Alessia_Tornaghi

Alessia Tornaghi

Italian figure skater

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.

Quick Facts Born, Hometown ...

Alessia Tornaghi
Tornaghi at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Born	(2003-07-03) 3 July 2003 (age 20) Milan, Italy
Hometown	Milan, Italy
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Italy
Coach	Alexei Letov Olga Ganicheva
Skating club	Fiamme Oro
Began skating	2008

Personal life

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

Career

Early career

Tornaghi began learning to skate in 2008.^[1] She was the 2015 Italian national novice champion and won seven medals internationally as an advanced novice.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[3]

2018–2019 season

Tornaghi began training with Viktoria Butsaeva in Moscow in September.^[4] She started 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.^[3]

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.^[3]

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 Lara 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 represent Italy at the 2020 World Championships, but these were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[12]

2020–2021 season

Tornaghi was scheduled to make her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.^[13]

2022-2023 season

Tornaghi switched her training location to Norwood, Massachusetts, with Alexei Letov and Olga Ganicheva.

Programs

More information Season, Short program ...

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023	Naqoyqatsi and Ensemble by Philip Glass Plunder by Ghostwriter, Michael H. Lee choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis^[14]	Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone performed by pianist William Joseph Remember from Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone performed by Monica Mancini Fuga, Ricerca e Ritorno by Ennio Morricone choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis^[14]
2020–2021	The Messiah Will Come Again by Ray Buchanan choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis	I Am What I Am by Jerry Herman performed by Gloria Gaynor choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis
2019–2020 ^[1]	Piano Concerto No. 3 Trio élégiaque No. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis The Matrix by Don Davis choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis	With One Look (from Sunset Boulevard) performed by Barbra Streisand by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Edoardo De Bernardis
2018–2019 ^[15]^[4]	Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough You Are Not Alone Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson choreo. by Marilù Guarnieri	Romeo & Juliet by Abel Korzeniowski choreo. by Marilù Guarnieri	Love You Anymore by Michael Bublé
2017–2018 ^[16]	Sultan in Love by Princess of Violin choreo. by Andrea Gilardi	Nero (from Anna Karenina) by Two Steps from Hell Flashlights (from Admiral) by Ruslan Muratov choreo. by Barbara Riboldi
2016–2017	Tango de Amor (from The Addams Family
2015–2016		Vado al massimo by Vasco Rossi

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

More information International, Event ...

International^[3]
Event	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	22–23	23–24
Europeans					8th
CS Ice Star					4th
CS U.S. Classic							8th
CS Warsaw Cup					5th		21st
Golden Bear					1st
International: Junior^[3]
Junior Worlds					13th
Youth Olympics					6th
JGP Austria			14th
JGP Croatia					9th
JGP Italy					3rd
JGP Slovakia				14th
Alpen Trophy				2nd
Christmas Cup				2nd
Coupe Printemps			2nd
Cup of Nice			3rd
Cup of Tyrol				1st
Egna Trophy			3rd	2nd
Golden Bear				6th
Jégvirág Cup			3rd
Leo Scheu			1st
Merano Cup			6th
Skate Helena				3rd
Sofia Trophy			2nd	1st
National^[3]
Italian Champ.	2nd J	2nd J	4th J	1st	1st	4th	7th	WD
Team events¹
Youth Olympics					5th T 3rd P
WD = Withdrew; C = Cancelled J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals are awarded for team results only.

Detailed results

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

Senior results

More information 2022–23 season, Date ...

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 15-18, 2022	2023 Italian Championships	7 40.23	6 85.85	7 126.08
November 17-20, 2022	2022 CS Warsaw Cup	19 45.77	21 72.81	21 118.58
September 13–16, 2022	2022 CS U.S. Classic	8 49.06	9 84.42	8 133.48
2020–2021 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
12–13 December 2020	2021 Italian Championships	4 57.88	4 104.84	4 162.72
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

More information Date, Event ...

Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
2019–2020 season
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 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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"Golden Bear di Zagabria: Alessia Tornaghi è oro nella competizione internazionale" [Golden Bear of Zagreb: Alessia Tornaghi is gold in the international competition] (in Italian). Torino Sportiva. 29 October 2019.
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Testa, Fabrizio (17 November 2019). "Pattinaggio artistico, Warsaw Cup 2019: Kurakova a sorpresa vince la gara femminile, Alessia Tornaghi sfiora l'impresa" [Figure skating, Warsaw Cup 2019: Surprise Kurakova wins the women's race, Alessia Tornaghi touches the company] (in Italian). OA Sport.
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"Elisa Confortola sarà la portabandiera dell'Italia ai Giochi Olimpici Giovanili Invernali di Losanna" [Elisa Confortola will be Italy's standard-bearer at the Lausanne Youth Winter Olympic Games] (in Italian). Italian Ice Sports Federation. 17 December 2019.
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"Alessia Tornaghi è la nuova portabandiera dell'Italia ai Giochi Olimpici Giovanili Invernali di Losanna 2020" [Alessia Tornaghi is Italy's new standard-bearer at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games] (in Italian). Italian Ice Sports Federation. 24 December 2019.
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Ewing, Lori (11 March 2020). "World figure skating championships cancelled in Montreal". CBC Sports.
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External links

Alessia TORNAGHI at the International Skating Union

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