1. Nikolaj Memola was born on 18 November 2003 and is an Italian figure skater.
23 Facts About Nikolaj Memola
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Nikolaj Memola is the 2025 European silver medalist, the 2023 World University Games bronze medalist, a two-time bronze medalist in the ISU Challenger Series, and the 2024 Italian national champion.
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Nikolaj Memola was born on November 18,2003, in Monza, Italy, to an Italian father and a Russian mother.
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Nikolaj Memola is a student at the University of Milan and is able to speak English fluently.
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Nikolaj Memola debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in October 2018, placing nineteenth in Slovenia.
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Nikolaj Memola competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland, placing eighth.
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Nikolaj Memola finished fourth at the 2021 JGP Austria in October 2021.
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Nikolaj Memola made his senior international debut later that month, placing fourth at Trophee Metropole Nice Cote d'Azur.
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Nikolaj Memola ended the season by making his debut appearance at the World Junior Championships, where he placed seventh.
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Nikolaj Memola said that he hoped to introduce a quad into the free skate in time.
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Shortly after the Junior Grand Prix Final, Nikolaj Memola attended his first senior national championships and won the silver medal.
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Nikolaj Memola finished first in the free skate at the event.
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Nikolaj Memola was then assigned to compete at the 2023 Winter World University Games, where he won the bronze medal.
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Nikolaj Memola placed fourth in the free skate and rose to fourth overall, 1.35 points back of bronze medalist Nozomu Yoshioka.
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Nikolaj Memola did not attempt any quadruple jumps during the free program, having found them insufficiently secure in practice that day and not wanting to risk it.
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Nikolaj Memola was invited to make his Grand Prix debut at the 2023 Grand Prix de France, where he came eleventh.
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Nikolaj Memola improved to sixth place at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo.
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Nikolaj Memola won the Italian national title for the first time.
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Nikolaj Memola went on to place tenth at the 2024 European Championships.
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Nikolaj Memola was then assigned to make his senior World Championship debut at the 2024 edition in Montreal, where he came ninth.
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Nikolaj Memola called it "amazing" to reach the top ten in his first appearance at the championships, and cited the importance of having done so to retain Italy's second entry in the men's event for the following year.
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Nikolaj Memola began the season by competing at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy in early October, finishing fourth.
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Nikolaj Memola was fifth after the short program; in the free skate, he landed two quadruple Lutz jumps and rose to second place to win the silver medal.