Lara Naki Gutmann

Lara Naki Gutmann
Gutmann at the 2019 European Championships
Born 6 November 2002
Trento, Italy
Hometown Rovereto, Italy
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Figure skating career
Country Italy
Coach Gabriele Minchio
Stephanie Cuel
Giulia Garello
Skating club Circolo Pattinatori Artistici Trento
Began skating 2006

Lara Naki Gutmann (born 6 November 2002) is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2020 Nordics champion, the 2019 Dragon Trophy silver medalist, the 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and a three-time Italian national champion (2021–23). She has reached the final segment at three ISU Championships, with a top-ten result at the 2023 European Championships.

Career

Early years

Gutmann began learning to skate in 2006. She won her first junior national medal, bronze, in December 2015 and had the same result the following year.

Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in October 2017. In December 2017, she became the Italian junior national silver medalist.

2018–2019 season

Gutmann placed nineteenth at her sole JGP assignment in Austria. In December 2018, making her first senior international appearance, she won silver at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey. Later that month, she won bronze in the senior ladies' category at the Italian Championships, behind Alessia Tornaghi and Lucrezia Beccari, and was named in Italy's team to the 2019 European Championships. Ranked twenty-ninth in the short program, she did not advance to the final segment at the latter event, which took place in January in Minsk, Belarus.

2019–2020 season

Gutmann competed mainly in the senior ranks, with the exception of two JGP events. She finished sixth at JGP France and seventh at JGP Italy. In December, she repeated as national bronze medalist, this time finishing third behind Tornaghi and Marina Piredda. In February, she won silver behind Roberta Rodeghiero at the Dragon Trophy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and then outscored Emmi Peltonen to take gold at the Nordic Championships in Stavanger, Norway.

2020–2021 season

In the off-season, Gutmann underwent ankle surgery. She 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. In December, she won the gold medal at the Italian championships.

As the Italian national champion, Gutmann was named as the country's sole entry to the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, where she finished twenty-eighth. Subsequently, she was announced as part of the Italian team for the 2021 World Team Trophy. Gutmann placed seventh in both segments of the competition and set personal bests in the free skate and total score, while Team Italy finished in fourth place.

2021–2022 season

Gutmann began the season on home soil at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy. After a poor short program left her in eighteenth position going into the free skate, she placed third in that segment and rose to fifth overall. She next competed at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, seeking to qualify for a berth for Italian women at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Seventh in both segments of the competition, she placed eighth overall, 0.75 points behind Australia's Kailani Craine, who took the sixth of six available places. As a result, Italy became the first alternate country.

Following the cancellation of the 2021 Cup of China, Italy unexpectedly became the host of the third event in the Grand Prix, the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia. Gutmann was one of two Italian women assigned to compete at the home Grand Prix (along with Lucrezia Beccari), making her Grand Prix debut with an eleventh-place finish.

At the Italian Championships, Gutmann won her second straight national title. She was after that named to the Italian Olympic team, though she would only be competing in the team event. She began the new year at the 2022 European Championships, finishing sixteenth. Representing Italy in the team event, Gutmann skated cleanly in the short program, but did not attempt a triple-triple jump combination and finished ninth of ten skaters. The Italian team finished seventh among the teams in the short program segments and did not advance to the second phase. Gutmann finished the season with a twentieth place at the 2022 World Championships.

2022–2023 season

In three appearances on the Challenger circuit in the fall, Gutmann finished sixth on home ice at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy before winning the silver medal at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial. She finished the series with a fourth-place at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and then won her third straight national title.

Assigned to compete at the 2023 European Championships, Gutmann was thirteenth in the short program, but an eighth-place free skate lifted her to eighth overall. This achieved her primary goal of finishing in the top ten and earning a second berth for Italy the following year. Gutmann finished seventeenth at the 2023 World Championships.

Gutmann joined Team Italy for the 2023 World Team Trophy. She finished last in the short program with multiple errors. The free skate was an improvement, coming eighth in the segment. Team Italy finished in fourth place overall.

