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Maurizio Biography

Profile
Last Name MARGAGLIO
Name  Maurizio 
Date of birth November 16th, 1974
Sex  M 
Residence  Courmayeur
Country  ITA 
Nazionality Italia 


Event
Skating of figure, Dance on the ice


General Interest
Hobbies: Sleeping, any kinds of sports and using the internet. (fusarpoli-margaglio.com 18/11/05)
Occupation: Athlete
Languages Spoken: Italian
Club: Agora Skating Club, Milan, Italy (ISU 12/01/06)
Coach: Roberto Pellizzola, Paola Mezzadri and Tatiana Tarasova. (fusarpoli-margaglio.com 12/01/06)
Other Sports: He played soccer in a Milan youth team, when he was 12 years old, he chose to focus on figure skating. (ISU 12/01/06)


Historical Results
Note: A complete explanation of data type and depth can be found in the Additional Information section of the biography
Rnk Event Year Venue
Olympic Winter Games
3 Ice Dancing 2002 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
World Championships
1 Ice Dancing 2001 Vancouver, CAN
2 Ice Dancing 2000 Nice, FRA
Grand Prix (ranking)
1 Ice Dancing 2001/2002
1 Ice Dancing 2000/2001
Grand Prix Final
1 Ice Dancing 2000/2001 Tokyo, JPN
2 Ice Dancing 1999/2000 Lyon, FRA
European Championships
1 Ice Dancing 2001 Bratislava, SVK


Additional Information
When and where did you begin this sport?
He started skating in 1985, in Italy. (fusarpoli-margaglio.com 12/01/06)

Training Regime
He trains between 30 and 36 hours per week (fusarpoli-margaglio.com 12/01/06)

Awards and honours
Fusar-Poli and Margaglio are the first Italian skaters in history to claim a gold medal at Europeans, a feat which they subsequently repeated at Worlds. They are the first Italian ice dancers to win a medal at Europeans and Worlds. (ISU 12/01/06)

Other Information
CHOREOGRAPHY
Ludmilla Vlasova designs their programs. (ISU 12/01/06)

RETURNING TO THE ICE
After being in retirement for three years, he and Barbara Fusar-Poli announced their return to competition on September 21, 2005. The pair's last competition was the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City where they won the bronze medal. The lure of a 'home' Olympic Games proved too great for the pair.

"The Olympics are in our country... how could we resist the temptation? We are working at our maximum level, are happy with ourselves as there could be nothing more to do, and the feed back at this stage of our preparation is great, the programs are coming together very well, we have found music we're enthusiast about and we are really, really happy,ö said Fusar-Poli. (torino2006.org 21/09/05)


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Competition Highlights explanation
The following results are generally included in the competition highlights field. There can be small discrepancies for some sports due to the lack of sources for certain results. Note that the results are sorted on rank within a competition.

Results in Last Olympic Cycle:
- Full results at 2002 Olympic Winter Games and World Championships
- Full results in Overall World Cup Rankings
- Top 10 in Event World Cup/Grand Prix Rankings
- Top 3 at World Cup/Grand prix competitions
- Top 3 at European Championships (if ECh exists and is relevant within the sport)

Historical Results (before OWG 2002):
- Top 3 at Olympic Winter Games and World Championships
- Top 3 in Overall World Cup Rankings
- Top 1 in Event World Cup/Grand Prix Rankings
- Top 1 at European Championships (if ECh exists and is relevant within the sport)