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Matteo Rizzo (born 5 September 1998) is an Italian
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. He is a two-time European Championship medalist (silver in
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, bronze in
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), a three-time
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bronze medalist, the
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champion, a two-time Italian national champion (2018 and 2023), and a seven-time silver national medalist (2015-2017, 2019-2022). He has won several
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medals, including gold at the
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and
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. Rizzo represented Italy at the
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and
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. He is also the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2017 JGP Italy champion, and the 2014 Italian junior national champion.


Personal life

Matteo Rizzo was born on 5 September 1998 in
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. His parents,
Brunilde Bianchi Brunilde (or Brunhilde) Bianchi (born 22 December 1964 in Pavullo nel Frignano) is an Italian ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. With Valter Rizzo, she competed at two European Championships, placing 20th in 1984 (Budapest, ...
and Valter Rizzo, and sister, Francesca Rizzo, all competed in
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.


Career


Early years

Rizzo began learning to skate in 2006. He competed internationally on the novice level in the 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 seasons, winning silver at the
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in April 2012. His junior international debut came in September 2012 at the
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event in Belarus.


2013–2014 season

Rizzo debuted on the
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(JGP) series in September 2013, placing eleventh at an event in Slovakia, and won the Italian national junior title in December. In January–February 2014, making his senior international debut, he finished ninth at the
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and fifth at the
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before taking the silver medal at the
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. He competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships in
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, Bulgaria but was eliminated after placing thirtieth in the short program.


2014–2015 season

Rizzo placed fifteenth at his sole JGP assignment in Germany. Competing on the senior level from November to December, he won silver at the
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, bronze at the
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– his
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(CS) debut – gold at the Denkova-Staviski Cup, and silver at the Italian Championships. In January 2015, he placed fourth in Austria at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. His final event of the season was the 2015 World Junior Championships, held in March 2015 in
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, Estonia. Rizzo qualified for the free skate by placing 20th in the short program and finished 22nd overall.


2015–2016 season

Rizzo continued on the JGP series, placing fifth at his assignments in Austria and Spain. He earned a bronze medal at the 2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup and finished fifth at the
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. He reached the free skate at two ISU Championships – the 2016 Europeans in
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, and the 2016 Junior Worlds in
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, Hungary. He placed thirteenth at both events.


2016–2017 season

Rizzo competed at JGP events in Germany and Spain, finishing twelfth and eighth, respectively. He placed eleventh at the 2017 World Junior Championships in
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and thirtieth at the 2017 World Championships in
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.


2017–2018 season

Rizzo began his season in September at two senior-level competitions. After placing fifth at the
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with a new free skate personal best, he finished fourth at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, qualifying Italy a spot in the men's discipline at the
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. In October, Rizzo competed at two JGP events. He placed second in the short program at the JGP Poland in
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, but his placement in the free skate (tenth) dropped him to sixth overall. Ranked second in the short and first in the free, he won the gold medal at JGP Italy in
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, setting new personal bests for the short program as well as his overall score. Returning to the senior level, Rizzo won gold at the
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, having placed first in both segments ahead of Switzerland's Stéphane Walker and Canada's
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. In December, he won the national title and was selected to represent Italy at the
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in South Korea. Rizzo competed in both parts of the team event as part of the Italian team, placing fifth in the short program and fourth in the free skate, while Team Italy finished fourth overall. He finished twenty-first in the men's event. Returning to the junior level one final time, Rizzo competed at the 2018 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal after placing sixth in both programs. This was the first World Junior medal for an Italian man. At the 2018 World Championships in
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, Rizzo placed seventeenth.


2018–2019 season

Beginning the season at the
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, Rizzo ranked fourth in the short with a personal best score of 85.51 and fourth in the free, finishing fourth overall. He then competed at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy, where he finished sixth. In his
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debut event, he placed fourth at
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and third at 2018 NHK Trophy. Rizzo's bronze medal at the NHK Trophy was the first Grand Prix medal for an Italian male skater. In December, he took gold at the 2018 Denkova-Staviski Cup and the silver medal at the 2019 Italian Championships, behind
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. Competing at the 2019 European Championships, Rizzo debuted a new free skate to a medley of
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songs. He placed tenth in the short program and third in the free skate, winning the bronze medal overall with a personal best score of 247.08 points and achieving his first podium finish at a senior-level ISU Championship. In his free skate, he successfully landed a
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toe loop for the first time. Rizzo was the first Italian man to win a European medal since
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in
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. Rizzo next participated in the
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in
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, Russia. Introducing the quad toe loop into the short program, he finished second there and then placed first in the free skate to win the gold medal with 273.54 points. At the
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in Japan, Rizzo placed fifth in the short program with a new personal best score, tenth in the free, and seventh overall. He concluded the season as part of Team Italy at the 2019 World Team Trophy, where he placed fourth among the men competing and Team Italy finished sixth overall.


