Filippo Ambrosini

Filippo Ambrosini (born 26 April 1993) is an Italian pair skater. With Rebecca Ghilardi, he has won three ISU Challenger Series medals and placed in the top ten at two European Championships. They are four-time Italian national silver medalists, and represented Italy at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Filippo Ambrosini
Personal information
Country representedItaly
Born (1993-04-26) 26 April 1993
Asiago, Italy
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
PartnerRebecca Ghilardi
Former partnerAlexandra Iovanna, Alessandra Cernuschi
CoachRosanna Murante, Tiziana Rosaspina
Former coachTiziana Pagani, Cristina Mauri
ChoreographerCorrado Giordani, Luca Mantovani
Former choreographerNicoletta Lunghi, Raffaella Cazzaniga
Skating clubForum Assago Milan
Training locationsBergamo
Former training locationsAssago
Milan
Began skating2000
ISU personal best scores
Combined total178.90
2022 Europeans
Short program64.60
2021 Internationaux de France
Free skate116.14
2022 Europeans

With his former partner, Alessandra Cernuschi, Ambrosini finished in the top ten at two ISU Championships.

Private life

Ambrosini confirmed to Outsports that he is gay.[1]

Career

Early years

Ambrosini began learning to skate in 2001.[2] Early in his career, he competed in singles. In the 2009–2010 season, he debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series and won the Italian national junior title.[3][4]

Ambrosini's first international event with Alessandra Cernuschi was the 2011 NRW Trophy; they placed 5th in junior pairs. In March 2012, they placed 20th at the World Junior Championships in Minsk, Belarus. The pair's JGP debut came in September 2012.

2013–2014 season

Cernuschi/Ambrosini placed 17th at the 2014 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and 8th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2014–2015 season

Cernuschi/Ambrosini won silver at the 2015 Bavarian Open and finished tenth at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. They were coached by Tiziana Pagani and Cristina Mauri in Assago and Milan.[5]

2015–2016 season

Ambrosini and Alexandra Iovanna made their international debut in November, placing 8th at the 2015 CS Tallinn Trophy. In December, they finished 12th at the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb.[6] It was their final competition together. In 2016, he teamed up with Rebecca Ghilardi.

2016–2017 season

Making their international debut, Ghilardi/Ambrosini won the bronze medal at the 2016 CS Lombardia Trophy in September. A month later, they took bronze at the International Cup of Nice. In December, they became the Italian national bronze medalists. They placed 14th in the short program, 11th in the free skate, and 11th overall at the 2017 European Championships, which took place in January in Ostrava, Czech Republic. They trained under Rosanna Murante and Tiziana Rosaspina in Bergamo.[7][8]

2017–2018 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed 8th at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup in November. The following month, they repeated as national bronze medalists. They won silver at the Toruń Cup in January and bronze at the International Challenge Cup in February.

2018–2019 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini competed at several Challenger events at the beginning of the season, including taking the silver medal at the 2018 CS Inge Solar Memorial. They won the silver medal as well as the Italian Championships, and were sent to the 2018 European Championships, where they finished in ninth place. At their first World Championships, they finished nineteenth among the nineteen competitors.

2019–2020 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini made their Grand Prix debut at the 2019 Internationaux de France, where they placed eighth. They then placed seventh at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup.[9] After taking silver at the Italian Championships, they finished the season at the 2020 European Championships, placing eighth.[10] They had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[11]

2020–2021 season

With the pandemic continuing to affect events, Ghilardi/Ambrossini started their season off at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, which was only attended by pairs teams training in Europe.[12] They were third after the short program, and after the withdrawal of Hase/Seegert, the leaders after that segment, they narrowly won their first Challenger Series title over silver medalists Hocke/Kunkel.[13] They were scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic.[14]

They placed seventeenth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm.[15]

2021–2022 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, winning the bronze medal.[16] They had initially been assigned to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cup of China, but following the event's cancellation they were reassigned to a special home 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, held in Turin.[17] They placed fifth.[18] They were fifth as well at their second Grand Prix, the 2021 Internationaux de France.[19] They placed fourth at the Budapest Trophy.[20]

At the Italian championships, Ghilardi/Ambrosini won the silver medal. Later, they were named to their first Olympic team.[21] Competing first at the 2022 European Championships, Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed fourth in the short program. They were fifth in the free skate, and dropped to fifth overall. Ghilardi afterward said it was an emotional moment for them to have made the final group of the free skate alongside the elite Russian teams.[22]

Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the pairs event, Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed sixteenth in the short program after Ghilardi fell twice, one of those being on her triple Salchow attempt. They were the final team to qualify for the free skate.[23] They moved up to fourteenth overall in the free.[24] The team was scheduled to finish the season at the 2022 World Championships, but withdrew after Ghilardi tested positive for COVID.[25]

Programs

With Ghilardi

Season Short program Free skating
2021–2022
[26]
2020–2021
[27]
2019–2020
[28]
2018–2019
[2]
2017–2018
2016–2017
[7][8]

With Cernuschi

Season Short program Free skating
2014–2015
[5]
2013–2014
[29]
  • Romeo and Juliet
    by Nino Rota
2012–2013
[30]
  • Pearl Harbor
    by Hans Zimmer
2011–2012
[31]

Competitive highlights

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

With Ghilardi

International[20]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
Olympics14th
Worlds19thC17thWD
Europeans11th9th8th5th
GP Cup of ChinaC
GP France8thC5th
GP Italy5th
GP Rostelecom7th
CS Alpen Trophy2nd
CS Golden Spin6thWD
CS Lombardia Trophy3rd6th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy6th1st
CS Ondrej Nepela4th
CS Tallinn Trophy4th
CS Warsaw Cup5th8th
Budapest Trophy4th
Challenge Cup3rd3rd
Cup of Nice3rd
Cup of Tyrol4th
Ice Star5th
Lombardia Trophy3rd
Shanghai Trophy4th
Toruń Cup2nd
Volvo Open Cup1st
National[20]
Italian Champ.3rd3rd2nd2nd2nd2nd
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled

With Iovanna

International[32]
Event 2015–16
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb12th
CS Tallinn Trophy8th

With Cernuschi

International[33]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15
Europeans17th10th
CS Golden Spin5th
CS Ice Challenge5th
CS Volvo Open Cup4th
Bavarian Open2nd
Merano Cup5th
Toruń Cup4th
International: Junior[33]
Junior Worlds20th8th
JGP Austria14th
JGP Belarus5th
JGP Slovakia3rd
Bavarian Open5th4th
NRW Trophy5th
Printemps3rd
Warsaw Cup9th
National[33]
Italian Champ.2nd J3rd J2nd3rd
J = Junior level

Single skating

International[3]
Event 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13
Merano Cup15th
International: Junior[3]
JGP Austria17th
JGP France12th
JGP Hungary17th
JGP Italy13th
JGP Poland19th16th
Challenge Cup10th
Cup of Nice8th
Merano Cup3rd5th
Mont Blanc2nd
NRW Trophy11th6th11th
Triglav Trophy1st8th
International: Novice[3]
Challenge Cup3rd
Merano Cup3rd
National[3]
Italian Champ.4th J1st J5th7th
J = Junior level

References

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