The Italian Figure Skating Championships (Italian: Campionati italiani di pattinaggio di figura) are an annual figure skating competition organized by the Italian Ice Sports Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio) to crown the national champions of Italy. The first Italian Championships were held in 1914 at the Lago di Ghirla and featured events for men and couples. The Italian Skating Federation, led by Count Alberto Bonacossa, was established shortly thereafter. Competitions were halted due to World War I, and in 1921, an event for women was added.
Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels, although each discipline may not necessarily be held every year due to a lack of participants. Alberto Bonacossa and Carlo Fassi are tied for winning the most Italian Championship titles in men's singles (with ten each); Fassi also holds the record in pair skating with his partner Grazia Barcellona (with nine). Carolina Kostner holds the record in women's singles (with nine), while Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio hold the record in ice dance (with nine), although Fusar-Poli won an additional title with a previous partner.
History
The first figure skating competition for Italians took place in 1912 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, but the first Italian national championships were not held until 1914. The competition was held at the Lago di Ghirla, sponsored by the Varese Skating Club and La Gazzetta dello Sport, attended by skaters from Piedmont and Lombardy, and featured events for men and couples. Count Alberto Bonacossa won the men's event, and Dina Mancio-Kind and Adelchi Candellero won the pairs' event. The following year, the championships were held on Lake Valentino in Turin. Bonacossa again won the men's event, and Mancio-Kind again won the pairs' event, but this time with Gaspare Voli. Competitions were halted from 1916 to 1919 due to World War I, but after the war ended, new winter resorts developed in Trentino and South Tyrol. A championship event for women was added in 1921.
The Italian Skating Federation was established by Bonacossa in 1914. In September 1926, the skating federation merged with the ice hockey and bobsleigh federations to form the Italian Ice Sports Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio). Early competitions often featured events in both speed skating and figure skating. The Ice Palace (Italian: Palazzo del Ghiaccio) – the first artificial ice rink in Italy – was built in Milan in 1923. This allowed for skating competitions to be held that weren't dependent on the weather, as lakes and outdoor rinks needed to be sufficiently frozen for skaters to practice as well as compete. In 1933, the Italian Ice Sports Federation merged with the skiing federation to form the Italian Winter Sports Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali), and operations were transferred to Rome.
↑Marisa Bonacossa won seven women's championship titles between 1921 and 1928. She did not win the title in 1925.
↑Sandra Brugnera won the women's championship titles from 1962 to 1965.
123Rita Trapanese won the women's championship titles from 1966 to 1972.
12Susanna Driano won the women's championship titles from 1975 to 1976, and from 1978 to 1980.
↑Margaret Schlater won the women's championship title in 1992.
↑Information provided through personal correspondence from Cristina Mauri: "Nel 1993 io ho vinto il campionato Italiano a Roma. Seconda è arrivata Silvia Fontana e terza Vanessa Giunchi."
↑Emanuela Gianoli and Michele Bargauan won the pairs' championship title in 1964.
123456789"Campionati nazionali di pattinaggio artistico"[National figure skating championships]. Stadio (in Italian). 9 January 1960. p.6. Retrieved 30 June 2026– via Arcanum Newspapers. Nel 1943 la stella di Carlo Fassi iniziava a brillare: egli ripeteva infatti perfettamente la grande avventura del conte Bonacossa riuscendo a detenere il titolo ben ben dieci anni, precisamente dal 1943 al 1954.[In 1943, the star of Carlo Fassi began to shine: he perfectively replicated Count Bonacossa’s great feat, managing to hold the title for a full ten years, specifically, from 1943 to 1954.]
1234"Il Campionato di pattinaggio disputato sul lago di Ghirla"[Skating championship held on Lake Ghirla]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 19 January 1914. p.4. Retrieved 7 December 2025. Oggi sul lago di Ghirla si sono svolte le gare pel primo campionato italiano di pattinaggio.[The races for the first Italian skating championship took place today on Lake Ghirla.]
1234"Il conte Bonacossa vince per la quarta volta il Campionato d'Italia"[Count Bonacossa wins the Italian Championships for the fourth time]. Il Piccolo della Sera (in Italian). 2 February 1921. p.11. Retrieved 3 March 2026. Il Campionato femminile, che veniva disputato per la prima volta in Italia...[The women's championship, which was contested in Italy for the first time...]
