Romanian Figure Skating Championships

The Romanian Figure Skating Championships (Romanian: Campionatul Național de Patinaj Artistic) are an annual figure skating competition organized by the Romanian Skating Federation to crown the national champions of Romania. The first national championships were held in 1924 in Bucharest and featured events in figure skating, speed skating, and ice hockey.^[1] Early competitions were periodically interrupted due to unfavorable weather conditions, as skating events were held outdoors and depended on ponds and lakes being suitably frozen.^[2] No competitions were held from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1948 due to World War II. Since 2000, the Romanian Championships have occasionally been held in conjunction with the Crystal Skate of Romania, the marquee figure skating competition of Romania.^[3] The top Romanian competitors at this international competition are recognized as the Romanian national champions. Beginning in 2024, the Romanian Junior Championships have been held in conjunction with the EduSport Trophy.^[4]

Romanian Figure Skating Championships
Status	Active
Genre	National championships
Frequency	Annual
Country	Romania
Inaugurated	1924
Organised by	Romanian Skating Federation

Medals are awarded in men's and women's singles at the senior, junior, and novice levels, although not every discipline may be held every year due to a lack of participants. Romania has not seen competition in pair skating since 1993. Cornel Gheorghe holds the record for winning the most Romanian Championship titles in men's singles (with eleven), Roxana Luca holds the record in women's singles (also with eleven), and Irina Timcic and Alfred Eisenbeisser hold the record in pair skating (with seven).

Senior medalists

From left to right: Zoltán Kelemen, eight-time Romanian champion in men's singles; and Julia Sauter, nine-time Romanian champion in women's singles

