Francesca Rio

Francesca Rio

Rio in 2010
Personal information
Country represented Italy
Born (1990-12-16) 16 December 1990
Como, Italy
Home town Como
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 12 in)
Coach Christina Mauri, Pierre Trente
Choreographer Raffaella Cazzaniga, Corrado Giordani
Skating club Forum SSDRL Milano
Training locations Milan
Began skating 1997
Retired 2014
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 122.70
2009 Junior Worlds
Short program 48.24
2009 Junior Worlds
Free skate 77.37
2009 Europeans

Francesca Rio (born 16 December 1990) is an Italian former competitive figure skater. She won ten senior international medals and four Italian national medals (three silver, one bronze). She represented Italy at five ISU Championships, reaching the free skate at the 2009 Junior Worlds in Sofia, 2009 Europeans in Helsinki, 2010 Junior Worlds in The Hague, and 2012 Europeans in Sheffield. She also competed at two Winter Universiades – 2011 (Erzurum) and 2013 (Trento). An injury having disrupted her intended final competitive season, Rio retired in November 2014.[1][2]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2011–2012
[3]
2010–2011
[4]
  • Sheherazade
    by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
2009–2010
[5]
2008–2009
[6]
  • Harbinger
    by Mike Oldfield
  • Oceano
    by Roberto Cacciapaglia
2007–2008
[7]
  • Violentango
    by Astor Piazzolla

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[8]
Event 04–05 05–06 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14
Europeans 15th 23rd
Bavarian Open 6th
Challenge Cup 5th
Cup of Nice 13th 15th
Crystal Skate 4th 11th 2nd
DS Cup 2nd 3rd
Gardena 3rd 6th
Golden Spin 6th
Hellmut Seibt 2nd
Lombardia 6th
Merano Cup 3rd 13th 5th
Nebelhorn 7th 8th
NRW Trophy 2nd
Printemps 2nd
Triglav Trophy 1st 4th 2nd
Universiade 12th 10th
Warsaw Cup 11th
International: Junior[8]
Junior Worlds 33rd 11th 20th
JGP Austria 18th
JGP Croatia 12th
JGP Germany 21st
JGP Italy 14th
JGP U.K. 11th
Challenge Cup 1st J.
Fischer Pokal 2nd J.
Gardena 1st J.
Merano Cup 6th J.
Skate Celje 1st J.
National[8]
Italian Champ. 9th J. 5th J. 1st J. 3rd 2nd 4th 2nd 8th 2nd
J. = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

References

  1. "Francesca Rio annuncia il ritiro" [Francesca Rio announces her retirement] (in Italian). artonice.it. 12 November 2014.
  2. "Figure Skating, la vicecampionessa senior Francesca Rio si ritira" [Figure skating senior vice-champion Francesca Rio retires]. Sportmediaset.mediaset.it (in Italian). 13 November 2014.
  3. "Francesca RIO: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012.
  4. "Francesca RIO: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011.
  5. "Francesca RIO: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010.
  6. "Francesca RIO: 2008/2009". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009.
  7. "Francesca RIO: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008.
  8. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Francesca RIO". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014.

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