2026 Olympic Figure Skating Pairs Relationships Guide: Who’s Married, Dating & More
The love for figure skating continues at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Since the Games began, viewers have been captivated by the routines from all the skating duos in Milan Cortina.
On February 16, figure skating couples will hit the ice once again for the free skate after their short program performances. Among the 2026 pairs competing are a married couple from France and Team Italy exes who have continued their professional partnership.
While Madison Chock and Evan Bates of Team USA are the most high-profile ice dancing couple who happen to be married, they’re not the only ones who’ve found love on the ice. Several of the ice dancing and figure skating couples who are skating for medals in Milan are married or in a romantic relationship. With all eyes on the free skate couples in Milan, Swooon is breaking down which pairs are married, dating, or strictly platonic.
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Camille & Pavel Kovalev
Status: Married
Camille and Pavel Kovalev of Team France began skating together in 2014, and their romance blossomed after that. The couple married in 2017. This is their first Olympics together.
Ellie Kam & Danny O'Shea
Status: Platonic Partners
Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea of Team USA have been a skating duo since 2021. Kam and O’Shea, who have 14 years between them, are professional partners and not in a romantic relationship.
“I think that we did such a good job at staying together as a team and trusting the process. We had a competition that was really rough in the beginning, but I think that that was all just part of the plan,” Kam recently told People about their skating partnership. “In order to get to the high point of success, you have to go through the nitty-gritty, the dirty… It just makes me even more proud of wearing this medal around our neck, because I know what type of work it has taken us to get here. We worked so hard.”
Minerva Fabienne Hase & Nikita Volodin
Status: Platonic Partners
Team Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin have been skating as a duo since 2022. They have a professional relationship. Hase has been dating German basketball player Jonas Mattisseck since 2019.
Sara Conti & Niccolò Macii
Status: Exes
Italy’s Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii started dating in the early days of their professional partnership, which officially began in 2019. They broke up in 2023, yet they still skate together.
“It was a difficult summer because we had to find the right balance, you know? But right now we are happy, we both have someone else – she has a boyfriend, I have a girlfriend,” Macii told Olympics.com in 2024.
Macii is dating Vanessa Dalla Vedova. Conti is rumored to be dating ice dancer Tim Dieck.
Emily Chan & Spencer Akira Howe
Status: Platonic Partners
Team USA’s Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe are friends on and off the ice. Chan is currently dating Estonian singles skater Alexsandr Selevko. Howe was previously in a relationship with pair skater Gabriella Izzo.
Daria Danilova & Michel Tsiba
Status: Dating
Team Netherlands duo Daria Danilova and Michel Tsiba have been dating since 2018, which is when their skating partnership began. They shared sweet PDA on the ice after their February 15 performance.
Anastasiia Metelkina & Luka Berulava
Status: Platonic Partners
Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berula are representing Georgia at the 2026 Olympics, and they’ve got their minds set on medaling. Off the ice, these two keep their personal lives out of the public eye. It’s unknown if these two are dating anyone.
Lia Pereira & Trennt Michaud
Status: Platonic Partners
Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud from Canada have made quite a splash at their first Olympics together. When it comes to their love lives, Pereira and Michaud are strictly platonic.
Rebecca Ghilardi & Filippo Ambrosini
Status: Platonic Partners
Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini of Team Italy have been skating as a duo for a decade now. Ghilardi and Ambrosini are just friends. In 2022, Ambrosini publicly confirmed that he’s gay to Outsports.
Maria Pavlova & Alexei Sviatchenko
Status: Platonic Partners
Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko are representing Hungary in Milan. This marks their first Olympics together. This figure skating pair has a professional partnership. Sviatchenko married former Russian ice dancer Sofia Evdokimova in 2025.
Annika Hocke & Robert Kunkel
Status: Platonic Partners
Germany’s Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel keep things professional on and off the ice. They didn’t publicly disclose whether or not they’re in relationships ahead of the Olympics.
Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara
Status: Platonic Partners
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Team Japan have been skating together since 2019. Miura and Kihara are both private about their personal lives, and they both appear to be single.
Karina Akopova & Nikita Rakhmanin
Status: Dating
Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin of Team Armenia found love because of the ice. Akopova and Rakhmanin have been dating since 2019.
Anastasia Vaipan-Law & Luke Digby
Status: Platonic Partners
Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby of Team Great Britain have maintained a platonic relationship since their professional partnership began in 2021. Digby got engaged to his girlfriend, former ice dancer Megan Morley, in 2024.
Wenjing Sui & Cong Han
Status: Platonic Partners
Olympic gold medalists Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of Chinaare back again for another round in Milan. They’ve been skating together since 2007. Sui and Han have never been romantically involved.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek & Maxime Deschamps
Status: Platonic Partners
Team Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have been a skating duo since 2019. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps’ partnership is professional. Stellato-Dudek married Michael Dudek in 2013. In a recent New York Times profile, the 42-year-old figure skater said she “sacrificed a relationship” for her athletic career but did not elaborate further.
Yuna Nagaoka & Sumitada Moriguchi
Status: Platonic Partners
Pair skaters Yuna Nagaoka and Sumitada Moriguchi are representing Japan at their first Olympic Games. These skaters keep their personal lives private. Their partnership appears to be solely professional.
Anastasiia Golubeva & Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
Status: Platonic Partners
Anastasiia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore made their Olympic debut in Milan, representing Australia. Their skating partnership began in 2020, when Golubeva moved to Australia. Golubeva and Moore are not romantically involved.
