Lucrezia Beccari (born 18 December 2003) is an Italian

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. With

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partner,

Matteo Guarise Matteo Guarise (born 15 September 1988) is an Italian pairs figure skater and roller skater. Guarise is the 2008 World champion in pairs roller skating with Sara Venerucci. With his former figure skating partner Nicole Della Monica, he is a seve ...

, they are the 2023 Italian national bronze medalists. As a single skater, she is the 2019 Italian national silver medalist on the senior level and 2018 junior champion. She has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships – the

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and 2019 World Junior Championships.

Career

Early years

Beccari began learning to skate in 2009. In 2014 and 2015, she competed in novice

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with Pietro Turbiglio. In 2016, she was off the ice for several months due to an injury. Competing in the advanced novice ladies' category, Beccari became the Italian national champion in March 2017 and took silver at the Rooster Cup in April, coached by Edoardo De Bernardis.

2017–18 season

Beccari became age-eligible for junior international events and made her

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(JGP) debut in September, placing seventh in

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, Belarus. After winning the national junior title, she was selected to represent Italy at the 2018 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria; she finished sixteenth overall after placing twenty-third in the short program and eleventh in the free skate. During the season, she was coached by Edoardo De Bernardis and Claudia Masoero in

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2018–19 season

Beccari decided to train under

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. Starting her season on the JGP series, she placed seventh in

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, Lithuania, and fifteenth in

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, Slovenia. She then won three junior international medals – bronze at the

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, gold at the

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, and gold at the

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. Although too young for international senior-level events, she competed in the senior category at the Italian Championships in December. Ranked first in the short program and fourth in the free skate, she was awarded the silver medal.

2019–20 season

In her final appearance on the

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, Beccari placed sixteenth at the 2021 JGP Poland. Making her senior debut on the Challenger series, she competed three times at

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, and

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. Beccari was fourth at the Italian championships and competed at several other minor internationals.

2020–21 season

In an international season greatly limited by the onset of the

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, Beccari was the Italian national bronze medalist and won the Egna Trophy.

2021–22 season

Beccari withdrew from the

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. Following the cancellation of the

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, Italy unexpectedly became the host of the third event in the

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, the

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. Beccari was one of two Italian women assigned to compete at the home Grand Prix (along with Lara Naki Gutmann), making her Grand Prix debut with a twelfth-place finish. She was sixth at the Italian championships.

2022–23 season

In the summer of 2022, Beccari had the opportunity to switch to

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after reigning Italian national champion

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decided to retire following the Beijing Olympics, leaving her partner

looking for a new partner to continue onward to the

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and

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. Beccari/Guarise made their international debut at the

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, finishing in fourth place. They won the bronze medal at their first Italian championships, and were seventh at the 2023 European Championships.

Programs

With Guarise

Single skating

Competitive highlights

''GP:

''; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

Pairs with Guarise

Women's singles

Detailed results

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

Senior results

Junior results

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beccari, Lucrezia 2003 births Italian female single skaters Living people Sportspeople from Turin 21st-century Italian women