Winter Olympics 2026 Couples Guide: Meet the Athletes Who Are Married or Dating
The 2026 Winter Olympics begin on February 6, and that means it’s time to study up on all the athlete power couples taking over Milan. Some Olympians are competing on the same side as their significant others, like ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates. Others are on opposing sides, like hockey players Anna Kjellbin and Ronja Savolainen. (We may get a real-life Heated Rivalry if Sweden and Finland face off.)
We’ll be the first to admit that such relationships make the Olympics way more interesting to watch. So, which events should you tune into if you want to keep an eye on all the couples? We did a deep dive into all of the competitors who are dating, engaged, or married, and we came up with a dozen of them. (Like attracts like!) Keep scrolling for everything you need to know about the couples’ relationship histories as they aim for gold this year.
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Hunter Powell & Kaysha Love
Relationship Status: Engaged
Sport(s): Bobsledding
Hunter Powell and Kaysha Love met as track-and-field teammates at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas before they both made the switch to bobsledding. It was Love who convinced Powell to give the sport a try. Milan marks Love’s second time competing for Team USA in the bobsled event, and it’s Powell’s first.
They announced their engagement on Instagram in July 2025. “I love you to the moon and back and infinitely more Kaysha Love. I always have and I always will,” Powell gushed.
Hilary Knight & Brittany Bowe
Relationship Status: Dating
Sport(s): Speedskating (Bowe) & hockey (Knight)
Brittany Bowe and Hilary Knight didn’t just get medals out of the 2022 Winter Olympics — they also got a relationship. “Hilary would ask, like, ‘Oh, do you want to go for a walk after dinner?’ And that was our first date, going to walk around the Olympic Village masked because everyone was so fearful of getting COVID,” Bowe told People. “A very unique way to meet someone, but it was also kind of cool because we felt like we were in this bubble. We didn’t have the family, the friends, no outside distractions. And we really had a lot of time just to get to know each other.”
Bowe, a Team USA speedskater, and Knight, Team USA’s hockey captain, will be rooting each other on in Milan. It’s set to be their last Olympics. “At the end of the day, we both know we have to be best for each other,” Bowe told The Athletic. “It would be great to celebrate her gold medal the night before I have a chance to win one myself. It’s been a really fun journey the past four years to be able to celebrate each other’s accomplishments.”
Red Gerard & Hailey Langland
Relationship Status: Dating
Sport(s): Snowboarding
Red Gerard and Hailey Langland made their Olympic debuts at PyeongChang 2018, weeks after they started dating. They met in Oregon when they were 12 and began a friendship. “When we were 17, it just sort of happened,” Langland said. “It was January, right before the Olympics. It’s a super cliché story, but it’s our story.”
When they competed together again in 2022, Gerard said, “To snowboard with your girlfriend, your best friend, both of us push each other in really good ways. She’s a lot more mellow, I have a lot more anxiety.”
Oksana Masters & Aaron Pike
Relationship Status: Engaged
Sport(s): Para Nordic skiing
Oksana Masters and Aaron Pike, who both compete for Team USA in the Winter and Summer Paralympics, first met in 2013. After catching each other’s eye at the Para Nordic National Championships, they occasionally ran into each other as members of the U.S. Para Nordic team. It wasn’t until the 2014 Sochi Paralympics that they felt something more, according to an NBC interview. Eight years and many medals later, Pike and Masters got engaged.
They plan on getting married during the 2026 Games. “Our journey and our story kind of started because of skiing,” Masters told NBC. “[Getting married] in Italy would be a perfect way for our forever journey to start together.”
Anna Kjellbin & Ronja Savolainen
Relationship Status: Engaged
Sport(s): Hockey
Anna Kjellbin and Ronja Savolainen may have first met playing together in the Swedish Women’s Hockey League, but they currently play on different PWHL teams and Olympics teams. They dated for five years before getting engaged in 2024, per Them.
“I’m usually the one who goes home as a winner,” Savolainen told Ottawa Citizen in 2024. “I don’t care who’s in front of me… if it’s going to be her, I’m going to hit her… When you play, you just play. You don’t really think about who’s there. You’re friends after. On the ice, she’s my enemy. That’s how it goes.”
They have yet to be drafted to the same team, but they count themselves lucky that their PWHL teams are located close to each other. “It was the best thing that could happen, that she got drafted [in Toronto], and I got drafted [in Ottawa],” Savolainen added. “I was more nervous to see where she was ending up than where I ended up. We’re in the same country, at least, the same side of the world, so I’m super happy.”
