Lara Naki Gutmann

Lara Naki Gutmann
Born (2002-11-06) 6 November 2002 (age 22)
Trento, Italy
HometownRovereto, Italy
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
Country Italy
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachGabriele Minchio
Stephanie Cuel
Linda Mariotti
Skating clubGruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro Moena
Began skating2007
Medal record
Italian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Egna Singles
Gold medal – first place 2022 Turin Singles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Brunico Singles
Silver medal – second place 2024 Pinerolo Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Trento Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Bergamo Singles

Lara Naki Gutmann (born 6 November 2002) is an Italian figure skater. She is a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (one silver, two bronze), the 2020 Nordics champion, the 2019 Dragon Trophy silver medalist, the 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and a three-time Italian national champion (2021–2023). She has reached the final segment at three ISU Championships, with a top-ten result at the 2023 European Championships.

Career

Early years

Gutmann began learning to skate in 2006.[1] She won her first junior national medal, bronze, in December 2015 and had the same result the following year.

Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in October 2017. In December 2017, she became the Italian junior national silver medalist.

2018–2019 season

Gutmann placed nineteenth at her sole JGP assignment in Austria. In December 2018, making her first senior international appearance, she won silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey. Later that month, she won bronze in the senior ladies' category at the Italian Championships, behind Alessia Tornaghi and Lucrezia Beccari, and was named in Italy's team to the 2019 European Championships. Ranked twenty-ninth in the short program, she did not advance to the final segment at the latter event, which took place in January in Minsk, Belarus.

2019–2020 season

Gutmann competed mainly in the senior ranks, with the exception of two JGP events. She finished sixth at JGP France and seventh at JGP Italy. In December, she repeated as national bronze medalist, this time finishing third behind Tornaghi and Marina Piredda. In February, she won silver behind Roberta Rodeghiero at the Dragon Trophy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and then outscored Emmi Peltonen to take gold at the Nordic Championships in Stavanger, Norway.

2020–2021 season

In the off-season, Gutmann underwent ankle surgery.[2] She was scheduled to make her Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] In December, she won the gold medal at the Italian championships.[2]

As the Italian national champion, Gutmann was named as the country's sole entry to the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, where she finished twenty-eighth.[4] Subsequently, she was announced as part of the Italian team for the 2021 World Team Trophy.[5] Gutmann placed seventh in both segments of the competition and set personal bests in the free skate and total score, while Team Italy finished in fourth place.[6][7][8]

2021–2022 season

Gutmann began the season on home soil at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy. After a poor short program left her in eighteenth position going into the free skate, she placed third in that segment and rose to fifth overall.[9] She next competed at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, seeking to qualify for a berth for Italian women at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Seventh in both segments of the competition, she placed eighth overall, 0.75 points behind Australia's Kailani Craine, who took the sixth of six available places. As a result, Italy became the first alternate country.[10]

Following the cancellation of the 2021 Cup of China, Italy unexpectedly became the host of the third event in the Grand Prix, the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia.[11] Gutmann was one of two Italian women assigned to compete at the home Grand Prix (along with Lucrezia Beccari), making her Grand Prix debut with an eleventh-place finish.[12]

At the Italian Championships, Gutmann won her second straight national title. She was after that named to the Italian Olympic team, though she would only be competing in the team event.[13] She began the new year at the 2022 European Championships, finishing sixteenth.[14] Representing Italy in the team event, Gutmann skated cleanly in the short program, but did not attempt a triple-triple jump combination and finished ninth of ten skaters. The Italian team finished seventh among the teams in the short program segments and did not advance to the second phase.[15] Gutmann finished the season with a twentieth place at the 2022 World Championships.[14]

2022–2023 season

In three appearances on the Challenger circuit in the fall, Gutmann finished sixth on home ice at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy before winning the silver medal at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial. She finished the series with a fourth-place at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and then won her third straight national title.[14]

Assigned to compete at the 2023 European Championships, Gutmann was thirteenth in the short program, but an eighth-place free skate lifted her to eighth overall. This achieved her primary goal of finishing in the top ten and earning a second berth for Italy the following year.[16] Gutmann finished seventeenth at the 2023 World Championships.[14]

Gutmann joined Team Italy for the 2023 World Team Trophy. She finished last in the short program with multiple errors.[17] The free skate was an improvement, coming eighth in the segment.[18] Team Italy finished in fourth place overall.[19]

2023–2024 season

While she had previously appeared on the Grand Prix as a host selection, for the 2023–24 Grand Prix Gutmann received her first foreign assignment, the 2023 Skate Canada International. She said it was "very nice to have earned a spot."[20] She began the season by finishing fifth at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy.[14] At her second Challenger appearance of the season, she was seventh at the 2023 CS Nepela Memorial.[21] She finished in ninth place at the Skate Canada International.[22] Gutmann was subsequently added to the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo to replace Kimmy Repond, and placed seventh.[23]

After an eighth-place finish at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, Gutmann won the silver medal at the Italian Championships.[14] She then finished tenth at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania.[24]

