{{Short description|Italian curler (born 1997)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox curler | name = Mattia Giovanella | image = | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1997|10|27|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Trento]], Italy | Curling club = [[Trentino Curling]], <br> [[Cembra|Cembra, ITA]]<ref name="Media Guide">{{Cite web |url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/04/2021-OK-Tire-BKT-Tires-World-Mens-Curling-Championship-media-guide-4.pdf |title=2021 BKT Tires-OK Tires World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide |website=Curling Canada |access-date=3 April 2021 |archive-date=12 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412194854/https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/04/2021-OK-Tire-BKT-Tires-World-Mens-Curling-Championship-media-guide-4.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | Skip = [[Alberto Zisa]] | Third = [[Giacomo Colli]] | Second = [[Francesco De Zanna (curler)|Francesco De Zanna]] | Lead = '''Mattia Giovanella''' | Alternate = [[Francesco Vigliani]] | Member Association = {{ITA}} | World Championship appearances = 6 ({{WMCC|2021}}, {{WMCC|2022}}, {{WMCC|2023}}, {{WMCC|2024}}, {{WMCC|2025}}, {{WMCC|2026}}) | European Championship appearances = 5 ({{EuCC|2021}}, {{EuCC|2022}}, {{EuCC|2023}}, {{EuCC|2024}}, {{EuCC|2025}}) | Olympic appearances = 2 ([[Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|2022]], [[Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|2026]]) | Grand Slam victories = 4 ([[2022 Masters (curling)|2022 Masters]], [[2023 Tour Challenge]], [[2023 National]], [[2023 Masters (curling)|2023 Masters]]) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[curling]] }} {{MedalCountry | {{ITA}} }} {{MedalCompetition | [[World Curling Championships|World Championships]] }} {{MedalBronze | [[2022 World Men's Curling Championship|2022 Las Vegas]] | }} {{MedalBronze | [[2024 World Men's Curling Championship|2024 Schaffhausen]] | }} {{MedalCompetition | [[European Curling Championships|European Championships]] }} {{MedalBronze | [[2021 European Curling Championships|2021 Lillehammer]] | }} {{MedalBronze | [[2022 European Curling Championships|2022 Östersund]] | }} }}
'''Mattia Giovanella''' (born 27 October 1997) is an [[Italians|Italian]] [[curling|curler]] from [[Cembra]], [[Italy]].<ref name="Media Guide"/> He currently plays [[Lead (curling)|lead]] on Team [[Alberto Zisa]].
==Career== Giovanella and his team of [[Luca Rizzolli]], [[Alessandro Odorizzi]], [[Giovanni Gottardi (curler)|Giovanni Gottardi]] and [[Luca Casagrande]] represented Italy at the [[2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships (January)|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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://curling.org.nz/index.php/173-results/wjcc/1258-2019-world-junior-b |title=2019 World Junior B Curling Championships |website=New Zealand Curling |access-date=3 April 2021}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://results.worldcurling.org/Championship/Details/634 |title=2019 World Junior Curling Championships |website=World Curling Federation |access-date=3 April 2021}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/team-by-team-look-into-men-s-world-curling-championships-field-1.5971155 |title=A team-by-team look at the men's world curling championship field |website=CBC |author=Donna Spencer |date=31 March 2021 |access-date=3 April 2021}}</ref> At the Worlds, Team Italy finished in seventh place with a 7–6 record, just missing the playoffs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/2021-world-mens-curling-championship-scores-schedule-standings-results/ |title=2021 World men's curling championship: Scores, schedule and standings |website=Sportsnet |access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
Giovanella would move up from alternate to their full-time lead on Team Retornaz starting during the [[2022–23 curling season]]. With Team Retornaz preparing for the [[2026 Winter Olympics]], in which it would be hosted by their home country of Italy at [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]], they would start to find more success. Notably, they would win 4 [[Grand Slam of Curling]] events (the most ever for an Italian team) at the [[2022 Masters (curling)|2022 Masters]], [[2023 Tour Challenge]], [[2023 National]], and [[2023 Masters (curling)|2023 Masters]]. They would also win Italy's first medals at the [[World Men's Curling Championship]], with two bronze medals in [[2022 World Men's Curling Championship|2022]] and in [[2024 World Men's Curling Championship|2024]].
==Personal life== Before becoming a full time curler, Giovanella worked as a stone porphyry maker.<ref name="Media Guide"/>
==Teams== {| class="wikitable" ! scope="col"| Season ! scope="col"| Skip ! scope="col"| Third ! scope="col"| Second ! scope="col"| Lead ! scope="col"| Alternate |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2"| 2018–19<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=40774&view=Teams#1 |title=Mattia Giovanella Past Teams |website=CurlingZone |access-date=3 April 2021}}</ref> | [[Luca Rizzoli]] || Mattia Giovanella || [[Andrea Pilzer]] || [[Nicola Gottardi]] || |- | Luca Rizzolli || Mattia Giovanella || [[Alessandro Odorizzi]] || [[Giovanni Gottardi (curler)|Giovanni Gottardi]] || [[Luca Casagrande]] |- ! scope="row"| 2019–20 | Luca Rizzoli || Mattia Giovanella || Andrea Pilzer || Nicola Gottardi || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2"| 2020–21 | [[Alberta Pimpini]] (Fourth) || Mattia Giovanella || Luca Rizzoli (Skip) || [[Daniele Ferrazza]] || |- | [[Joël Retornaz]] || [[Amos Mosaner]] || [[Sebastiano Arman]] || [[Simone Gonin]] || Mattia Giovanella |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2"| 2021–22 | Mattia Giovanella (Fourth) || Alberta Pimpini || Daniele Ferrazza || Luca Rizzoli (Skip) || |- | Joël Retornaz || Amos Mosaner || Sebastiano Arman || Simone Gonin || Mattia Giovanella |- ! scope="row"| 2022–23 | Joël Retornaz || Amos Mosaner || Sebastiano Arman || Mattia Giovanella || |- ! scope="row"| 2023–24 | Joël Retornaz || Amos Mosaner || Sebastiano Arman || Mattia Giovanella || |- ! scope="row"| 2024–25 | Joël Retornaz || Amos Mosaner || Sebastiano Arman || Mattia Giovanella || |- ! scope="row"| 2025–26 | Joël Retornaz || Amos Mosaner || Sebastiano Arman || Mattia Giovanella || |- ! scope="row"| 2026–27 | [[Alberto Zisa]] || [[Giacomo Colli]] || [[Francesco De Zanna (curler)|Francesco De Zanna]] || Mattia Giovanella || [[Francesco Vigliani]] |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Sports links}} * [https://pechino2022.coni.it/italia-team/atleta/1854-Mattia_GIOVANELLA.html Mattia Giovanella] at [[Italian National Olympic Committee|CONI]] {{in lang|it}} * [https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/athlete-details/25975 Mattia Giovanella] at the [[Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics]] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20220306023051/https://results.beijing2022.cn/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/curling/athlete-profile-n1037086-mattia-giovanella.htm Mattia Giovanella] at the [[Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics]] (archived) * {{Instagram}}
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