2019–2020 season

In the summer, Rizzo trained at the Toronto Cricket, Skating & Curling Club under
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, working to acquire more quadruple jumps for the coming season. Rizzo began the season with two Challengers, winning bronze at the 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy and silver at the
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. He attempted the quad
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in competition for the first time. For his first
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assignment, Rizzo competed at the
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. In the short program, he placed eighth after underrotating his quadruple toe loop and falling on his combination jump. Despite a number of errors in the free skate, he moved up to finish in sixth place overall. At the
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, Rizzo placed third in the short program despite falling on his triple Lutz and consequently missing his combination. Fourth in the free skate, he remained in third place overall and won the bronze medal. After winning the silver medal at the Italian Championships, Rizzo competed at the 2020 European Championships, where he placed seventh in the short program after some minor jump errors. Fifth in the free skate, he rose to fifth place overall but remarked that it had been "a tough season for me because it’s between the Olympics." Rizzo was also assigned to compete at the 2020 World Championships, but these were cancelled as a result of the
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.


2020–2021 season

With pandemic-related travel restrictions in place, Rizzo made his season debut at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, an event attended by only skaters training in Europe. He was tipped as one of the pre-event favourites. Third after the short program, he was seventh in the free and ended up fifth overall. Following the competition, he announced that he was parting ways with longtime coach
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. On October 20th, Rizzo announced on Instagram that he had relocated his training base to
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, Italy to train under coach Lorenzo Magri, alongside main domestic rival
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. He was assigned to compete at the
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, but this event was cancelled due to the pandemic. After taking the silver medal at the Italian championships, Rizzo was assigned to compete at the
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, where he placed eleventh. Rizzo and Grassl's placements qualified two berths for Italian men at the
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in
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. They were both subsequently named to the Italian team for the 2021 World Team Trophy. He announced on April 11 that he had been unable to leave Italy for the event location in
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, and therefore withdrew from participation. He subsequently stated that he had withdrawn after a positive
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test.


2021–2022 season

Rizzo returned to his former coach Franca Bianconi, and also added retired pairs skater
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to his team. He made his season debut at the
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, where he overcame a poor short program to win the free skate and place sixth overall. The following weekend he won the 2021 Budapest Trophy. On the
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, Rizzo's first assignment was the
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, where he placed sixth in the short program. He was third in the free skate, rising to fifth place overall despite popping one of his two planned quad jumps. Rizzo expressed satisfaction at receiving a score over 170 points in the free segment with only one quad jump. At the
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, he was ninth in the short program and rose to fifth place again after a second-place free skate. After winning a fourth consecutive silver medal at the Italian championships, Rizzo was named to the Italian Olympic team. He was first forced to withdraw from the
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due to equipment issues. Competing in
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, Rizzo placed thirteenth in the short program of the Olympic men's event. Seventeenth in the free skate, he finished sixteenth overall. Rizzo concluded his season at the 2022 World Championships, in a men's field considerably more open than usual due to the absences of
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and
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and the
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banning all Russian athletes due to their country's
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. He finished tenth overall.


2022–2023 season

Rizzo began the season on the Challenger circuit, placing fourth at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy before winning the
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. On the
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, he placed third in the short program at the 2022 Skate Canada International. He was fourth in the free skate but narrowly held onto third overall over Canadian
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and won the bronze medal. Rizzo successfully landed a quad
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in his free skate and said that the result "means a lot." He said he hoped to perform a three-quad free skate later in the season. Rizzo went on to finish sixth at the 2022 NHK Trophy. After winning his second national title, Rizzo competed at the 2023 European Championships, finishing second in the short program, 10.07 points behind segment leader Adam Siao Him Fa of France, despite underrotating his attempted quad loop. Rizzo said the experience was difficult, as for him the short program was "always like a big wall that I need to crush." In the free skate, he made an error on his opening quad toe loop attempt, but went on to land the quad loop and six triple jumps cleanly, winning a small gold medal for the free skate. He remained in second place overall, winning the silver medal. He reflected that "there were mistakes, but overall I was happy." He was the second Italian man to win multiple European medals, after
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.


Programs


Competitive highlights

''GP:
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; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:
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''


Detailed results

''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. At team events, medals awarded for team results only.''


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rizzo, Matteo 1998 births Italian male single skaters Living people Sportspeople from Rome Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Italy Figure skaters of Fiamme Azzurre Universiade gold medalists for Italy Universiade medalists in figure skating Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade European Figure Skating Championships medalists World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics