12 Facts About Carlo Fassi

Carlo Fassi was an Italian figure skater and international coach whose students included several World and Olympic champions.

Carlo Fassi won gold at the European Championships in 1953 and 1954, and the bronze medal at the World Championships in 1953.

Carlo Fassi was the Italian national men's champion for ten years.

Carlo Fassi was based first at the famous Broadmoor Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado, then for a time in Denver, Colorado before returning to the Broadmoor in the early 1980s.

Carlo Fassi spent three years in Italy in the early 1990s and then returned to the US to coach at the Ice Castle rink in Lake Arrowhead, California.

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Carlo Fassi's students included World and Olympic champions Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry, Robin Cousins, and Jill Trenary.

Carlo Fassi coached Scott Hamilton and Paul Wylie in the early stages of their careers.

Skaters from all over the world came to train with Carlo Fassi, giving his training camp a strongly cosmopolitan and international atmosphere.

Carlo Fassi was such an icon in the sport that when the comic character Snoopy adopted an alter ego as a figure skating coach, it was clearly modelled upon Fassi.

Carlo Fassi died of a heart attack at the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne, which he was attending as the coach of Nicole Bobek and Cornel Gheorghe.

Carlo Fassi was inducted into the Coaches Hall of Fame by the Professional Skaters Association in 2002.

Carlo Fassi had five students of his own competing in the ladies' event in Lake Placid: Emi Watanabe of Japan, Susanna Driano of Italy, Claudia Kristofics-Binder of Austria, Kristiina Wegelius of Finland, and Karena Richardson of Great Britain.