Daniel Grassl

Daniel Grassl
Born (2002-04-04) 4 April 2002 (age 22)
Merano, Italy
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country Italy
DisciplineMen's singles
CoachEdoardo De Barnardis
Luca Mantovani
Skating clubG.S. Fiamme Oro Moena
Began skating2009
Highest WS5th
Medal record
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tallinn Singles
Italian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Trento Singles
Gold medal – first place 2020 Bergamo Singles
Gold medal – first place 2021 Egna Singles
Gold medal – first place 2022 Turin Singles
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Zagreb Singles

Daniel Grassl (born 4 April 2002) is an Italian figure skater. He is the 2024 NHK Trophy silver medalist, the 2022 European silver medalist, the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy champion, the 2019 World Junior bronze medalist, and a four-time Italian national champion (2019–2022). He has won 11 senior international medals, including gold at four ISU Challenger Series events (2018 CS Inge Solar Memorial – Alpen Trophy, 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy, 2019 CS Ice Star, 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy).

Career

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Early years

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Grassl began learning to skate in 2009.[1] His first coach was Ludmila Mladenova in Merano.[2] He competed internationally in the advanced novice ranks from the 2012–2013 season through 2014–2015.

Making his junior international debut, Grassl won the bronze medal at the Lombardia Trophy in September 2015.[3] He won his first Italian national junior title in December of the same year.

2016–2017 season

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During the season, Grassl trained in Egna, Italy, coached by Lorenzo Magri.[4] In August 2016, he competed at his first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignment in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. After finishing 7th in France, he had the same result at his next JGP event, in Yokohama, Japan. In December, he repeated as Italy's national junior champion.

In February 2017, Grassl won silver at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Erzurum, Turkey.

2017–2018 season

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Coached by Magri,[5] Grassl began his season on the JGP series, placing 6th in Brisbane, Australia, and then 7th in Egna, Italy. His senior international debut came in late October 2017 at the Golden Bear of Zagreb in Croatia; ranked first in both segments, Grassl outscored British champion Graham Newberry by 13.33 points for the gold medal. During his time in Croatia, he was the youngest skater ever to land a quad Lutz. In November, he stepped onto two more senior international podiums, taking gold at the Ice Challenge in Austria (27.33 points ahead of silver medalist Javier Raya from Spain) and then bronze at the Merano Cup in Italy.

2018–2019 season

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In August, Grassl won bronze at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Slovakia. In October, he received the senior gold medal at the Golden Bear of Zagreb after becoming the first European to land a quad loop in international competition. In December, he outscored Matteo Rizzo by 4.48 points to become the Italian national senior champion.

Grassl next competed at his first European Championships, where he placed ninth in the short program and fifth in the free skate, for sixth place overall. As Rizzo won the bronze medal at Europeans, he was assigned to Italy's lone men's place at the 2019 World Championships, whilst Grassl was sent to the 2019 World Junior Championships.[6] He placed third in the short program, winning a bronze small medal, despite a minor error on his triple Axel.[7]

2019–2020 season

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Grassl began his season on the Junior Grand Prix in Poland, where he won the bronze medal.[8] His second event was the Italian JGP event, held in his home rink, where he won the gold medal, qualifying to the Junior Grand Prix Final.[9] Moving to the senior level Challenger series, Grassl won both the Asian Open and the Ice Star.

At the JGP Final in Torino, Grassl was the lone Italian skater to qualify at either the senior or junior level. Two days before the competition began, his right skate broke, which he attempted to remedy with tape. This proved inadequate in skating the short program, where he placed fifth after missing the second part of his jump combination.[10] Grassl then replaced his skates with only a day's preparation and struggled in the free skate, finishing last among the competitors.[11] Shortly afterward, he won his second consecutive Italian national title.

