16 Olympian Couples Who Are Competing In The Winter Games

Imagine being in a power couple THIS powerful.

1. Mikaela Shiffrin (US Women's Alpine Skiing) and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway Men's Alpine Skiing)

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The American skiier and the Norwegian skiier got together in 2020 shortly after the tragic passing of Shiffrin's father. Apparently, Kilde reached out to Shiffrin offering condolences and a shoulder to lean on, and the two-time gold medalist obliged. This began their friendship, which eventually grew into something more.

2. Madison Hubbell (US Ice Dancing) and Adrian Diaz (Spain Ice Dancing)

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This engaged couple may be great partners off the rink, but since they're from the US and Spain respectively, they never skate together. Instead, Hubbell skates with Zach Donohue, and Adrian Diaz with Olivia Smart. The real kicker is that Hubbell and Donohue actually dated for a couple years before calling it quits, and Donohue then went on to date Diaz's partner, Smart, for a bit. How about that?!

3. Kim Meylemans (Belgium Women's Skeleton) and Nicole Silveira (Brazil Women's Skeleton)

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This couple — who are big competitors in the same event (talk about keeping things spicy!!!) — first met three years ago, but only went public with their relationship in December. 

4. Hailey Langland (US Women's Snowboarding) and Red Gerard (US Men's Snowboarding)

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Langland and Red have been friends since they were 12 and both competed for the brand Burton. Still, it wasn't until five years later that the two decided to take things to the next level right before the PyeongChang Olympics...and the rest is history!

5. Madison Chock and Evan Bates (US Ice Dancing)

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These Ice Dancing partners first competed for the US in the 2014 Sochi Games, but made their debut as an Olympic couple in PyeongChang in 2018.

6. Marie-Michéle Gagnon (Canada Women's Alpine Skiing) and Travis Ganong (US Men's Alpine Skiing)

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Both Alpine skiiers, this couple met at a race back in 2007, and after 13 years of dating, they recently got engaged on the top of a mountain, of course!

7. Jamie Anderson (US Women's Snowboarding) and Tyler Nicholson (Canada Men's Snowboarding)

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This snowboarding couple, who — in true snowboarder fashion — met at a bar in Colorado back in 2015, got engaged right before the 2022 Olympics.

8. Ryan Sommer (Canada Men's Bobsled) and Blayre Turnbull (Canada Women's Hockey)

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This bobsledder and his sweet, sweet hockey player got engaged in April during a trip to Alberta, Canada. Since they both have wild work schedules, the ended up seeing each other for the first time in three months when they arrived in Beijing for the Winter Games.

9. Misato Komatsubara and Tim Koleto (Japan Rhythm Dance)

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Figure Skating partners since 2016, Komatsubara and Koleto tied the knot in 2017. Since then, Koleto — who was born in Montana — has gone on to take his wife's last name and gain Japanese citizenship. This year, they've made it to Beijing to compete in their first ever Olympics for Japan! 

10. Ashley Caldwell (US Women's Freestyle Skiing) and Justin Schoenefeld (US Men's Freestyle Skiing)

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While busy work schedules may be tough for most couples, for these two US Freestyle skiiers with basically the same schedule, things are pretty smooth! Back in January, Caldwell told Northern Virginia Magazine: "It's hard for Olympic athletes to date outside of the sport, so we are happy to have the same schedule and lifestyle, and it would be cool to share that event with him."

11. Cornelius Kersten (Great Britain Men's Speedskating) and Ellia Smeding (Great Britain Women's Speedskating)

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Speedskating isn't the only endeavor these two are in together — they started their own business venture! They founded Brew '22, a coffee company that helped fund their travel and training expenses leading up to the Winter Games.

12. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sørensen (Canada Ice Dancing)

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These skating partners of nearly 10 years are representing Canada in Beijing, but actually used to skate for Sørensen's homeland of Denmark. They then switched to Canada because of Fournier Beaudry's Canadian citizenship status. However, the Olympics has a rule that skating partners must hold the same citizenship in order to compete, so this actually prevented them from competing in PyeongChang back in 2018 despite qualifying on behalf of Denmark.

13. Emily Sweeney (US Women's Luge) and Dominik Fischnaller (Italy Men's Luge)

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Sweeney and Fischnaller go waaaaay back — like 10 years! Legend has it that after Sweeney failed to qualify for Sochi back in 2014, Fischnaller brought her her favorite ice cream. What a sweetie pie!!!

14. Miriam Ziegler and Severin Kiefer (Austria Ice Dancing)

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These Austrian Ice Dancing partners have been together since 2013. Beijing 2022 is their third Olympics together!

15. Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman (Canada Curling)

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After getting engaged in September, these Canadian curlers are set to tie the knot this June. Clearly a dream team, they had first curled together in 2016 and ended up winning the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

16. Charléne Guignard and Marco Fabbri (Italy Figure Skating)

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Guignard and Fabbri first skated together in 2009, and recently celebrated their 12th anniversary!