Federica Testa (born 27 August 1993) is an Italian-born former competitive

ice dancer 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 ...

who is best known for her partnership with Lukáš Csölley for Slovakia. Together, they won four

ISU Challenger Series The ISU Challenger Series is a series of international figure skating competitions. Established by the International Skating Union in the 2014–15 season, it is a group of senior-level events ranked below the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. ...

medals and three Slovak national titles. They achieved their best ISU Championship result, 8th, at the

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and 2016 European Championships. Testa competed with

Christopher Mior Christopher Mior (born February 15, 1987 in Toronto) is a Canadian-born Italian ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World ...

and Andrea Malnati for Italy until 2011.

Personal life

Federica Testa was born on 27 August 1993 in

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, Italy. She became a Slovak citizen in autumn 2013.

Early career

Testa skated in singles for two years, stopped skating for a year, and then took up ice dancing. She competed with Andrea Malnati for seven years, representing Italy. Testa/Malnati were the 2009 Italian junior silver medalists. In the spring of 2009, Testa teamed up with Canadian

, continuing to represent Italy. The duo competed at the senior level and became the 2011 Italian national champions. Following their split, Testa skated briefly with a Finnish skater.

Partnership with Csölley

In October 2011, it was announced that Testa would compete with Lukáš Csölley for Slovakia. Testa/Csölley made their international debut at the

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in February 2012 and then competed at the

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in March in

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, France. The following season, they finished 17th at the 2013 European Championships in

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, Croatia, having placed 19th in the short dance and 16th in the free dance. At the 2013 World Championships in

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, Canada, the two placed 26th in the short dance and did not advance further. In September 2013, Testa/Csölley competed at the final Olympic qualifying event, the

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; they finished ninth and became the first alternates for the

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. In January 2014, they placed 12th at the

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, Hungary but the two missed the cut-off for the free dance in March at the

in Saitama, Japan. Testa/Csölley began the 2014–15 season with a bronze medal at the

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, an

(CS) event held in early October. Later that month, making their

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debut, they placed fourth in the short dance and seventh overall at the

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. In November, they were awarded gold at two CS competitions, the

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and

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. They finished eighth overall at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. In March, they placed 15th at the 2015 World Championships in

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, having ranked 13th in the short and 15th in the free. Testa/Csölley finished 8th (9th SD, 8th FD) at the 2016 European Championships in

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. At the 2016 World Championships in

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, they placed 12th in the short dance, 15th in the free, and 14th overall. Testa/Csölley received invitations to the

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and

2016 Trophée de France The 2016 Trophée de France was the fourth event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on November 11–13. Medals ...

but withdrew from both Grand Prix events on 7 July 2016 due to Testa's decision to retire from competition.

Programs

(with Csölley)

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series''

With Csölley for Slovakia

With Mior for Italy

With Malnati for Italy

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Testa, Federica 1993 births Living people Figure skaters from Milan Italian female ice dancers Slovak female ice dancers Naturalized citizens of Slovakia Universiade medalists in figure skating Universiade bronze medalists for Slovakia Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade Naturalised sports competitors