Maïa Mazzara
Mazzara at the 2018 World Junior Championships
Born (2003-08-05) 5 August 2003
Clamart, France
HometownStrasbourg, France
Height1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country France
CoachFrançoise Bonnard, Kirill Davydenko
Skating clubFrançais Volants Paris
Began skating2011

Maïa Mazzara (born 5 August 2003) is a French figure skater who currently represents France in ladies singles and formerly represented Switzerland. She is a two-time French national silver medalist.

On the junior level, she is the 2019 French junior national champion, the 2019 Master's de Patinage champion, and placed 9th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.

Representing Switzerland on the junior level, she is the 2017 Merano Cup silver medalist and the 2017 Swiss junior national champion.

Career

Early years

Mazzara began learning how to skate in 2011 at the age of seven. She started her skating career competing for her native France at the pre-novice level in 2014, but by 2016 had begun representing Switzerland.

2017–18 season: Junior international debut

Mazzara made her international junior debut for Switzerland in November 2017 at the Cup of Nice, where she finished 11th overall. Later in the same month, Mazzara won the silver medal in the junior-level ladies event at the Merano Cup in Italy.[1] In January 2018, Mazzara won her first and only Swiss junior national title and was assigned to compete at the 2018 World Junior Championships. There, Mazzara finished 35th in the short program and thus did not advance to the free skate.

2018–19 season

In August 2018, Mazzara made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2018 JGP Slovakia in Bratislava, where she finished tenth. This was her only international assignment of the season. Later in the season, Mazzara competed under the Swiss flag as a guest at the 2019 French Championships, finishing seventh at the senior level and second at the junior level. She did not compete at the Swiss Championships.

2019–20 season: Senior international debut

Mazzara returned to representing France in 2019, now coached by Florent Amodio and Françoise Bonnard in Vaujany, France, after the passing of her former coach Jean-François Ballester in late 2018.[2] She began her season by placing first in the junior ladies event at the French test competition, Master's de Patinage, and received two Junior Grand Prix assignments: 2019 JGP Russia and 2019 JGP Italy. Mazzara placed 20th and ninth at these events, respectively.

After her junior events, Mazzara made her first senior start at the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, where she finished fifth and later competed at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, her first Challenger event, where she finished ninth. In December 2019, 16-year-old Mazzara won the silver medal behind reigning French champion Maé-Bérénice Méité at the 2020 French Championships.[2] Due to her placement at the event, Mazzara was named to the French team for the 2020 European Championships.

In January 2020, Mazzara returned to junior-level competition at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. She finished ninth overall and set new personal bests in all three segments, surpassing her previous best total score by nearly seven points. Making her debut at the senior 2020 European Championships, Mazzara placed eleventh and then finished the season with a seventeenth-place finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships.[3]

2020–21 season

Mazzara was scheduled to make her Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] She instead opened her season in early November in Minsk at the 2020 Winter Star where she placed fifth in the short program and third in the free skate to win the bronze medal overall. In February, she won her second straight silver medal at Nationals.[5] Mazzara was part of the French team for the 2021 World Team Trophy, where she finished eleventh in both segments while Team France finished fifth.[6][7][8]

2021–22 season

Mazzara began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she finished fourteenth, four ordinals, and fourteen points below fellow Frenchwoman Léa Serna.[9] As a result, Serna was substituted for Mazzara as France's entry at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the Olympic qualifier. She went on to finish sixth at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, fourth at the French championships, and sixth at the International Challenge Cup.[10]

2022–23 season

After finishing seventh at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial, Mazzara was at last able to make her Grand Prix debut with a twelfth-place result at the 2022 Grand Prix de France. She later came twenty-second at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, and was assigned to represent France at the 2023 Winter World University Games. She was eighteenth there.[10]

2023–24 season

Mazzara made one appearance on the Challenger circuit early in the season, finishing nineteenth at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy.[10] She was then eleventh at the 2023 Grand Prix de France.[11]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[12]
2021–2023
[13]
2020–2021
[14]
2019–2020
[15]
2018–2019
[16]
2017–2018
[17]
  • Kvold i Borginni
    by Misha Mishenko

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

For France

International[10]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Europeans11th
GP FranceCWD12th11th
CS Budapest Trophy19th
CS Denis Ten MemorialWD
CS Golden Spin9th6th
CS Lombardia14th
CS NebelhornWDWD
CS Nepela Memorial7th
CS Warsaw CupC22nd27th
Bosphorus CupWD
Challenge CupWD6th
Coupe du Printemps4th
Cup of Nice3rd
Ice StarWD
Tallinn Trophy5th
Tallink Hotels Cup6th
University Games18th
Winter Star3rd
International: Junior[10]
Youth Olympics9th
Junior Worlds16th
JGP Italy9th
JGP Russia20th
National
French Champ.2nd2nd4th3rd
French Junior1st
Masters1st J1st3rd3rd
Team events
World Team Trophy5th T
11th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled
Levels: J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result.
Medals awarded for team result only.

