Rebecca Ghilardi
Born (1999-10-10) 10 October 1999
Seriate, Italy
HometownPedrengo, Italy
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
CountryItaly
PartnerFilippo Ambrosini
CoachFranca Bianconi, Rosanna Murante
Skating clubIcelab Bergamo
Began skating2007
Medal record
Figure skating: Pairs
Representing  Italy
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 EspooPairs
Bronze medal – third place2024 KaunasPairs

Rebecca Ghilardi (born 10 October 1999) is an Italian pair skater. With her skating partner, Filippo Ambrosini, she is the 2023 European silver medalist, 2024 European bronze medalist, 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo champion, a six-time ISU Challenger Series medalist, the 2024 Italian national champion, and a five-time Italian national silver medalist (2019-2023). The pair represented Italy at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Career

Early years

Ghilardi began learning to skate in 2007.[1] Competing in ladies' singles, she became the Italian novice silver medalist in March 2013 and took the junior silver medal in December.[2] She was coached by Tiziana Rosaspina.[3]

Ghilardi last appeared in ladies' singles in December 2015.[2] In 2016, she teamed up with Filippo Ambrosini to compete in pair skating.

2016–2017 season

Making their international debut, Ghilardi/Ambrosini won the bronze medal at the 2016 CS Lombardia Trophy in September. They took bronze at the International Cup of Nice a month later. In December, they became the Italian national bronze medalists. They placed 14th in the short program, 11th in the free skate and 11th overall at the 2017 European Championships, which took place in January in Ostrava, Czech Republic. They trained under Rosanna Murante and Tiziana Rosaspina in Bergamo.[4][3]

2017–2018 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed 8th at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup in November. The following month, they repeated as national bronze medalists. They won silver at the Toruń Cup in January and bronze at the International Challenge Cup in February.

2018–2019 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini competed at several Challenger events at the beginning of the season, including taking the silver medal at the 2018 CS Inge Solar Memorial. They won the silver medal as well as the Italian Championships and were sent to the 2018 European Championships, where they finished in ninth place. At their first World Championships, they finished nineteenth among the nineteen competitors.

2019–2020 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini made their Grand Prix debut at the 2019 Internationaux de France, where they placed eighth. They then placed seventh at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup.[5] After taking silver at the Italian Championships, they finished the season at the 2020 European Championships, placing eighth.[6] They had been assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[7]

2020–2021 season

With the pandemic continuing to affect events, Ghilardi/Ambrossini started their season off at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, which was only attended by pairs teams training in Europe.[8] They were third after the short program, and after the withdrawal of Hase/Seegert, the leaders after that segment, they narrowly won their first Challenger Series title over silver medalists Hocke/Kunkel.[9] They were scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic.[10]

They placed seventeenth at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm.[11]

2021–2022 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, winning the bronze medal.[12] They had initially been assigned to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cup of China, but following the event's cancellation, they were reassigned to a special home 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, held in Turin.[13] They placed fifth.[14] They were fifth as well at their second Grand Prix, the 2021 Internationaux de France.[15] They placed fourth at the Budapest Trophy.[16]

At the Italian championships, Ghilardi/Ambrosini won the silver medal. Later, they were named to their first Olympic team.[17] Competing first at the 2022 European Championships, Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed fourth in the short program. They were fifth in the free skate and dropped to fifth overall. Ghilardi said it was an emotional moment for them to have made the final group of the free skate alongside the elite Russian teams.[18]

Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the pairs event, Ghilardi/Ambrosini placed sixteenth in the short program after Ghilardi fell twice, one of those being on her triple Salchow attempt. They were the final team to qualify for the free skate.[19] They moved up to fourteenth overall in the free.[20] The team was scheduled to finish the season at the 2022 World Championships, but withdrew after Ghilardi tested positive for COVID.[21]

2022–2023 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini won gold at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic in their first major competition of the season and their second ever Challenger title.[16] On the Grand Prix, they placed fourth at the 2022 Grand Prix de France, 5.01 points back of bronze medalists Hocke/Kunkel.[22] Despite missing the podium at their first event, they remained in contention to make the Grand Prix Final heading into their second, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo. In a relatively weak field, Ghilardi/Ambrosini set a new personal best in the short program (67.31), leading that segment by over four points.[23] They won the free skate as well, setting a new personal best in total score (189.74), and taking the gold medal over Germans Efimova/Blommaert by almost twenty points. This was the first Grand Prix win for an Italian pair since 2013, and qualified them to the Grand Prix Final, to be held on home ice in Torino.[24][25] They finished fifth at the Final.[26]

