Carlo Fassi
- Carlo Fassi
Carlo Fassi (
December 20 ,1929 –March 20 ,1997 ) was a well-known Italian figure skater and international coach.Career
Fassi was born in
Milan .As a competitor, he won the European Championships in 1953 and 1954, and also won the bronze medal at the World Championships in 1953. Fassi took up coaching after the end of his competitive career. One of his first students was a young German skater, Christa von Kuczkowski, who became his wife and mother to his three children: Riccardo, Monika, and Lorenzo.
Following the 1961 plane crash that killed the entire U.S. Figure Skating team and many of the top American coaches, Fassi moved with his family to the
United States , where he soon became established as a top international coach. He was based first inDenver, Colorado , then at the famous Broadmoor Arena inColorado Springs , and finally, following a brief return to Italy, at the Ice Castle rink inLake Arrowhead, California .His students included World and Olympic Champions
Peggy Fleming ,Dorothy Hamill ,John Curry ,Robin Cousins , andJill Trenary . He also coached Scott Hamilton andPaul Wylie in the early stages of their careers. Skaters from all over the world came to train with Fassi, giving his training camp a strongly cosmopolitan and international atmosphere.Besides being an excellent technical coach, Fassi had the reputation of being a master of political dealings in the figure skating world, with the ability to bring his students to the attention of the judges. He was such an icon in the sport that when the comic character
Snoopy adopted an alter ego as a figure skating coach (appearing, for example, in the 1980 TV special "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown "), it was clearly modelled upon Fassi.Fassi died of a heart attack at the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships in
Lausanne , which he was attending as the coach of US skaterNicole Bobek .He had three children, Riccardo, Monika, and Lorenzo.
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