Romain Haguenauer

Haguenauer was born on 16 July 1976 in Lyon, France. His mother, an elementary school teacher, and father, a lawyer, raised him in Ainay.[1] After graduating in 1998 from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 with a master's degree in science, sport and physical education (Capes d'éducation physique et sportive), he taught for a year at a secondary school, collège Jean-Monnet.[2][1] In 2017, Haguenauer married former Swiss figure skater Jamal Othman.[3]

Haguenauer was coached from the age of five by Muriel Boucher-Zazoui and competed with his sister, Marianne Haguenauer, for ten years.[2] 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 but had no regrets, having a strong interest in coaching.[1]

Haguenauer and Boucher-Zazoui with Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder in 2007

Haguenauer worked as a part-time skating coach before becoming a certified coach in 1999.[2] He has also served as a technical executive for the Pôle de Lyon.[5][6] He has co-authored a children's book about skating, Le p'tit ABC du patinage, with Alexandre Navarro.[2]

Haguenauer was formerly based in Lyon, France, working as a coach and choreographer in collaboration with Zazoui.[7] In July 2014, he moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and began coaching alongside Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.[8]

His current students include (with medals won while coached by Haguenauer):

• Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (silver medalists in 2018 Olympics, four World and five European titles)[9]
• Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen[10]
• Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (4th place at 2018 Olympic games, silver medalists at 2018 Worlds)[11]
• Madison Chock / Evan Bates[12]
• Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac[13]
• Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz[14]
• Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha [15]
• Sasha Fear / George Waddell [16]
• Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson [17]
• Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal[18]
• Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker [19]
• Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto[20]
• Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu[21]
• Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho[22]
• Holly Harris / Jason Chan[23]
• Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming[24]
• Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer[25]
• Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia[26]
• Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius[27]

His former students include:

• Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus[28]
• Teodora Markova / Simon Daze [29]
• Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette [30][31]
• Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder[32]
• Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat[33]
• Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost[34]
• Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones[2]
• Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon[2]
• Tiffany Zahorski / Alexis Miart[35]
• Louise Walden / Owen Edwards[36]
• Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz[37]
• Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam[38]
• Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette[39]
• Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam[40]
• Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero[8][41]
• Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno [42]
• Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Gold medal at the 2018 Olympics, Gold medal at the Gran Prix Final in 2017, Gold medal at the Worlds in 2017, and 2017 Four Continents title)
• Haguenauer has also choreographed programs for singles skaters, among them Alban Préaubert and Sonia Lafuente.[43]