Marie Dupayage
Marie Dupayage is a French ice dancer. With her skating partner, Thomas Nabais, she is the 2023 World University Games champion, French [Figure Skating Championships|2024 French national] bronze medalist, and has won three bronze medals at ISU Challenger Series events.
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 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 Grand Prix de France">ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating">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 2023 Master's de Patinage. They then placed fifth at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy and second at the 2023 Mezzaluna Cup. Assigned to compete at the 2023 Grand Prix de France, the team finished the event in seventh place. Subsequently, Dupayage/Nabais won the bronze medal at the 2023 CS Warsaw Cup and gold at the 2023 Bosphorus Cup.In December, the team would win the bronze medal at the 2024 French Championships. Selected to compete at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Dupayage/Nabais would finish twelfth in the event. They then closed the season by winning gold at the 2024 Egna Dance Trophy.
2024–25 season
Dupayage and Nabais began the season by winning silver at the 2024 Master's de Patinage before finishing eighth at the 2024 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge. Going on to compete on the 2024–25 [ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating|2024–25 Grand Prix] circuit, they finished tenth at the 2024 Grand Prix de France and eighth at the 2024 NHK Trophy. They subsequently finished eleventh at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup and won gold at the 2024 Bosphorus Cup.In late December, they placed fourth at the 2025 French Championships.