Alessia Tornaghi

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Alessia Tornaghi
2020-01-11 Women's Single Figure Skating Short Program (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Sandro Halank-627.jpg
Tornaghi at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born (2003-07-03) 3 July 2003 (age 22)
Milan, Italy
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2024)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy (until 2024)
Discipline Women's singles
CoachAlexei Letov
Olga Ganicheva
Skating clubAgora Skating Team Milan
Began skating2008
Medal record
Representing Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Italian Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Trento Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Bergamo Singles

Alessia Tornaghi (born 3 July 2003) is an Italian figure skater who currently competes for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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She is a two-time Italian national champion and the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb champion. On the junior level, she is the 2019 JGP Italy bronze medalist.

Personal life

Alessia Tornaghi was born on 3 July 2003 in Milan, Italy. [1]

Career

Early career

Tornaghi began learning to skate in 2008. [2] She was the 2015 Italian national novice champion and won seven medals internationally as an advanced novice. [3] Tornaghi is the 2016 and 2017 Italian national junior silver medalist.

2017–2018 season

Tornaghi made her junior international debut at 2017 JGP Austria, where she finished 14th. She then won the silver medal at 2017 Cup of Nice, the gold medal at 2017 Leo Scheu Memorial, and placed sixth at 2017 Merano Cup. [4]

Tornaghi finished fourth at the 2018 Italian Championships behind Lucrezia Beccari, Lara Naki Gutmann, and Marina Piredda, after winning silver for the past two seasons. She finished her season with silver medals at 2018 Sofia Trophy and 2018 Coupe du Printemps and bronze medals at 2018 Jégvirág Cup and 2018 Egna Spring Trophy. [4]

2018–2019 season

Tornaghi began training with Viktoria Butsaeva in Moscow in September. [5] She started the season with another 14th-place finish at 2018 JGP Slovakia. Tornaghi then finished sixth at 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb and won silver medals at the 2018 Inge Solar Memorial–Alpen Trophy and the 2018 Christmas Cup. [4]

Tornaghi won the gold medal in the senior division at the 2019 Italian Championships ahead of Lucrezia Beccari and Lara Naki Gutmann, but was not named to the 2019 Junior World Championships team. She went on to win the bronze medal at 2019 Skate Helena, golds at 2019 Sofia Trophy and 2019 Cup of Tyrol, and ended her season with the silver medal at 2019 Egna Spring Trophy. [4]

2019–2020 season

Tornaghi placed ninth at 2019 JGP Croatia before winning her first JGP medal, a bronze, at 2019 JGP Italy behind Russians Ksenia Sinitsyna and Anna Frolova. In her senior international debut, she placed fourth at 2019 CS Ice Star after a free skate comeback from twelfth in the short program. [6] Tornaghi won her first senior title and international medal at 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb after becoming the first Italian lady since Carolina Kostner to successfully complete a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination in the short program. [7] She rallied from 13th after the short program to finish fifth at 2019 CS Warsaw Cup after finishing second in the free skate behind only eventual champion Ekaterina Kurakova of Poland. [8]

Tornaghi won the gold medal for a second consecutive season at the 2020 Italian Championships, this time ahead of Marina Piredda and Lara Naki Gutmann. She will compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and the 2020 European Championships. [9]

Tornaghi was chosen by the Italian National Olympic Committee to replace short track athlete Elisa Confortola as the flag-bearer for the Italian national team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, after Confortola had scheduling conflicts. [10] At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, she finished sixth in the individual event and helped Team Motivation to a fifth-place finish in the team event by placing third in the ladies free skating behind Ksenia Sinitsyna and Anna Frolova of Russia.

Tornaghi finished eighth at the 2020 European Championships. [11] She then finished the season with a thirteenth-place result at the 2020 World Junior Championships. [12] Tornaghi had been scheduled to represent Italy at the 2020 World Championships, but these were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [13]

2020–2021 season

Tornaghi was scheduled to make her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the pandemic. [14] She was fourth at Italian Nationals.

2022–2023 season

Tornaghi switched her training location to Norwood, Massachusetts, with Alexei Letov and Olga Ganicheva.

She started her season off at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. She came in eighth with a score of 133.48. Her next competition was the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup. She was twenty-first with a score of 118.58. At Italian Nationals, she came in eighth

2023–2024 season

Tornaghi was scheduled to compete at Italian Nationals this season but withdrew.