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1924	Bucharest	Elemer Hirsch	C. Lupu	D. Navrea	[5]
1925	Cluj-Napoca		Aurel Puşcaşiu	Lajos Beke	[6]
1926	Chernivtsi[a]		dnul. Linul		[7]
1927	Cluj-Napoca		Aurel Puşcaşiu		[8]
1928	Brașov	dnul. Luno	Lajos Beke	Aurel Puşcaşiu	[9]
1929	Cluj-Napoca	Lajos Beke	Aurel Puşcaşiu	Béla Horosz	[10]
1930		Béla Horosz	Lajos Beke	No other competitors	[11]
1931	Brașov			Aurel Puşcaşiu	[12]
1932	Cluj-Napoca	Lajos Beke	Béla Horosz	Kár Habermann	[13]
1933	Bucharest	Béla Horosz	Dorin Stanciulescu	Maxim Bindea	[14]
1934			Maxim Bindea	Kár Habermann	[15]
1935	Chernivtsi[a]		Roman Turuşanco	Dorin Stanciulescu	[16]
1936	No competition held
1937	Brașov	Maxim Bindea	Roman Turuşanco	H. Fischer	[17]
1938	Red Lake			Ştefan Balaş	[18]
1939	Red Lake[b]	Ştefan Balaş	dnul. Hankó	dnul. Szende	[2]
1940	Cluj-Napoca	Roman Turuşanco	dnul. Jeney	No other competitors	[19]
1941–45	No competitions held due to World War II
1946	Cluj-Napoca	Roman Turuşanco	Maxim Bindea	Ştefan Balaş	[20]
1947–48	No competitions held due to World War II
1949	Cluj-Napoca	Roman Turuşanco	Maxim Bindea	Ştefan Balaş	[21]
1950		Maxim Bindea	Valeriu Bonţidiie	No other competitors	[22]
1951	No competition held
1952	Miercurea Ciuc	Maxim Bindea	Roman Turuşanco	No other competitors	[23]
1953	Cluj-Napoca	Roman Turuşanco	Maxim Bindea	Mircea Sadoveanu	[24]
1954	Brașov			Ştefan Balaş	[25]
1955			Ştefan Balaş	Teo Cristian	[26]
1956	Cluj-Napoca		Maxim Bindea		[27]
1957	Miercurea Ciuc	Maxim Bindea	Ştefan Balaş		[28]
1958	Bucharest	Roman Turuşanco	Maxim Bindea	Ştefan Hudak	[29]
1959	Cluj-Napoca			Radu Ionian	[30]
1960	Bucharest	Radu Ionian	Petru Gall	Carol Hertl	[31]
1961			V. Neagu	Petru Gall	[32]
1962				L. Nanaşi	[33]
1963			Carol Hertl	Marcel Comanici	[34]
1964			Marcel Comanici	Carol Hertl	[35]
1965		Marcel Comanici	Nicolae Bellu		[36]
1966				Mihai Stoenescu	[37]
1967		Mihai Stoenescu	Marcel Comanici	Nicolae Bellu	[38]
1968		Marcel Comanici	Nicolae Bellu	Mihai Stoenescu	[39]
1969		Gheorghe Fazekas	Marcel Comanici	Dragos Sandu	[40]
1970					[41]
1971			Mircea Ion	Octavian Goga	[42]
1972	Miercurea Ciuc			Atanase Bulete	[43]
1973	Bucharest		Atanase Bulete	Mircea Ion	[44]
1974	Miercurea Ciuc	Men's competition cancelled due to inclement weather			[45]
1975	Bucharest	Mircea Ion	Atanase Bulete	A. Georgescu	[46]
1976	Miercurea Ciuc				[47]
1977		Leonard Azzola	Adrian Vasile	Atanase Bulete	[48]
1978			Mircea Ion	Adrian Vasile	[49]
1979	Galați	Bogdan Krutii			[50]
1980	Bucharest	Adrian Vasile	Liviu Ghica	A. Anghel	[51]
1981		Bogdan Krutii	Adrian Vasile	Liviu Ghica	[52]
1982	Galați	Adrian Vasile	Bogdan Krutii		[53]
1983				Marius Negrea	[54]
1984					[55]
1985	Miercurea Ciuc		Marius Negrea	Bogdan Krutii	[56]
1986	Bucharest		Bogdan Krutii	Cornel Gheorghe	[57]
1987	Miercurea Ciuc	Cornel Gheorghe	Marian Prisăcaru	Kovács György	[58]
1988	Gheorgheni		Marius Negrea	Marian Prisăcaru	[59]
1989	Galați		Zsolt Kerekes	Marius Negrea	[60]
1990	Bucharest		Marius Negrea	Luis Taifas	[61]
1991				Zsolt Kerekes	[62]
1992		Marius Negrea	Cornel Gheorghe	Luis Taifas	[63]
1993		Cornel Gheorghe	Zsolt Kerekes	Marius Negrea	[64]
1994	Miercurea Ciuc		Marius Negrea	Bálint Miklós	[65]
1995	Bucharest		Luis Taifas	Gheorghe Chiper	[66]
1996				Marius Negrea	[67]
1997	Miercurea Ciuc		Marius Negrea	Gheorghe Chiper	[68]
1998	Bucharest		Gheorghe Chiper	Luis Taifas	[69]
1999		Gheorghe Chiper	Cornel Gheorghe	Bálint Miklós	[70]
2000				Adrian Matei	[3]
2001			Bálint Miklós		[71]
2002			Carol Braileanu		[72][73]
2003			Adrian Matei	Zoltán Kelemen	[74]
2004	Miercurea Ciuc				[75]
2005	Bucharest		Zoltán Kelemen	Adrian Matei	[76]
2006			Adrian Matei	Zoltán Kelemen	[77]
2007		Zoltán Kelemen		Zsolt Kosz	[78]
2008			Vlad Ionescu		[79]
2009					[80]
2010	Brașov				[81]
2011					[82]
2012					[83]
2013			No other competitors		[84]
2014					[85]
2015		No men's competitors			[86]
2016		Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors		[87]
2017	Miercurea Ciuc				[88]
2018	Bucharest				[89]
2019		Andrei Tanase	Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors	[90]
2020	Otopeni	Dorjan Kecskes	No other competitors		[91]
2021	Miercurea Ciuc				[92]
2022		Dorjan Kecskes[c]			[94]
2023	Otopeni	Christian Nainer	Andrei Tudor-Dominic	Anelin-George Enache	[95]
2024–25		No men's competitors

