Biography
CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
World Silver Medalist (2024)
U.S. Champion (2023)
World Team Trophy Champion (team) (2023)
World Junior Champion (2022)
Grand Prix Final Silver Medalist (2022)
U.S. Bronze Medalist (2024, 2022)
U.S. Junior Champion (2021)
U.S. Junior Silver Medalist (2020)
U.S. Intermediate Silver Medalist (2019)
U.S. Juvenile Champion (2018)
Isabeau Levito, 17, earned silver to take home her first World Championship medal at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, recording the best finish by an American woman since in 2016. She also cemented her status as a top U.S. female contender heading to the next Olympics.
Born in Philadelphia, Isabeau is the daughter of Chiara Garberi-Levito, a native of Milan, who moved from Italy to the United States in 1997. Chiara grew up not far from the site of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games.
Isabeau first developed an interest in figure skating at three years old. “My mother was watching the (2010 Vancouver) Olympics on TV,” she said. “I was imitating what the skaters were doing when she had the idea to bring me to an ice rink. Once she brought me to the ice rink, she saw how my face lit up.”
Within a year, Yulia Kuznestova had noticed Isabeau enough to pull her out of group skating lessons and begin one-on-one sessions. Yulia remains Isabeau’s coach today where she trains at the Igloo Ice Rink in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
At age 10, Isabeau became the 2018 U.S. Juvenile champion, and three years later won the national title at the junior level. Despite not being eligible to qualify for the 2022 Olympics, Isabeau made her senior debut where she won bronze at the 2022 U.S Championships.
She then went on to win gold at the 2022 Junior World Figure Skating Championships. She earned silver at her first two senior ISU Grand Prix assignments, Skate America and MK John Wilson Trophy. Isabeau became the youngest U.S. skater to qualify for the Grand Prix Final in 15 years. At the 2023 Grand Prix Final in Turin, Italy, Isabeau finished second, becoming the first U.S. woman to make the podium at the Grand Prix Final since 2014.
In January 2023, Isabeau Levito won her first U.S. figure skating title at age 15. She capped off her impressive season by finishing fourth at her senior World Championships debut. Isabeau went on to help secure gold for Team USA at the 2023 World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Japan. Isabeau was named International Skating Union’s Best Newcomer Winner at the 2023 ISU Skating Awards.
Isabeau was named after Michelle Pfieffer’s character in the 1985 film Ladyhawke. She is fluent in Italian. When she is not doing schoolwork, Isabeau enjoys playing the piano, reading, and crocheting (@handmadebyisabeau/). She has a cat named Mischa.
Isabeau’s goal is to represent the U.S. in the next Winter Olympics.
Follow Isabeau on social media:
Instagram: @isabeau.levito
TikTok: @isabeau.levito
Website: https://isabeaulevito.figureskatersonline.com/
