Federica Faiella

Federica Faiella ( born 1 February 1981 in Rome, Lazio) is an Italian figure skater who starts in ice dancing.

Faiella began at the age of ten years, with the figure skating. Your first Eistanzpartner was Luciano Milo. With him she won in the 1997/98 season, the Grand Prix Final of the juniors.

After Milo had ended his career, was Massimo Scali her Eistanzpartner. Although they had only trained for a short time together, Faiella and Scali could qualify for the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. There they occupied the 18th place. In 2002, she debuted also at European and World Championships, where she reached the 12th or 16th place.

In 2003, Faiella and Scali went for the first time as Italian champions and reached the eighth place in the European Championship for the first time finishing in the top ten at the European Championships. A year later they managed this well at the World Championships, where they were ninth. In her second Olympic Games, it was enough for them in Turin after a fall in the original dance only for 13th place. After the Olympic season Faiella and Scali changed their coach and went to Detroit to work with Pasquale Camerlengo and Krylova Anschelika.

In the 2008/2009 season won the NHK Trophy, the Italians, and thus their first and only Grand Prix competition. At the European Championships in 2009, they won silver behind the Russians Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitsky their first medal at the European Championships. They repeated this success at the European Championships the following year, this time behind the Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin. They decided both the original dance as well as the freestyle for themselves. In her third Olympic Games Faiella and Scali were fifth in Vancouver. Then ill Federica Faiella and the couple was able to return to the ice only four days before the World Cup. Nevertheless, they managed before a home crowd in Turin with the achievement of the bronze winning their first and only medal at the world championships.

After the World Cup Faiella / Scali decided for another year to go on, but had to give up at the Cup of Russia due to a back injury Scalis. At the European Championships, they returned again and finished fifth. On 15 March 2011 Scali announced the end of the career Eistanzpaares. On May 9, Faiella and Scali announced their international retirement. They justified this with the obtained in Moscow while watching the World Cup knowledge, still be competitive.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Massimo Scali )

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Italy 2010 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 European Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 European Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2011 European Figure Skating Championships 2011 World Figure Skating Championships Winter Olympic Games 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2007 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 European Figure Skating Championships 2005 European Figure Skating Championships 2006 European Figure Skating Championships 2007 European Figure Skating Championships 2008 European Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of China International Skating Union
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