William Badaoui (born 27 July 1998) is an Australian former competitive ice dancer. With his skating partner, Matilda Friend, he is the 2016 Australian national champion and represented Australia at five Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Skating career By the 2014–15 season, Badaoui had teamed up with Matilda Friend. The two debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series and won the first of their three junior national titles.
In 2015–16, Friend/Badaoui returned to the JGP series and also made their senior international debut at the Open d'Andorra, in November 2015. They then competed at their first ISU Championships, placing 16th at the 2016 Four Continents Championships, held in February in Taiwan, and 30th at the 2016 World Junior Championships, which took place in March in Hungary.
Friend/Badaoui took the Australian national senior title in the 2016–17 season. They finished 15th at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in South Korea and 25th at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taiwan.
The duo competed at three more Four Continents, placing 14th in 2018, 12th in 2019, and 15th in 2020.
They trained at Macquarie Ice Rink under 1988 Winter Olympian Monica MacDonald.
Programs with Friend
Season Rhythm dance Free dance 2019–2020 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical) I Will Survive Night Fever Game of Thrones Jenny of Oldstones Game of Thrones Theme 2018–2019 Tango A La Haut Million Reasons Someone like You 2017–2018 Arranca I'm Not Giving Up On You Arranca Love Story 2016–2017 One More Night Why Don't You Do Right? One More Night It's So Overt, It's Covert Irene Adler - The Woman's Theme 2015–2016 Beethoven's Five Secrets In the Mood Moonlight Serenade Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 2014–2015 Sway Calypso Samba Chambermaid Swing Minnie the Moocher Booty Swing
Competitive highlights CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Ice dance with Friend International Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 Four Continents 16th 15th 14th 12th 15th Alpen Trophy 12th Asian Open 10th Autumn Classic 6th Asian Games 6th Lake Placid IDI 14th Open d'Andorra 8th 8th Warsaw Cup 6th Winter Universiade 12th International: Junior Junior Worlds 30th 25th Austria 10th Canada 9th Croatia 15th 17th Japan 12th 10th U.S. 13th Lake Placid IDI 9th Toruń Cup 9th National Australia 1st 2nd 3rd Australia, Junior 1st 1st 1st J = Junior level; WD = Withdrew
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