Madison Chock & Evan Bates
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Ice dancing
Chock and Bates don’t just have chemistry on the ice. The Team USA ice dancers met in 2011, when they first became a duo for the upcoming competition season. Chock told NBC Sports that the two had “good chemistry right from the start,” but they didn’t start dating until 2016. Bates proposed in 2022, and they married two years later.
“We just really fell in love on the ice and grew closer together,” Bates told Us Weekly ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics. “I love her personality. I love her zest for life.”
Brett Gallant & Jocelyn Peterman
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Curling
Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman are partners on and off the ice. They’re Canadian mixed doubles curling partners. They first teamed up in 2016 for the Canadian Mixed Doubles Championships, which they went on to win. “It was obviously a great week on multiple fronts, right?” Gallant told Olympics.com. “It just kind of all started from there.”
That was also the same year that their sport was added to the Olympics. “Without mixed doubles being in the Olympics, we probably wouldn’t be together today, and we wouldn’t have, you know, got to do all these crazy things together,” Gallant said. “So, really, we kind of have the Olympics to thank for the start of this.”
They married in 2022 and welcomed a son a year later. Peterman told Team Canada that heading to the Olympics is gratifying “as a couple and in a relationship, becoming parents together and it’s special to think about that and how much we’ve been through together and how much we’ve supported each other through life changes and a lot of things.”
Nicole Silveira & Kim Meylemans
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Skeleton
Another couple will battle it out for gold. Nicole Silveira, Team Brazil, and Kim Meylemans, Team Belgium, married in 2025, and will compete against each other in the Olympics’ skeleton event for the second time. Meylemans and Silveira met in 2019, per OutSports, and got engaged in 2024.
When she won the women’s skeleton World Cup this year, Meylemans said, “This team right here is something truly special though and a big part of this success — I wouldn’t have achieved this goal without them, especially my wife,” Meylemans wrote in an Instagram post on January 17, celebrating her World Cup victory. “Don’t think anyone truly understands how much I needed her with me (pushing & supporting me) to achieve this.”
Marie-Philip Poulin & Laura Stacey
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Hockey
Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey compete against each other in the PWHL, but not in the Olympics. They both play for Team Canada. Poulin, who serves as captain, has been married to Stacey since 2024. “The world knows [Poulin] as the best hockey player in the world, but they don’t know her as the best person in the world as well,” Stacey told CBC.
Poulin and Stacey, who both have several Olympics under their belts, began their relationship in 2017. They recalled the moment they first felt sparks at a Team Canada event that year. “A few of us decided to go skinny dipping in the pool at 2 a.m.” Stacey said. “The two of us looked up into the sky at the same time and we saw a shooting star. Our eyes met and we asked each other if we just saw that. Nobody else in the pool saw it or knew what was going on but we saw it. For the rest of that night it was a weird feeling. I had a feeling.”
Kristin Skaslien & Magnus Nedregotten
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Curling
We have another married curling couple on our hands! Norway’s Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten have been together since 2011. They started competing together in 2012, going on to two snag Olympic medals as a duo.
Nedregotten told Reuters, “It gives a lot of motivation that you win together with your partner. It makes you want to continue to chase more wins together. It makes us a little bit robust, in different situations, in life as well.”
Emily & Dominik Fischnaller
Relationship Status: Married
Sport(s): Luge
Emily Fischnaller (née Sweeney) and Dominik Fischnaller will be competing for Team USA and Team Italy, respectively. They married in May 2025 after dating for about 15 years. Milan is Dominik’s fourth Olympics and Emily’s third.
“I want to enjoy this more than I did in other Olympics,” Dominik told The AP. “Then, I was just focused on sliding, sliding, sliding. I didn’t really experience the atmosphere or anything. I hope this will be different for me this time and Emily is for sure a big part of that.”
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri
Relationship Status: Dating
Sport(s): Ice dancing
Italian ice dancers Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri have been a couple for over 15 years, according to Olympics.com. They first competed as a duo during the 2010-11 season.
“Since we are a couple in life, it’s a way to share literally everything, all the emotion,” Fabbri said. “It would be still very nice, of course, to achieve what we achieved separately. But since we achieved what we achieved together, it’s even better because you are sharing very strong feelings and very strong emotions with the person you love, with the person you’ve decided to spend your life with. It’s special for sure.”
