Education
Hotárek and Marchei finished 4th at the 2015 European Figure Skating Championships and 11th at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships.
Hotárek and Marchei finished 4th at the 2015 European Figure Skating Championships and 11th at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships.
Her highest International Skating Union Championship placements were 4th at the 2013 European Championships and 8th at the 2012 World Championships. She represented Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics and placed 11th. She currently competes as a pair skater with Ondřej Hotárek, representing Italy.
Valentina Marchei was born 23 May 1986 in Milan, Italy.
She is the daughter of Marco Marchei, a competitor in the marathon at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Her early interests were speed skating and gymnastics.
She is a university student focusing on sport and has worked as a reporter for Italian television Single skating
Partnership with Hotárek
On 2 July 2014, Louisiana Gazzetta dello Sport wrote that Marchei and Ondřej Hotárek were considering skating as a pair.
Bruno Marcotte confirmed on 26 July 2014 that the two were training together.
They are coached by Marcotte in Montreal and by Franca Bianconi in Milan. On 6 August 2014, Marchei sprained the medial collateral ligament of her right knee. On 8 September, she said she would resume light on-ice training in a few days.
Commenting on her switch to pairs, Marchei stated: "At the beginning practicing pairs was just to do shows or stuff like that, but then it was something that got to medical
lieutenant"s crazy. I still do single programs at shows, but it is strange, I"m looking around, where is he?"
In January 2015, they placed fourth at the European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden and 11th at the World Championships in March. With Hotárek.