2023–24 season

While she had previously appeared on the Grand Prix as a host selection, for the 2023–24 Grand Prix Gutmann received her first foreign assignment, the 2023 Skate Canada International. She said it was "very nice to have earned a spot." She began the season by finishing fifth at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy. At her second Challenger appearance of the season, she was seventh at the 2023 CS Nepela Memorial. She finished in ninth place at the Skate Canada International. Gutmann was subsequently added to the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo to replace Kimmy Repond, and placed seventh.

After an eighth-place finish at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, Gutmann won the silver medal at the Italian Championships. She came tenth at the 2024 European Championships.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2023–2024
  • Kiss of Death
    by Mandingo
  • Le Serpent
    by Guem & Zaka
  • War Dance
    by Mandingo
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano
2022–2023
2021–2022
  • Elizabeth
  • Maria and the Violin's String
    by Ashram
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano,
    Riccardo Morelli
2020–2021
2019–2020
2018–2019
  • The Storm
    by Balázs Havasi
    choreo. by Gabriele Minchio, Prisca Picano,
    Riccardo Morelli
2017–2018
2016–2017
2015–2016
2014–2015

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Worlds 28th 20th 17th
Europeans 29th 15th 8th 10th
GP Finland 7th
GP Italy 11th
GP Skate Canada 9th
CS Golden Spin 6th WD 4th 8th
CS Lombardia 5th 6th 5th
CS Nebelhorn 8th
CS Ondrej Nepela 4th 2nd 7th
Bavarian Open 10th
Bosphorus Cup 2nd
Challenge Cup 7th
Crystal Skate 1st
Cup of Tyrol 8th
Dragon Trophy 2nd 1st
Egna Trophy 7th
Nordics 1st
Tallink Hotels Cup 2nd
Toruń Cup 5th
Volvo Open Cup 5th
International: Junior
JGP Austria 19th
JGP France 6th
JGP Italy 13th 7th
Bavarian Open 8th
Coupe Printemps 4th
Cup of Tyrol 7th
Dragon Trophy 3rd
Egna Trophy 4th
Halloween Cup 2nd
Lombardia Trophy 3rd
Merano Cup 15th 5th
NRW Trophy 10th
Tallinn Trophy 7th
Triglav Trophy 2nd
International: Advanced novice
Dragon Trophy 1st 6th
Gardena Trophy 6th 2nd
Lombardia Trophy 7th
Merano Cup 4th
Triglav Trophy 8th
National
Italian Champ. 2nd N 3rd J 3rd J 2nd J 3rd 3rd 1st 1st 1st 2nd
Team events
Olympics 7th T
9th P
World Team
Trophy		 4th T
7th P		 4th T
10th P
WD = Withdrew; TBD = Assigned; C = Event cancelled
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result; Medals awarded for team result only

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE system 
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 179.59 2021 World Team Trophy
Short program TSS 62.41 2019 CS Nepela Memorial
TES 32.81 2019 CS Nepela Memorial
PCS 29.60 2019 CS Nepela Memorial
Free skating TSS 125.65 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
TES 67.33 2023 World Championships
PCS 61.44 2021 World Team Trophy

