Who is Carolina Kostner: Biography, Age, Career, Boyfriend and Instagram

Carolina Kostner is a well-known 34-year-old ice skater. Multi-award-winning athlete, she has overall won 8 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals. Known throughout Italy for being the first Italian skater in history to have won an Olympic medal in her discipline, Carolina is given as a potential competitor to de The Island of the Famous 2021, conducted by Ilary Blasi with special correspondent Massimiliano Rosolino.

Who is it Carolina Kostner?

• No.like: Carolina Kostner
• Zodiac sign: fish tank
• Age: 34 years
• Date of birth: February 8, 1987
• Birth place: Bolzano
• Profession: ice skater
• Qualification: Linguistic high school diploma
• Height: 170 cm
• Weight: 55 Kg
• Tattoos: nobody
• Official Website: www.carolina-kostner.it
• Official Instagram Profile: @mskostner
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Biography

Carolina Kostner was born on February 8, 1987 in Bolzano. Daughter of a sporty family, Kostner grew up in Ortisei and began ice skating at the age of 4. Her mother is a former 70s figure skater, and Carolina begins to follow in her mother’s footsteps, but initially just for fun. She made her debut as a skier in the downhill specialty, practicing both sports up to the age of 12, when she decided to dedicate herself only to skating.

After several national and European titles, Carolina suffers an emotional breakdown at the 2009 Los Angeles World Cup: ranks in fifteenth place, an event that pushes her to move to California to change coach and be assisted by sports psychologist Daniele Popolizio (former collaborator of Federica Pellegrini). Carolina is helped out of this not too bright period, by her family and above all by her then boyfriend Alex Schwazer.

In the same year she loses the Italian title but reconfirms the European title, thus being able to participate in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. However, even at these Olympics Carolina is not too high and a controversy arises that sees the president of CONI “repent” in public for having financed the studies of Kostner, who now no longer considers a champion. Despite the criticisms suffered Carolina Kostner does not give up skating and ranks sixth in the world in 2011.

2012 sees it in rrehabilitation after a left knee injury, but also sees her place third at the World Championships in Nice, and in the same year, after rumors that they wanted her to retire from competition, Kostner declares that she will continue to skate at least until the 2014 Sochi Olympics. ranking third becoming the first Italian figure skater in history to win an Olympic medal in single figure skating.

Then comes in 2015 the disqualification by CONI, due to the aiding and abetting of the ex-boyfriend Alex Schwazer accused of doping, to which Carolina would offer cover. Finished in the crosshairs of the sports committee and public opinion, Kostner returns to compete in 2016 and participates in her fourth Olympics in 2018, where she wins fifth place.

The relationship with the athlete Alex Schwazer ended in 2012, Carolina has been romantically involved since 2018 with her osteopath Fabrizio Vittorini.

It is rumored that the award-winning figure skater could be a potential competitor to de The Island of the Famous 2021.

Career

Until the age of 12, Carolina practiced both skating and skiing, then deciding to devote himself exclusively to skating. In 2001 he travels between Italy and Germany to train with Michael Huth. Compete between 2000 and 2002 in the Junior category, winning the national junior title. He made his debut as a Senior when he was still competing in the Junior category, a category for which he won the Junior Grand Prix of France and became the first Italian figure skater to win a medal at the world championships in the junior category (bronze). Officially entering the Senior category, Carolina ranks fifth at the 2004 European and World Championships, and the following year she won the bronze medal at the Moscow World Championships. In 2006 all of Italy saw her parading as flag bearer of the Italian national team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Turin, and she ranks ninth at the Olympics.

He wins the national title in 2007 and the European title in Varsavia, in fact becoming the first Italian to win gold at the Europeans, a trophy that she repeats the following year in Zagreb. He ranks second at the 2008 World Cup, first at the Cup of Russia of the same year, and for the fifth time first at national level (in Italy).

After the not too lucky experience at the 2009 Losa Angeles World Championships, Carolina decides to change coach and move to California, where she is also followed by the sports psychologist Daniele Popolizio.

Controversy, injury and medal at the Olympics

Also in 2009 Kostner loses the Italian title (conquered by Valentina Marchei), but reconfirms the European title, thus being able to participate in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Even at these Olympics, however, Carolina does not rank too high and a controversy arises that sees the president of CONI “repent” in public for having funded the studies of Kostner, who now no longer considers a champion.

2012 sees her in rehabilitation after an injury to her left knee, but also sees her rank third at the World Championships in Nice, and in the same year, after rumors that they wanted her to retire from competition, Kostner declares that she will continue to skate at least until at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. To the latter Carolina ranks third becoming the first Italian skater in history to win an Olympic medal in single figure skating.

Disqualification: The Alex Schwazer Case

In November 2014 comes the disqualification for Carolina Kostner due to the failure to report that the athlete did not execute against the then boyfriend Alex Schwazer (recently seen as a guest at Sanremo 2021).

The athlete, having covered Alex Schwazer (sentenced to 3 years and 9 months of disqualification) accused of doping, is referred by CONI to the National Court, which asks for a disqualification of 4 years and 3 months. After various vicissitudes, Kostner is disqualified for 1 year and 4 months, but she herself requests a reminder from the Arbitral Tribunal for Sport, which however asks for an increase in the sentence. Eventually the disqualification will make it possible for her to return to training from December 2015 and to competitions from January 2016.

Last years

Finished in the crosshairs of the sports committee and public opinion, Koster returns to compete in 2016 and participates in his fourth Olympics in 2018, where he won fifth place.

The last few years have seen her sponsoring well-known brands such as: Asics, Lancia, Herbalife, Grissin Bon, Grana Padano and very latest the Suzuki, Technogym and Sagester.

Instagram

With 129,000 followers, Carolina Kostner’s instagram profile, is full of the athlete’s passions: sport, family and boyfriend Fabrizio.

Carolina’s loves

Alex Schwazer

In Carolina’s life there was an important story, the one with the well-known walker Alex Schwazer. Born in 2008 from a chance meeting in Turin, the story between the two is characterized by complicity, esteem, passion and a lot of respect. Despite this, sport divides them: in 2012 Alex tested positive for the doping test and asked Carolina to lie for him, which Kostner actually does, declaring herself unrelated to the use of doping in the period preceding the request of her fiancé. A few months after the accusations made against Alex, the relationship collapses to the great chagrin of both of them.

I was with him for six years and I never imagined he was taking drugs. If he had told me, he would have lost all my respect. I loved him, he was the man I wanted to marry, I never expected such a thing. When the test results arrived, it was a big blow but I didn’t feel like leaving him at that moment: everyone was already turning their backs on him. We then drifted apart over time. When trust is broken it’s hard to mend a relationship, that’s life.

Fabrizio Vittorini

After two brief relationships with the Czech figure skater Tomas Verner and the former manager Giuseppe Gambardella, Carolina has finally found a stable love with her osteopath: Fabrizio Vittorini. The start of the relationship is dated 2018 and the two seem happier than ever.

Curiosity

• Carolina in 2011-2012 designed her own costumes for competitions;
• speaks several languages: Ladin, Italian, German, French and English;
• studied Communication Sciences at the University of Turin, but without finishing his studies;
• after each sporting season his costumes are auctioned and the proceeds donated to charity,
• is part of the body of the Penitentiary Police;
• has two brothers: Martin and Simon;
• she is a Juventus fan.

Carolina Kostner Video

Here is the short program, performed on Schubert’s “Ave Maria”, which won Carolina the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, held in Sochi.

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