Arnaud Caffa (born 20 October 1998) is a French ice dancer. With his skating partner,

Natacha Lagouge Natacha Lagouge (born 12 March 2000) is a French ice dancer. With her skating partner, Arnaud Caffa, she is the 2022 CS Ice Challenge silver medalist, 2022 International Challenge Cup champion, and 2023 World University Games bronze medalist. ...

, he is the

2022 CS Ice Challenge The 2022 CS Ice Challenge was held on November 9–13, 2022, in Graz, Austria. It was the eighth event of the 2022–23 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, and ice dance. Entries The International Ska ...

silver medalist, 2022 International Challenge Cup champion, and 2023 World University Games bronze medalist.

Career

Early years

Caffa began skating as a ten-year-old and started training in ice dancing two years later. His first partnership fell apart after three years. His second partner was Justine Scache. The two competed in the novice category during the 2013–14 season and moved up to the junior ranks the following season. In the 2016–17 season, Scache/Caffa received an ISU Junior Grand Prix assignment and finished eleventh at the event, which took place in September 2016 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Their partnership ended after four seasons when Scache retired from the sport. Caffa teamed up with Canada's Maia Iannetta after a tryout in mid-May 2017 in

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. The two represented France in junior ice dancing at the Golden Spin of Zagreb and Ice Star.

2018–19 season

After a year of training in the United States, Caffa returned to France in June 2018. He contacted French ice dancer

soon after her first partnership ended in November 2018. After trying out together in Lyon in late November and again in Paris in December 2018, he moved to Lyon at the end of January 2019 to begin their partnership.

2019–20 season

Lagouge/Caffa made their competitive debut in September 2019, placing tenth at the

2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial The 2019 CS Nepela Memorial, formerly known as the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, was held in September 2019 at the Ondrej Nepela Arena. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' ...

in Slovakia. In November, they won bronze at the

Open d'Andorra The Open d'Andorra is an international figure skating competition held annually in Canillo, Andorra, usually in November. Medals may be awarded in Single skating, men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice leve ...

and placed sixth at the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey. They were sixth at the French Championships.

2020–21 season

Many events were cancelled in the 2020–21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lagouge/Caffa competed at only one international event, the

2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held in September 2020 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. On August ...

, where they placed fourth. They were coached by Olivier Schoenfelder, Muriel Zazoui, Marien de la Asuncion, Neil Brown, and Emi Hirai in Lyon, France.

2021–22 season

Lagouge/Caffa decided to train under Maurizio Margaglio and Neil Brown in Helsinki, Finland. In November, they took silver at the 2021 NRW Trophy in Germany and finished tenth at the

2021 CS Warsaw Cup The 2021 CS Warsaw Cup was held on November 17–20 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Entries The Inter ...

in Poland. They placed fifth at the French Championships in December. In February, they won gold at the International Challenge Cup in the Netherlands.

2022–23 season

Lagouge/Caffa won silver at the Britannia Cup in August, bronze at the

Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur The ''Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur'' is an annual international figure skating competition which is generally held in October or November in Nice, France. Originally called the International Cup of Nice (french: Coupe Internationale de Ni ...

in October, and silver at the

in November. They made their

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debut at the

2022 Grand Prix of Espoo The 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo was the sixth event in the 2022–23 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo from November 25-27. It was the repl ...

in Finland, placing 10th.

Programs

With Lagouge

With Scache

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''

With Lagouge

With Iannetta

With Scache

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Caffa, Arnaud 1998 births French male ice dancers Living people People from Les Lilas Competitors at the 2023 Winter World University Games Medalists at the 2023 Winter World University Games Universiade medalists in figure skating Universiade bronze medalists for France