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

2023–2024 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 10–14, 2024 2024 European Championships 16
55.68 		8
110.33 		10
166.01
December 22–23, 2023 2024 Italian Championships 7
53.84 		1
130.04 		2
183.88
December 6–9, 2023 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 11
50.60 		7
104.58 		8
155.18
November 17–19, 2023 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo 7
58.24 		8
110.09 		7
168.33
October 27–29, 2023 2023 Skate Canada International 11
50.00 		7
115.73 		9
165.73
September 28-30 2023 2023 CS Nepela Memorial 7
52.78 		7
104.95 		7
157.73
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 8
53.96 		5
109.46 		5
163.42
2022–2023 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 13–16, 2023 2023 World Team Trophy 12
51.12 		8
116.83 		4T/10P
167.95
March 22–26, 2023 2023 World Championships 23
55.22 		13
123.21 		17
178.43
January 25–29, 2023 2023 European Championships 13
55.39 		8
113.90 		8
169.29
December 15–18, 2022 2023 Italian Championships 2
62.36 		1
127.52 		1
189.88
December 7–10, 2022 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 9
50.06 		2
125.65 		4
175.71
Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2022 2022 CS Nepela Memorial 4
52.65 		2
113.59 		2
166.24
September 16–19, 2022 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy 7
56.46 		6
111.93 		6
168.39
2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 21–27, 2022 2022 World Championships 20
57.92 		20
106.47 		20
164.39
February 4–7, 2022 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event 9
58.52 		— 7
January 10–16, 2022 2022 European Championships 23
52.94 		12
111.05 		16
163.99
December 4–5, 2021 2022 Italian Championships 1
63.43 		1
124.00 		1
187.43
November 5–7, 2021 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 11
54.83 		11
103.74 		11
158.57
September 22–25, 2021 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 7
57.16 		7
107.44 		8
164.60
September 10–12, 2021 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy 18
48.65 		3
118.33 		5
166.98
2020–2021 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 15–18, 2021 2021 World Team Trophy 7
60.45 		7
119.14 		4T/7P
179.59
March 22–28, 2021 2021 World Championships 28
55.64 		– 28
55.64
December 12–13, 2020 2021 Italian Championships 1
63.08 		1
115.07 		1
178.15
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 5–9, 2020 2020 Nordics 2
62.81 		2
116.18 		1
179.01
Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2020 2020 Dragon Trophy 1
58.86 		2
104.20 		2
163.06
December 12–15, 2019 2020 Italian Championships 4
59.02 		3
112.36 		3
171.38
December 4–7, 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 7
56.81 		7
110.79 		6
167.60
November 5–10, 2019 2019 40th Volvo Open Cup 5
55.13 		5
97.73 		5
152.86
September 19–21, 2019 2019 CS Nepela Memorial 3
62.41 		5
115.71 		4
178.12
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 28–31, 2019 2019 Egna Spring Trophy 9
48.81 		7
91.63 		7
140.44
Feb. 26 – Mar. 3, 2019 2019 Cup of Tyrol 6
49.27 		7
94.63 		8
143.90
February 5–10, 2019 2019 Bavarian Open 13
46.18 		9
87.47 		10
133.65
January 21–27, 2019 2019 European Championships 29
43.96 		– 29
43.96
January 8–13, 2019 2019 Mentor Toruń Cup 5
50.09 		5
89.72 		5
139.81
December 13–16, 2018 2019 Italian Championships 3
55.37 		2
101.17 		3
156.54
Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2018 2018 Bosphorus Cup 1
53.98 		2
96.39 		2
150.37

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
2–5 October 2019 2019 JGP Italy 6
57.32 		7
98.96 		7
156.28
21–24 August 2019 2019 JGP France 5
58.24 		6
105.99 		6
164.23
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
29 Aug. – 1 Sept. 2018 2018 JGP Austria 10
45.75 		21
60.64 		19
106.39
2017–2018 season
Date Event SP FS Total
4–8 April 2018 2018 Triglav Trophy 2
49.04 		2
96.21 		2
145.25
16–18 March 2018 2018 Coupe du Printemps 6
45.69 		3
86.75 		4
132.44
8–11 February 2018 2018 Dragon Trophy 1
48.79 		4
83.75 		3
132.54
13–16 December 2017 2018 Italian Championships 2
56.41 		3
93.34 		2
149.75
20–26 November 2017 2017 Tallinn Trophy 12
40.98 		6
89.41 		7
130.39
15–19 November 2017 2017 Merano Cup 3
46.68 		5
80.57 		5
127.25
21–23 October 2017 2017 International Halloween Cup 3
41.44 		1
80.34 		2
121.78
11–14 October 2017 2017 JGP Italy 13
48.37 		13
82.24 		13
130.61
2016–2017 season
Date Event SP FS Total
6–9 April 2017 2017 Egna Spring Trophy 4
44.50 		3
82.56 		4
127.06
28 Feb. – 5 Mar. 2017 2017 Cup of Tyrol 7
42.77 		7
75.59 		7
118.36
14–19 February 2017 2016 Bavarian Open – Junior I 9
41.08 		8
75.18 		8
116.26
14–17 December 2016 2017 Italian Championships 3
48.66 		2
101.99 		3
150.65
30 Nov. – 4 Dec. 2016 2016 NRW Trophy 10
44.21 		12
77.23 		10
121.44
10–13 November 2016 2016 Merano Cup 14
36.07 		12
65.26 		15
101.33
8–11 September 2016 2016 Lombardia Trophy 5
40.48 		3
82.02 		3
122.50