1. Chernivtsi, in present-day Ukraine, was at this point in time called Cernăuți and was part of the Kingdom of Romania.
2. The 1939 Romanian Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Bucharest, were not held due to unfavorable conditions of the ice rink. An unofficial competition was held later at the Red Lake, attended by most of Romania's top skaters.
3. While Dorjan Kecskes was the only competitor, he did not achieve the minimum required score to be named the Romanian Champion.^[93]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1925	Cluj-Napoca	Anna Bojáky	No other competitors		[6]
1926	Chernivtsi[a]				[7]
1927	Cluj-Napoca	No women's competitors			[8]
1928	Brașov	Romulus Pop	dna. Domokos	No other competitors	[9]
1929	Cluj-Napoca	Magda Kiss	dna. Linul	Gizi Schuller	[10]
1930		Romulus Pop	Magda Kiss	Klári Csorba	[11]
1931	Brașov				[12]
1932	Cluj-Napoca	Klári Csorba	Romulus Pop	Magda Kiss	[13]
1933	Bucharest	Tuti Csorba			[14]
1934	Cluj-Napoca		Gerda Rodewald	Gonder Paller & Greta Rodenwald (tied)	[96]
1935	Chernivtsi[a]	Gerda Rodewald	Trude Guber	dna. Hodlerné	[16]
1936	No competition held
1937	Brașov	Trude Guber	Rominca Pop	Erzsébet Winkler	[17]
1938	Red Lake	Rominca Pop	dna. Papp	Trude Guber	[18]
1939	Red Lake[b]	Rominca Pop	Trude Guber	Nora Walter	[2]
1940	Cluj-Napoca	Rominca Pop	Trude Guber	Borisca Kovacs	[19]
1941–45	No competitions held due to World War II
1946	Cluj-Napoca	Borbana Covaci	dna. Katalin	No other competitors	[20]
1947–48	No competitions held due to World War II
1949	Cluj-Napoca	Ecaterina Wellman	Rudi Connerth	Marieta Weinrich	[21]
1950			Marieta Weinrich	Cecilia Weinrich	[22]
1951	No competition held
1952	Miercurea Ciuc	Ecaterina Puzstay	Marieta Weinrich	Trude Konnerth	[23]
1953	Cluj-Napoca			Cecilia Weinrich	[24]
1954	Brașov				[25]
1955		Marieta Weinrich	Ecaterina Puzstay		[26]
1956	Cluj-Napoca				[27]
1957	Miercurea Ciuc		Cecilia Weinrich	Eva Pálossy	[28]
1958	Bucharest				[29]
1959	Cluj-Napoca		Cristina Patraulea	Imola Seiwarth	[30]
1960	Bucharest	Cristina Patraulea	Imola Seiwarth	Cecilia Weinrich	[31]
1961				Eva Seiwarth	[32]
1962			Irina Zaharescu	Roxana Găbunea	[33]
1963		Elena Moiş	Cristina Patraulea	Imola Seiwarth	[34]
1964			Crenguţa Cumbari		[35]
1965			Cristina Formagiu	No other competitors	[36]
1966					[37]
1967			Beatrice Huştiu	Rodica Dîdă	[38]
1968				Doina Ghiserel	[39]
1969		Beatrice Huştiu	Rodica Dîdă	Constanţa Ionescu	[40]
1970			Elena Moiş	Rodica Dîdă	[41]
1971		Elena Moiş	Doina Mitricică		[42]
1972	Miercurea Ciuc	Doina Mitricică	Elena Moiş	Mariana Ionel	[43]
1973	Bucharest		Gabriela Voica	Silvana Suciu	[44]
