Sarina Joos
Sarina Joos is a Swiss-Italian figure skater who now represents Italy. Representing Italy, she is the [Italian Figure Skating Championships|2024 Italy|Italian national] champion.
Representing Switzerland, she is the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist. On the junior level, Joos is the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival bronze medalist and a two-time Swiss junior national medalist.
Personal life
Joos was born on 24 June 2006 in Zürich, Switzerland to an Italian mother and Swiss father. Her younger sister, Noemi, is also a competitive figure skater.Career
Early career
Joos began learning how to skate in 2015. Her early coaches included Gheorghe Chiper, Zoltán Kelemen, and Kelsey McNeil.She made her national debut at the 2019–20 Swiss Junior Championships, Joos won the bronze medal.
Skating for Switzerland
2021–22 season
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.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.
2022–23 season
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.Joos ended the season with a bronze medal on the senior level at the 2022–23 Swiss Championships behind Livia Kaiser and Kimmy Repond.
Skating for Italy
2023–24 season
This season, Joos and her younger sister, Noemi, decided to start representing their mother's native Italy. It was subsequently announced that Joos had made a coaching change and was now training under Linda van Troyen, Sindra Kriisa, and Lorenzo Magri.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.
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."
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." She went on to make her senior World Championship debut, coming twentieth.
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.In early November, it was announced that Joos had returned to her former coaching team of Gheorghe Chiper, Zoltán Kelemen, and Kelsey McNeil.
She subsequently withdrew from the 2025 Italian Championships in mid-December.