Carolina Kostner
Carolina Kostner (Italian pronunciation: [karoˈliːna ˈkɔstner]; born February 8, 1987) is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2012 World champion, a five-time European champion (2007–2008, 2010, 2012–2013), and the 2011 Grand Prix Final champion. She is also a medalist at five other World Championships (2005, 2008, 2011, 2013–14), five other European Championships (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017), and three other Grand Prix Finals (2007, 2008, 2010), the 2003 World Junior bronze medalist, and a eight-time Italian national champion. Kostner's bronze medal at the 2017 Europeans made her most decorated female singles skater at the European Championships.
Carolina Kostner was born in Bolzano, Italy, and lives in Urtijëi (Ortisei/St. Ulrich). She is one of three children of Patrizia, a nationally ranked figure skater in the 1970s and later a geometric arts teacher, and Erwin, who played ice hockey for the Italian national team at the World Championships and Olympic Games before becoming an ice hockey coach. One of her grandfathers was the director of the Art Academy in her hometown. She has two brothers, one year older Martin and three years younger Simon, who plays ice hockey competitively in JYP-Akatemia in Jyväskylä, Finland. Kostner is the cousin and godchild of Isolde Kostner, a silver medalist in alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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