Barbara Fusar-Poli

Barbara Fusar-Poli
Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio
nation	Italy
birthday	February 6, 1972
place of birth	Sesto San Giovanni, Lombardy
size	168 cm
Weight	51 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Maurizio Margaglio
society	Agorà
Trainer	Roberto Pelizzola, P. Mezzadri, Natalja Linitschuk
choreographer	Ludmilla Vlasova
status	resigned
End of career	2002, 2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Salt Lake City 2002 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Nice 2000 Ice dance gold Vancouver 2001 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Vienna 2000 Ice dance gold Bratislava 2001 Ice dance silver Lausanne 2002 Ice dance

Barbara Fusar-Poli (born February 6, 1972 in Sesto San Giovanni ) is a former Italian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Barbara Fusar-Poli did not start figure skating until she was ten. She ran first with Matteo Bonfa and later with Alberto Reani. Fusar-Poli competed for the Club Agora Skating Team Milan . Her trainer was Roberto Pelizzola .

Fusar-Poli achieved her greatest successes with her third ice dance partner Maurizio Margaglio . In 1996 they made their debut at world championships. In 2000 they won their first medals by becoming Vice World Champion and Vice European Champion . In the 2000/2001 season, Fusar-Poli and Margaglio were victorious in all competitions in which they competed. They won all of their three Grand Prix competitions as well as the Grand Prix final . In 2001 they became European champions in Bratislava and world champions in Vancouver . You are the first international title holder in ice dancing from Italy.

After the 2002 Winter Olympics , when Fusar-Poli and Margaglio won the bronze medal, they no longer took part in international competitions. They returned to the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin and, as in their first Olympic Games in 1998, finished sixth.

Barbara Fusar-Poli has been married to Diego Cattani , Olympic champion in the short track , since 2000 . They have two children together.

She now works as a trainer.

Results

Ice dance

(with Maurizio Margaglio )

Competition / year	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2006
winter Olympics				6th				3.	6th
World championships		10.	9.	5.	5.	2.	1.
European championships	10.	8th.	7th	5.	4th	2.	1.	2.
Italian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Barbara Fusar-Poli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tatjana Flade: Flashback EM 2001 - Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio . In: pirouette . Volume 49, No. 2, 2016, p. 30.