Maïa Mazzara (born 5 August 2003) is a French figure skater who currently represents France in women's singles and formerly represented Switzerland. She is a two-time French national silver medalist.
On the junior level, she is the 2019 French junior national champion, the 2019 Master's de Patinage champion, and placed 9th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.
Representing Switzerland on the junior level, she is the 2017 Merano Cup silver medalist and the 2017 Swiss junior national champion.
Career Early years Mazzara began learning how to skate in 2011 at the age of seven. She started her skating career competing for her native France at the pre-novice level in 2014, but by 2016 had begun representing Switzerland.
2017–18 season: Junior international debut Mazzara made her international junior debut for Switzerland in November 2017 at the Cup of Nice, where she finished 11th overall. Later in the same month, Mazzara won the silver medal in the junior-level ladies event at the Merano Cup in Italy. In January 2018, Mazzara won her first and only Swiss junior national title and was assigned to compete at the 2018 World Junior Championships. There, Mazzara finished 35th in the short program and thus did not advance to the free skate.
2018–19 season In August 2018, Mazzara made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2018 JGP Slovakia in Bratislava, where she finished tenth. This was her only international assignment of the season. Later in the season, Mazzara competed under the Swiss flag as a guest at the 2019 French Championships, finishing seventh at the senior level and second at the junior level. She did not compete at the Swiss Championships.
2019–20 season: Senior international debut Mazzara returned to representing France in 2019, now coached by Florent Amodio and Françoise Bonnard in Vaujany, France, after the passing of her former coach Jean-François Ballester in late 2018. She began her season by placing first in the junior ladies event at the French test competition, Master's de Patinage, and received two Junior Grand Prix assignments: 2019 JGP Russia and 2019 JGP Italy. Mazzara placed 20th and ninth at these events, respectively.
After her junior events, Mazzara made her first senior start at the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, where she finished fifth and later competed at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, her first Challenger event, where she finished ninth. In December 2019, 16-year-old Mazzara won the silver medal behind reigning French champion Maé-Bérénice Méité at the 2020 French Championships. Due to her placement at the event, Mazzara was named to the French team for the 2020 European Championships.
In January 2020, Mazzara returned to junior-level competition at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. She finished ninth overall and set new personal bests in all three segments, surpassing her previous best total score by nearly seven points. Making her debut at the senior 2020 European Championships, Mazzara placed eleventh and then finished the season with a seventeenth-place finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships.
2020–21 season Mazzara 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. She instead opened her season in early November in Minsk at the 2020 Winter Star where she placed fifth in the short program and third in the free skate to win the bronze medal overall. In February, she won her second straight silver medal at Nationals. Mazzara was part of the French team for the 2021 World Team Trophy, where she finished eleventh in both segments while Team France finished fifth.
2021–22 season Mazzara began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she finished fourteenth, four ordinals, and fourteen points below fellow Frenchwoman Léa Serna. As a result, Serna was substituted for Mazzara as France's entry at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the Olympic qualifier. She went on to finish sixth at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, fourth at the French championships, and sixth at the International Challenge Cup.
2022–23 season After finishing seventh at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial, Mazzara was at last able to make her Grand Prix debut with a twelfth-place result at the 2022 Grand Prix de France. She later came twenty-second at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, and was assigned to represent France at the 2023 Winter World University Games. She was eighteenth there.
2023–24 season Mazzara began the season by winning bronze at the 2023 Master's de Patinage. She made one appearance on the Challenger circuit early in the season, finishing nineteenth at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy. She was then eleventh at the 2023 Grand Prix de France.
Mazzara finished the season with a twenty-seventh place finish at the 2023 CS Warsaw Cup.
2024–25 season Mazzara started the season by finishing fourteenth at the 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy.
Programs
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2024–2025 I Got You (I Feel Good) The Last Temptation of Christ Le ballet des momies 2023–2024 Rise Like a Phoenix 2022–2023 You? Salem's Secret Demimonde Paint It Black 2021–2022 2020–2021 Je vole Cum Dederit 2019–2020 Rox Tango (El Tango de Roxanne) Beethoven's Silence Chandelier Bird Set Free 2018–2019 City Hunter (soundtrack) Down 2017–2018 Violin Concerto No. 1 Kvold i Borginni
Competitive highlights GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
For France International Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24–25 Europeans 11th France C WD 12th 11th WD Budapest Trophy 19th Denis Ten Memorial WD Golden Spin 9th 6th 21st Lombardia 14th 14th Nebelhorn WD WD Nepela Memorial 7th Warsaw Cup C 22nd 27th Bosphorus Cup WD Challenge Cup WD 6th Coupe du Printemps 4th Cup of Nice 3rd Ice Star WD Tallinn Trophy 5th Tallink Hotels Cup 6th University Games 18th Winter Star 3rd International: Junior Youth Olympics 9th Junior Worlds 16th Italy 9th Russia 20th National French Champ. 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 5th French Junior 1st Masters 1st J 1st 3rd 3rd Team events World Team Trophy 5th T 11th P TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled Levels: J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.
