Valentina Marchei
| Valentina Marchei | |
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Marchei in 2010.
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Italy |
| Born |
23 May 1986 Milan, Italy |
| Home town | Basiglio, Italy |
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Partner | Ondřej Hotárek |
| Coach | Franca Bianconi, Bruno Marcotte, Richard Gauthier |
| Former coach | Jason Dungjen, Yuka Sato, Nikolai Morozov, Valter Rizzo, Cristina Mauri, Pierre Trente |
| Choreographer | Massimo Scali, Corrado Giordani, Franca Bianconi |
| Former choreographer | Roberto Campanella, Yuka Sato, Nikolai Morozov |
| Skating club | Sesto Ice Skate |
| Training locations |
Montreal Milan |
| Former training locations |
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Hackensack, New Jersey Annecy |
| Began skating | 1993 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 203.92 (Pairs) 2017 Worlds |
| Short program | 71.04 2017 Worlds |
| Free skate | 132.88 2017 Worlds |
Valentina Marchei (born 23 May 1986) is an Italian figure skater. As a singles skater, she is a five-time Italian national champion (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014). Her highest ISU Championship placements were 4th at the 2013 European Championships and 8th at the 2012 World Championships. She represented Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics and placed 11th.
Marchei currently competes as a pair skater with Ondřej Hotárek, representing Italy. The pair finished 4th at the 2015 European Championships.
Valentina Marchei was born 23 May 1986 in Milan, Italy. She is the daughter of Marco Marchei, a competitor in the marathon at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Her early interests were speed skating and gymnastics. She studied with a focus on sport at university and has worked as a reporter for Italian television.
Marchei began skating in 1993. She was coached by Cristina Mauri from the age of nine.
Ahead of the 2007–08 season, Marchei spent the first part of July training with Viktor Kudriavtsev in Flims, Switzerland. She trained in Courchevel in the remainder of July and August and then Paris and Milan in the winter, coached by Pierre Trente and Cristina Mauri. Marchei injured her knee in September 2007.
In September 2008, Marchei began working with Nikolai Morozov in Hackensack, New Jersey. She missed most of the 2008–09 season after injuring her right ankle on a triple Lutz at 2008 Skate America. Marchei did not receive any Grand Prix invitations in 2009–10. She finished 8th at the 2010 European Championships. In 2010–11, Marchei returned to the Grand Prix series, competing at 2010 Skate Canada International and 2010 Cup of Russia. She was 10th at the 2011 European Championships.
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