Andrea Fabbri (born 5 October 1992) is an Italian former

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

, who competed with

Carolina Moscheni Carolina Moscheni (born 23 May 1996) is a retired Italian ice dancer. With previous partner Francesco Fioretti, she was a two time Italian national silver medalist (2021,2022). With previous partner Andrea Fabbri, she was the 2019 Italian nati ...

for Italy. Moscheni/Fabbri are the 2019 Italian national bronze medalists. With his previous partner

Misato Komatsubara is a Japanese ice dancer. She currently represents her home country in partnership with her husband Tim Koleto, with whom she is the 2020 NHK Trophy champion and a four-time Japanese national champion. Together, they also earned a bronze medal ...

, he won five international medals, including silver at the

2015 CS Ice Challenge The 2015 Ice Challenge was a senior international figure skating competition held in late October 2015 at the Liebenauer Eishalle in Graz, Austria. It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men ...

Personal life

Andrea Fabbri was born on 5 October 1992 in

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. He is the brother of

Marco Fabbri Marco Fabbri (born 2 February 1988) is an Italian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Charlène Guignard, he is the 2023 World silver medalist, 2023 European champion, a two-time European bronze medalist (2019, 2022), a two-time Grand Prix ...

Career

Early years

Fabbri began learning to skate in 1999. With partner Alessia Busi, he won the junior silver medal at the 2012 and 2013 Italian Championships. The duo finished 17th at the 2013 World Junior Championships.

Partnership with Komatsubara

Fabbri and Japan's

represented Italy on the senior level. Their international debut came in October 2014 at the

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, a Challenger Series (CS) event where they finished 6th. After winning bronze medals at the

Santa Claus Cup The Santa Claus Cup is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Hungarian National Skating Federation. It is held annually in late November or early December in Budapest, Hungary. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of ...

and Italian Championships, they were sent to the 2015 European Championships in

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, where they placed 23rd. The two ended their season with gold at the

Bavarian Open The Bavarian Open is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Skating Union of Bavaria. Since 2011, it is sanctioned by the Deutsche Eislauf Union and the International Skating Union. The event is held in February at Eiss ...

. In 2015–16, Komatsubara/Fabbri took bronze at the

Lombardia Trophy The Lombardia Trophy, also known as Memorial Anna Grandolfi, is an annual international figure skating competition. It is held in September in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy. In some years, the event is part of the ISU Challenger Series. Medals may be a ...

and then appeared at two Challenger Series events, winning silver at the

Ice Challenge The Icechallenge (formerly known as the Leo-Scheu-Gedächtnislaufen or Leo Scheu Memorial) is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Grazer Eislaufverein and sanctioned by the Austrian Figure Skating association and the ...

. After obtaining another silver medal, at the Santa Claus Cup, they repeated as national bronze medalists and went on to compete at the 2016 European Championships in

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, where they finished 21st. They were coached by

Barbara Fusar-Poli Barbara Fusar-Poli (born 6 February 1972) is an Italian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With partner Maurizio Margaglio, she is the 2001 World champion, 2001 European champion, and 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. They won nine Italian titl ...

and

Stefano Caruso Stefano Caruso (born 19 April 1987) is a former competitive ice dancer with dual German and Italian citizenship. Representing Germany with Tanja Kolbe, he won seven international medals and two German national silver medals. They placed eighth at ...

, Italy. Komatsubara and Fabbri ended their partnership in April 2016.

Partnership with Moscheni

Fabbri began competing with

in the

2017–18 figure skating season The 2017–18 figure skating season began on July 1, 2017, and ended on June 30, 2018. During this season, elite skaters competed at the ISU Championship level in the 2018 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships, as well ...

. They placed fourth at their first Italian national championships in Milan. In the 2018-19 season, Moscheni/Fabbri won the bronze medal at the 2019 Italian Championships. This qualified them to compete at the 2019 European Championships. In Minsk, they placed twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the free dance by 0.72 points. They ended their season at the

Egna Dance Trophy The Egna Spring Trophy, formerly the Gardena Spring Trophy (through 2016), is an annual international figure skating competition. It is held every spring in Val Gardena in Italy. Medals are awarded in men's and ladies' singles and sometimes in oth ...

in February, where they finished fourth overall. On June 13, 2019, Moscheni posted on social media that Fabbri had retired from figure skating.

Programs

With Moscheni

With Komatsubara

With Busi

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

With Moscheni

With Komatsubara

With Busi

References

External links

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