Marie Dupayage Explained

Marie Dupayage (born 9 August 2000) is a French ice dancer. With her skating partner, Thomas Nabais, she is the 2023 World University Games champion, 2024 French national bronze medalist, and has won three bronze medals at ISU Challenger Series events (2022 CS Nepela Memorial, 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, and 2023 CS Warsaw Cup).

Personal life

Dupayage was born on 9 August 2000 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France, a suburb of Grenoble.

Career

Early years

Dupayage began learning to skate in 2004. Skating with Thomas Nabais, she made her junior international debut in November 2016 at the Tallinn Trophy. Dupayage/Nabais placed 14th at their first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event, JGP Austria, in late August 2017. Their best JGP results were seventh in Latvia and Italy in September and October 2019, respectively.

2021–22 season

Dupayage/Nabais' senior international debut came in October 2021; they placed fifth at the Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and had the same result at the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge. In December, they finished fourth at the French Championships. In January 2022, they won silver at the Bavarian Open in Oberstdorf, Germany.

2022–23 season

Dupayage/Nabais began their season by winning bronze at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial and then silver at the Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur in October. In November, they placed ninth at the 2022 Grand Prix de France, their first Grand Prix appearance, and then took bronze at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup.

After coming fifth at the French Championships, Dupayage/Nabais were assigned to compete at the 2023 Winter World University Games. They won the gold medal, in an upset victory over the favoured American team McNamara/Spiridonov. Both said it was a result to "savour."

2023–24 season

Domestically, Dupayage/Nabais began the season with a silver medal at the Master's de Patinage competition. They then placed fifth at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. Again given one Grand Prix assignment, Dupayage/Nabais were seventh at the 2023 Grand Prix de France.

Programs

With Nabais

Season	Rhythm dance	Free dance
2023–2024	St. John Cry Me a River Should I Stay or Should I Go	Mechanisms Arioso (Largo F minor concerto)
2022–2023	Quetzalcoatl Offering Águas de março Dame Agua	Innocent Dance: I. First Movement
2021–2022	Toxic	Innocent Dance: I. First Movement
2020–2021
2019–2020	Singin' in the Rain Good Morning	Market Diktat Song Spero Lucem
2018–2019	Paris Texas Juguete Rabioso	Spiegel im Spiegel La Valse d'Amélie (remix)
2017–2018	Take It Easy My Brother Charles Un Canto a mi tierra Real in Rio	Yesterday Grand Guignol

Competitive highlights

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

With Nabais

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International
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International: Junior
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International: Advanced novice
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National
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C = Cancelled; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew J = Junior level