Mattia Giovanella

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Mattia Giovanella
Curler
Born (1997-10-27) 27 October 1997 (age 24)
Trento, Italy
Team
Curling club,
Cembra, ITA[1]
Skip
FourthMattia Giovanella
ThirdAlberto Pimpini
SecondDaniele Ferrazza
Career
Member Association Italy
World Championship
appearances		1 (2021)
European Championship
appearances		1 (2021)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)
Medal record
Men's Curling
Representing  Italy
European Curling Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Lillehammer

Mattia Giovanella (born 27 October 1997) is an Italian curler from Cembra, Italy.[1] He currently throws fourth stones on Team .

Career[]

Giovanella and his team of , , and 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 .[2] Their second-place finish qualified them for the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. At the championship, they finished in last place with a 1–8 round robin record, only beating Sweden's .[3]

Giovanella competed as lead for the Italian National Men's Curling Team skipped by Joël Retornaz at the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship as regular lead Simone Gonin failed to pass the COVID-19 regulations in order to travel outside the country.[4] At the Worlds, Team Italy finished in seventh place with a 7–6 record, just missing the playoffs.[5]

Personal life[]

Giovanella works as a stone porphyry maker.[1]

Teams[]

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
2018–19[6] Mattia Giovanella Andrea Pilzer
Luca Rizzolli Mattia Giovanella
2019–20 Luca Rizzoli Mattia Giovanella Andrea Pilzer Nicola Gottardi
2020–21 (Fourth) Mattia Giovanella Luca Rizzoli (Skip) Daniele Ferrazza
Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Simone Gonin Mattia Giovanella
2021–22 Mattia Giovanella (Fourth) Alberta Pimpini Daniele Ferrazza Luca Rizzoli (Skip)
Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Simone Gonin Mattia Giovanella

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "2021 BKT Tires-OK Tires World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  2. ^ "2019 World Junior B Curling Championships". New Zealand Curling. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  3. ^ "2019 World Junior Curling Championships". World Curling Federation. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  4. ^ Donna Spencer (March 31, 2021). "A team-by-team look at the men's world curling championship field". CBC. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  5. ^ "2021 World men's curling championship: Scores, schedule and standings". Sportsnet. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
  6. ^ "Mattia Giovanella Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

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