2024–2025 season

Gutmann began the season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series finishing a disappointing tenth place at the 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy. She would have stronger showings at the 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and the 2024 CS Nepela Memorial, where she won bronze at both events.[14]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[25]
2023–2024
[26][20]
  • Kiss of Death
    by Mandingo
  • Le Serpent
    by Guem & Zaka
  • War Dance
    by Mandingo
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano
2022–2023
[27]
2021–2022
[28]
  • Elizabeth
  • Maria and the Violin's String
    by Ashram
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano,
    Riccardo Morelli
2020–2021
[29]
2019–2020
[1]
2018–2019
[30]
  • The Storm
    by Balázs Havasi
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano,
    Riccardo Morelli
2017–2018
[31]
2016–2017
2015–2016
2014–2015

Competitive highlights

Competition placements at senior level [32]
Season 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Winter Olympics
(Team event)
7th
World Championships 28th 20th 17th
European Championships 29th 15th 8th 10th
Italian Championships 3rd 3rd 1st 1st 1st 2nd
World Team Trophy 4th
(7th)
4th
(10th)
GP Finland 7th TBD
GP Italy 11th
GP NHK Trophy TBD
GP Skate Canada 9th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 3rd
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 6th 4th 8th
CS Lombardia Trophy 5th 6th 5th 10th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 8th
CS Nepela Memorial 4th 2nd 7th 3rd
Bavarian Open 10th
Bosphorus Cup 2nd
Challenge Cup 7th
Crystal Skate of Romania 1st
Cup of Tyrol 8th
Dragon Trophy 2nd 1st 2nd
Egna Spring Trophy 7th
Mentor Cup 5th
Merano Ice Trophy 2nd
Nordic Championships 1st
Sonja Henje Trophy 1st
Tallink Hotels Cup 2nd
Volvo Open Cup 5th
Competition placements at junior level [32]
Season 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Italian Championships 3rd 3rd 2nd
JGP Austria 19th
JGP France 6th
JGP Italy 13th 7th
Bavarian Open 8th
Coupe du Printemps 4th
Cup of Tyrol 7th
Dragon Trophy 3rd
Egna Spring Trophy 4th
Halloween Cup 2nd
Lombardia Trophy 3rd
Merano Cup 15th 5th
NRW Trophy 10th
Tallinn Trophy 7th
Triglav Trophy 2nd

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [32]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 188.86 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
Short program TSS 62.41 2019 CS Nepela Memorial
TES 32.81 2019 CS Nepela Memorial
PCS 30.19 2019 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
Free skating TSS 127.65 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
TES 67.33 2023 World Championships
PCS 61.81 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
  • Medals at team events are awarded for the team results only. Individual placements at team events are listed in parentheses.

