6 Maria Geier-Haylock  United Kingdom
7 Barbara Kazmierczak  Poland
8 Nevenka Lisak  Yugoslavia
9 Mirela Gawłowska  Poland
10 Jana Pribylova  Czechoslovakia
...

Pairs

Birgit Lorenz and Knut Schubert at the 1981 Blue Swords. They won again in 1983.
Rank Name[1][2] Nation
1 Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert  East Germany
2 Babette Preußler / Tobias Schröter  East Germany
3 Tatiana Chozko / Oleg Efimov  Soviet Union
...

References

  1. ^ a b c Pokal der Blauen Schwerter 1983, Neues Deutschland Archive, 28 November 1983
  2. ^ a b c Pokal der Blauen Schwerter 1983, German figure skating magazine "Pirouette"


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Blue_Swords
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