I’m going to make this one short and sweet. The 2025 European Figure Skating Championships starts in a mere few hours. As always, the competition is varied with a lot of variety. And this year, two of the four champions from last year return to defend their titles, with Loena Hendrickx out because of an ankle injury and Lucrezia Beccari/Matteo Guarise out with Beccari’s foot injury. Both Hendrickx and Beccari said they will have surgery early this year. Adam Siao Him Fa and Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri will be in Tallinn to defend their titles.
Europeans predictions
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Men predictions Top 10
GOLD Adam Siao Him Fa FRA
SILVER Kevin Aymoz FRA
BRONZE Daniel Grassl ITA
4. Deniss Vasiljevs LAT
5. Lukas Britschgi SUI
6. Nika Egadze GEO
7. Matteo Rizzo ITA
8. Mihhail Selevko EST
9. Nikolaj Memola ITA
10. Aleksandr Selevko EST
There’s nothing easy about predicting the men, well, ever. Siao Him Fa has been injured for part of this season, and this is his first competition since winning bronze at Cup of China and then withdrawing from both Grand Prix Final and French Nationals. He comes in with not the huge difficulty he started off the season with, and that could be good for his chances here if the lower difficulty increases his changes of skating clean.
Kevin Aymoz returns to Europeans after his disastrous 31st last season, and he’s had a couple of difficult performances here. Most of his season has pointed to progress, and he will be favored for his first medal here. And Daniel Grassl returns to Europeans after his anti-doping suspension last season kept him out of all events there. He was the silver medalist here three years ago.
Pairs predictions Top 10
GOLD Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin GER
SILVER Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava GEO
BRONZE Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii ITA
4. Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenkio HUN
5. Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini ITA
6. Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel GER
7. Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby GBR
8. Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba NED
9. Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak POL
10. Milania Vaananen/Filippo Clerici FIN
This pairs event is a battle royale for sure. We have three pairs here who all could end up winning the World title this season. In the rematch among three of the top four at the Grand Prix Final, we have Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin, Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava, and Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii trying to assert their own dominance prior to Worlds. Conti/Macii won this title two years ago, Metelkina/Berulava were second last year, and Hase/Volodin come in with the most momentum, having lost only once this season.
Dance predictions Top 10
GOLD Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri ITA
SILVER Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson GBR
BRONZE Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud FRA
4. Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis FIN
5. Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck ESP
6. Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevicius LTU
7. Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler CZE
8. Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin GEO
9. Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek CZE
10. Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen FIN
This is perhaps one of the most interesting ice dance fields of the season. Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri are trying to keep Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson at bay in hopes of winning their third consecutive title. But they have not been immune to mistakes this season. But perhaps the most interesting battle will be the fight for bronze, where something like six teams could see themselves on the podium. Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud have made some big moves this season, as have Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck. The bronze medalists from the past two seasons, Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis (2023) and Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevicius (2024) could also figure into that picture. All of them have had strong results this season.
Women predictions Top 10
GOLD Kimmy Repond SUI
SILVER Nina Pinzarrone BEL
BRONZE Lara Naki Gutmann ITA
4. Niina Petrokina EST
5. Anastasiia Gubanova GEO
6. Lorine Schild FRA
7. Anna Pezzetta ITA
8. Lea Serna FRA
9. Ekaterina Kurakova POL
10. Janna Jyrkinen FIN
It was already going to be unpredictable even before Loena Hendrickx (and Livia Kaiser) withdrew, so get ready for a potentially wild ride for the women’s event in Tallinn. Of the competitors here, only Anastasiia Gubanova has won this event (two years ago), but her season has been a rocky one. Kimmy Repond and Nina Pinzarrone, the bronze medalists the last two years, look like they may have the consistency to be up there.
The dark horses could be Lara Naki Gutmann, who surprised everyone with a medal at Finlandia Trophy, and Niina Petrokina, skating at home and having improved with each competition this season. She will come in with great memories of skating in Tallinn three years ago with her breakout performance there.