Mattia Giovanella (born 27 October 1997) is an Italian curler from Cembra, Italy. He currently plays lead on Team Joël Retornaz.
Career
Giovanella and his team of Luca Rizzolli, Alessandro Odorizzi, Giovanni Gottardi and Luca Casagrande represented Italy at the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships. There, the team made it to the gold medal game, where they lost to New Zealand's Matthew Neilson. Their second-place finish qualified them for the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. At the championship, they finished in last place with a 1–8 round robin record, only beating Sweden's Daniel Berggren.
Giovanella competed as lead for the Italian National Men's Curling Team skipped by Joël Retornaz at the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship as regular lead Simone Gonin failed to pass the COVID-19 regulations to travel outside the country. At the Worlds, Team Italy finished in seventh place with a 7–6 record, just missing the playoffs.
Personal life
Before becoming a full time curler, Giovanella worked as a stone porphyry maker.
Teams
References
External links
- Mattia Giovanella at World Curling
- Mattia Giovanella at Olympics.com
- Mattia Giovanella at Olympedia
- Mattia Giovanella at the Italian Ice Sports Federation (in Italian)
- Mattia Giovanella at CONI (in Italian)
- Mattia Giovanella at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
- Mattia Giovanella on Instagram
