Maïa Mazzara Explained

Maïa Mazzara
Birth Date:5 August 2003
Birth Place:Clamart, France
Hometown:Strasbourg, France
Coach:Françoise Bonnard, Kirill Davydenko
Formercoach:Florent Amodio, Jean-François Ballester
Choreographer:Benoît Richaud
Formerchoreographer:Pierre-Loup Bouquet, Karine Arribert, Jean-François Ballester, Florentine Houdinière, Sylvia Fontana
Skating Club:Français Volants Paris
Former Skating Club:CP La Chaux-de-Fonds
Currenttraininglocations:Vaujany, France
Formertraininglocations:Geneva, Switzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Megeve, France
Beganskating:2011
Combined Total:170.06
Combined Date:2020 Europeans
Sp Score:59.48
Sp Date:2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Fs Score:112.95
Fs Date:2020 Europeans

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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

2023–24 season

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

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skatingExhibition
2023–2024
2021–2023
  • You?
2020–2021
  • Cum Dederit
2019–2020
  • Beethoven's Silence
2018–2019
2017–2018
  • Kvold i Borginni

Competitive highlights

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

For France

International
Event19–2020–2121–2222–2323–24
align=left 11th
align=left C WD 12th 11th
align=left 19th
align=left WD
align=left 9th 6th
align=left 14th
align=left WD WD
align=left 7th
align=left C 22nd 27th
align=left WD
align=left WD 6th
align=left 4th
align=left bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
align=left WD
align=left 5th
align=left Tallink Hotels Cup 6th
align=left 18th
align=left Winter Star bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
International: Junior
align=left 9th
align=left 16th
align=left 9th
align=left 20th
National
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd bgcolor=silver 2nd 4th bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J bgcolor=gold 1st bgcolor=cc9966 3rd bgcolor=cc9966 3rd
Team events
align=left 5th 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
Event2017–182018–19
align=left 35th
align=left 10th
align=left 6th
align=left 11th
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd
National
align=left bgcolor=silver 2nd J
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st J
Levels: J = Junior

Detailed results

For France

2023–24 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
November 3–5, 20232023 Grand Prix de Francealign=center 11
45.03		align=center 11
92.41		align=center 11
137.44
October 13-15, 20232023 CS Budapest Trophyalign=center 25
42.31		align=center 12
95.22		align=center 19
137.53
September 28-30, 20232023 Master's de Patinagealign=center 5
43.66		align=center 3
95.54		align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
139.20
2022–23 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
January 13–15, 20232023 Winter Universiadealign=center 18
48.93 		align=center 17
84.29		align=center 18
133.22
December 15–17, 2022align=center 4
51.49 		align=center 3
111.72		align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
163.21
November 17–20, 20222022 CS Warsaw Cupalign=center 16
47.03		align=center 24
65.93		align=center 22
112.96
November 4–6, 20222022 Grand Prix de Francealign=center 12
46.05		align=center 12
94.80		align=center 12
140.85
October 6–8, 20222022 Master's de Patinagealign=center 2
60.03		align=center 3
103.97 		align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
164.00
September 29–October 1, 20222022 CS Nepela Memorialalign=center 7
45.10		align=center 9
89.94		align=center 7
135.04
2021–22 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 24–27, 20222022 Challenge Cupalign=center 7
51.88		align=center 6
103.48		align=center 6
155.36
December 16–18, 20212021 French Championshipsalign=center 5
53.12		align=center 4
98.56		align=center 4
151.68
December 7–11, 20212021 CS Golden Spin of Zagrebalign=center 13
50.39		align=center 4
112.40		align=center 6
162.79
September 30-October 2, 20212021 Master's de Patinagealign=center 1
50.31		align=center 1
104.84		align=center bgcolor=cc9966 1
155.15
September 10–12, 20212021 CS Lombardia Trophyalign=center 10
52.39		align=center 15
90.18		align=center 14
142.57
2020–21 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
April 15–18, 20212021 World Team Trophyalign=center 11
55.31		align=center 11
100.11		align=center 5T/11P
155.42
February 19–21, 20212021 Tallink Hotels Cupalign=center 9
48.63		align=center 7
95.67		align=center 6
144.30
February 5–6, 20212020 French Championshipsalign=center 2
60.96		align=center 2
102.81		align=center bgcolor=silver 2
163.77
December 11–13, 20202020 Winter Staralign=center 5
51.79		align=center 3
96.86		align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
148.65
2019–20 season
March 2–8, 20202020 World Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 15
54.22		align=center 17
95.58		align=center 16
149.80
January 20–26, 20202020 European ChampionshipsSenioralign=center 16
57.11		align=center 8
112.95		align=center 11
170.06
January 10–15, 20202020 Winter Youth Olympics – TeamJunioralign=center –align=center 4
103.36		align=center 8T/4P
January 10–15, 20202020 Winter Youth OlympicsJunioralign=center 8
59.48		align=center 9
106.68		align=center 9
166.16
December 19–21, 20192019 French ChampionshipsSenioralign=center 3
56.06		align=center 2
103.91		align=center bgcolor=silver 2
159.97
December 4–7, 20192019 CS Golden Spin of ZagrebSenioralign=center 20
45.94		align=center 8
106.31		align=center 9
152.25
November 11–17, 20192019 Tallinn TrophySenioralign=center 8
49.52		align=center 7
99.25		align=center 5
148.77
October 2–5, 20192019 JGP ItalyJunioralign=center 8
53.81		align=center 9
96.28		align=center 9
150.09
September 26–28, 20192019 Master's de PatinageJunioralign=center 1
56.34		align=center 1
106.31		align=center bgcolor=gold 1
162.65
September 11–14, 20192019 JGP RussiaJunioralign=center 20
42.90		align=center 21
74.63		align=center 20
117.53

For Switzerland

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2018–19 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
February 22–24, 20192019 French Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 2
49.51		align=center 1
100.60		align=center bgcolor=silver 2
150.11
December 13–15, 20182018 French ChampionshipsSenioralign=center 6
49.27		align=center 7
75.95		align=center 7
125.22
August 22–25, 20182018 JGP SlovakiaJunioralign=center 10
51.39		align=center 10
88.20		align=center 10
139.59
2017–18 season
March 5–11, 20182018 World Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 35
40.69		align=center – align=center 35
40.69
January 26–31, 20182018 Bavarian OpenJunioralign=center 10
44.76		align=center 4
93.48		align=center 6
138.24
January 6–7, 20182018 Swiss Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 1
53.92		align=center 1
86.24		align=center bgcolor=gold 1
140.16
November 15–19, 20172017 Merano CupJunioralign=center 5
44.53		align=center 2
91.75		align=center bgcolor=silver 2
136.28
October 11–15, 20172017 Cup of NiceJunioralign=center 14
43.20		align=center 9
84.16		align=center 11
127.36