Carolina Kostner

Carolina Kostner
nation	Italy
birthday	8th February 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Bolzano , Italy
size	169 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Fiamme Azzurre
Trainer	Michael Huth and Alexei Mischin
choreographer	Lori Nichol
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 3 × EM medals 5 × 2 × 4 ×
winter Olympics bronze Sochi 2014 Ladies  World figure skating championships bronze Moscow 2005 Ladies silver Gothenburg 2008 Ladies bronze Moscow 2011 Ladies gold Nice 2012 Ladies silver London (Ontario) 2013 Ladies bronze Saitama 2014 Ladies  European figure skating championships bronze Lyon 2006 Ladies gold Warsaw 2007 Ladies gold Zagreb 2008 Ladies silver Helsinki 2009 Ladies gold Tallinn 2010 Ladies silver Bern 2011 Ladies gold Sheffield 2012 Ladies gold Zagreb 2013 Ladies bronze Budapest 2014 Ladies bronze Ostrava 2017 Ladies bronze Moscow 2018 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 216.73 Olympia 2014  Freestyle 142.61 Olympia 2014  Short program 80.27 World Cup 2018
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 1 2  Grand Prix competitions 4th 8th 3
last change: November 11, 2018

Carolina Kostner (born February 8, 1987 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) is an Italian figure skater who starts in a single run . She is the world champion of 2012 and the European Championships of 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2013 .

Private

Carolina Kostner comes from Ortisei in Val Gardena ( South Tyrol ) and is the 2nd degree niece of the former skier Isolde Kostner . From 2008 to 2014 Kostner was in a relationship with the former South Tyrolean athlete Alex Schwazer . Her father Erwin is a former professional ice hockey player. Her younger brother Simon (* 1990) plays in the Italian national ice hockey team.

Career

In 2003 she took fourth place in her first appearance at a European Championship with a strong freestyle program in which she showed two triple / triple combinations, among other things. On March 19, 2005, she won the bronze medal at the Figure Skating World Championships in Moscow . Carolina Kostner was the flag bearer for the host country Italy at the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . Due to a fall in the short program , she only reached ninth place in these games. On January 27, 2007 she became European champion at the European Figure Skating Championships in Warsaw . She successfully defended this title at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb in 2008 .

At the 2008 World Championships in Gothenburg , Sweden , Kostner led after the short program, but had to admit defeat to Japanese Mao Asada after her freestyle performance and won silver. She trained with Michael Huth in Oberstdorf ( Germany ) until March 2009 and moved to Frank Carroll and Christa Fassi in the USA for the 2009/2010 Olympic season . At the 2010 European Championships in Tallinn , she managed to win the gold medal again. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , however, she disappointed with a free fall, with which she fell back to seventh place in the short program to 16th place in the final ranking. After the 2009/10 season she went back to Oberstdorf to see her long-time coach Michael Huth. With him she got back on the road to success. With a victory at the NHK Trophy in Japan and a third place at Skate America in Portland, she qualified for the Grand Prix final in Beijing despite knee problems.

At the 2011 World Championships , which were relocated from Nagano to Moscow due to a severe earthquake in Japan , she was able to improve from sixth to bronze thanks to her best freestyle performance to date.

2011/12

The 2011/12 season was Kostner's most successful so far. After two third places and one second place she was able to win the ISU Grand Prix final for the first time . With a victory in the Cup of China and a second place in the Trophée Eric Bompard , she qualified as the third-best runner. Kostner did not take part in the Italian championships for the second time since 2003, but was able to become European champion for the fourth time. At the 2012 World Championships , Kostner was able to win for the first time in her tenth participation. Kostner was third after the short program, but was able to prevail with a flawless freestyle. This enabled Kostner to improve her personal best in the freestyle and overall.

2014

Bronze at the 2014 Olympics

At the European Championships in Budapest she was unable to defend her title last year and came third behind the two young Russian women Julija Lipnizkaja and Adelina Sotnikowa . At the 2014 Olympic Games , Kostner started both in the women's singles and with the team. In the individual, she fought for the precious metal she had hoped for for the first time in her third Olympic participation. She finished third and had to admit defeat to Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikowa and runner-up Kim Yuna . She was even able to set a new personal best with her performance. In the team competition a 4th place was achieved behind Russia , Canada and the USA . At the world championships she reached third place again. It was her sixth medal at world championships, the fourth in a row. In the same year she took third place at the European Championships, Olympic Games and World Championships.

Ban 2015

On January 16, 2015, Kostner was suspended by the anti-doping court of the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (CONI) for a period of 16 months until May 16, 2016. The background to the decision was that, according to the court, she had obstructed the doping investigation against her former friend Alex Schwazer and knew about his doping. The decision was astonishing in ice-skating circles, the pirouette spoke of kin liability . Kostner lodged a complaint with the International Sports Court, as did the CONI, which called for the suspension to be extended to two years. The sports court extended the ban to 21 months, but dated the start of the ban back to April 1, 2014, so that Kostner has been eligible to start again since the beginning of 2016. Three of Kostner's shows in August 2015 were not classified as a violation of the ban.

Kostner's first competition after the suspension expired was the "Medal Winners Open" in January 2016 in Osaka, where she came second.

Results

Championship / year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2017	2018
winter Olympics						9.				16.				3.		5.
World championships			10.	5.	3.	12.	6th	2.	12.	6th	3.	1.	2.	3.	6th	4th
European championships			4th	5.	7th	3.	1.	1.	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	3.	3.	3.
Junior World Championships	11.	10.	3.
Italian championships	1st J		1.	2.	1.	1.	1.		1.	2.	1.		1.		1.	1.
Grand Prix competition / season	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	16/17	17/18
Grand Prix Final								3.	3.		2.	1.				4th
Skate America				9.							3.	2.
Skate Canada					5.	7th			4th
Eric Bompard Trophy					2.					6th		2.
Cup of Russia				2.	7th				1.						2.	2.
NHK Trophy						6th		1.			1.				2.	2.
Cup of China								3.		6th		1.		3.

• J = juniors

Web links

Commons : Carolina Kostner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Carolina Kostner in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Carolina Kostner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alessandra Solmi: Carolina Kostner: un anno di pausa dalle gare senza Alex Schwazer. urbanpost.it, June 21, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2014 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Final result of the 2011 Grand Prix series
3. ↑ Figure skating. Results individual women. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 . 
4. ^ ARD Olympia, figure skating team competition. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; Retrieved February 20, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Klaus-Reinhold Kany: Kostner sentenced to 16 months' ban . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 2, 2015, p. 7.
6. ^ Klaus-Reinhold Kany: Two complaints in the Kostner case . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 4, 2015, p. 15.
7. ↑ Figure skater Kostner blocked sport1.de October 5, 2015
8. ^ New investigations against Carolina Costner . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 7, 2015, p. 13.
9. ↑ No disciplinary proceedings against Carolina Kostner stol.it September 11, 2015 ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Medal Winners Open . In: pirouette . Volume 49, No. 2, 2016, p. 6.