Matteo Rizzo

Matteo Rizzo
Personal information
Country represented Italy
Born (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998
Rome, Italy
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Coach Franca Bianconi
Former coach Ilaria Ponti, Angela Puglisi
Choreographer Corrado Giordano, Massimo Scali, Vakhtang Murvanidze
Former choreographer Valter Rizzo
Skating club Sesto Ice Skate
Training locations Sesto San Giovanni
Courmayeur
Began skating 2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 205.05
2015 CS Warsaw Cup
Short program 74.91
2016 Europeans
Free skate 134.97
2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup

Matteo Rizzo (born 5 September 1998) is an Italian figure skater. He is the two-time Italian national silver medalist and 2014 Italian national junior champion. He has won six senior international medals, including two on the ISU Challenger Series, and qualified for the free skate at three ISU Championships.

Personal life

Matteo Rizzo was born on 5 September 1998 in Rome. He is the son of Valter Rizzo, an ice dancing coach, and the younger brother of Francesca Rizzo, who competed in ice dancing.[1]

Career

Rizzo began skating in 2006.[1] He debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2013, placing 11th at an event in Slovakia, and won the Italian national junior title in December. In January–February 2014, making his senior international debut, he finished 9th at the Bavarian Open and 5th at the Dragon Trophy, before taking the silver medal at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial. He competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria but was eliminated after placing 30th in the short program.

In the 2014–15 season, Rizzo placed 15th at his sole JGP assignment, in Germany. Competing on the senior level from November to December, he won silver at the Merano Cup, bronze at the Warsaw Cup – his ISU Challenger Series (CS) debut – gold at the Denkova-Staviski Cup, and silver at the Italian Championships. In January 2015, he placed fourth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Austria. His final event of the season was the 2015 World Junior Championships, held in March 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia. Rizzo qualified for the free skate by placing 20th in the short program and finished 22nd overall.

Rizzo continued on the JGP series in the 2015–16 season, placing 5th at his assignments in Austria and Spain. He earned a bronze medal at the 2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup and finished 5th at the 2015 CS Warsaw Cup. He reached the free skate at two ISU Championships – the 2016 Europeans in Bratislava, and the 2016 Junior Worlds in Debrecen, Hungary. He placed 13th at both events.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–2016
[1]
2014–2015
[2]
  • Neph
  • Buckjump
2013–2014
[3]
  • The Kid
  • Meeting the Millionaire
  • City Lights
  • Nonsense Song

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[4]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16
Europeans 13th
CS DS Cup 3rd
CS Warsaw Cup 3rd 5th
Bavarian Open 9th
Dragon Trophy 5th
DS Cup 1st
Merano Cup 2nd 2nd
Seibt Memorial 2nd 6th 7th
International: Junior[4]
Junior Worlds 30th 22nd 13th
JGP Austria 5th
JGP Germany 15th
JGP Slovakia 11th
JGP Spain 5th
EYOF 4th
Bavarian Open 4th J.
Crystal Skate 6th J.
Ice Star 4th J.
Lombardia Trophy 3rd J. 2nd J.
Santa Claus Cup 5th J.
National[4]
Italian Champ. 4th J. 5th J. 1st J. 2nd 2nd
J. = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Matteo RIZZO: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Matteo RIZZO: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Matteo RIZZO: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Matteo RIZZO". International Skating Union.

External links

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