Ioulia Chtchetinina & Michał Woźniak
Status: Platonic Partners
Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michał Woźniak, who are representing Poland in Milan, have been skating partners since 2023. Woźniak has been married to Polish figure skater Elżbieta Gabryszak since 2024.
Madison Chock & Evan Bates
Status: Married
Madison Chock and Evan Bates started out as just ice dancing partners in 2011. But over their years of working together, their relationship blossomed into something more. The couple started dating in 2017 and got married on June 20, 2024. The 2026 Winter Olympics marks their first Olympics as a married couple.
Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson
Status: Platonic Partners
Great Britain’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson have been ice dancing partners for a decade. Their relationship is strictly professional on and off the ice. Gibson is married to his husband, Joshua Walsh. Gibson came out as gay in 2020.
Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron
Status: Platonic Partners
Team France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron are a new ice dancing duo that has taken the Olympics by storm. They are strictly partners, with Beaudry in a relationship and Cizeron openly gay.
However, they have faced controversy regarding their former skating partners. Beaudry’s boyfriend and former ice dancing partner, Nikolaj Sorensen, was banned from skating for Canada after he was accused of sexual assault. The suspension was overturned by an appeal panel last year.
In the midst of her boyfriend’s controversy, Beaudry paired up with Cizeron, who had retired in 2022 after winning gold with Gabriella Papadakis. Leading up to the Olympics, Papadakis released her memoir, So As Not to Disappear, and accused Cizeron of being “controlling” and “demanding.” Cizeron has denied all claims made by his former partner.
Milla Ruud Reitan & Nikolaj Majorov
Status: Dating
Milla Ruud Reitan and Nikolaj Majorov, who are representing Sweden, are a new ice dancing couple. The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in 2025. They shared a sweet kiss after their performance at the Winter Olympics on February 9.
Phebe Bekker & James Hernandez
Status: Platonic Partners
Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez are skating for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics, and these two appear to be just friends. Hernandez does have a notable ex in Olympic figure skater Gracie Gold.
Holly Harris & Jason Chan
Status: Platonic Partners
Holly Harris and Jason Chan of Team Australia are solely focused on what’s happening on the ice. Details about their love lives are unknown.
“It took us about four years to really nut out our differences and make them strengths. Once we truly understood and respected each other’s styles, we began to find consistency in competition,” Harris told Olympics.com of her dynamic with Chan.
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri
Status: Dating
Talk about a longtime love! Italy’s Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri have been dating since 2009. They became partners on the ice the following year. After their February 7 performance in Milah, Guignard and Fabbri shared a passionate kiss on the ice.
Diana Davis & Gleb Smolkin
Status: Married
Team Georgia’s Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin are another ice dancing pair who have married. The couple wed in 2022.
Asaf Kazimov & Sofia Val
Status: Platonic Partners
Spain’s Sofia Val and Asaf Kazimov have been dedicated to partnership on the ice through the years. But don’t get any ideas. These two are platonic partners.
Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier
Status: Platonic Partners
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Team Canada are ice dancing partners and forever besties. Gilles is happily married to Nathan Kelly, while Poirier is engaged to his longtime love, Kevin.
Emilea Zingas & Vadym Kolesnik
Status: Dating
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik are making their Olympic debut as an ice dancing duo and couple! Zingas and Kolesnik of Team USA have been dating since 2022.
Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha
Status: Platonic Partners
Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha have been skating together since they were kids. They keep their personal lives out of the spotlight and appear to have a strictly platonic relationship.
“We were children when we started together, so shy, we didn’t even know how to talk to each other,’” Lajoie told Toronto Star ahead of the Olympics. “Now we’re like an old married couple.’”
Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko
Status: Platonic Partners
Team USA’s Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko have been partners on the ice since 2014. Unlike their teammates Chock and Bates, Carreira and Ponomarenko are just friends. “Christina, my partner, is my best friend. Nobody else matters except her. We need to have the best friendship,” Ponomarenko said in 2018.
Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac
Status: Married
Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac of Team Canada have been happily married since 2015. They started skating together in 2014. Naturally, their meet-cute took place on the ice.
Natálie Taschlerová & Filip Taschler
Status: Siblings
Team Czech Republic’s Natalie Taschlerova and Filip Taschler are siblings, with Taschler being two years older than his sister. “We are working so hard on this relationship,” Taschler told NBC. “Our relationship is better since we started skating together. When we were younger we fought like small kids, but now we are adults. We respect each other.”
Tim Dieck & Olivia Smart
Status: Platonic Partners
Spain’s Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck have been skating partners since 2023. Despite their on-the-ice chemistry, these two are just friends. Smart has been dating British-American ice dancer Jean-Luc Baker since 2024. Dieck is rumored to be dating ice dancer Sara Conti.
Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis
Status: Platonic Partners
Finland’s Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis are “good friends” on an off the ice, according to Versluis. “Our relationship with ice dance has evolved, and we really understand each other and the strengths of each other, so we have a good dynamic.”
Kateřina Mrázková & Daniel Mrazek
Status: Siblings
Like Taschlerová and Taschler, Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrazek of the Czech Republic are also sibling skating partners.
Allison Reed & Saulius Ambrulevicius
Status: Platonic Partners
Team Lithuania’s Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius have been an ice dancing pair for nine years, but they’ve always been just friends.
“He is by far the best partner and best friend I could have ever imagined and met and skated with,” Reed told Olympics.com. “He really put in the work. And I am just very, very proud of him and how far we’ve come.”
Evgeniia Lopareva & Geoffrey Brissaud
Status: Platonic Partners
Team France’s Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud started skating together in 2018 after finding one another Ice Partner Search. Through their professional partnership, they’ve always remained solely friends.