1974	Miercurea Ciuc	Elena Moiş	Doina Mitricică		[45]
1975	Bucharest	Doina Mitricică	Silvana Suciu	Beatrice Huştiu	[46]
1976	Miercurea Ciuc		Beatrice Huştiu	Gabriela Voica	[47]
1977		Gabriela Voica	Cornelia Picu	Mariana Chiţu	[48]
1978		Cornelia Picu	Gabriela Voica	Tereza Nencu	[49]
1979	Galați	Irina Nichiforov		Cornelia Picu	[50]
1980	Bucharest	Gabriela Voica	Tereza Nencu	Dana Rădulsecu	[51]
1981		Mariana Chiţu	Gabriela Voica	Manuela Bădiţoiu	[52]
1982	Galați		Viorica Nicu	Irina Nichiforov	[53]
1983		Viorica Nicu	Irina Nichiforov	Brigite Sigmund	[54]
1984		Mariana Chiţu	Manuela Bădiţoiu	Simona D'Albon	[55]
1985	Miercurea Ciuc	Kinga Szállasi	Csilla Sándor	Maria Grusz	[56]
1986	Bucharest	Greti Márton	Anca Cristescu	Nicoleta Cimpoieşu	[57]
1987	Miercurea Ciuc		Nicoleta Cimpoieşu	Eva Gegő	[58]
1988	Gheorgheni		Beatrisz Kurcsakovski	Marina Bellu	[59]
1989	Galați	Codruţa Moiseanu	Fabiola Vişinoiu	Beatrisz Kurcsakovski	[60]
1990	Bucharest		Beatrice Kurcsacovszki	Andrea Munteanu	[61]
1991				Raluca Duda	[62]
1992				Noémi Bedö	[63]
1993		Beatrisz Kurcsakovski	Codruţa Moiseanu	Oana Danciu	[64]
1994	Miercurea Ciuc	Ramona Cruceru	Oana Danciu	Kinga Székely	[65]
1995	Bucharest	Oana Veliscu	Mădălina Matei	Noémi Bedö	[66]
1996		Roxana Luca	Noémi Bedö	Oana Veliscu	[67]
1997	Miercurea Ciuc	Noémi Bedö	Roxana Luca		[68]
1998	Bucharest		Mădălina Matei	Roxana Luca	[69]
1999		Roxana Luca	Noémi Bedö	Mădălina Matei	[70]
2000				Simona Punga	[3]
2001			Simona Punga	Diana Dragomir	[71]
2002				No other competitors	[72][73]
2003			Roxana Boamfa	Simona Punga	[74]
2004	Miercurea Ciuc	Simona Punga		Teodora Vigu	[75]
2005	Bucharest	Roxana Luca	Roxana Simionescu	Roxana Boamfa	[76]
2006				Teodora Vigu	[77]
2007			Lisa Larissa Ipati	Maria Balea	[78]
2008			Sabina Măriuță	Anita Nagy	[79]
2009			Anita Nagy	Maria Balea	[80]
2010	Brașov	Sabina Paquier	Sabina Măriuță		[81]
2011		Sabina Măriuță	Anca Ionescu	Anita Nagy	[82]
2012			Denisa Sandu	No other competitors	[83]
2013			Raisa Rjenovschi		[84]
2014		Julia Sauter	No other competitors		[85]
2015					[86]
2016		Zselyke Kenéz			[87]
2017	Miercurea Ciuc	Julia Sauter			[88]
2018	Otopeni	Zselyke Kenéz	Irina Preda	No other competitors	[89]
2019		Julia Sauter	Amanda Stan	Cristiana Mihaela Silca	[90]
2020		Ana-Sofia Beschea	Andreea Ureche	Cristia Calcan	[91]
2021	Miercurea Ciuc		Ana-Maria Ion	No other competitors	[92]
2022		Julia Sauter	Ana-Sofia Beschea	Ana-Maria Ion	[94]
2023	Otopeni		Andreea Ramona Voicu	Andreea Denisa Comanescu	[95]
2024			Ana Sofia Beschea	Andreea Ramona Voicu	[4]
2025				Teodora Maria Gheorghe	[97]

