Alessia Tornaghi

Alessia Tornaghi (born 3 July 2003) is an Italian figure skater. She is a two-time Italian national champion and the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb champion. On the junior level, she is the 2019 JGP Italy bronze medalist.

Alessia Tornaghi
Personal information
Country represented Italy
Born (2003-07-03) 3 July 2003
Milan, Italy
Home townMilan, Italy
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
CoachEdoardo De Bernardis, Marilù Guarnieri, Viktoria Butsaeva[1]
Former coachKarel Zelenka, Svetlana Veretennikova, Olga Romanova
ChoreographerEdoardo De Bernardis
Former choreographerMarilù Guarnieri, Andrea Gilardi, Barbara Riboldi
Skating clubAgora Skating Team Milan
Training locationsMilan, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Began skating2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total178.60
2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Short program62.19
2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Free skate125.22
2020 Winter Youth Olympics - team event

Personal life

Alessia Tornaghi was born 3 July 2003 in Milan, Italy.

Career

Early career

Tornaghi began learning to skate in 2008.[2] She was the 2015 Italian national novice champion and won seven medals internationally as an advanced novice.[3] Tornaghi is the 2016 and 2017 Italian national junior silver medalist.

2017–2018 season

Tornaghi made her junior international debut at 2017 JGP Austria, where she finished 14th. She then won the silver medal at 2017 Cup of Nice, the gold medal at 2017 Leo Scheu Memorial, and placed sixth at 2017 Merano Cup.[4]

Tornaghi finished fourth at the 2018 Italian Championships behind Lucrezia Beccari, Lara Naki Gutmann, and Marina Piredda, after winning silver for the past two seasons. She finished her season with silver medals at 2018 Sofia Trophy and 2018 Coupe du Printemps and bronze medals at 2018 Jégvirág Cup and 2018 Egna Spring Trophy.[4]

2018–2019 season

Tornaghi began training with Viktoria Butsaeva in Moscow in September.[1] She began the season with another 14th-place finish at 2018 JGP Slovakia. Tornaghi then finished sixth at 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb, and won silver medals at the 2018 Inge Solar Memorial–Alpen Trophy and the 2018 Christmas Cup.[4]

Tornaghi won the gold medal in the senior division at the 2019 Italian Championships ahead of Lucrezia Beccari and Lara Naki Gutmann, but was not named to the 2019 Junior World Championships team. She went on to win the bronze medal at 2019 Skate Helena, golds at 2019 Sofia Trophy and 2019 Cup of Tyrol, and ended her season with the silver medal at 2019 Egna Spring Trophy.[4]

2019–2020 season

Tornaghi placed ninth at 2019 JGP Croatia before winning her first JGP medal, a bronze, at 2019 JGP Italy behind Russians Ksenia Sinitsyna and Anna Frolova. In her senior international debut, she placed fourth at 2019 CS Ice Star after a free skate comeback from twelfth in the short program.[5] Tornaghi won her first senior title and international medal at 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb, after becoming the first Italian lady since Carolina Kostner to successfully complete a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination in the short program.[6] She rallied from 13th after the short program to finish fifth at 2019 CS Warsaw Cup after finishing second in the free skate behind only eventual champion Ekaterina Kurakova of Poland.[7]

Tornaghi won the gold medal for a second consecutive season at the 2020 Italian Championships, this time ahead of Marina Piredda and Lari Naki Gutmann. She will compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and the 2020 European Championships.[8]

Tornaghi was chosen by the Italian National Olympic Committee to replace short track athlete Elisa Confortola as the flag-bearer for the Italian national team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, after Confortola had scheduling conflicts.[9] At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, she finished sixth in the individual event and helped Team Motivation to a fifth-place finish in the team event by placing third in the ladies' free skating behind Ksenia Sinitsyna and Anna Frolova of Russia.

