Nina Pinzarrone

Nina Pinzarrone (born November 24, 2006) is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2026 World bronze medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist (2024 and 2025), three-time Belgian national champion (2024–26), and a two-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, one of only two Belgian women to have medaled at those events.

She represented Belgium at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Personal life Pinzarrone was born on November 24, 2006, in Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Laurence Novalet, is also from Brussels while her father, Mario Pinzarrone, is of Italian origin. She has an older sister, Lily, who is also a figure skater.

Career Early years Pinzarrone began learning how to skate in 2010 at the age of three. She followed her sister Lily, who became interested after watching figure skating on television.

2021–22 season: International junior debut Pinzarrone made her international junior and ISU Junior Grand Prix debuts in August at the 2022 JGP France II, the second of two JGP events hosted in Courchevel, France. She placed fifth in the short program and sixth in the free skate to place sixth overall. At her second JGP assignment, the 2022 JGP Slovenia, Pinzarrone replicated her short program and free skate placements from Courchevel but finished fifth in the overall standings. Going on to compete at the 2024 Grand Prix de France, Pinzarrone would finish the event in sixth place.

At the end of January, Pinzarrone competed at the European Championships. She earned a season's best in the short program despite receiving an under-rotation call on her triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination and placed fourth, with two points separating her from the skaters in the top three. Pinzarrone expressed disappointment afterward and said that she was having issues with her boots that were causing inflammation in her foot. She placed third in the free skate after receiving under-rotation and quarter rotation calls on six of her jumps, and she moved up into third place overall to win her second consecutive European bronze medal. Pinzarrone said that she wanted to work on her jump rotation ahead of the 2025 World Championships but that she was "thrilled" to have won bronze.

Ahead of the World Championships at the end of March, Pinzarrone continued to be bothered by inflammation and pain in her right ankle, for which she received treatment. At the World Championships, she placed eighth in the short program and seventh in the free skate, finishing seventh place overall. She said that she was satisfied with her performance, especially as she struggled to remember her choreography during the beginning of the program due to the loud crowd, and that she was happy that Hendrickx could join her at the Olympics.

In early May, Pinzarrone fractured a foot during training and had to take time off to recover. Her coach speculated that her foot may have been weakened after her issues earlier in the season with inflammation.

2025–26 season: Injury and comeback, Milano Cortina Olympics and World bronze medal Although Pinzarrone was initially assigned to compete at 2025 Skate Canada International and 2025 NHK Trophy, she ultimately withdrew from both events due to multiple injuries and surgery.

In late November, she returned to competition at the 2026 Belgian Championships, winning the national title for a third time. A couple weeks later, Pinzarrone finished seventh at the 2025 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.

On 17 February, Pinzarrone competed in the short program segment at the 2026 Winter Olympics, placing eleventh. Two days later, she placed fourteenth in the free skate segment and finished thirteenth overall.

The following month, Pinzarrone competed at the 2026 World Champhionships in Prague, Czech Republic. After placing fifth in the short program, she finished third place after the free skate to win the bronze medal, earning new personal best scores in all competition segments. "If you had told me a few months ago that I would be here right now, I wouldn’t have believed it," said Pinzarrone following the event. "It was so hard at times. I didn’t even know if I would be able to go to Europeans, the Olympics, and Worlds. Only in the last two months I could really train without pain, and those two months pushed me to where I am now."

2026–27 season: Coaching change Heading into the season, Pinzarrone announced that she had left her long-time coach, Ans Bocklandt, and had moved to Colorado Springs, United States to train under Damon Allen, Tammy Gambill, and Logan Giulietti-Schmitt. She remarked that this was a "difficult decision": "Ans shaped me into the athlete I am today, and I have a lot of respect for her. But I needed a change, a new way of working, a new environment."

Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2026–2027 Por una cabeza Payadora Project Hail Mary 2025–2026