After winning their fifth consecutive national silver medal, Ghilardi/Ambrosini competed at the 2023 European Championships in Espoo. With Russian pairs banned from competing due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the podium at the European Championships was considered far more open than in recent seasons. Ghilardi and Ambrosini both made errors in the short program, finishing fifth in that segment.[27] They went on to win the free skate, rising to second overall. With their compatriots, Italian national champions Conti/Macii, taking the gold medal in an historic first for their country, Italian pairs had the top two places on the podium. These were only the second and third pairs medals for Italian teams in the nearly century-old European pairs competition.[28]

2023–2024 season

Ghilardi/Ambrosini began the season with a fifth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy.[16] They won a silver medal in their second Challenger appearance of the season, the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy, before winning the Diamond Spin.[29][16] They started the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cup of China, placing second in the short program.[30] They were second as well in the free skate despite Ghilardi falling on her triple Salchow attempt, and won the silver medal. Ghilardi said afterward that it "was hard today, and we are proud of our performance, and how we pushed until the end of the program."[31] At the 2023 NHK Trophy, they placed fourth in the short program after both made jump errors, but rose in the free skate to win the bronze medal.[32]

Ghilardi/Ambrosini finished the Grand Prix with the same placements as fellow Italian team Beccari/Guarise and Hungarians Pavlova/Sviatchenko, winning the tiebreaker on cumulative scores to be the sixth qualifiers to the Grand Prix Final.[33] They finished fifth at the Final.[34]

Programs

(with Ambrosini)

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[35]
2022–2023
[36]
  • The Greatest Gift
    by Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, Virginia Bocelli
2021–2022
[37]
2020–2021
[38]
2019–2020
[39]
2018–2019
[1]
2017–2018
2016–2017
[4][3]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

Pairs with Ambrosini

International[16]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Olympics14th
Worlds19thC17thWD
Europeans11th9th8th5th2nd3rd
GP Final5th5th
GP Cup of ChinaC2nd
GP Finland1st
GP France8thC5th4th
GP NHK Trophy3rd
GP Italy5th
GP Rostelecom7th
CS Alpen Trophy2nd
CS FinlandiaWD2nd
CS Golden Spin6thWDWDWD
CS Lombardia Trophy3rd6th5th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy6th1st
CS Ondrej Nepela4th
CS U.S. Classic1st
CS Tallinn Trophy4th
CS Warsaw Cup5th8th2nd
Budapest Trophy4th
Challenge Cup3rd3rd
Cup of Nice3rd
Cup of Tyrol4th
Diamond Spin1st
Ice Star5th
John Nicks Challenge1st
Lombardia Trophy3rd
Shanghai Trophy4th
Tayside TrophyWD
Toruń Cup2nd
Volvo Open Cup1st
National[16]
Italian Champ.3rd3rd2nd2nd2nd2nd2nd1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled

Ladies' singles

International: Junior[40]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16
Bavarian Open5th
Denkova-Staviski1st4th
Gardena Trophy7th
Golden Bear2nd
Lombardia Trophy6th
Merano Cup5th
Open d'Andorra1st
Seibt Memorial8th
Skate Celje2nd
International: Advanced novice[2]
Bavarian Open6th[lower-alpha 1]
Lombardia Trophy4th5th1st
NRW Trophy11th
Triglav Trophy5th
National[2]
Italian Champ.13th N2nd N2nd J4th J
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior
G2 = Group II

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE system [41]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS195.682024 European Championships
Short program TSS67.312022 Grand Prix of Espoo
TES36.592022 Grand Prix of Espoo
PCS31.112024 European Championships
Free skating TSS130.812024 European Championships
TES66.732024 European Championships
PCS64.082023 Cup of China