1. Chernivtsi, in present-day Ukraine, was at this point in time called Cernăuți and was part of the Kingdom of Romania.
2. The 1939 Romanian Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Bucharest, were not held due to unfavorable conditions of the ice rink. An unofficial competition was held later at the Red Lake, attended by most of Romania's top skaters.

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1924	Bucharest	dna. Vincent dnul. Vincent	dna. Lehmann dnul. D. Navrea	No other competitors	[5]
1925–26	No pairs competitors
1927	Cluj-Napoca	Anna Bojáky Lajos Beke	Roza Biluska Heidel Gheorghe	No other competitors	[8]
1928	Brașov		Dşoara Bohăţiel dnul. Bélchei	Roza Biluska Heidel Gheorghe	[9]
1929	Cluj-Napoca	No pairs competitors			[10]
1930		Anna Bojáky Lajos Beke	No other competitors		[11]
1931	Brașov		dna. Moser Kár Habermann	dna. Onciu dnul. G. Rodewald	[12]
1932	Cluj-Napoca		dna. Jakabffy László Eltzenbaum	dna. Moser Kár Habermann	[13]
1933	Bucharest	Irina Timcic Alfred Eisenbeisser	Anna Bojáky Lajos Beke	dna. Jakabffy László Eltzenbaum	[14]
1934	Cluj-Napoca	Anna Manosek Lajos Beke	Irina Timcic Alfred Eisenbeisser	Trude Guber Berthold Henchert	[96]
1935	Chernivtsi[a]	Irina Timcic Alfred Eisenbeisser	Trude Guber Berthold Henchert	dna. Turchner dnul. Zajavszkovszky	[16]
1936	No competition held
1937	Brașov	Irina Timcic Alfred Eisenbeisser	Trude Guber Berthold Henchert	No other competitors	[17]
1938	Red Lake		Ileana Moldoveanu Berthold Henchert	dna. Zapparden Béla Horosz	[18]
1939	Red Lake[b]	Trude Guber Berthold Henchert	dna. Radeş dnul. Madarassy	dna. Zajenic dnul. Zajenic	[2]
1940	Cluj-Napoca	Trude Guber Berthold Henchert	dna. Radeş dnul. Madarassy	No other competitors	[19]
1941–45	No competitions held due to World War II
1946	Cluj-Napoca	Ana Radeş Béla Horosz	Ana Manosek Lajos Beke	No other competitors	[20]
1947–48	No competitions held due to World War II
1949	Cluj-Napoca	Trude Konnerth Berthold Henchert	Ecaterina Wellman Lajos Beke	dna. Musca L. Bonţideanu	[21]
1950		Irina Museă Valeriu Bonţidie	No other competitors		[22]
1951	No competition held
1952	Miercurea Ciuc	Trude Konnerth Berthold Henchert	No other competitors		[23]
1953	Cluj-Napoca	No pairs competitors			[24]
1954	Brașov	Irina Minculescu Alfred Eisenbeisser	Trude Konnerth Berthold Henchert	Ecaterina Pusztay Ştefan Balaş	[98]
1955					[26]
1956	Cluj-Napoca				[27]
1957	Miercurea Ciuc	Trude Konnerth Berthold Henchert	Ana Radeş F. Maderaş		[28]
1958	Bucharest	Ecaterina Pusztay Ştefan Balaş	Vera Curceac Alfred Eisenbeiser	Ana Radeş F. Maderaş	[29]
1959	Cluj-Napoca		Vera Curceac Alfred Fieraru	Dorina Coman Ştefan Bugnariu	[30]
1960	Bucharest	No pairs competitors			[31]
1961		Cristina Patraulea Radu Ionian	No other competitors		[32]
1962					[33]
1963					[34]
1964			Eva Miculici Radu Ionescu	No other competitors	[35]
1965		Letiţia Păcuraru Radu Ionian	No other competitors		[36]
1966			Liliana Georgescu Dan Săveanu	No other competitors	[37]
1967		Liliana Georgescu Radu Ionian	Daniela Popesci Marian Chiosea		[38]
1968		Daniela Popesci Marian Chiosea	Marinela Ciubecă Carol Hertl		[39]
1969		Letiţia Păcuraru Dan Săveanu	Daniela Popesci Marian Chiosea	Marinela Ciubecă Carol Hertl	[40]
1970				No other competitors	[41]
1971		Liliana Georgescu Dan Săveanu			[42]
1972	Miercurea Ciuc	Letiţia Păcuraru Dan Săveanu	No other competitors		[43]
1973	Bucharest	Beatrice Hustiu Dan Săveanu			[99]
1974	Miercurea Ciuc				[45]
1975–88	No pairs competitors
1989	Galați	Iovanca Cnejev Felix Similean	Cosima Ciuhandu Cătălin Frățilă	Manuela Dolga Ionuţ Dolga	[60]
1990	Bucharest	Corina Vastag Felix Similean	Sinziana Mihalache Louis Taifas	Cosima Ciuhandu Cătălin Frățilă	[61]
1991			Cosima Ciuhandu Cătălin Frățilă	Cristina Fekete Gheorghe Chiper	[62]
1992		Cosima Ciuhandu Cătălin Frățilă	Cristina Fekete Gheorghe Chiper	Manuela Dolga Ionuţ Dolga	[63]
1993				No other competitors	[64]
1994–2025	No pairs competitors since 1993

