Benoît Richaud

Benoît Richaud (born 16 January 1988) is a French figure skating coach, choreographer and former competitive ice dancer. He has competed at three World Junior Championships, placing as high as seventh.

Competitive career

Richaud was a former student of (a school in Lyon). He competed for France throughout his career. His first ice dancing partner was Scarlett Rouzet.

During each summer, he works with high level international and Olympic skaters during Richaud's self-founded Peak Ice Camps, creating and improving upon his programs for the skaters for major competitions, including the Olympic Games. He stated that his work is as a choreographer is individualised and that there is "no formula", and varies depending on each skater he works with.

As a coach, his students have included: An Xiangyi Alexandra Feigin Stephen Gogolev Maxim Naumov Bradie Tennell An Xiangyi Alina Bonillo Donovan Carrillo Chen Yuxuan/Dong Yinbo Ioulia Chtchetinina/Noah Scherer Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin Polina Dzsumanyijazova Alexandra Feigin Kate Finster/Balázs Nagy Gabriele Frangipani Genrikh Gartung Stephen Gogolev Anthea Gradinaru Daniel Grassl Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin Davide Lewton Brain Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté Moa Iwano Eva-Lotta Kiibus Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson Kim Chae-Yeon Arlet Levandi Alla Loboda/Pavel Drozd Maïa Mazzara Maé-Bérénice Méité Anastasiia Metelkina / Luka Berulava Mai Mihara Andrea Montesinos Cantú Sofia Muravieva Lucie Mysliveckova/Lukas Csolley Başar Oktar Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko Nina Pinzarrone Justyna Plutowska/Jérémie Flemin Aleksa Rakic Lilou Remeysen Naoki Rossi Shun Sato Adam Siao Him Fa Bradie Tennell Lindsay Thorngren Alexandra Trusova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Kamila Valieva Lindsay van Zundert Deniss Vasiljevs Wang Yihan Sōta Yamamoto Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao Zhang Ruiyang Zhu Yi Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik

2026 Winter Olympics At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Richaud, described by the Associated Press as "the busiest coach/choreographer of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics", garnered media attention for coaching 16 skaters of 13 nationalities and switching team jackets for each of the skaters he supported. At those Olympics, he was the coach of Stephen Gogolev of Canada and Nika Egadze of Georgia, among others.

Results JGP: ISU Junior Grand Prix

With Findlay International Event 2008–09 European Championships 19th International: Junior World Junior Championships 10th Belarus 3rd France 4th National French Championships 3rd

With Brouiller International Event 2005–06 2006–07 World Junior Championships 13th 7th Final 7th Estonia 5th France 3rd Japan 4th Mexico 2nd National French Championships 1st J 2nd J Masters 2nd J 2nd J J. = Junior level