Brunilde (or Brunhilde) Bianchi (born 22 December 1964 in

Pavullo nel Frignano Pavullo nel Frignano ( Frignanese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the Modenese Apeninnes. It is home to the medieval Castle of Montecuccolo, birthplace of the 17th century condottiero Raimondo Mont ...

) is an Italian

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. A ...

coach, choreographer, and former competitor. With Valter Rizzo, she competed at two European Championships, placing 20th in

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(

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, Hungary) and 13th in

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(

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, Sweden). Bianchi began coaching in 1988 in

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. Her students have included Federica Faiella /

Massimo Scali Massimo Scali (born 11 December 1979) is an Italian former competitive Ice dancing, ice dancer. With partner Federica Faiella, he is the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships, 2010 World bronze medalist, a two-time (2009 European Figure Skating ...

, Alessia Aureli / Andrea Vaturi, Isabella Pajardi / Stefano Caruso,

Sofia Sforza Sofia Sforza (born 22 July 1995) is an Italian Ice dancing, ice dancer. With former partner Francesco Fioretti, she placed as high as 10th at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, World Junior Championships. Career Sofia Sforza compet ...

/ Francesco Fioretti, and Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi. As of 2016, she is listed as a Level 3 coach by the Italian ice sports federation (FISG) and is based at S.S.D. S.r.l. Icelab in

Bergamo Bergamo ( , ; ) is a city in the Alps, alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the alpine lakes Lake Como, Como and Lake Iseo, Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Lake Garda, Garda and Lake ...

. Bianchi and Valter Rizzo are the parents of Italian skater

Matteo Rizzo Matteo Rizzo (born 5 September 1998) is an Italian figure skater. He is a three-time European Figure Skating Championships, European Championship medalist (silver in 2023 European Figure Skating Championships, 2023, bronze in 2019 European Figure ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bianchi, Brunilde 1964 births Figure skating coaches Italian female ice dancers Living people Sportspeople from Bergamo Sportspeople from the Province of Modena 21st-century Italian women 20th-century Italian sportswomen