Senior level

Results in the 2019–20 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 27 – Dec 1, 2018 Turkey 2018 Bosphorus Cup 1 53.98 2 96.39 2 150.37
Dec 13–16, 2018 Italy 2019 Italian Championships 3 55.37 2 101.17 3 156.54
Jan 8–13, 2019 Poland 2019 Mentor Toruń Cup 5 50.09 5 89.72 5 139.81
Jan 21–27, 2019 Belarus 2019 European Championships 29 43.96 29 43.96
Feb 5–10, 2019 Germany 2019 Bavarian Open 13 46.18 9 87.47 10 133.65
Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2019 Austria 2019 Cup of Tyrol 6 49.27 7 94.63 8 143.90
Mar 28–31, 2019 Italy 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 9 48.81 7 91.63 7 140.44
Results in the 2019–20 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 19–21, 2019 Slovakia 2019 CS Nepela Memorial 3 62.41 5 115.71 4 178.12
Nov 5–10, 2019 Latvia 2019 40th Volvo Open Cup 5 55.13 5 97.73 5 152.86
Dec 4–7, 2019 Croatia 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 7 56.81 7 110.79 6 167.60
Dec 12–15, 2019 Italy 2020 Italian Championships 4 59.02 3 112.36 3 171.38
Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2020 Slovenia 2020 Dragon Trophy 1 58.86 2 104.20 2 163.06
Feb 5–9, 2020 Norway 2020 Nordic Championships 2 62.81 2 116.18 1 179.01
Results in the 2020–21 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 12–13, 2020 Italy 2021 Italian Championships 1 63.08 1 115.07 1 178.15
Mar 22–28, 2021 Sweden 2021 World Championships 28 55.64 28 55.64
Apr 15–18, 2021 Japan 2021 World Team Trophy 7 60.45 7 119.14 4 (7) 179.59
Results in the 2021–22 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 10–12, 2021 Italy 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 18 48.65 3 118.33 5 166.98
Sep 22–25, 2021 Germany 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 7 57.16 7 107.44 8 164.60
Nov 5–7, 2021 Italy 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 11 54.83 11 103.74 11 158.57
Dec 4–5, 2021 Italy 2022 Italian Championships 1 63.43 1 124.00 1 187.43
Jan 10–16, 2022 Estonia 2022 European Championships 23 52.94 12 111.05 16 163.99
Feb 4–7, 2022 China 2022 Winter Olympics (Team event) 9 58.52 7
Mar 4–6, 2022 Estonia 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup 1 60.64 3 103.04 2 163.68
Mar 21–27, 2022 France 2022 World Championships 20 57.92 20 106.47 20 164.39
Results in the 2022–23 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 16–19, 2022 Italy 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy 7 56.46 6 111.93 6 168.39
Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2022 Slovakia 2022 CS Nepela Memorial 4 52.65 2 113.59 2 166.24
Oct 26–30, 2022 Romania 2022 Crystal Skate of Romania 1 56.39 1 117.74 1 174.13
Dec 7–10, 2022 Croatia 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 9 50.06 2 125.65 4 175.71
Dec 15–18, 2022 Italy 2023 Italian Championships 2 62.36 1 127.52 1 189.88
Jan 25–29, 2023 Finland 2023 European Championships 13 55.39 8 113.90 8 169.29
Feb 9–12, 2023 Slovenia 2023 Dragon Trophy 1 62.63 1 118.26 1 180.89
Feb 23–26, 2023 Netherlands 2023 International Challenge Cup 10 55.87 7 115.88 7 171.71
Mar 22–26, 2023 Japan 2023 World Championships 23 55.22 13 123.21 17 178.43
Apr 13–16, 2023 Japan 2023 World Team Trophy 12 51.12 8 116.83 4 (10) 167.95
Results in the 2023–24 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 8–10, 2023 Italy 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 8 53.96 5 109.46 5 163.42
Sep 28–30, 2023 Slovakia 2023 CS Nepela Memorial 7 52.78 7 104.95 7 157.73
Oct 27–29, 2023 Canada 2023 Skate Canada International 11 50.00 7 115.73 9 165.73
Nov 17–19, 2023 Finland 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo 7 58.24 8 110.09 7 168.33
Dec 6–9, 2023 Croatia 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 11 50.60 7 104.58 8 155.18
Dec 22–23, 2023 Italy 2024 Italian Championships 7 53.84 1 130.04 2 183.88
Jan 10–14, 2024 Lithuania 2024 European Championships 16 55.68 8 110.33 10 166.01
Feb 7–9, 2024 Slovenia 2024 Dragon Trophy 5 54.68 1 115.70 2 170.56
Feb 23–25, 2024 Italy 2024 Merano Ice Trophy 3 56.78 2 116.44 2 173.22
Mar 8–10, 2024 Norway 2024 Sonja Henje Trophy 1 60.82 1 120.82 1 181.64
Results in the 2024–25 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 13–15, 2024 Italy 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy 8 57.06 10 93.51 10 150.57
Oct 3–6, 2024 Kazakhstan 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 4 61.21 1 127.65 3 188.86
Oct 24-26, 2024 Czech Republic 2024 CS Nepela Memorial 2 57.67 3 114.48 3 172.15
Nov 8–10, 2024 Japan 2024 NHK Trophy 6 61.51

Junior level

Results in the 2015–16 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 16–19, 2015 Italy 2016 Italian Championships (Junior) 5 40.89 3 79.86 3 120.75
Results in the 2016–17 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 8–11, 2016 Italy 2016 Lombardia Trophy 5 40.48 3 82.02 3 122.50
Nov 10–13, 2016 Italy 2016 Merano Cup 14 36.07 12 65.26 15 101.33
Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2016 Germany 2016 NRW Trophy 10 44.21 12 77.23 10 121.44
Dec 14–17, 2016 Italy 2017 Italian Championships (Junior) 3 48.66 2 101.99 3 150.65
Feb 14–19, 2017 Germany 2016 Bavarian Open 9 41.08 8 75.18 8 116.26
Feb 28 – Mar 5, 2017 Austria 2017 Cup of Tyrol 7 42.77 7 75.59 7 118.36
Apr 6–9, 2017 Italy 2017 Egna Spring Trophy 4 44.50 3 82.56 4 127.06
Results in the 2017–18 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 11–14, 2017 Italy 2017 JGP Italy 13 48.37 13 82.24 13 130.61
Oct 21–23, 2017 Hungary 2017 Halloween Cup 3 41.44 1 80.34 2 121.78
Nov 15–19, 2017 Italy 2017 Merano Cup 3 46.68 5 80.57 5 127.25
Nov 20–26, 2017 Estonia 2017 Tallinn Trophy 12 40.98 6 89.41 7 130.39
Dec 13–16, 2017 Italy 2018 Italian Championships (Junior) 2 56.41 3 93.34 2 149.75
Feb 8–11, 2018 Slovenia 2018 Dragon Trophy 1 48.79 4 83.75 3 132.54
Mar 16–18, 2018 Luxembourg 2018 Coupe du Printemps 6 45.69 3 86.75 4 132.44
Apr 4–6, 2018 Slovenia 2018 Triglav Trophy 2 49.04 2 96.21 2 145.25
Results in the 2018–19 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 29 – Sep 1, 2018 Austria 2018 JGP Austria 10 45.75 21 60.64 19 106.39
Results in the 2019–20 season[32]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 21–24, 2019 France 2019 JGP France 5 58.24 6 105.99 6 164.23
Oct 2–5, 2019 Italy 2019 JGP Italy 6 57.32 7 98.96 7 156.28

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