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Ambrosini

2023–2024 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 8-14, 2024 2024 European Championships 5
64.87		 2
130.81		 3
195.68
December 22-23, 2023 2024 Italian Championships 2
66.69		 1
126.19		 1
192.88
December 7–10, 2023 2023–24 Grand Prix Final 5
61.91		 4
126.94		 5
188.85
November 24–26, 2023 2023 NHK Trophy 4
62.98		 3
123.49		 3
186.47
November 10–12, 2023 2023 Cup of China 2
66.33		 2
124.67		 2
191.00
October 19–22, 2023 2023 Diamond Spin 1
66.84		 1
115.62		 1
182.46
October 4–8, 2023 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy 2
61.75		 2
115.28		 2
177.03
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 7
54.99		 3
127.34		 5
182.33
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 25–29, 2023 2023 European Championships 5
59.48		 1
127.48		 2
186.96
December 15–18, 2022 2023 Italian Championships 2
66.85		 2
124.36		 2
191.21
December 8–11, 2022 2022–23 Grand Prix Final 5
63.54		 4
116.85		 5
180.39
November 25–27, 2022 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo 1
67.31		 1
122.43		 1
189.74
November 17–20, 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 1
65.79		 2
118.42		 2
184.21
November 4–6, 2022 2022 Grand Prix de France 4
60.93		 4
113.79		 4
174.72
September 12–16, 2022 2022 CS U.S. Classic 1
64.78		 1
124.44		 1
189.22
September 8–9, 2022 2022 John Nicks Pairs Challenge 1
62.08		 1
118.39		 1
180.47
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 18–19, 2022 2022 Winter Olympics 16
55.83		 14
109.60		 14
165.43
January 10–16, 2022 2022 European Championships 4
62.76		 5
116.14		 5
178.90
December 4–5, 2021 2022 Italian Championships 2
60.23		 2
120.59		 2
180.82
November 19–21, 2021 2021 Internationaux de France 5
64.60		 5
111.59		 5
176.19
November 5–7, 2021 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 5
60.89		 6
104.56		 5
165.45
October 14–17, 2021 2021 Budapest Trophy 5
51.94		 4
102.15		 4
154.09
September 9–12, 2021 2021 Lombardia Trophy 3
61.91		 3
110.77		 3
172.68
2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 22–28, 2021 2021 World Championships 15
54.70		 18
99.34		 17
154.04
December 12–13, 2020 2021 Italian Championships 3
54.67		 2
106.96		 2
161.63
September 23–26, 2020 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 3
58.32		 1
96.29		 1
154.61
2019–20 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 20–23, 2020 2020 International Challenge Cup 3
60.49		 5
102.48		 3
162.97
January 20–26, 2020 2020 European Championships 8
56.85		 10
99.89		 8
156.74
December 12–15, 2019 2020 Italian Championships 2
58.02		 2
101.00		 2
159.02
December 4–7, 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 8
53.10		 6
104.18		 6
157.28
November 15–17, 2019 2019 Rostelecom Cup 7
55.08		 6
107.68		 7
162.76
November 5–10, 2019 2019 Volvo Open Cup 2
58.79		 1
116.78		 1
175.57
November 1–3, 2019 2019 Internationaux de France 5
59.62		 8
98.30		 8
157.92
October 3–5, 2019 2019 Shanghai Trophy 4
53.71		 4
100.78		 5
154.49
2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 18–24, 2019 2019 World Championships 18
52.02		 19
81.73		 19
133.75
January 21–27, 2019 2019 European Championships 8
54.48		 10
93.27		 9
147.75
December 13–16, 2018 2019 Italian Championships 2
57.41		 2
102.19		 2
159.60
November 26–December 2, 2018 2018 CS Tallinn Trophy 3
57.38		 4
99.46		 4
156.84
November 11–18, 2018 2018 Alpen Trophy 2
55.15		 2
108.59		 2
163.74
October 18–21, 2018 2018 Ice Star 5
51.10		 5
94.01		 5
145.11
September 26–29, 2018 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 8
47.71		 5
107.68		 6
155.39
September 19–22, 2018 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy 4
53.09		 3
101.93		 4
155.02
September 12–26, 2018 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy 5
48.48		 6
94.73		 6
143.21
2017–18 season
Date Event SP FS
February 22–25, 2018 2018 International Challenge Cup 2
52.64		 2
90.90		 3
143.54
January 8–13, 2018 2018 Mentor Toruń Cup 1
52.49		 2
93.50		 2
145.99
December 13–16, 2017 2018 Italian Championships 3
49.78		 3
79.14		 3
128.92
November 16–19, 2017 2017 CS Warsaw Cup 7
49.88		 8
87.68		 8
137.56
2016–17 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 28–March 6, 2017 2017 Cup of Tyrol 4
52.14		 4
97.32		 4
149.46
January 25–29, 2017 2017 European Championships 14
50.71		 11
97.77		 11
148.48
December 14–17, 2016 2017 Italian Championships 3
46.10		 3
94.22		 3
140.32
November 17–20, 2016 2016 CS Warsaw Cup 4
47.90		 5
80.58		 5
128.48
October 19–23, 2016 2016 Cup of Nice 4
51.26		 3
96.04		 3
147.30
September 8–11, 2016 2016 CS Lombardia Trophy 3
55.20		 4
89.50		 3
144.70

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