Sarina Joos
Swiss-Italian figure skater (born 2006)
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Sarina Joos (born 24 June 2006) is a Swiss-Italian figure skater who now represents Italy. Representing Italy, she is the 2024 Italian national champion and the 2025 CS Nepela Memorial bronze medalist.
Italy (since 2023)
Switzerland (until 2023)Sarina Joos during her short program at the 2024 World Championships | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 June 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy (since 2023) Switzerland (until 2023) | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's singles | |||||||||||||||
| Coach | Kelsey McNeil Zoltán Kelemen Gheorghe Chiper Viveca Lindfors | |||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2015 | |||||||||||||||
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Representing Switzerland, she is the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist and 2023 Swiss national bronze medalist. On the junior level, Joos is the 2022 European Youth Olympic bronze medalist and a two-time Swiss junior national medalist (silver in 2022, bronze in 2020).
Personal life
Career
Early career
Joos began learning how to skate in 2015. Her early coaches included Gheorghe Chiper, Zoltán Kelemen, and Kelsey McNeil.[3]
She made her national debut at the 2019–20 Swiss Junior Championships, Joos won the bronze medal.[4]
Skating for Switzerland
2021–22 season: Junior international debut
Making her first appearance on the Junior Grand Prix series, Joos placed eleventh at the 2021 JGP Poland. She then went on to win the silver medal at both the 2021 Tirnavia Ice Cup and the 2021 Merano Cup.[4]
At the 2021–22 Swiss Junior Championships, Joos won the silver medal behind Kimmy Repond. She ended the season by winning a bronze at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival in Vuokatti, Finland.[4]
2022–23 season: Senior international debut
Competing in the 2022–23 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Joos placed seventh at the 2022 JGP Czech Republic and twelfth at the 2022 JGP Poland II. She made her senior international debut in September at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she finished seventh. Joos went on to win the silver medal on the junior level at the 2022 Ice Challenge as well as her first medal on the senior level – silver at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup.[4]
Joos ended the season with a bronze medal on the senior level at the 2022–23 Swiss Championships behind Livia Kaiser and Kimmy Repond.[4]
Skating for Italy
2023–24 season: Italian national champion
This season, Joos and her younger sister, Noemi, decided to start representing their mother's native Italy.[5][2] It was subsequently announced that Joos had made a coaching change and was now training under Linda van Troyen, Sindra Kriisa, and Lorenzo Magri.[6]
She made her international debut for Italy at the 2023 Tallinn Trophy in November, winning gold, before going on to win gold at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. In her first appearance at the Italian Championships she claimed the national title.[4]
Assigned to make her European Championship debut at the 2024 edition in Kaunas, Joos came sixth, including a fifth-place finish in the free skate segment. She said she was "so incredibly happy. I am glad I could show what I do in practices."[7]
Joos finished fourteenth in the short program at the 2024 World Junior Championships, but rallied in the free skate, coming fifth in the segment and rising to seventh overall. She said it was "great to be here with such a big Italian team."[8] She went on to make her senior World Championship debut, coming twentieth.[4]
2024–25 season
Joos began the season by competing on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. She finished tenth at 2024 JGP Latvia and at 2024 JGP Czech Republic. Going on to compete on the senior international level, Joos finished fifth at the 2024 CS Nepela Memorial and fourth at the 2024 Tirnavia Ice Cup.[4]
In early November, it was announced that Joos had returned to her former coaching team of Gheorghe Chiper, Zoltán Kelemen, and Kelsey McNeil.[1][9]
She subsequently withdrew from the 2025 Italian Championships in mid-December.[10]
2025–26 season
Returning to competition in August, Joos opened the season by winning gold at the 2025 Robin Cousins Cup. She then went on to win bronze at the 2025 CS Nepela Memorial, gold at the 2025 Diamond Spin, as well as place fourth at the 2025 CS Warsaw Cup.[11]
In December, Joos won the silver medal at the 2026 Italian Championships behind Lara Naki Gutmann.[12] The following month, she competed at the 2026 European Championships in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, where she finished sixth overall, earning a new personal best free skate and combined total score in the process.[11] "I'm super happy and super emotional," she said following her free skate, "I'm so happy that I could show the programs the way I did them in practice, as I trained them very hard every day. I'm just so grateful. So the biggest thank you to my team, to my coaching team, my parents, my sister for supporting me. I'm just super happy."[13]
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2025–2026 [9] |
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| 2024–2025 [1] |
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| 2023–2024 [6][14] |
