28 Facts About Nina Pinzarrone

Nina Pinzarrone was born on November 24,2006 and is a Belgian figure skater.

Nina Pinzarrone is a two-time European bronze medalist and a two-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, one of only two Belgian women to have medaled at those events.

Nina Pinzarrone placed eleventh at both the 2023 World Championships and the 2022 World Junior Championships.

Nina Pinzarrone's father, Mario Pinzarrone, is of Italian origin, while her mother, Laurence Novalet, is a Belgian from Brussels.

Nina Pinzarrone has an older sister, Lily, who is a figure skater.

Nina Pinzarrone began learning how to skate in 2010 at the age of three.

Nina Pinzarrone followed her sister Lily, who became interested after watching figure skating on television.

Nina Pinzarrone made her international junior and ISU Junior Grand Prix debuts in August at the 2022 JGP France II, the second of two JGP events hosted in Courchevel, France.

Nina Pinzarrone placed fifth in the short program and sixth in the free skate to place sixth overall.

At her second JGP assignment, the 2022 JGP Slovenia, Nina Pinzarrone replicated her short program and free skate placements from Courchevel but finished fifth in the overall standings.

Nina Pinzarrone was assigned to her first Grand Prix event, the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy, in July.

Nina Pinzarrone later withdrew from both events due to a hip injury, subsequently revealed to be a double stress fracture.

Nina Pinzarrone's coach stated that her primary objectives for the event were to achieve the minimum scores to take Belgium's second berth at the World Championships later in the season.

Nina Pinzarrone underrotated the second part of her jump combination in the short program, but she still finished sixth in the segment.

Nina Pinzarrone rose to fifth place after the free skate.

Nina Pinzarrone had the second-best technical score in the free skate.

Nina Pinzarrone set another new personal best in the free skate and rose to second overall.

At the 2023 NHK Trophy, Nina Pinzarrone placed second in both segments, but third overall, winning the bronze medal and qualifying to the Grand Prix Final for the first time.

Nina Pinzarrone said she had not considered this result a possibility at the start of the season, and she added that it was "so cool" that both she and Hendrickx had qualified, the first time two Belgian women had done so.

Nina Pinzarrone entered the 2024 European Championships as a podium favourite after her results in the first half of the season.

Nina Pinzarrone finished second in the short program with a personal best 69.70 points, less than a point ahead of third-place Anastasiia Gubanova of Georgia, the defending champion.

Nina Pinzarrone was third in that segment and placed third overall behind Hendrickx and Gubanova.

Shortly following the event, Eric Christian von Fricken, who composed one of the pieces of music that Nina Pinzarrone used for her free program, took to social media accounts to praise her performance.

Nina Pinzarrone won her second consecutive Belgian national title in January, though unusually, she did not compete at the main event, as it was held only ten days before the 2025 European Championships; the Belgian federation gave its top women's skaters the additional opportunity to compete at the Golden Spin instead and count their scores from that competition.

Nina Pinzarrone earned a season's best in the short program despite receiving an under-rotation call on her triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination and placed fourth, with two points separating her from the skaters in the top three.

Nina Pinzarrone expressed disappointment afterward and said that she was having issues with her boots that were causing inflammation in her foot.

Nina Pinzarrone placed third in the free skate after receiving under-rotation and quarter rotation calls on six of her jumps, and she moved up into third place overall to win her second consecutive European bronze medal.

Nina Pinzarrone said that she wanted to work on her jump rotation ahead of the 2025 World Championships but that she was "thrilled" to have won bronze.