Returning to the European Championships, Grassl placed eleventh in the short program with multiple errors.[12] Staging a comeback in the free skate, he was second in that segment with a new personal best score and rose to fourth place overall, under two points short of the silver medal.[13]

Grassl placed sixth in the short program at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.[14] Grassl attempted the quad flip in competition for the first time in the free skate, underrotating both it and his quad Lutz, as well as a triple Axel. He placed third in the segment, winning a small bronze medal, and was fourth overall, 1.74 points behind bronze medalist Petr Gumennik.[15] Grassl was scheduled to make his senior World Championship debut in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[16]

2020–2021 season

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Grassl won the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy and was assigned to make his Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but this event was also cancelled as a result of the pandemic.[17]

Grassl won his third consecutive Italian national title in December, after which he tested positive for COVID-19, as a result of which he was off the ice for a month and a half due to quarantine and subsequent concerns about the condition of his heart.[18] Grassl was assigned to compete at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, where he placed twelfth.[19] Grassl and Matteo Rizzo's placements qualified two berths for Italian men at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.[20] They were both subsequently named to the Italian team for the 2021 World Team Trophy.[21] Rizzo later withdrew due to a positive COVID test, as a result of which Grassl was the lone Italian man in the competition. He was tenth in the short program and seventh in the free skate, while Team Italy finished in fourth place.[22][23][24]

2021–2022 season

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Grassl began the Olympic season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy on home soil. Fifth, after the short program, he won the free skate and took the gold medal.[25] He then made his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2021 Skate America, where he placed seventh.[26] His second Grand Prix assignment was initially the 2021 Cup of China, but following that event's cancellation, he was reassigned to a special home 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia in Turin.[27] Grassl was second in the short program with a new personal best, dropping to third in the free skate to take the bronze medal overall. This was his first Grand Prix medal at the senior level, and he was the lone Italian medalist at the event.[28] Afterward, he expressed a desire to "thank those people in the crowd who supported me."[29]

Following his Grand Prix success, Grassl won another Challenger medal, silver at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup. He then won a fourth consecutive Italian national title and was named to the Italian Olympic team.[30]

Assigned to compete at the 2022 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Grassl placed fifth in the short program, seven points behind a trio of Russian skaters in the top three places. He placed second in the free skate, despite both of his triple Lutzes being called for incorrect edges, setting new personal bests in that segment and in total score and taking the silver medal.[31]

Grassl began the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Italian entry in the men's short program of the Olympic team event. He placed fifth in the segment, securing six points for the Italian team.[32] Subsequently, Team Italy did not advance to the second phase of the competition and finished seventh.[33] Grassl next performed his short program in the men's event, coming twelfth.[34] In the free skate, Grassl made only minor errors in a three-quad program, managing a new personal best that saw him fourth in that segment, rising to seventh overall. He deemed it "probably the best of the season."[35]

Grassl concluded his season at the 2022 World Championships in a men's field considerably more open than usual due to the absences of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu and the International Skating Union banning all Russian athletes due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.[36] He finished fifth in the short program with a new personal best but dropped to seventh after the free skate.[37][38]

2022–2023 season

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In August, before the start of the 2022–23 figure skating season, Grassl announced that he would be leaving Egna, Italy, where he had trained most of his life and relocating to Norwood, Massachusetts to train at The Skating Club of Boston under Alexei Letov and Olga Ganicheva.[39]

Grassl was invited to be part of Team Europe at the Japan Open at the beginning of the season.[40] On the Grand Prix, he placed fourth at the 2022 Skate America.[30] He fared better at his second event, winning gold at the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy, which result in turn qualified him for the Grand Prix Final, becoming the first ever Italian male figure skater to do so.[41] A week later, he competed at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup and won the silver medal, finishing less than half a point behind event champion Kévin Aymoz.[30]

Shortly before the Grand Prix Final, Grassl announced that he had moved back to Egna to train due to homesickness.[42] At the Final, Grassl finished in sixth place after placing fourth in the short program and fifth in the free skate.[43] At the Italian championships shortly afterward, he finished in fourth place, missing the podium for the first time in five years.[30] In the aftermath of these disappointments, Grassl began training in Moscow with Russian coach Eteri Tutberidze.[44] He would later say that he was finding it difficult to motivate himself to train after the Olympics, feeling that his time in Moscow had assisted him, but that he felt under pressure as "many people are against me and my decision" to train with Tutberidze.[45]

Competing at the 2023 European Championships despite his fourth-place finish at the national championships, Grassl finished eighth in the short program after doubling a planned quad Lutz.[45] He fell on his quad Lutz attempt in the free skate, and erred on two other jumps, but still rose to sixth overall. He indicated that he was undecided whether he would return for further training in Russia.[46]

