Lucrezia Beccari
Born (2003-12-18) 18 December 2003
Turin, Italy
HometownRivoli, Piedmont
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1+12 in)
Figure skating career
CountryItaly
PartnerMatteo Guarise
CoachFranca Bianconi, Luca Demattè, Rosanna Murante
Skating clubIcelab Bergamo
Began skating2009
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Figure skating: Pairs
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 KaunasPairs
Figure skating: Women's singles
European Youth Olympic Festival
Silver medal – second place2019 SarajevoWomen's singles

Lucrezia Beccari (born 18 December 2003) is an Italian figure skater, who currently competes in pair skating with partner Matteo Guarise. With Guarise, she is the 2024 European champion, two-time ISU Grand Prix medalists, 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalists and 2024 Italian national silver medalists.

As a single skater, she is the 2019 Italian national silver medalist on the senior level and 2018 junior champion. She has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships – the 2018 and 2019 World Junior Championships.

Career

Early years

Beccari began learning to skate in 2009.[1] In 2014 and 2015, she competed in novice ice dancing with Pietro Turbiglio. In 2016, she was off the ice for several months due to an injury.[2]

Competing in the advanced novice ladies' category, Beccari became the Italian national champion in March 2017 and took silver at the Rooster Cup in April, coached by Edoardo De Bernardis.[3]

2017–18 season

Beccari became age-eligible for junior international events and made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in September, placing seventh in Minsk, Belarus. After winning the national junior title, she was selected to represent Italy at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria; she finished sixteenth overall after placing twenty-third in the short program and eleventh in the free skate. During the season, she was coached by Edoardo De Bernardis and Claudia Masoero in Turin.[4]

2018–19 season

Beccari decided to train under Franca Bianconi in Bergamo.[1] Starting her season on the JGP series, she placed seventh in Kaunas, Lithuania, and fifteenth in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She then won three junior international medals – bronze at the Golden Bear of Zagreb, gold at the Warsaw Cup, and gold at the Denkova-Staviski Cup. Although too young for international senior-level events, she competed in the senior category at the Italian Championships in December. Ranked first in the short program and fourth in the free skate, she was awarded the silver medal.[5]

2019–20 season

In her final appearance on the Junior Grand Prix, Beccari placed sixteenth at the 2021 JGP Poland. Making her senior debut on the Challenger series, she competed three times at 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy, 2019 CS Warsaw Cup, and 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. Beccari was fourth at the Italian championships and competed at several other minor internationals.[5]

2020–21 season

In an international season greatly limited by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Beccari was the Italian national bronze medalist and won the Egna Trophy.[5]

2021–22 season

Beccari withdrew from the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy. Following the cancellation of the 2021 Cup of China, Italy unexpectedly became the host of the third event in the Grand Prix, the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia.[6] Beccari was one of two Italian women assigned to compete at the home Grand Prix (along with Lara Naki Gutmann), making her Grand Prix debut with a twelfth-place finish.[7] She was sixth at the Italian championships.[5]

2022–23 season

In the summer of 2022, Beccari had the opportunity to switch to pair skating after reigning Italian national champion Nicole Della Monica decided to retire following the Beijing Olympics, leaving her partner Matteo Guarise looking for a new partner to continue onward to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.[8] Beccari would later say that she had previously tried out in pairs, but due to an injury had focused on singles skating. However, she had reconsidered after the prior season, citing that "I had a lot of physical issues that affected me on the ice and in all my competitions. I was feeling low, both physically and mentally. I instantly decided that I needed a drastic change"[9]

Beccari/Guarise made their international debut at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, finishing in fourth place. They won the bronze medal at their first Italian championships, and were seventh at the 2023 European Championships.[10]

2023–24 season

Beccari/Guarise began the season with a fourth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy.[10] At their second Challenger event, the 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, they won the silver medal, their first international podium together. They set new personal bests in both the free skate and total score.[11] They were invited to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2023 Skate Canada International, where they won the bronze medal, despite each making a jump error in the free skate. Beccari remarked that she was "really happy" about her "first important medal," though "about the skate, we are not that happy." Guarise deemed it a "learning experience."[12] They went on to win the silver medal at the 2023 NHK Trophy.[13] Beccari/Guarise finished the Grand Prix with the same placements as fellow Italian team Ghilardi/Ambrosini and Hungarians Pavlova/Sviatchenko, but lost the tiebreaker of cumulative scores, and thus finished as second alternates to the Grand Prix Final.[14] Guarise acknowledged this as disappointing, but said "for our first Grand Prix season we can be pleased."[13]

Programs

With Guarise

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–24
[15]
2022–23
[16]
Les Misérables:

Single skating

Season Short program Free skating
2021–2022
[17]
2019–2020
[18]
2018–2019
[1]
2017–2018
[4]

Competitive highlights

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

Pairs with Guarise

International[10]
Event 22–23 23–24
Europeans7th1st
GP Skate Canada3rd
GP NHK Trophy2nd
CS Lombardia Trophy4th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy2nd
CS Warsaw Cup4th
Tayside TrophyWD
National[10]
Italian Champ.3rd2nd
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Women's singles

