Carolina Kostner
Date of birth: 08/02/1987
Place of Birth: Bolzano
HEIGHT X WEIGHT: 1,69 x 60
Speciality: Single Skating, Team Event
Club: Fiamme Azzurre
Coach: Aleksei Mishin, Michael Huth, Lori Nichol
Hobby: Art, music, design
OLYMPIC CLUB: Yes
Biography
She flies over the ice gracefully, like a butterfly, because she came out of the womb with ice skates on her feet. She began her dazzling career aged four, managing to win her first international competition in 2001 at the tender age of thirteen, even though she originally thought she would become a skier like her cousin Isolde. She inherited her passion for the ice from her parents: her father Erwin was the captain of Italy’s national hockey team, and her mother Maria Patrizia is a former figure skater. After winning the bronze medal in Sochi, she became Italy’s first female individual athlete to win a historic Olympic medal in figure skating, after the medal won in 2002 in Salt Lake City by Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio. Three years later - following a forced break after being disqualified for an anti-doping violation in relation to her ex-boyfriend Alex Schwazer - she achieved her tenth podium finish at the European Figure Skating Championships held in Ostrava. The highlights of her trophy case also include a gold medal from the World Championships in Nice in 2012; however, she wants to continue to impress by turning her faith into an unwavering value and skating into an indispensable statement about her way of life.
Palmares
PRINTGiochi Olimpici / Olympic Games
2006 Torino (Ita) 9ª
2010 Vancouver (Can) 16ª
2014 Sochi (Rus) 3ª singolo - 4ª squadra
2018 PyeongChang (Kor) 4ª squadra - 5ª singolo
Campionati Mondiali / World Championships
2003 Washington (Usa) - 10ª
2004 Dortmund (Ger) - 5ª
2005 Mosca (Rus) - 3ª
2006 Calgary (Can) -12ª
2007 Tokyo (Jpn) - 6ª
2008 Göteborg (Swe) - 2ª
2009 Los Angeles (Usa) - 12ª
2010 Torino (Ita) - 6ª
2011 Mosca (Rus) - 3ª
2012 Nizza (Fra) - 1ª
2013 London (Can) - 2ª
2014 Saitama (Jpn) - 3ª
2017 Helsinki (Fin) - 6ª
Campionati Europei / European Championships
2003 Malmoe (Swe) - 4ª
2004 Budapest (Hun) - 5ª
2005 Torino (Ita) - 7ª
2006 Lione (Fra) - 3ª
2007 Varsavia (Pol) - 1ª
2008 Zagabria (Cro) - 1ª
2009 Helsinki (Fin) - 2ª
2010 Tallinn (Est) - 1ª
2011 Berna (Sui) - 2ª
2012 Sheffield (Gbr) - 1ª
2013 Zagabria (Cro) - 1ª
2014 Budapest (Hun) - 3ª
2017 Ostrava (Cze) - 3ª
2018 Mosca (Rus) - 3ª
ISU Grand Prix
Classifica finale / Final Ranking
2007/2008 - 3ª
2008/2009 - 3ª
2010/2011 - 2ª
2011/2012 - 1ª
2017/2018 - 4ª
ISU Grand Prix 2017-2018
2ª - Rostelecom Cup, Mosca (Rus)
2ª - NHK Trophy, Osaka (Jpn)
Migliori Punteggi / Personal Best Score
Totale: 216.73 / 20.02.2014 / Giochi Olimpici Sochi 2014
Short Program: 78.30 / 18.01.2018 / Europei Mosca 2018
Free Skating: 142.61 / 20.02.2014 / Giochi Olimpici Sochi 2014