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| 2022–2023 [15] |
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| 2021–2022 [3] |
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Competitive highlights
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
Single skating (for Italy)
| Season | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 | 2026-27 |
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| World Championships | 20th | |||
| European Championships | 6th | 6th | ||
| Italian Championships | 1st | 2nd | ||
| GP France | TBD | |||
| CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | 1st | |||
| CS Lombardia Trophy | TBD | |||
| CS Nepela Memorial | 5th | 3rd | ||
| CS Tallinn Trophy | 1st | |||
| CS Warsaw Cup | 4th | |||
| Diamond Spin | 1st | |||
| Robin Cousins Cup | 1st | |||
| Tirnavia Ice Cup | 4th |
| Season | 2023–24 | 2024–25 |
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| World Junior Championships | 7th | |
| JGP Czech Republic | 10th | |
| JGP Latvia | 10th | |
| Tallink Hotels Cup | 1st | |
| Triglav Trophy | 1st |
Single skating (for Switzerland)
| Season | 2022–23 |
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| Swiss Championships | 3rd |
| CS Lombardia Trophy | 7th |
| CS Warsaw Cup | 2nd |
| Season | 2019–20 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 |
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| Swiss Championships | 3rd | 2nd | |
| JGP Czech Republic | 7th | ||
| JGP Poland | 11th | 12th | |
| European Youth Olympic Festival | 3rd | ||
| Ice Challenge | 1st | ||
| Merano Ice Trophy | 2nd | ||
| Tirnavia Ice Cup | 2nd |
Detailed results
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
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| Total | TSS | 180.83 | 2024 European Championships |
| Short program | TSS | 63.59 | 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
| TES | 36.73 | 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb | |
| PCS | 28.45 | 2024 World Championships | |
| Free skating | TSS | 121.01 | 2024 European Championships |
| TES | 65.64 | 2025 CS Nepela Memorial | |
| PCS | 57.88 | 2024 European Championships |
Single skating (for Italy)
Senior level
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Nov 21–24, 2023 |  2023 Tallinn Trophy |
2 | 61.55 | 1 | 120.35 | 1 | 181.90 |
| Dec 6–9, 2023 |  2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
1 | 63.59 | 1 | 115.81 | 1 | 179.40 |
| Dec 22–23, 2023 | 2024 Italian Championships |
2 | 65.27 | 2 | 127.52 | 1 | 192.79 |
| Jan 10–14, 2024 |  2024 European Championships |
9 | 59.82 | 5 | 121.01 | 6 | 180.83 |
| Mar 18–24, 2024 |  2024 World Championships |
19 | 59.39 | 19 | 107.65 | 20 | 167.04 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Oct 24–26, 2024 |  2024 CS Nepela Memorial |
8 | 51.41 | 5 | 104.63 | 5 | 156.04 |
| Nov 1–3, 2024 |  2024 Tirnavia Ice Cup |
3 | 49.49 | 3 | 99.32 | 4 | 148.81 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Aug 21–22, 2025 |  2025 Robin Cousins Cup |
1 | 59.62 | 1 | 127.37 | 1 | 186.99 |
| Sep 25–27, 2025 | 2025 CS Nepela Memorial |
5 | 59.85 | 4 | 120.51 | 3 | 180.36 |
| Oct 16–19, 2025 |  2025 Diamond Spin |
1 | 63.24 | 1 | 122.26 | 1 | 185.50 |
| Nov 19–23, 2025 | 2025 CS Warsaw Cup |
4 | 54.99 | 4 | 104.23 | 4 | 159.22 |
| Dec 17–20, 2025 | 2026 Italian Championships |
2 | 63.51 | 2 | 126.30 | 2 | 189.81 |
| Jan 13–18, 2026 | 2026 European Championships |
7 | 58.90 | 5 | 121.94 | 6 | 180.84 |
Junior level
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Feb 15–18, 2024 | 2024 Tallink Hotels Cup |
1 | 63.13 | 1 | 116.52 | 1 | 179.65 |
| Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2024 |  2024 World Junior Championships |
14 | 57.66 | 5 | 117.07 | 7 | 174.73 |
| Apr 10–14, 2024 |  2024 Triglav Trophy |
1 | 58.75 | 1 | 116.97 | 1 | 175.72 |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
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| Aug 28–31, 2024 |  2024 JGP Latvia |
6 | 56.69 | 12 | 89.40 | 10 | 146.09 |
| Sep 4–7, 2024 | 2024 JGP Czech Republic |
8 | 55.41 | 10 | 102.03 | 10 | 157.44 |
Single skating (for Switzerland)
Senior level
| 2022–23 season | ||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| December 15–16, 2022 | 2023 Swiss Championships | 2 59.52 |
3 109.46 |
3 168.98 |
| November 17–20, 2022 | 2022 CS Warsaw Cup | 3 58.76 |
2 121.55 |
2 174.96 |
| September 16–19, 2022 | 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy | 11 51.31 |
7 109.93 |
7 161.24 |
Junior level
| 2022–23 season | ||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| November 9–13, 2022 | 2022 Ice Challenge | 3 48.00 |
1 105.18 |
1 153.18 |
| October 5–8, 2022 | 2022 JGP Poland II | 10 53.79 |
14 95.57 |
12 149.36 |
| August 31–September 3, 2022 | 2022 JGP Czech Republic | 9 54.72 |
7 102.63 |
7 157.35 |
| 2021–22 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 20–25, 2022 | 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival | 5 50.25 |
2 103.18 |
3 153.43 |
| February 5–6, 2022 | 2022 Merano Cup | 2 45.39 |
2 92.56 |
2 137.95 |
| January 22–23, 2022 | 2022 Swiss Junior Championships | 2 55.88 |
2 94.40 |
2 150.28 |
| October 28–31, 2021 | 2021 Tirnavia Ice Cup | 2 46.40 |
2 86.27 |
2 132.67 |
| September 28–October 2, 2021 | 2021 JGP Poland I | 11 44.71 |
11 82.28 |
11 126.99 |
| 2019–20 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 1–2, 2020 | 2020 Swiss Junior Championships | 7 42.68 |
3 81.91 |
3 124.59 |