Edoardo De Bernardis (born 27 May 1978 in Turin) is an Italian figure skating coach and choreographer.

Career

De Bernardis has coached athletes of international and

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calibre. He advises technically and artistically Italian, German, Slovak, Finnish, Swiss and Greek athletes from National teams. He works in Turin, Pinerolo, Milan, Los Angeles and Mannheim. He has been a coach and choreographer to

Karel Zelenka Karel Zelenka (born March 31, 1983) is a Czech-Italian former competitive figure skater. He is a five-time (2003–2007) Italian national champion and competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He qualified to the free skate at eleven ISU Championsh ...

the Italian national champion, Carolina Kostner world and European champion,

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Italian silver medalist,

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two times Italian National Champion (2015-2016), junior champion in the 2011 and senior bronze medalist in the 2012, he is the former coach of the Italian junior champion Lucrezia Beccari. He choreographed also some programmes to the olympic skater Sarah Hecken, Nathalie Weinzierl, also to

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world junior and grand prix competitor and Anais Coraducci from the swiss team. De Bernardis coached the two-time Finnish junior national champion

Sofia Sula Sofia Sula (born 27 December 2002) is a former competitive Finnish figure skater. She lives in Torino, Italy. On the junior level, she is a two-time Nordics silver medalist (2017, 2018), and a two-time Finnish junior national champion (2017, 2 ...

. He trained the world champions in roll skating pair

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and Federico Degli Esposti. He has worked with famous coaches such as Christa Fassi, Frank Carroll,Joanna Szczypa and

Piotr Sczypa Piotr Jan Szczypa, now known as Peter Szczypa (born 19 April 1948) is a former pair skater who competed for Poland with Janina Poremska and Teresa Skrzek. He is currently the national ladies' figure skating coach of Germany. Personal life S ...

. Events at which he has coached include the World Figure Skating Championships, the

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and the European Figure Skating Championships. He is now the coach and choreographer of the international competitor Sara Casella and of the Italian Junior Champion 2015,2016 and European 2017 ISU competitor Lucrezia Gennaro. He is the coach and the choreographer of the two times italian national champion

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. De Bernardis is the coach of

Raffaele Francesco Zich Raffaele Francesco Zich (born 23 June 2006) is an Italian figure skater. He is the 2022 JGP Poland I bronze medalist and 2022 European Youth Olympic silver medalist. He placed 15th at the 2022 World Junior Championships. Personal life Zich ...

, Italian Junior National Champion in the 2021.

Training

He received his training in the United States at

Carlo Fassi Carlo Fassi (20 December 1929 – 20 March 1997) was an Italian figure skater and international coach whose students included several World and Olympic champions. As a single skater, he was the 1953 World bronze medalist, a two-time European c ...

's school in Lake Arrowhead, California under coaches of the calibre of Christa Fassi and Irina Rodnina. Since his young age he was part of the Italian National team, he won National titles. He was mentioned as a probable competitor for the Olympic Games in Nagano in the 1998. After a knee surgery he stopped competing. He received specialised artistic training at the Accademia del Teatro Nuovo in Turin, where he studied acting, dance and physical expression. He took part of many skating seminar as an International Technical Specialist of the ISU Judging System. He holds a degree in Sociology took at the University of Turin.

References

External links

Profile on karelzelenka.com
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140228202906/http://www.sarah-hecken.de/pages/programme.php * http://dawa.seesaa.net/article/150717127.html

* http://www.piroette.org/home/index.php/piemonte/65-dietro-le-balaustre-piemontesi/92-edoardo-de-bernardis * https://web.archive.org/web/20130927183232/http://www.piroette.org/home/index.php/95-contenuti-generali-del-sito/355-buongiorno-2013-2014 {{DEFAULTSORT:De Bernardis, Edoardo Italian figure skating coaches 1978 births Living people