Romain Haguenauer

Romain Haguenauer (born 16 July 1976) is a French ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. He is best known for his work with the French five-time World and 2022 Olympic champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron; and with Canadian three-time World champions and two-time Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. He has also coached the top-ranking American teams of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Personal life
Haguenauer was born on 16 July 1976 in Lyon, France. His mother, an elementary school teacher, and father, a lawyer, raised him in Ainay. After graduating in 1998 from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 with a degree in sports and physical education (Capes d'éducation physique et sportive), he taught for a year at a secondary school, collège Jean-Monnet.

In 2017, Haguenauer married Jamal Othman, a former Swiss figure skater. Their son, Noam Camille Othman Haguenauer, was born in November 2022.

Competitive career
Haguenauer was coached from the age of five by Muriel Boucher-Zazoui and competed with his sister, Marianne Haguenauer, for ten years. They placed eighth at the 1995 World Junior Championships in November 1994 in Budapest and won gold at the 1995 Ondrej Nepela Memorial. Due to his sister's health issues, he retired from competition at age 20. He had no regrets, as he had a strong interest in coaching.

Results with Marianne Haguenauer
GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)

Post-competitive career


Haguenauer worked as a part-time skating coach before becoming a certified coach in 1999. He has also served as a technical executive for the Pôle de Lyon. He has co-authored a children's book about skating, Le p'tit ABC du patinage, with Alexandre Navarro.

Haguenauer was formerly based in Lyon, France, working as a coach and choreographer in collaboration with Zazoui. In July 2014, he moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and began coaching alongside Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, at the Gadbois Centre.

His current students include:


 * 🇫🇷 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
 * 🇨🇦 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
 * 🇺🇸 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
 * 🇫🇷🇨🇦 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
 * 🇨🇦 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha
 * 🇬🇧 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
 * 🇺🇸 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
 * 🇯🇵 Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
 * 🇯🇵 Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho
 * 🇦🇺 Holly Harris / Jason Chan
 * 🇨🇳 Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
 * 🇨🇦 Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
 * Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia
 * Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 * 🇫🇷 Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
 * 🇰🇷 Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
 * 🇺🇦 Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
 * 🇪🇸 Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck

His former students include:
 * 🇬🇧 Sasha Fear / George Waddell
 * 🇨🇦 Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
 * 🇵🇱 Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin
 * 🇧🇬 Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
 * 🇨🇦 Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
 * 🇫🇷 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder
 * 🇫🇷 Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat
 * 🇫🇷 Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost
 * 🇫🇷 Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones
 * 🇨🇦 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
 * 🇫🇷 Tiffany Zahorski / Alexis Miart
 * 🇬🇧 Louise Walden / Owen Edwards
 * 🇪🇸 Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz
 * 🇨🇦 Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
 * 🇨🇦 Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
 * 🇪🇸 Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
 * 🇯🇵 Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
 * 🇨🇦 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
 * 🇺🇸 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue )
 * 🇪🇸 Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz (Spanish National Champions)
 * 🇦🇲 Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
 * Haguenauer has also choreographed programs for singles skaters, such as Alban Préaubert and Sonia Lafuente.