2024–25 and 2025–26 season

In August, Tornaghi announced she was switching nationalities to compete for Bosnia and Herzegovina. [15]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2025–2026
[16]
2022–2023
[17]
2020–2021
2019–2020
[2]
2018–2019
[19] [5]
2017–2018
[1]
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2016–2017
2015–2016

Competitive highlights

Single skating (for Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Competition placements at senior level 
Season 2025–26
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb TBD

Single skating (for Italy)

Competition placements at senior level  [20]
Season 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2022–23
European Championships 8th
Italian Championships 1st1st4th7th
CS Ice Star 4th
CS U.S. Classic 8th
CS Warsaw Cup 5th21st
Golden Bear of Zagreb 1st
Competition placements at junior level  [20]
Season 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Winter Youth Olympics 6th
Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) 5th
World Junior Championships 13th
Italian Championships 2nd2nd4th
JGP Austria 14th
JGP Croatia 9th
JGP Italy 3rd
JGP Slovakia 14th
Alpen Trophy 2nd
Christmas Cup 2nd
Coupe du Printemps 2nd
Cup of Nice 3rd
Cup of Tyrol 1st
Egna Spring Trophy 3rd2nd
Golden Bear of Zagreb 6th
Jégvirág Cup 3rd
Leo Scheu Memorial 1st
Merano Cup 6th
Skate Helena 3rd
Sofia Trophy 2nd1st

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System  [20]
SegmentTypeScoreEvent
TotalTSS178.60 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Short program TSS62.192020 Winter Youth Olympics
TES35.27 2020 European Championships
PCS27.862020 Winter Youth Olympics
Free skating TSS125.22 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
(Team event)
TES67.31 2019 CS Warsaw Cup
PCS58.412020 Winter Youth Olympics

Single skating (for Italy)

Senior level

Results in the 2018–19 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Dec 13–16, 2018 Flag of Italy.svg 2019 Italian Championships 257.051117.341174.39
Results in the 2019–20 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Oct 18–20, 2019 Flag of Belarus.svg 2019 CS Ice Star 1247.734105.434153.16
Oct 24–27, 2019 Flag of Croatia.svg 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb 359.841118.301178.14
Nov 14–17, 2019 Flag of Poland.svg 2019 CS Warsaw Cup 1350.312122.355172.66
Dec 12–15, 2019 Flag of Italy.svg 2020 Italian Championships 168.861121.161190.02
Jan 20–26, 2020 Flag of Austria.svg 2020 European Championships 761.2711110.908172.17
Results in the 2020–21 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Dec 12–13, 2020 Flag of Italy.svg 2021 Italian Championships 457.884104.844162.72
Results in the 2022–23 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Sep 13–16, 2022 Flag of the United States.svg 2022 CS U.S. International Classic 849.06984.428133.48
Nov 17–20, 2022 Flag of Poland.svg 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 1945.772172.8121118.58
Dec 15–18, 2022 Flag of Italy.svg 2023 Italian Championships 740.23685.857126.08

