Background
Matteo Rizzo was born on 5 September 1998 in Rome. He is the son of Valter Rizzo, an ice dancing coach, and the younger brother of Francesca Rizzo, who competed in ice dancing.
Matteo Rizzo was born on 5 September 1998 in Rome. He is the son of Valter Rizzo, an ice dancing coach, and the younger brother of Francesca Rizzo, who competed in ice dancing.
In January–February 2014, making his senior international debut, he finished 9th at the Bavarian Open and 5th at the Dragon Trophy, before taking the silver medal at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial.
Rizzo began skating in 2006. He competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria but was eliminated after placing 30th in the short program In the 2014-2015 season, Rizzo placed 15th at his sole JGP assignment, in Germany.
In January 2015, he placed fourth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Austria.
His final event of the season was the 2015 World Junior Championships, held in March 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia. Rizzo qualified for the free skate by placing 20th in the short program and finished 22nd overall.
Rizzo continued on the JGP series in the 2015-2016 season, placing 5th at his assignments in Austria and Spain. He earned a bronze medal at the 2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup and finished 5th at the 2015 CS Warsaw Cup.
He reached the free skate at two International Skating Union Championships – the 2016 Europeans in Bratislava, and the 2016 Junior Worlds in Debrecen, Hungary.
He placed 13th at both events.