Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron

French ice dance duo who won a record-tying five World Championship titles and Olympic gold in 2022, four years after a heartbreaking near-miss for gold in PyeongChang.

Gabriella Papadakis was born on 10 May 1995 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the daughter of ice dance coach Catherine Papadakis, and was partnered with Guillaume Cizeron at age nine when both trained at the same rink. They broke through at the 2015 World Championships, rising from fourth in the short dance to claim gold, becoming the youngest world ice dance champions in 50 years. Papadakis and Cizeron won a second consecutive World title in 2016 before being overtaken by returning Canadian legends Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. At the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, despite a costume malfunction during the short dance, they finished a heartbreakingly close second to Virtue and Moir by just 0.79 points, the tightest Olympic ice dance result under the points system, before reclaiming the World title later that year and again in 2019. After Virtue and Moir's retirement, Papadakis and Cizeron dominated the following Olympic cycle, losing only once (to Russians Sinitsina and Katsalapov at the 2020 Europeans) before winning Olympic gold at the 2022 Beijing Games by the largest margin under the modern scoring system, avenging their 2018 disappointment. They added a fifth World title weeks later on home ice in Montpellier, tying the record for World titles by an ice dance team, before announcing their retirement from competitive skating in December 2024.

Exceptionally fluid, emotionally expressive ice dancers renowned for innovative choreography, seamless edgework and technical precision

Widely regarded as among the most artistically innovative ice dance teams in history, whose emotionally resonant, technically flawless routines redefined the discipline

• 2022 Olympic Gold Medal
• 2018 Olympic Silver Medal
• 5x World Champion (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, tied record)
• 5x European Champion (2015-2019, consecutive)