Maïa Mazzara

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Maïa Mazzara
Maïa Mazzara at the 2018 World Junior Championships - SP.jpg
Mazzara at the 2018 World Junior Championships
Personal information
Country represented France
Former country(ies) represented  Switzerland
Born (2003-08-05) 5 August 2003 (age 18)
Clamart, France
Home townStrasbourg, France
Height1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
CoachFrançoise Bonnard, Kirill Davydenko
Former coachFlorent Amodio, Jean-François Ballester
ChoreographerBenoît Richaud
Former choreographerPierre-Loup Bouquet, Karine Arribert, Jean-François Ballester, Florentine Houdinière, Sylvia Fontana
Skating clubFrançais Volants Paris
Former skating clubCP La Chaux-de-Fonds
Training locationsVaujany, France
Former training locationsGeneva, Switzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Megeve, France
Began skating2011
ISU personal best scores
Combined total170.06
2020 Europeans
Short program59.48
2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Free skate112.95
2020 Europeans

Maïa Mazzara (born 5 August 2003) is a French figure skater who currently represents France in ladies singles and formerly represented Switzerland. She is a two-time French national silver medalist.

On the junior level, she is the 2019 French junior national champion, the 2019 Master's de Patinage champion, and placed 9th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.

Representing Switzerland on the junior level, she is the 2017 Merano Cup silver medalist and the 2017 Swiss junior national champion.

Career[]

Early years[]

Mazzara began learning how to skate in 2011 at the age of seven. She began her skating career competing for her native France at the pre-novice level in 2014, but by 2016 had begun representing Switzerland.

2017–18 season: Junior international debut[]

Mazzara made her international junior debut for Switzerland in November 2017 at the Cup of Nice, where she finished 11th overall. Later on, in the same month, Mazzara won the silver medal in the junior-level ladies event at the Merano Cup in Italy.[1] In January 2018, Mazzara won her first and only Swiss junior national title and was assigned to compete at the 2018 World Junior Championships. There, Mazzara finished 35th in the short program and thus did not advance to the free skate.

2018–19 season[]

In August 2018, Mazzara made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2018 JGP Slovakia in Bratislava where she finished tenth. This was her only international assignment of the season. Later on in the season, Mazzara competed under the Swiss flag as a guest at the 2019 French Championships, finishing seventh at the senior level and second at the junior level. She did not compete at the Swiss Championships.

2019–20 season: Senior international debut[]

Mazzara returned to representing France in 2019, now coached by Florent Amodio and Françoise Bonnard in Vaujany, France after the passing of her former coach Jean-François Ballester in late 2018.[2] She began her season by placing first in the junior ladies event at the French test competition, Master's de Patinage, and received two Junior Grand Prix assignments: 2019 JGP Russia and 2019 JGP Italy. Mazzara placed 20th and ninth at these events, respectively.

After her junior events, Mazzara made her first senior start at the 2019 Tallinn Trophy where she finished fifth, and later competed at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, her first Challenger event, where she finished ninth. In December 2019, 16-year-old Mazzara won the silver medal behind reigning French champion Maé-Bérénice Méité at the 2020 French Championships.[2] Due to her placement at the event, Mazzara was named to the French team for the 2020 European Championships.

In January 2020, Mazzara returned to junior-level competition at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. She finished ninth overall, and set new personal bests in all three segments, surpassing her previous best total score by nearly seven points. Making her debut at the senior 2020 European Championships, Mazzara placed eleventh, and then finished the season with a seventeenth-place finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships.[3]

2020–21 season[]

Mazzara was scheduled to make her Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] She instead opened her season in early November in Minsk at the 2020 where she placed fifth in the short program and third in the free skate to win the bronze medal overall. In February, she won her second straight silver medal at Nationals.[5] Mazzara was part of the French team for the 2021 World Team Trophy, where she finished eleventh in both segments while Team France finished fifth.[6][7][8]

2021–22 season[]

Mazzara began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she finished fourteenth, four ordinals and fourteen points below fellow Frenchwoman Léa Serna.[9] As a result, Serna was substituted for Mazzara as France's entry at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the Olympic qualifier.