International[5]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
GP Italy12th
CS Golden Spin7th
CS Lombardia7thWD
CS Warsaw Cup11th
EduSport Trophy1st
Egna Trophy1st
Halloween Cup1st
Icelab International1st
Merano Cup2nd
Sofia Trophy2nd
Tirnavia Ice CupWD
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds16th16th
JGP Belarus7th
JGP Lithuania7th
JGP Poland16th
JGP Slovenia15th
EYOF2nd
Bavarian Open3rd
Cup of Nice7th
Cup of Tyrol2nd
Denkova-Staviski1st
EduSport Trophy1st
Golden Bear2nd3rd
IceLab Cup4th
Merano Cup1st
Skate Helena1st
Warsaw Cup1st
International: Advanced novice[3]
Egna Trophy5th
Rooster Cup2nd
National[5][3]
Italian Champ.1st N1st J2nd4th3rd6th
Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE system[19]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS199.192024 European Championships
Short program TSS67.052024 European Championships
TES37.352023 CS Lombardia Trophy
PCS30.442024 European Championships
Free skating TSS132.142024 European Championships
TES69.092024 European Championships
PCS63.052024 European Championships

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

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

Pair skating

With Guarise

2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 8-14, 2024 2024 European Championships 3
67.05
1
132.14
1
199.19
December 22-23, 2023 2024 Italian Championships 1
70.09
2
121.04
2
191.13
November 24-26, 2023 2023 NHK Trophy 2
66.77
2
123.54
2
190.31
October 27–29, 2023 2023 Skate Canada International 2
65.83
4
115.59
3
181.42
September 20–23, 2023 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 3
66.36
1
125.35
1
191.71
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 2
66.94
5
118.12
4
185.06
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 27–March 5, 2023 2023 European Championships 8
53.29
7
99.25
7
152.54
December 15–18, 2022 2023 Italian Championships 3
64.98
3
112.01
3
176.99
November 17–20, 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 4
60.71
4
105.79
4
166.50

Singles skating

Senior results

2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 5 - 6, 2022 Merano Cup 1
58.55
3
96.68
2
155.23
January 1 - 13, 2022 IceLab International Cup 1
60.38
1
94.71
1
155.09
December 4 - 5, 2021 2022 Italian Nationals 4
54.64
6
76.93
6
131.57
November 5–7, 2021 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 12
53.35
12
94.94
12
148.29
2020–2021 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 29 - May 2, 2021 Enga Spring Trophy 2
56.74
1
109.40
1
166.14
12-13 December 2020 2021 Italian Championships 2
61.67
3
106.06
3
167.73
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
12-18 February 2020 2020 Sofia Trophy 2
58.05
2
110.71
2
168.76
8-12 January 2020 2020 EduSport Trophy 1
63.01
1
119.85
1
182.86
12-15 December 2019 2020 Italian Championships 2
62.44
4
106.06
4
168.50
4-7 December 2019 2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb 9
53.83
6
113.34
7
167.17
14-17 November 2019 2019 Warsaw Cup 11
54.36
10
105.85
11
160.21
17-20 October 2019 2019 Halloween Cup 1
59.14
1
100.59
1
159.73
13-15 September 2019 2019 Lombardia Trophy 7
55.16
7
112.04
7
167.94
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
13-16 December 2018 2019 Italian Championships 1
58.57
4
99.09
2
157.66

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
1-3 November 2019 2019 IceLab Cup 2
55.02
7
84.77
4
139.79
18-21 September 2019 2019 JGP Poland 20
43.18
15
85.61
16
128.79
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
4-10 March 2019 2019 World Junior Championships 8
57.70
17
89.33
16
147.03
13-14 February 2019 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival 2
58.91
2
114.78
2
173.69
5-9 February 2019 2019 Bavarian Open (Group I) 3
52.85
3
103.79
3
156.64
9-12 January 2019 2019 EduSport Trophy 1
54.81
1
104.14
1
158.95
27 November - 2 December 2018 2018 Denkova-Staviski Cup 1
60.74
1
105.32
1
166.06
23-25 November 2018 2018 Warshaw Cup 1
50.19
1
86.85
1
137.04
25-28 October 2018 2018 Golden Bear 2
61.82
3
110.66
3
172.48
3-6 October 2018 2018 JGP Slovenia 15
42.91
15
76.42
15
119.33
5-8 September 2018 2018 JGP Lithuania 5
54.49
9
94.92
7
149.41
2017–2018 season
Date Event SP FS Total
5-11 March 2018 2018 World Junior Championships 23
46.46
11
100.99
16
147.45
23-27 January 2018 2018 Skate Helena 1
47.60
1
100.40
1
148.00
13-16 December 2017 2018 Italian Junior Championships 1
60.25
1
105.19
1
165.44
20-25 November 2017 2017 Cup of Tyrol 3
49.83
2
89.84
2
139.67
15-19 November 2017 2017 Merano Cup 1
50.96
1
101.98
1
152.94
26-29 October 2017 2017 Golden Bear 4
48.12
1
93.87
2
141.99
11-15 October 2017 2017 Cup of Nice 6
47.33
6
87.15
7
134.48
20-23 September 2017 2017 JGP Belarus 13
43.17
6
93.47
7
136.64

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