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Benoît Richaud
French figure skater (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Benoît Richaud (born 16 January 1988) is a French figure skating coach, choreographer and former competitive ice dancer. He has competed at three World Junior Championships, placing as high as seventh.
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Competitive career
Richaud was a former student Boucher-Zazoui (a school in Lyon).[1] He competed for France throughout his career. His first ice dancing partner was Scarlett Rouzet.[2]
From 2005 to 2007, he skated with Élodie Brouiller. They competed at two World Junior Championships, placing 13th in 2006 and 7th in 2007. Brouiller/Richaud won two medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and qualified for the JGP Final in 2006.[3] They ended their partnership in 2007.[2]
Subsequently, Richaud partnered with Canada's Terra Findlay in November 2007. During the 2008–2009 season, they placed 10th at the World Junior Championships.[4] Their partnership concluded at the end of the season.[5]
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Post-competitive career
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Following his retirement from competitive figure skating, Richaud has been working as a coach and choreographer in Nice.[6] In an interview in February 2024, he talked about how he assisted his students during competitions.[7] He was nominated for[7] and won the "Best Figure Skating Choreographer" at the 2024 ISU Skating awards.[8] He was also nominated in 2025.[9]
As a coach, his students have included:
Skaters he has choreographed for include:
Jeremy Abbott[15]
An Xiangyi[10]
Olivia Bacsa[16]
Güzide Irmak Bayır[17]
Chafik Besseghier[18]- Anastasia Brandenburg[19]
Eliška Březinová[20]- Michal Březina[21]
Donovan Carrillo[22]- Ioulia Chtchetinina/Noah Scherer[23]
Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin[24]- Loïcia Demougeot/Théo Le Mercier[25]
Polina Dzsumanyijazova[26]
Alexandra Feigin[27]
Gabriele Frangipani[28]- Julie Froetscher[29]
Stephen Gogolev[30]
Aleksandra Golovkina[31]- Anthea Gradinaru[32]
- Daniel Grassl[33][34]
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin[35]
Davide Lewton Brain[36]
Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté[37]
Wakaba Higuchi[38]- Moa Iwano[39]
- Jin Boyang[40]
Janna Jyrkinen[41]- Livia Kaiser[42]
Jari Kessler[43]- Rika Kihira[44]
Eva-Lotta Kiibus[45]- Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson[46]
- Gabriella Izzo[47]
Kim Chae-Yeon[48]- Kim Hyun-gyeom[49]
Marilena Kitromilis[50]- Alexa Knierim/Chris Knierim[51]
Angelīna Kučvaļska[52]
Ekaterina Kurakova[53]- Arlet Levandi[54]
Alla Loboda/Pavel Drozd[55]
Luc Maierhofer[56]- Maïa Mazzara[57]
- Maé-Bérénice Méité[58]
- Mai Mihara[59]
- Kao Miura[60]
- Satoko Miyahara[61]
- Andrea Montesinos Cantú[62]
- Sofia Muravieva[63]
- Lucie Mysliveckova/Lukas Csolley[64]
Andreas Nordebäck[65]- Nobunari Oda[66]
- Başar Oktar[67]
- Oona Ounasvuori[68]
- Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko[69]
Nina Pinzarrone[70][7]- Justyna Plutowska/Jérémie Flemin[71]
- Aleksa Rakic[72]
- Naoki Rossi[73]
- Kaori Sakamoto[59]
- Shun Sato[74]
- Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot[75]
- Adam Siao Him Fa[76][7]
- Lorine Schild[77]
- Noelle Streuli[78]
- Makar Suntsev[79]
- Daisuke Takahashi[61]
Denis Ten[80]- Bradie Tennell[81]
- Lindsay Thorngren[82][83]
- Ivett Tóth[84]
- Elizaveta Tuktamysheva[85]
Lindsay van Zundert[86]- Deniss Vasiljevs[87]
- Sōta Yamamoto[88]
- Hana Yoshida[89]
- Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao[90]
- Zhang He[91]
- Zhu Yi[92]
- Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik[93]
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