Grassl finished eighth in the short program at the 2023 World Championships.[47] He dropped to fourteenth after the free skate.[30] Grassl then joined Team Italy for the 2023 World Team Trophy, where, despite underrotating the second part of his jump combination, he managed a season's best in the short program and finished sixth in the segment.[48] He was sixth in the free skate as well, while Team Italy finished fourth. He announced plans to travel to the United States for a month to learn new choreography from Benoît Richaud in New York.[49]

2023–2024 season

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Grassl withdrew from his planned events and did not compete during the 2023–2024 season. In September, he returned to Italy and began training with Edoardo De Bernardis.[50] In December, it was reported that the Italian Anti-Doping Prosecutor's Office had requested a two-year suspension for Grassl, as he had missed three anti-doping control tests.[51] Grassl said that he had made unintentional mistakes in updating his location in the system for anti-doping testing.[50]

Programs

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Season Short program Free skate Exhibition Ref.
2016–17 [4]
2017–18
  • Smile
  • City Lights
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2018–19 [1]
2019–20 [53]
2020–21
  • Joker
    By Cédric Tour
    Choreo. by Benoît Richaud
[54]
2021–22 [55]
2022–23
  • Struggling Brain
    By Guy Skornik & Zab Skornik
  • Korea Town
    (from LA 92)
    By Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
  • Hour of the Ruler
    By Joseph Alexander
  • In The House
    By Philippe Rombi
    Choreo. by Benoît Richaud
  • I Feel Love
[56]
2024–25 [57]

Competitive highlights

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Competition placements at senior level [58]
Season 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2024-25
Winter Olympics 7th
Winter Olympics
(Team event)
7th
World Championships C 12th 7th 12th
European Championships 6th 4th 2nd 6th
Grand Prix Final 6th
Italian Championships 4th 1st 1st 1st 1st 4th
World Team Trophy 6th
(11th)
4th
(9th)
4th
(6th)
GP Finland 3rd
GP Italy 3rd
GP NHK Trophy 2nd
GP Skate America 7th 4th
GP Wilson Trophy 1st
CS Alpen Trophy 1st
CS Asian Open 1st
CS Budapest Trophy 1st
CS Denis Ten Memorial 4th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 10th 5th TBD
CS Ice Star 1st
CS Lombardia Trophy 1st
CS Nepela Memorial 1st
CS U.S. Classic WD
CS Warsaw Cup 1st 2nd 2nd
Challenge Cup 2nd
Egna Spring Trophy 1st
Golden Bear of Zagreb 1st 1st
Ice Challenge 1st
Japan Open 3rd
(4th)
Mentor Toruń Cup 1st
Merano Cup 3rd
Competition placements at junior level [58]
Season 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
World Junior Championships 3rd 4th
Junior Grand Prix Final 6th
Italian Championships 4th 1st 1st
JGP Australia 6th
JGP Austria 5th
JGP France 7th
JGP Italy 7th 1st
JGP Japan 7th
JGP Poland 3rd
JGP Slovakia 3rd
Cup of Tyrol 2nd
Egna Spring Trophy 1st 1st
European Youth Olympic Festival 2nd
Golden Bear of Zagreb 1st 1st
Hellmut Seibt Memorial 3rd
Leu Scheu Memorial 2nd
Lombardia Trophy 3rd
Mentor Toruń Cup 1st 1st
Merano Cup 1st 2nd
Santa Claus Cup 1st 1st

Detailed results

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [58]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 278.07 2022 Winter Olympics
Short program TSS 97.62 2022 World Championships
TES 54.67 2022 World Championships
PCS 42.95 2022 World Championships
Free skating TSS 187.43 2022 Winter Olympics
TES 103.35 2022 Winter Olympics
PCS 84.08 2022 Winter Olympics
ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE System [58]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 207.12 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
Short program TSS 68.25 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
TES 38.60 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
PCS 29.65 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
Free skating TSS 138.87 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
TES 79.87 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
PCS 60.12 2017 JGP Italy
  • Small medals for the short program and free skating are only awarded at ISU Championships.
  • Medals at team events are awarded for the team result only. Individual placements at team events are listed in parentheses.

