Gabriella Izzo | ||||||
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Born | San Francisco, California, United States | August 5, 2001|||||
Hometown | Brighton, Massachusetts and Salzburg, Austria | |||||
Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in) | |||||
Figure skating career | ||||||
Country | Austria (since 2024) United States (2018–23) | |||||
Discipline | Pair skating (since 2024) Women's singles (2018–23) | |||||
Partner | Luc Maierhofer (since 2024) | |||||
Coach | Severin Kiefer Aleksey Letov Olga Ganicheva | |||||
Skating club | Skating Club of Boston | |||||
Began skating | 2011 | |||||
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Gabriella Izzo (born August 5, 2001) is an American-born pair skater who currently competes with Luc Maierhofer for Austria. Together, they are the 2025 Austrian national silver medalists and the 2024 Ice Challenge champions.
As a singles skater, she is the 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy bronze medalist, the 2019 Egna Spring Trophy champion, and the 2021 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic bronze medalist. She is also the 2019 U.S. junior national champion.
Izzo was born August 5, 2001, in Greenbrae, California. [1] After graduating from Boston Latin School in 2019, she began her studies at Harvard University in 2020. [2]
Izzo began learning to skate when she was eight or nine years old. [3] Her first figure skating coach was Suna Murray. [4]
At the 2018 U.S. Junior Championships, Izzo would finish sixth. That same year, she made her international junior debut at the 2018 International Challenge Cup, where she finished fourth. [5]
Prior to the season, Izzo switched coaches and began training at the Mitchell Johansson Method Training Center in Revere, Massachusetts under coaches, Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson. [4]
She made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in autumn 2018, placing sixth at 2018 JGP Canada and ninth at 2018 JGP Slovenia. In January, she won the junior ladies title at the 2019 U.S. Championships. [5]
In March, Izzo made her senior international debut at the 2019 Egna Spring Trophy, where she won the gold medal. [5]
Beginning her season on the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, Izzo placed eighth in 2019 JGP Croatia and ninth in 2019 JGP Latvia. In November, she won bronze at a senior international, the 2019 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy in China. [5]
In January, making her senior national debut, she finished ninth at the 2020 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina. Following the event, she underwent surgery for a torn labrum in her left shoulder. Due to the operation and pandemic-related rink closures, she was off the ice from around mid-January to June. [3]
Izzo was invited to her first senior Grand Prix competition, 2020 Skate America, but withdrew before the event. She placed ninth at the 2021 U.S. Championships. Following the season, Izzo relocated to Norwood, Massachusetts, where she began training at the Skating Club of Boston under coaches, Aleksey Letov and Olga Ganicheva. [3] [1]
Izzo began the season in September, winning bronze at the 2021 U.S. International Classic. Given two Challenger assignments, Izzo finished thirteenth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup and fourth at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. [6]
At the 2022 U.S. Championships, Izzo was seventh after the short program, but a fourth-place free skate elevated her to the pewter medal position overall. [7] This placement earned her an assignment to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn, where she came in eighth-place. [8]
Withdrawing from the 2022 CS U.S. Classic, Izzo made her season debut at the 2022 CS Budapest Trophy, where she finished in eighth place. [9] She was then invited to make her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy, where she came seventh. [5]
She ended her season with an eleventh-place finish at the 2023 U.S. Championships. [6]
In March 2023, Izzo announced her retirement from singles skating and planned to pursue pair skating. [10]
In August 2023, it was announced that Izzo had teamed up with Canadian pair skater, Thierry Ferland, and that they would represent Canada. [11] [12] However, this partnership would end up being short-lived. In November, Izzo would announce her retirement from competitive figure skating. [13]
In July 2024, it was announced that Izzo had decided to come out of retirement and had teamed up with Austrian skater, Luc Maierhofer, to compete for Austria. [14] It was subsequently announced that the pair would be coached by Severin Kiefer in Salzburg while also making trips to Norwood, Massachusetts to work with Izzo's singles coaches, Aleksey Letov and Olga Ganicheva. [15]
The pair would make their international debut in November, winning the gold medal at the 2024 Ice Challenge. At the event, the pair would also score the required minimum technical element score points to compete at the European and World Championships. [16] [17] They went on to compete on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing tenth at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup and ninth at the 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. [16]
In mid-December, Izzo/Maierhofer won the silver medal at the 2025 Austrian Championships behind Schaller/Mayr. [16] They were subsequently named to the 2025 European Figure Skating Championships team. [18]
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2024–25 |
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Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2022–23 [19] |
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2021–22 [1] |
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2020–21 [20] |
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2019–20 [21] |
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2018–19 [4] |
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2017–18 |
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Season | 2024–25 |
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European Championships | TBD |
Austrian Championships | 2nd |
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 9th |
CS Warsaw Cup | 10th |
Ice Challenge | 1st |
Season | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 |
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Four Continents Championships | 8th | ||||
U.S. Championships | 9th | 8th | 4th | 11th | |
GP Wilson Trophy | 7th | ||||
CS Asian Open Trophy | 3rd | ||||
CS Budapest Trophy | 8th | ||||
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 4th | ||||
CS Warsaw Cup | 13th | ||||
Cranberry Cup | WD | ||||
Egna Spring Trophy | 1st | ||||
U.S. Classic | 3rd |
Season | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
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U.S. Championships | 6th | 1st | |
JGP Canada | 6th | ||
JGP Croatia | 8th | ||
JGP Latvia | 9th | ||
JGP Slovenia | 9th | ||
Asian Open Trophy | 2nd | ||
Challenge Cup | 4th |
Segment | Type | Score | Event |
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Total | TSS | 150.60 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
Short program | TSS | 51.68 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
TES | 27.67 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
PCS | 24.01 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
Free skating | TSS | 98.92 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
TES | 54.68 | 2024 CS Warsaw Cup | |
PCS | 46.59 | 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
Nov 5–10, 2024 | 2024 Ice Challenge | 3 | 51.69 | 1 | 112.13 | 1 | 163.82 |
Nov 20–24, 2024 | 2024 CS Warsaw Cup | 15 | 38.87 | 8 | 95.13 | 10 | 134.00 |
2022–2023 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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January 23–29, 2023 | 2023 U.S. Championships | 15 45.73 | 6 120.67 | 11 166.40 |
November 11–13, 2022 | 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy | 5 62.92 | 7 111.18 | 7 174.10 |
October 13–16, 2022 | 2022 CS Budapest Trophy | 10 52.01 | 7 101.22 | 8 153.23 |
2021–2022 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | 8 63.19 | 7 116.87 | 8 180.06 |
January 3–9, 2022 | 2022 U.S. Championships | 7 67.51 | 4 120.60 | 4 188.11 |
November 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 11 55.56 | 14 100.22 | 13 155.78 |
September 15–19, 2021 | 2021 U.S. Classic | 3 63.93 | 3 118.83 | 3 182.76 |
2020–2021 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 11–21, 2021 | 2021 U.S. Championships | 7 62.32 | 9 109.44 | 8 171.76 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 20–26, 2020 | 2020 U.S. Championships | 6 65.94 | 11 108.47 | 9 174.41 |
November 2–3, 2019 | 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy | 2 65.30 | 3 104.45 | 3 169.75 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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September 25–28, 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | 9 51.61 | 8 98.10 | 8 149.71 |
September 4–7, 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 5 59.39 | 9 101.55 | 9 160.94 |
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