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Merano Ice Trophy

international figure skating competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ127273437 ↗
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The Merano Ice Trophy Memorial Martina Barricelli is an annual international figure skating competition which is generally held in the spring in Merano, Italy. It is named in honor of former figure skater and coach Martina Barricelli, who died in 2021. It is organized by the Italian Ice Sports Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio) and the Associazione Sportiva Merano. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, and pairs at the senior, junior, and novice levels.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Merano, Trophy and international is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Merano Ice Trophy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.