Mattia Giovanella (born 27 October 1997) is an Italian curler from

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. He currently plays

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on Team

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in Ital ...

Career

Giovanella and his team of

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, Alessandro Odorizzi,

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and Luca Casagrande represented Italy at the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships. There, the team made it to the gold medal game, where they lost to New Zealand's Matthew Neilson. Their second-place finish qualified them for the

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. At the championship, they finished in last place with a 1–8 round robin record, only beating Sweden's Daniel Berggren. Giovanella competed as lead for the Italian National Men's Curling Team skipped by

at the

2021 World Men's Curling Championship The 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2021 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2 to 11 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. Th ...

as regular lead

Simone Gonin Simone Gonin (born 23 August 1989) is an Italian curler from Pinerolo. He represented Italy at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. He was ejected from a game against the Czech Republic at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship after smashing ...

failed to pass the COVID-19 regulations to travel outside the country. At the Worlds, Team Italy finished in seventh place with a 7–6 record, just missing the playoffs.

Personal life

Giovanella works as a stone porphyry maker.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Giovanella, Mattia 1997 births Living people Italian male curlers Sportspeople from Trento Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Italy 21st-century Italian people