Tornaghi finished eighth at the 2020 European Championships.[10] She then finished the season with a thirteenth-place result at the 2020 World Junior Championships. [11] Tornaghi had been scheduled to represented Italy at the 2020 World Championships, but these were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Programs
Season Short program Free skating
2019–2020
[2]
2018–2019
[12][1]
2017–2018
[13]
  • Sultan in Love
    by Princess of Violin
    choreo. by Andrea Gilardi

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[4]
Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20
Europeans8th
CS Ice Star4th
CS Warsaw Cup5th
Golden Bear1st
International: Junior[4]
Junior Worlds13th
Youth Olympics6th
JGP Austria14th
JGP Croatia9th
JGP Italy3rd
JGP Slovakia14th
Alpen Trophy2nd
Christmas Cup2nd
Coupe Printemps2nd
Cup of Nice3rd
Cup of Tyrol1st
Egna Trophy3rd2nd
Golden Bear6th
Jégvirág Cup3rd
Leo Scheu1st
Merano Cup6th
Skate Helena3rd
Sofia Trophy2nd1st
International: Advanced novice[3]
Bavarian Open7th7th
Coppa Europa1st
Cup of Tyrol3rd
Egna Trophy1st
Lombardia8th
Merano Cup6th3rd
Skate Celje1st
Skate Helena2nd
National[4]
Italian Champ.1st N2nd J2nd J4th J1st1st
Team events1
Youth Olympics5th T
3rd P
1 Medals awarded for team results only.
T = Team result; P = Personal result.
Levels: J = Junior; N = Novice. TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Senior results
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
20–26 January 2020 2020 European Championships 7
61.27		 11
110.90		 8
172.17
12–15 December 2019 2020 Italian Championships 1
68.86		 1
121.16		 1
190.02
14–17 November 2019 2019 CS Warsaw Cup 13
50.31		 2
122.35		 5
172.66
24–27 October 2019 2019 31st Golden Bear 3
59.84		 1
118.30		 1
178.14
18–20 October 2019 2019 Ice Star 12
47.73		 4
105.43		 4
153.16
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
13–16 December 2018 2019 Italian Championships 2
57.05		 1
117.34		 1
174.39

Junior results
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
2–8 March 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 14
57.08		 12
106.37		 13
163.45
10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team – 3
125.22		 5T/3P
10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 6
62.19		 5
116.41		 6
178.60
2–5 October 2019 2019 JGP Italy 7
56.67		 2
119.26		 3
175.93
25–28 September 2019 2019 JGP Croatia 14
45.42		 5
103.44		 9
148.86
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
28–31 March 2018 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 5
48.93		 2
104.75		 2
153.68
2–3 March 2019 2019 Cup of Tyrol 1
51.21		 1
98.84		 1
150.05
5–10 February 2019 2019 Sofia Trophy 2
55.19		 1
98.96		 1
154.45
17–19 January 2019 2019 12th Skate Helena ISU 2
50.07		 4
91.42		 3
141.49
29 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2018 2018 1st Christmas Cup 2
55.80		 2
102.13		 2
157.93
12–18 November 2018 2018 Inge Solar Memorial Alpen Trophy 3
49.07		 2
96.62		 2
145.69
25–28 October 2018 2018 30th Golden Bear of Zagreb 5
55.36		 5
99.77		 6
155.13
22–25 August 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia 14
46.24		 16
80.30		 14
126.54
2017–2018 season
Date Event SP FS Total
4–8 April 2018 2018 Egna Spring Trophy 5
46.05		 1
97.51		 3
143.56
16–18 March 2018 2018 Coupe du Printemps 2
50.46		 4
85.66		 2
136.12
17–18 February 2018 2018 Jégvirág Cup 1
49.64		 5
79.13		 3
128.77
6–11 February 2018 2018 Sofia Trophy 2
51.28		 2
95.69		 2
143.97
13–16 December 2017 2018 Italian Championships 3
54.02		 4
91.50		 4
145.52
15–19 November 2017 2017 20th Merano Cup 2
50.25		 6
76.79		 6
127.04
8–12 November 2017 2017 Leo Scheu Memorial 1
47.77		 1
91.39		 1
139.16
11–15 October 2017 2017 Cup of Nice 3
52.23		 3
94.16		 3
146.39
30 Aug. – 2 Sept. 2017 2017 JGP Austria 12
45.88		 13
78.63		 14
124.51
2016–2017 season
Date Event SP FS Total
14–17 December 2016 2017 Italian Championships 2
56.83		 3
94.88		 2
151.81

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