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Sofia Sforza
Sofia Sforza (born 22 July 1995) is an Italian ice dancer. With former partner Francesco Fioretti, she placed as high as 10th at the World Junior Championships. Career Sofia Sforza competed with Daniel Ferrari early in her career. She teamed up with Francesco Fioretti in December 2008. They were coached by Valter Rizzo mainly in Zanica. On 1 October 2013, it was reported that Sforza/Fioretti had parted ways and she had teamed up with her brother, Leo Luca Sforza, who was until then a pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a .... Programs (with Sforza) (with Fioretti) Competitive highlights With Leo Luca Sforza With Francesco Fioretti With Daniel Ferarri References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sforza, Sofia Italian female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held in Minsk, Belarus from 27 February to 4 March 2012. Qualification The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who were at least 13 but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before July 1, 2011, in their place of birth. Thus, competitors had to be born before July 1, 1998, but not earlier than July 1, 1992, except male pair skaters and ice dancers who could be born no earlier than July 1, 1990. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria. The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, '' Carmen'', which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. Restless for success, he began many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont Blanc Trophy
The Mont Blanc Trophy was an international figure skating competition held in February 2010 and 2011 in Courmayeur, Italy. It has included men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976 ... on the senior, junior and novice levels. Senior medalists Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Junior medalists Men Ladies Ice dancing Novice medalists Men Ladies Ice dancing References 2011 Mont Blanc Trophy results Figure skating competitions Figure skating in Italy Sport in Courmayeur {{figure-skating-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