Programs[]

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2020–2021
[10]
2019–2020
[11]
  • Rox Tango (El Tango de Roxanne)
    (from Moulin Rouge!)
    performed by Dirty Bros.
2018–2019
[12]
2017–2018
[13]
  • Kvold i Borginni
    by Misha Mishenko

Competitive highlights[]

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

For France[]

International[14]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22
Europeans 11th
GP France C TBD
CS Golden Spin 9th
CS Lombardia Trophy 14th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy TBD
CS Warsaw Cup C
Challenge Cup WD
Ice Star WD
Tallinn Trophy 5th
Tallink Hotels Cup 6th
Winter Star 3rd
International: Junior[14]
Youth Olympics 9th
Junior Worlds 16th
JGP Italy 9th
JGP Russia 20th
National
French Champ. 2nd 2nd
French Junior 1st
Masters 1st J
Team events
World Team Trophy 5th T
11th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled
Levels: J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result.
Medals awarded for team result only.

For Switzerland[]

International: Junior[14]
Event 2017–18 2018–19
Junior Worlds 35th
JGP Slovakia 10th
Bavarian Open 6th
Cup of Nice 11th
Merano Cup 2nd
National
Swiss Champ. 1st J
Levels: J = Junior

Detailed results[]

For France[]

Mazzara at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
2021–22 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
10–12 September 2021 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy Senior 10
52.39 		15
90.18 		14
142.57
2020–21 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
15–18 April 2021 2021 World Team Trophy Senior 11
55.31 		11
100.11 		5T/11P
155.42
19–21 February 2021 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup Senior 9
48.63 		7
95.67 		6
144.30
5–6 February 2021 2020 French Championships Senior 2
60.96 		2
102.81 		2
163.77
11–13 December 2020 Senior 5
51.79 		3
96.86 		3
148.65
2019–20 season
2–8 March 2020 2020 World Junior Championships Junior 15
54.22 		17
95.58 		16
149.80
20–26 January 2020 2020 European Championships Senior 16
57.11 		8
112.95 		11
170.06
10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team Junior – 4
103.36 		8T/4P
10–15 January 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Junior 8
59.48 		9
106.68 		9
166.16
19–21 December 2019 2019 French Championships Senior 3
56.06 		2
103.91 		2
159.97
4–7 December 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb Senior 20
45.94 		8
106.31 		9
152.25
11–17 November 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy Senior 8
49.52 		7
99.25 		5
148.77
2–5 October 2019 2019 JGP Italy Junior 8
53.81 		9
96.28 		9
150.09
26–28 September 2019 2019 Master's de Patinage Junior 1
56.34 		1
106.31 		1
162.65
11–14 September 2019 2019 JGP Russia Junior 20
42.90 		21
74.63 		20
117.53

For Switzerland[]

2018–19 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
22–24 February 2019 2019 French Junior Championships Junior 2
49.51 		1
100.60 		2
150.11
13–15 December 2018 2018 French Championships Senior 6
49.27 		7
75.95 		7
125.22
22–25 August 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia Junior 10
51.39 		10
88.20 		10
139.59
2017–18 season
5–11 March 2018 2018 World Junior Championships Junior 35
40.69 		– 35
40.69
26–31 January 2018 2018 Bavarian Open Junior 10
44.76 		4
93.48 		6
138.24
6–7 January 2018 2018 Swiss Junior Championships Junior 1
53.92 		1
86.24 		1
140.16
15–19 November 2017 2017 Merano Cup Junior 5
44.53 		2
91.75 		2
136.28
11–15 October 2017 2017 Cup of Nice Junior 14
43.20 		9
84.16 		11
127.36

References[]

  1. ^ JCE (2017-11-21). "Podiums pour Maïa Mazzara et Tomas Guarino en Italie" [Podiums for Maïa Mazzara and Tomas Guarino in Italy] (in French). ArcInfo. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b JM (2019-12-21). "Maïa Mazzara se révèle à la France" [Maïa Mazzara reveals herself to France] (in French). Le Dauphiné libéré. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  3. ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ladies". International Skating Union.
  4. ^ "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel. 20 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Championnat de France ELITE". February 6, 2021.
  6. ^ Slater, Paula (April 15, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 1". Golden Skate.
  7. ^ Slater, Paula (April 16, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 2". Golden Skate.
  8. ^ Slater, Paula (April 17, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 3". Golden Skate.
  9. ^ "Lombardia Trophy 2021". Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio.
  10. ^ "Maia MAZZARA: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06.
  11. ^ "Maia MAZZARA: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06.
  12. ^ "Maia MAZZARA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31.
  13. ^ "Maia MAZZARA: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2018-06-01.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Maia MAZZARA: Competition Results". International Skating Union.

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