1234Petrucci, Giampiero; Zanetti Lorenzetti, Alberto. "Cattaneo Anna Maria Teresa". Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian). Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2026. Poi... si ripete l'anno seguente, l'8 gennaio, ai tricolori di Madonna di Campiglio dove, col marito Ercole, si aggiudica pure il titolo a coppie. I due stravincono, doppiando nel punteggio (80-43) l'altra coppia partecipante, Paola ed Albino Seppi.[Then... the feat was repeated the following year, on January 8, at the Italian Championships in Madonna di Campiglio, where she and her husband Ercole also claimed the pairs title. They won decisively, doubling the score (80–43) of the only other competing pair, Paola and Albino Seppi.]
123"I campionati italiani"[Italian championships]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 27 January 1922. p.2. Retrieved 7 December 2025. Il conte Alberto Bonacossa riconferma per la quinta volta il titolo di campione d'Italia, aggiudicandosi con la consorte per la terza volta la gara a coppie. La contessa Bonacossa ha riconfermato la vittoria dell'anno scorso a Madesimo.[Count Alberto Bonacossa retained his title as Italian champion for the fifth time, winning the pairs competition with his wife for the third time. Countess Bonacossa repeated last year's victory in Madesimo.]
123"Alberto, Conte Bonacossa". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 March 2026. Bonacossa was also an avid skater, winning ten Italian figure skating championships individually, and three more with his wife Marisa in the pairs event. His wife won seven individual titles herself in the 1920s.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
123456"Da oggi a Milano i «nazionali» di artistico"[National figure skating championships start today in Milan]. Stadio (in Italian). 30 January 1965. p.7. Retrieved 30 June 2026– via Arcanum Newspapers. Essi sono giunti alla quarantaquattresima edizione. ... La supremazia di Alberto Bonacossa si manifestò sino al 1928...[This marks the event's forty-fourth edition. ... Alberto Bonacossa maintained his dominance until 1928...]
123"I conti Bonacossa campioni italiani di pattinaggio"[Count and Countess Bonacossa Italian skating champions]. Il Meridiano (in Italian). Vol.X, no.4. 23 January 1928. p.4. Archived from the original on 22 December 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025. Il conte Bonacossa vince con questo il suo 10° consecutivo campionato nazionale.[Count Bonacossa wins his 10th consecutive national championship with this victory.]
12"Ghiaccio"[Ice]. Il Messaggero (in Italian). 31 December 1962. p.8. Retrieved 1 July 2026. Nell'artistico i titoli nazionali sono toccati ai prima categoria Sandra Brugniera [sic] e Giordano Abbondati.[In figure skating, the national titles went to first category skaters Sandra Brugniera [sic] and Giordano Abbondati.]
12Musumeci, Remo (18 January 1973). "Si cerca una nuova Trapanese"[We're looking for a new Trapanese](PDF). L'Unità (in Italian). p.10. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
123456"La nostra storia..."[Our story...]. Associazione Sportivi Ghiaccio Ambrosiana (in Italian). Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
1234Video numero #6077 (Video) (in Italian). Feltre, Italy: Telebelluno Dolomiti. 24 March 1991. Archived from the original on 14 July 2026. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
↑"JGP Italy". Skating Scores. Archived from the original on 16 October 2025. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
12"Il campianto di terza categoria al Palazzo del Ghiaccio"[The third category championship at the Ice Palace]. Il Littoriale (in Italian). Vol.V, no.56. 6 March 1931. p.2. Retrieved 6 March 2026. Sfumata la possibilità di organizare un campionato di prima categoria degno del suo nome, poichè una sola concorrente si presentò, la signorina Nene Volpato...[The possibility of organizing a first-class championship worthy of its name faded away, as only one competitor showed up, Miss Nene Volpato...]
↑"FISG, addio a Lamberto Ceserani"[FISG, farewell to Lamberto Ceserani] (in Italian). Italian Ice Sports Federation. 19 February 2025. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2026. Ceserani in coppia con Matilde Ciccia ha conquistato sette titoli italiani dalla stagione 1969-70 a quella 1975-76.[Partnered with Matilde Ciccia, Ceserani won seven Italian titles between the 1969–70 and 1975–76 seasons.]
↑"Grazia Barcellona". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025. In 1942, they won their first Italian national title in the pairs, and they defended it successfully the following year. In total, they captured 10 national championships… Barcellona won her first of five consecutive Italian singles titles in 1948.
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