Romain Haguenauer

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 Ice Academy of Montreal.

His current students include:

• USA Madison Chock / Evan Bates (Olympic gold medalists (team event), Three-Time World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions)
• CAN Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
• GBR Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
• FRA Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Guillaume Cizeron
• CAN Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu
• CAN Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren
• AUS Holly Harris / Jason Chan
• JPN Rika Kihira / Shingo Nishiyama
• CAN Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (World Junior Champions)
• CANFRA Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
• KOR Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
• FRA Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
• USA Vanessa Pham / Anton Spiridonov
• LIT Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
• CHN Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
• ESP Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck

His former students include:

• CAN Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia
• FRA Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones
• FRA Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost
• CHN Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
• FRA Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder f*CAN Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
• GBR Sasha Fear / George Waddell
• CAN Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
• CANDEN Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
• JPN Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
• JPN Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang
• ARM Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
• USA Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (Four Continents Champions)
• UKR Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
• USA Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue(2022 Olympic champions (team event), 2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
• ESP Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz
• JPN Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhito Tamura
• JPN Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto (2022 Olympic silver medalists (team event))
• KOR Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
• BUL Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
• EST Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko
• FRA Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (2022 Olympic gold medalists, 2018 Olympic silver medalists, Five-time European champions, Five-time World Champions, Three-time French National Champions)
• CAN Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
• CAN Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
• FRA Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat
• POL Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin
• ESP Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
• ESP Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
• CAN Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
• JPN Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama
• CAN Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Three-time Olympic gold medalists, Two-time Olympic silver medalists, Three-time World Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, World Junior Champions, Junior Grand Prix Final Champions, Eight-time Canadian National Champions, Only ice dancers to achieve career grand slam)
• GBR Louise Walden / Owen Edwards
• FRA Tiffany Zahorski / Alexis Miart

Haguenauer has also choreographed programs for singles skaters, such as Alban Préaubert, Sonia Lafuente, and Donovan Carrillo.

In a 2022 French documentary about French Olympic champion ice dancers and IAM pupils, Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron, titled Le couple de feu, Papadakis claimed to have unexpectedly gotten pregnant around the same time that the 2021 World Championships took place. She said that as an elite athlete, this made her feel intense feelings of guilt. Two weeks following the discovery, Papadakis informed her coaching team at the Ice Academy of Montreal about her situation. She alleges that they were unsympathetic and simply told her to "deal with it and come back," making her feel as though she had no other choice but to have an abortion performed on her. Papadakis stated that this incident had a severe impact on her mental health.

In fall 2023, Danish-Canadian ice dancer, Nikolaj Sørensen, a long-time student of the IAM, was investigated by Canada's Sport Integrity Commissioner for the alleged sexual assault of an American figure skating coach and former skater in 2012. American journalist Christine Brennan would report this in USA Today days before the 2024 Canadian Championships. As a result, Sørensen and his partner, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, would withdraw from those national championships, however, they were still assigned to compete at the 2024 Four Continents Championships and the 2024 World Championships, attracting outrage and media attention. Despite this, Fournier Beaudry/Sørensen's coaching team continued to stand by them with Marie-France Dubreuil even giving an interview shortly before the World Championships, saying, "These are allegations that have left no one indifferent. It has turned a lot of lives upside down. Nik continues to follow the investigation process and respects to the letter [what is asked of him]. It is not up to us to judge and discriminate. For him, for Laurence, for everyone, it was a big shock." In October 2024, Sørensen would be found guilty by Canada's Sport Integrity Commissioner of sexual maltreatment and six-year suspension was ultimately issued by Skate Canada.

In November 2024, French-Estonian ice dancer and IAM trainee, Solène Mazingue gave an interview, alleging that she had been sexually assaulted by Russian-American ice dancer, Ivan Desyatov, while in Zagreb, Croatia for the annual Golden Spin of Zagreb competition in December 2023. She would accuse the IAM coaches of not taking her claims seriously, alleging that she had confided in Dubreuil and detailed what had happened to her. Mazingue further alleged that Dubreuil promised to report the incident to SkateSafe and the leaders of Team USA. However, this was not followed through for the U.S. Center for SafeSport did not receive any report about the alleged incident until September 2024, which Mazingue filed herself. This would result in Desyatov being suspended from competing indefinitely one month later.

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