For Switzerland International: Junior Event 2017–18 2018–19 Junior Worlds 35th Slovakia 10th Bavarian Open 6th Cup of Nice 11th Merano Cup 2nd National Masters 2nd J Swiss Champ. 1st J Levels: J = Junior
Detailed results For France
2024–25 season Date Event SP FS Total September 13–15, 2024 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy 14 44.56 14 82.13 14 126.69 2023–24 season Date Event SP FS Total November 3–5, 2023 2023 Grand Prix de France 11 45.03 11 92.41 11 137.44 October 13–15, 2023 2023 CS Budapest Trophy 25 42.31 12 95.22 19 137.53 September 28–30, 2023 2023 Master's de Patinage 5 43.66 3 95.54 3 139.20 2022–23 season Date Event SP FS Total January 13–15, 2023 2023 Winter Universiade 18 48.93 17 84.29 18 133.22 December 15–17, 2022 2023 French Championships 4 51.49 3 111.72 3 163.21 November 17–20, 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 16 47.03 24 65.93 22 112.96 November 4–6, 2022 2022 Grand Prix de France 12 46.05 12 94.80 12 140.85 October 6–8, 2022 2022 Master's de Patinage 2 60.03 3 103.97 3 164.00 September 29–October 1, 2022 2022 CS Nepela Memorial 7 45.10 9 89.94 7 135.04 2021–22 season Date Event SP FS Total February 24–27, 2022 2022 Challenge Cup 7 51.88 6 103.48 6 155.36 December 16–18, 2021 2021 French Championships 5 53.12 4 98.56 4 151.68 December 7–11, 2021 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 13 50.39 4 112.40 6 162.79 September 30-October 2, 2021 2021 Master's de Patinage 1 50.31 1 104.84 1 155.15 September 10–12, 2021 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 10 52.39 15 90.18 14 142.57 2020–21 season Date Event SP FS Total April 15–18, 2021 2021 World Team Trophy 11 55.31 11 100.11 5T/11P 155.42 February 19–21, 2021 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup 9 48.63 7 95.67 6 144.30 February 5–6, 2021 2020 French Championships 2 60.96 2 102.81 2 163.77 December 11–13, 2020 2020 Winter Star 5 51.79 3 96.86 3 148.65
2019–20 season March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships Junior 15 54.22 17 95.58 16 149.80 January 20–26, 2020 2020 European Championships Senior 16 57.11 8 112.95 11 170.06 January 10–15, 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team Junior – 4 103.36 8T/4P January 10–15, 2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Junior 8 59.48 9 106.68 9 166.16 December 19–21, 2019 2019 French Championships Senior 3 56.06 2 103.91 2 159.97 December 4–7, 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb Senior 20 45.94 8 106.31 9 152.25 November 11–17, 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy Senior 8 49.52 7 99.25 5 148.77 October 2–5, 2019 2019 JGP Italy Junior 8 53.81 9 96.28 9 150.09 September 26–28, 2019 2019 Master's de Patinage Junior 1 56.34 1 106.31 1 162.65 September 11–14, 2019 2019 JGP Russia Junior 20 42.90 21 74.63 20 117.53
For Switzerland 2018–19 season Date Event Level SP FS Total February 22–24, 2019 2019 French Junior Championships Junior 2 49.51 1 100.60 2 150.11 December 13–15, 2018 2018 French Championships Senior 6 49.27 7 75.95 7 125.22 August 22–25, 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia Junior 10 51.39 10 88.20 10 139.59 2017–18 season March 5–11, 2018 2018 World Junior Championships Junior 35 40.69 – 35 40.69 January 26–31, 2018 2018 Bavarian Open Junior 10 44.76 4 93.48 6 138.24 January 6–7, 2018 2018 Swiss Junior Championships Junior 1 53.92 1 86.24 1 140.16 November 15–19, 2017 2017 Merano Cup Junior 5 44.53 2 91.75 2 136.28 October 11–15, 2017 2017 Cup of Nice Junior 14 43.20 9 84.16 11 127.36
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