For Switzerland

International: Junior[10]
Event 2017–18 2018–19
Junior Worlds35th
JGP Slovakia10th
Bavarian Open6th
Cup of Nice11th
Merano Cup2nd
National
Masters2nd J
Swiss Champ.1st J
Levels: J = Junior

Detailed results

For France

Mazzara at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
November 3–5, 2023 2023 Grand Prix de France 11
45.03		 11
92.41		 11
137.44
October 13-15, 2023 2023 CS Budapest Trophy 25
42.31		 12
95.22		 19
137.53
September 28-30, 2023 2023 Master's de Patinage 5
43.66		 3
95.54		 3
139.20
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 13–15, 2023 2023 Winter Universiade 18
48.93		 17
84.29		 18
133.22
December 15–17, 2022 2023 French Championships 4
51.49		 3
111.72		 3
163.21
November 17–20, 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 16
47.03		 24
65.93		 22
112.96
November 4–6, 2022 2022 Grand Prix de France 12
46.05		 12
94.80		 12
140.85
October 6–8, 2022 2022 Master's de Patinage 2
60.03		 3
103.97		 3
164.00
September 29–October 1, 2022 2022 CS Nepela Memorial 7
45.10		 9
89.94		 7
135.04
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 24–27, 2022 2022 Challenge Cup 7
51.88		 6
103.48		 6
155.36
December 16–18, 2021 2021 French Championships 5
53.12		 4
98.56		 4
151.68
December 7–11, 2021 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 13
50.39		 4
112.40		 6
162.79
September 30-October 2, 2021 2021 Master's de Patinage 1
50.31		 1
104.84		 1
155.15
September 10–12, 2021 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 10
52.39		 15
90.18		 14
142.57
2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 15–18, 2021 2021 World Team Trophy 11
55.31		 11
100.11		 5T/11P
155.42
February 19–21, 2021 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup 9
48.63		 7
95.67		 6
144.30
February 5–6, 2021 2020 French Championships 2
60.96		 2
102.81		 2
163.77
December 11–13, 2020 2020 Winter Star 5
51.79		 3
96.86		 3
148.65
2019–20 season
March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships Junior 15
54.22		 17
95.58		 16
149.80
January 20–26, 2020 2020 European Championships Senior 16
57.11		 8
112.95		 11
170.06
January 10–15, 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team Junior – 4
103.36		 8T/4P
January 10–15, 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Junior 8
59.48		 9
106.68		 9
166.16
December 19–21, 2019 2019 French Championships Senior 3
56.06		 2
103.91		 2
159.97
December 4–7, 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb Senior 20
45.94		 8
106.31		 9
152.25
November 11–17, 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy Senior 8
49.52		 7
99.25		 5
148.77
October 2–5, 2019 2019 JGP Italy Junior 8
53.81		 9
96.28		 9
150.09
September 26–28, 2019 2019 Master's de Patinage Junior 1
56.34		 1
106.31		 1
162.65
September 11–14, 2019 2019 JGP Russia Junior 20
42.90		 21
74.63		 20
117.53

For Switzerland

2018–19 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 22–24, 2019 2019 French Junior Championships Junior 2
49.51		 1
100.60		 2
150.11
December 13–15, 2018 2018 French Championships Senior 6
49.27		 7
75.95		 7
125.22
August 22–25, 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia Junior 10
51.39		 10
88.20		 10
139.59
2017–18 season
March 5–11, 2018 2018 World Junior Championships Junior 35
40.69		 – 35
40.69
January 26–31, 2018 2018 Bavarian Open Junior 10
44.76		 4
93.48		 6
138.24
January 6–7, 2018 2018 Swiss Junior Championships Junior 1
53.92		 1
86.24		 1
140.16
November 15–19, 2017 2017 Merano Cup Junior 5
44.53		 2
91.75		 2
136.28
October 11–15, 2017 2017 Cup of Nice Junior 14
43.20		 9
84.16		 11
127.36

References

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  2. 1 2 JM (2019-12-21). "Maïa Mazzara se révèle à la France" [Maïa Mazzara reveals herself to France] (in French). Le Dauphiné libéré. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  3. ↑ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ladies". International Skating Union.
  4. ↑ "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel. 20 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "Championnat de France ELITE". February 6, 2021.
  6. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 15, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 1". Golden Skate.
  7. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 16, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 2". Golden Skate.
  8. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 17, 2021). "2021 World Team Trophy: Day 3". Golden Skate.
  9. ↑ "Lombardia Trophy 2021". Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Maia MAZZARA: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
  11. ↑ Slater, Paula (November 4, 2023). "Levito secures first Grand Prix title in France". Golden Skate. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06.
  13. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2022-11-11.
  14. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06.
  15. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06.
  16. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31.
  17. ↑ "Maia MAZZARA: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2018-06-01.
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