Matteo Zanni (born 17 February 1987) is an Italian
ice dancing
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. A ...
coach and former competitor. With
Anna Cappellini, he won four medals on the
ISU 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 ...
series (two gold) and bronze at the 2004
JGP Final.
Career
Zanni competed with partner
Anna Cappellini from 2001 through 2005. They won the bronze medal at the 2004 Junior Grand Prix final and then placed fifth at the
World Junior Championships. In the 2006-07 season, he competed with
Camilla Pistorello. They were the 2007 Italian junior national champions. In the 2007-08 season, he competed with Natalia Mityushina. Their partnership ended following that season.
[
Zanni joined Holiday On Ice and performed as part of the Mystery Tour in South America. In 2011, he coached Olympic champion swimmer Inge de Bruijn during the 4th edition of the Dutch television series Sterren Dansen Op Het IJs and skated with the singer Shaya in Dancing on Ice Greece. He interviewed the Italian rockstar ]Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the followin ...
(Nicoletta Strambelli) in late 2011. In 2013, he joined Feld Entertainment Group to tour the US East Coast and then retired from performing.
Matteo have been coaching for several years in Barbara Fusar Poli's team. They split at the end of the season 15/16 and he created his own ice dance team.
In July 2016, he became an International Technical Specialist.
Zanni currently coaches in Milan alongside Barbara Riboldi and Paola Mezzadri.
Personal life
In his early years, he studied Classical Guitar and Composition.
On 18 February 2013, Zanni became a doctor in International Relations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: ''Catholic University of the Sacred Heart'', colloquially the ''Catholic University of Milan''), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 1 ...
. He enjoys photography.
Competitive highlights
With Mitiushina
With Pistorello
With Cappellini
Skating programs
With Mitiushina
With Pistorello
With Cappellini
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zanni, Matteo
1987 births
Living people
Italian male ice dancers
Figure skaters from Milan
Italian figure skating coaches