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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:
An Xiangyi[10]
Alexandra Feigin[11]
Stephen Gogolev[12]
Maxim Naumov[13]
Adam Siao Him Fa[14]
Bradie Tennell[6][15]
Skaters he has choreographed for include:
Jeremy Abbott[16]
An Xiangyi[10]
Olivia Bacsa[17]
Güzide Irmak Bayır[18]
Chafik Besseghier[19]
Anastasia Brandenburg[20]
Eliška Březinová[21]
Michal Březina[22]
Donovan Carrillo[23]
Chen Yuxuan / Dong Yinbo[24]
Ioulia Chtchetinina/Noah Scherer[25]
Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin[26]
Loïcia Demougeot/Théo Le Mercier[27]
Polina Dzsumanyijazova[28]
Nika Egadze[29]
Alexandra Feigin[30]
Gabriele Frangipani[31]
Julie Froetscher[32]
Genrikh Gartung[33]
Stephen Gogolev[34]
Aleksandra Golovkina[35]
Anthea Gradinaru[36]
Daniel Grassl[37][38]
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin[39]
Davide Lewton Brain[40]
Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté[41]
Wakaba Higuchi[42]
Moa Iwano[43]
Jin Boyang[44]
Janna Jyrkinen[45]
Livia Kaiser[46]
Jari Kessler[47]
Rika Kihira[48]
Eva-Lotta Kiibus[49]
Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson[50]
Gabriella Izzo[51]
Kim Chae-Yeon[52]
Kim Hyun-gyeom[53]
Marilena Kitromilis[54]
Alexa Knierim/Chris Knierim[55]
Angelīna Kučvaļska[56]
Ekaterina Kurakova[57]
Arlet Levandi[58]
Alla Loboda/Pavel Drozd[59]
Luc Maierhofer[60]
Maïa Mazzara[61]
Maé-Bérénice Méité[62]
Anastasiia Metelkina / Luka Berulava[63]
Mai Mihara[64]
Kao Miura[65]
Satoko Miyahara[66]
Andrea Montesinos Cantú[67]
Sofia Muravieva[68]
Lucie Mysliveckova/Lukas Csolley[69]
Maxim Naumov[13]
Andreas Nordebäck[70]
Nobunari Oda[71]
Başar Oktar[72]
Oona Ounasvuori[73]
Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko[74]
Nina Pinzarrone[75][7]
François Pitot[76]
Justyna Plutowska/Jérémie Flemin[77]
Aleksa Rakic[78]
Lilou Remeysen[79]
Naoki Rossi[80]
Kaori Sakamoto[64]
Shun Sato[81]
Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot[82]
Adam Siao Him Fa[83][7]
Lorine Schild[84]
Noelle Streuli[85]
Makar Suntsev[86]
Daisuke Takahashi[66]
Denis Ten[87]
Bradie Tennell[88]
Lindsay Thorngren[89][90]
Ivett Tóth[91]
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva[92]
Lindsay van Zundert[93]
Deniss Vasiljevs[94]
Wang Yihan[95]
Sōta Yamamoto[96]
Hana Yoshida[97]
Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao[98]
Zhang He[99]
Zhang Jiaxuan/Huang Yihang[100]
Zhu Yi[101]
Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik[102]
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