Senior level

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Results in the 2017–18 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 26–29, 2017 Croatia 2017 Golden Bear of Zagreb 1 67.27 1 130.91 1 198.18
Nov 9–12, 2017 Austria 2017 Ice Challenge 1 72.34 1 137.54 1 209.88
Nov 15–19, 2017 Italy 2017 Merano Cup 1 65.55 2 122.82 3 188.37
Dec 6–9, 2017 Croatia 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 10 68.25 10 138.87 10 207.12
Dec 13–16, 2017 Italy 2018 Italian Championships 4 74.28 4 142.79 4 217.07
Feb 22–25, 2018 Netherlands 2018 Challenge Cup 7 64.99 1 145.43 2 210.42
Apr 4–8, 2018 Italy 2018 Egna Spring Trophy 1 69.36 1 147.63 1 216.99
Results in the 2018–19 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 24–28, 2018 Croatia 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb 1 82.42 1 167.95 1 250.37
Nov 11–18, 2018 Austria 2018 CS Alpen Trophy 1 83.42 1 147.08 1 230.50
Nov 23–25, 2018 Poland 2018 Warsaw Cup 1 82.27 1 135.64 1 217.91
Dec 5–8, 2018 Croatia 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 6 82.35 4 147.47 5 229.82
Dec 13–16, 2018 Italy 2019 Italian Championships 1 81.64 2 164.46 1 246.10
Jan 21–27, 2019 Belarus 2019 European Championships 9 81.69 5 155.01 6 236.70
Apr 11–14, 2019 Japan 2019 World Team Trophy 10 79.68 11 148.68 6 (11) 228.36
Results in the 2019–20 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 18–20, 2019 Belarus 2019 CS Ice Star 1 85.42 1 158.40 1 243.82
Oct 30 – Nov 3, 2019 China 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy 1 77.09 1 152.99 1 230.08
Dec 12–15, 2019 Italy 2020 Italian Championships 2 81.53 1 163.87 1 245.40
Jan 20–26, 2020 Austria 2020 European Championships 11 76.61 2 168.27 4 244.88
Results in the 2020–21 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 15–17, 2020 Hungary 2020 CS Budapest Trophy 1 82.27 1 150.77 1 233.04
Dec 12–13, 2020 Italy 2021 Italian Championships 1 96.54 1 176.31 1 272.85
Mar 22–28, 2021 Sweden 2021 World Championships 15 79.43 10 163.38 12 242.81
Apr 15–18, 2021 Japan 2021 World Team Trophy 10 67.32 7 161.56 4 (9) 228.88
Results in the 2021–22 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 10–12, 2021 Italy 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 5 74.26 1 173.54 1 247.80
Oct 22–24, 2021 United States 2021 Skate America 8 70.88 6 150.55 7 221.43
Nov 5–7, 2021 Italy 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 2 95.67 3 173.33 3 269.00
Nov 17–20, 2021 Poland 2021 CS Warsaw Cup 4 81.74 2 161.22 2 242.96
Dec 4–5, 2021 Italy 2022 Italian Championships 1 96.66 1 177.30 1 273.96
Jan 10–16, 2022 Estonia 2022 European Championships 5 91.75 2 182.73 2 274.48
Feb 4–7, 2022 China 2022 Winter Olympics (Team event) 5 88.10 7
Feb 8–10, 2022 China 2022 Winter Olympics 12 90.64 4 187.43 7 278.07
Mar 21–27, 2022 France 2022 World Championships 5 97.62 7 169.04 7 266.66
Results in the 2022–23 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 8, 2022 Japan 2022 Japan Open 4 166.21 3
Oct 21–23, 2022 United States 2022 Skate America 3 88.43 4 169.25 4 257.68
Nov 11–13, 2022 United Kingdom 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy 2 86.85 1 177.50 1 264.35
Nov 17–20, 2022 Poland 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 4 76.44 1 181.32 2 257.76
Dec 8–11, 2022 Italy 2022–23 Grand Prix Final 4 80.40 5 164.57 6 244.97
Dec 15–18, 2022 Italy 2023 Italian Championships 1 90.85 4 129.84 4 220.69
Jan 25–29, 2023 Finland 2023 European Championships 8 77.03 5 153.80 6 230.83
Mar 22–26, 2023 Japan 2023 World Championships 8 86.50 14 157.93 12 244.43
Apr 13–16, 2023 Japan 2023 World Team Trophy 6 89.81 6 173.53 4 (6) 263.34
Results in the 2024-25 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 3-5, 2024 Kazakhstan 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 6 66.79 1 170.91 4 237.70
Oct 25–27, 2024 Slovakia 2024 CS Nepela Memorial 1 90.36 1 176.72 1 267.08
Nov 8–10, 2024 Japan 2024 NHK Trophy 5 83.01 2 181.84 2 264.85
Nov 15-17, 2024 Finland 2024 Finlandia Trophy 6 77.91 1 180.64 3 258.55