Junior level

Results in the 2015–16 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Dec 16–19, 2015 Flag of Italy.svg 2016 Italian Championships 144.19281.272125.46
Results in the 2016–17 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Dec 14–17, 2016 Flag of Italy.svg 2017 Italian Championships 256.83394.982151.81
Results in the 2017–18 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2017 Flag of Austria.svg 2017 JGP Austria 1245.881378.6314124.51
Oct 11–15, 2017 Flag of France.svg 2017 International Cup of Nice 352.23394.163146.39
Nov 8–12, 2017 Flag of Austria.svg 2017 Ice Challenge 147.77191.391139.16
Nov 15–19, 2017 Flag of Italy.svg 2017 Merano Cup 250.25676.796127.04
Dec 13–16, 2017 Flag of Italy.svg 2018 Italian Championships 354.02491.504145.52
Feb 6–11, 2018 Flag of Bulgaria.svg 2018 Sofia Trophy 251.28295.692143.97
Feb 17–18, 2018 Flag of Hungary.svg 2018 Jégvirág Cup 149.64579.133128.77
Mar 16–18, 2018 Flag of Luxembourg.svg 2018 Coupe du Printemps 250.46485.662136.12
Apr 4–8, 2018 Flag of Italy.svg 2018 Egna Spring Trophy 546.05197.513143.56
Results in the 2018–19 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Aug 22–25, 2018 Flag of Slovakia.svg 2018 JGP Slovakia 1446.241680.3014126.54
Oct 25–28, 2018 Flag of Croatia.svg 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb 555.36599.776155.13
Nov 12–18, 2018 Flag of Austria.svg 2018 Alpen Trophy 349.07296.622145.69
Nov 29 – Dec 2, 2018 Flag of Hungary.svg 2018 Christmas Cup 255.802102.132157.93
Jan 17–19, 2019 Flag of Serbia.svg 2019 Skate Helena 250.07491.423141.49
Feb 5–10, 2019 Flag of Bulgaria.svg 2019 Sofia Trophy 255.19198.961154.45
Mar 2–3, 2019 Flag of Austria.svg 2019 Cup of Tyrol 151.21198.841150.05
Mar 28–31, 2018 Flag of Italy.svg 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 548.932104.752153.68
Results in the 2019–20 season   [20]
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Sep 25–28, 2019 Flag of Croatia.svg 2019 JGP Croatia 1445.425103.449148.86
Oct 2–5, 2019 Flag of Italy.svg 2019 JGP Italy 756.672119.263175.93
Jan 11–13, 2020 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 662.195116.416178.60
Jan 15, 2020 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 2020 Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) ––3125.225–
Mar 2–8, 2020 Flag of Estonia.svg 2020 World Junior Championships 1457.0812106.3713163.45

References

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  2. 1 2 "Alessia TORNAGHI: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Alessia Tornaghi". Stats on Ice.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Alessia TORNAGHI: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
  5. 1 2 Castellaro, Barbara (8 January 2019). "Incontriamo Alessia Tornaghi, 15 anni e una grande determinazione" [We meet Alessia Tornaghi, 15 and with a great determination] (in Italian). Art on Ice.
  6. ↑ Testa, Fabrizio (20 October 2019). "Pattinaggio artistico, Minsk Arena Ice Star 2019: Daniel Grassl sul velluto supera tutti, Samodurova trionfa nel singolo femminile" [Figure skating, Minsk Arena Ice Star 2019: Daniel Grassl exceeds all on velvet, Samodurova triumphs in the single female] (in Italian). OA Sport.
  7. ↑ "Golden Bear di Zagabria: Alessia Tornaghi è oro nella competizione internazionale" [Golden Bear of Zagreb: Alessia Tornaghi is gold in the international competition] (in Italian). Torino Sportiva. 29 October 2019.
  8. ↑ Testa, Fabrizio (17 November 2019). "Pattinaggio artistico, Warsaw Cup 2019: Kurakova a sorpresa vince la gara femminile, Alessia Tornaghi sfiora l'impresa" [Figure skating, Warsaw Cup 2019: Surprise Kurakova wins the women's race, Alessia Tornaghi touches the company] (in Italian). OA Sport.
  9. ↑ "Elisa Confortola sarà la portabandiera dell'Italia ai Giochi Olimpici Giovanili Invernali di Losanna" [Elisa Confortola will be Italy's standard-bearer at the Lausanne Youth Winter Olympic Games] (in Italian). Italian Ice Sports Federation. 17 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Alessia Tornaghi è la nuova portabandiera dell'Italia ai Giochi Olimpici Giovanili Invernali di Losanna 2020" [Alessia Tornaghi is Italy's new standard-bearer at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games] (in Italian). Italian Ice Sports Federation. 24 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Slater, Paula (25 January 2020). "Kostornaia takes gold in Russian sweep at Europeans". Golden Skate.
  12. ↑ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ladies". International Skating Union.
  13. ↑ Ewing, Lori (11 March 2020). "World figure skating championships cancelled in Montreal". CBC Sports .
  14. ↑ "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel . 20 October 2020.
  15. ↑ @alessia.tornaghi; (23 August 2024). "Hi guys, I'm super excited and proud to share that I will be representing Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 and @icesportsclubunity 🩵" – via Instagram.
  16. ↑ "Alessia TORNAGHI: 2025/2026". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 September 2025.
  17. ↑ "Alessia TORNAGHI: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022.
  18. 1 2 Alessia TORNAGHI isuresults.com Retrieved 7 May 2023
  19. ↑ "Alessia TORNAGHI: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "ITA–Alessia Tornaghi". SkatingScores.com.
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