Alessia Tornaghi

Italian figure skater

Alessia Tornaghi
Tornaghi at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Born (2003-07-03) 3 July 2003 (age 21)
Milan, Italy
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2024)
 Italy (until 2024)
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachAlexei Letov
Olga Ganicheva
Skating clubAgora Skating Team Milan
Began skating2008
Representing  Italy
Italian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Trento Singles
Gold medal – first place 2020 Bergamo Singles

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.

As of August 2024, she competes for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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] She was fourth at Italian Nationals.

2022-2023 season

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

Tornaghi started her season off at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. She came in eighth with a score of 133.48. Her next competition was the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup. She was twenty-first with a score of 118.58. At Italian Nationals, she came in eighth

2023-2024 season

She was scheduled to compete at Italian Nationals this season but withdrew.

2024-25 season

In August, Tornaghi announced she was switching nationalities to compete for Bosnia and Herzegovina.[14]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2022–2023
2020–2021
2019–2020
[1]
2018–2019
[16][4]
2017–2018
[17]
  • Sultan in Love
    by Princess of Violin
    choreo. by Andrea Gilardi
2016–2017
  • Tango de Amor
    (from The Addams Family
2015–2016

Competitive highlights

Single skating (for Italy)

Competition placements at senior level [18]
Season 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2022–23
European Championships 8th
Italian Championships 1st 1st 4th 7th
CS Ice Star 4th
CS U.S. Classic 8th
CS Warsaw Cup 5th 21st
Golden Bear of Zagreb 1st
Competition placements at junior level [18]
Season 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Winter Youth Olympics 6th
Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) 5th
World Junior Championships 13th
Italian Championships 2nd 2nd 4th
JGP Austria 14th
JGP Croatia 9th
JGP Italy 3rd
JGP Slovakia 14th
Alpen Trophy 2nd
Christmas Cup 2nd
Coupe du Printemps 2nd
Cup of Nice 3rd
Cup of Tyrol 1st
Egna Spring Trophy 3rd 2nd
Golden Bear of Zagreb 6th
Jégvirág Cup 3rd
Leo Scheu Memorial 1st
Merano Cup 6th
Skate Helena 3rd
Sofia Trophy 2nd 1st

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [19]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 178.60 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Short program TSS 62.19 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
TES 35.27 2020 European Championships
PCS 27.86 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Free skating TSS 125.22 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
(Team event)
TES 67.31 2019 CS Warsaw Cup
PCS 58.41 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE System [19]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 124.51 2017 JGP Austria
Short program TSS 45.88 2017 JGP Austria
TES 27.43 2017 JGP Austria
PCS 18.45 2017 JGP Austria
Free skating TSS 78.63 2017 JGP Austria
TES 40.74 2017 JGP Austria
PCS 39.89 2017 JGP Austria

Single skating (for Italy)

Senior level

Results in the 2018–19 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 13–16, 2018 Italy 2019 Italian Championships 2 57.05 1 117.34 1 174.39
Results in the 2019–20 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 18–20, 2019 Belarus 2019 CS Ice Star 12 47.73 4 105.43 4 153.16
Oct 24–27, 2019 Croatia 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb 3 59.84 1 118.30 1 178.14
Nov 14–17, 2019 Poland 2019 CS Warsaw Cup 13 50.31 2 122.35 5 172.66
Dec 12–15, 2019 Italy 2020 Italian Championships 1 68.86 1 121.16 1 190.02
Jan 20–26, 2020 Austria 2020 European Championships 7 61.27 11 110.90 8 172.17
Results in the 2020–21 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 12–13, 2020 Italy 2021 Italian Championships 4 57.88 4 104.84 4 162.72
Results in the 2022–23 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 13–16, 2022 United States 2022 CS U.S. International Classic 8 49.06 9 84.42 8 133.48
Nov 17–20, 2022 Poland 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 19 45.77 21 72.81 21 118.58
Dec 15–18, 2022 Italy 2023 Italian Championships 7 40.23 6 85.85 7 126.08

Junior level

Results in the 2015–16 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 16–19, 2015 Italy 2016 Italian Championships 1 44.19 2 81.27 2 125.46
Results in the 2016–17 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 14–17, 2016 Italy 2017 Italian Championships 2 56.83 3 94.98 2 151.81
Results in the 2018–19 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 22–25, 2018 Slovakia 2018 JGP Slovakia 14 46.24 16 80.30 14 126.54
Oct 25–28, 2018 Croatia 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb 5 55.36 5 99.77 6 155.13
Nov 12–18, 2018 Austria 2018 Alpen Trophy 3 49.07 2 96.62 2 145.69
Nov 29 – Dec 2, 2018 Hungary 2018 Christmas Cup 2 55.80 2 102.13 2 157.93
Jan 17–19, 2019 Serbia 2019 Skate Helena 2 50.07 4 91.42 3 141.49
Feb 5–10, 2019 Bulgaria 2019 Sofia Trophy 2 55.19 1 98.96 1 154.45
Mar 2–3, 2019 Austria 2019 Cup of Tyrol 1 51.21 1 98.84 1 150.05
Mar 28–31, 2018 Italy 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 5 48.93 2 104.75 2 153.68
Results in the 2019–20 season [18]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 25–28, 2019 Croatia 2019 JGP Croatia 14 45.42 5 103.44 9 148.86
Oct 2–5, 2019 Italy 2019 JGP Italy 7 56.67 2 119.26 3 175.93
Jan 11–13, 2020 Switzerland 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 6 62.19 5 116.41 6 178.60
Jan 15, 2020 Switzerland 2020 Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) – – 3 125.22 5 –
Mar 2–8, 2020 Estonia 2020 World Junior Championships 14 57.08 12 106.37 13 163.45
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

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