Junior level

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Results in the 2014–15 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 7–8, 2015 Italy 2015 Italian Championships (Junior) 3 49.53 3 93.49 4 143.02
Results in the 2015–16 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 17–20, 2015 Italy 2015 Lombardia Trophy 5 46.97 3 103.42 3 150.39
Oct 27–31, 2015 Austria 2015 Leo Scheu Memorial 4 50.65 2 107.40 2 158.05
Nov 12–15, 2015 Italy 2015 Merano Cup 1 54.03 1 109.72 1 163.75
Nov 19–22, 2015 Croatia 2015 Golden Bear of Zagreb 1 54.85 1 109.98 1 164.83
Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2015 Hungary 2015 Santa Claus Cup 1 60.60 1 110.90 1 171.50
Dec 16–19, 2015 Italy 2016 Italian Championships (Junior) 1 59.03 1 110.90 1 169.93
Jan 6–10, 2016 Poland 2016 Mentor Toruń Cup 1 56.09 1 111.89 1 167.98
Feb 23–27, 2016 Austria 2016 Hellmut Seibt Memorial 6 49.22 1 105.44 3 154.66
Mar 9–13, 2016 Austria 2016 Cup of Tyrol 1 53.06 2 100.20 2 153.26
Apr 15–17, 2016 Italy 2016 Egna Spring Trophy 1 60.41 1 120.12 1 180.53
Results in the 2016–17 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 24–27, 2016 France 2016 JGP France 8 56.09 7 115.03 7 171.12
Sep 8–11, 2016 Japan 2016 JGP Japan 10 56.10 7 121.26 7 177.36
Oct 27–30, 2016 Croatia 2016 Golden Bear of Zagreb 2 58.52 1 124.51 1 183.03
Nov 10–13, 2016 Italy 2016 Merano Cup 5 54.15 1 122.50 2 176.65
Dec 6–11, 2016 Hungary 2016 Santa Claus Cup 1 56.80 1 112.82 1 169.62
Dec 14–17, 2016 Italy 2017 Italian Championships (Junior) 1 66.58 1 135.88 1 202.46
Jan 10–15, 2017 Poland 2017 Mentor Toruń Cup 1 61.00 1 116.58 1 177.58
Feb 11–18, 2017 Turkey 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival 2 63.35 2 114.89 2 178.24
Apr 6–9, 2017 Italy 2017 Egna Spring Trophy 1 60.56 1 120.86 1 181.42
Results in the 2017–18 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 23–26, 2017 Australia 2017 JGP Australia 5 62.35 8 112.58 6 174.93
Oct 11–14, 2017 Italy 2017 JGP Italy 8 61.92 6 126.12 7 188.04
Results in the 2018–19 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 22–25, 2018 Slovakia 2018 JGP Slovakia 3 71.86 4 127.40 3 199.26
Aug 29 – Sep 1, 2018 Austria 2018 JGP Austria 5 70.17 5 121.21 5 191.38
Mar 4–10, 2019 Croatia 2019 World Junior Championships 3 81.19 4 143.48 3 224.67
Results in the 2019–20 season[58]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 4–7, 2019 Poland 2019 JGP Poland 3 81.01 3 147.63 3 228.64
Oct 2–5, 2019 Italy 2019 JGP Italy 1 82.77 1 158.76 1 241.53
Dec 5–8, 2019 Italy 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final 5 71.95 6 123.71 6 195.66
Mar 2–8, 2020 Estonia 2020 World Junior Championships 6 78.91 3 150.47 4 229.38

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