1. Chernivtsi, in present-day Ukraine, was at this point in time called Cernăuți and was part of the Kingdom of Romania.
2. The 1939 Romanian Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Bucharest, were not held due to unfavorable conditions of the ice rink. An unofficial competition was held later at the Red Lake, attended by most of Romania's top skaters.

Junior medalists

Men's singles

Junior men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Brașov	Vlad Ionescu	Zsolt Kosz	Iancu Verghelet	[100]
2013	Bucharest	Catalin Dimitrescu	Daniel Patriche	Graţiano Dinu	[101]
2014	Brașov	Valentin Costache	Graţiano Dinu	Iancu Verghelet	[102]
2015		Flavius Luca	Valentin Costache	Dorjan Kecskes	[103]
2016		Valentin Costache	Andrei Tanase		[104]
2017		Andrei Tanase	No other competitors		[105]
2018	Târgu Secuiesc				[106]
2019	Otopeni		Sebastian Radovan	No other competitors	[107]
2020			No other competitors		[108]
2021	Miercurea Ciuc	Lehel Tulit			[92]
2022		Anelin George Enache[a]	Lehel Tulit	No other competitors	[94]
2023	Otopeni	Andrei Tudor-Dominic	No other competitors		[110]
2024		Răzvan Cionac	Anelin-George Enache	No other competitors	[4]
2025			Bálint Domahidi-Dóczy		[111]

1. Although Anelin George Enache finished in first place, he did not achieve the required minimum score to be named the Romanian Junior Champion.^[109]

Women's singles

Junior women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2012	Brașov	Marya Fay Vangeystelen	Raisa Rjenovschi	Anita Nagy	[100]
2013	Bucharest	Julia Sauter	Marya Fay Vangestelen	Denisa Sandu	[101]
2014	Brașov	Zselyke Kenéz	Ana Catană	Raisa Rjenovschi	[102]
2015		Julia Sauter	Amanda Stan	Zselyke Kenéz	[103]
2016					[104]
2017		Amanda Stan	Zselyke Kenéz	Cristiana Mihaela Silca	[105]
2018	Târgu Secuiesc		Ana-Sofia Beschea	Bristena Prodea	[106]
2019	Otopeni	Bristena Prodea	Ramona-Andreaa Voicu	Ana-Sofia Beschea	[107]
2020		Ana-Sofia Beschea		Luiza Elena Ilie	[108]
2021	Miercurea Ciuc	Ramona-Andreaa Voicu	Ana-Sofia Beschea	Ingrid Ana Pricop	[92]
2022		Ana-Sofia Beschea	Luiza-Elena Ilie	Ruxandra Rotundu	[94]
2023	Otopeni	Luiza-Elena Ilie	Ruxandra Rotundu	Ingrid Pricop	[110]
2024		Natalia Runcanu	Maria Smaranda	Tara-Maria Ienciu	[4]
2025			Ana Stratulat	Adria Liliac	[111]

Records

Roxana Luca has won eleven Romanian Championship titles in women's singles.

Records

Discipline	Most championship titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Cornel Gheorghe	11	1987–91; 1993–98	[112]
Women's singles	Roxana Luca	11	1996; 1999–2003; 2005–09	[113]
Pairs	Irina Timcic Alfred Eisenbeisser	7	1933; 1935; 1937–38; 1954–56	[14][16] [17][18] [98][26] [27]