Daniel Mrázek (born 15 May 2003) is a Czech ice dancer. With his sister and skating partner, Kateřina Mrázková, they are two-time Czech national champions (2024, 2026), the 2026 Lombardia Trophy gold medalists, the 2025 Lombardia Trophy silver medalists, and the 2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalists. At the junior level, they are the 2023 World Junior champions, the 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalists, and two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalists. They currently hold the junior world record scores for the rhythm dance and the combined total.
Personal life Mrázek was born on 15 May 2003 in Nymburk, Czech Republic. He attends the Palacký University in Olomouc.
Career Early career As a single skater, Daniel Mrázek appeared twice on the 2018 Junior Grand Prix circuit – finishing fifteenth in Ostrava and thirteenth in Linz – and won the bronze medal at the 2019 Czech Junior Championships. In his final season of competition, he was part of the Czech team for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, finishing eleventh in the boys' event. He won the silver medal at the Christmas Cup, his lone senior international appearance. Following the end of the season, he switched his focus to ice dance and partnered with his younger sister, Kateřina Mrázková.
Mrázková and Mrázek made their competitive debut internationally at the 2021 Egna Dance Trophy, finishing in sixth place. The next season, they made their Junior Grand Prix debut, finishing fourth in both Courchevel and Košice. They went on to win both the 2021 Pavel Roman Memorial and the 2021 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur, and finished second at the 2021 Ice Challenge. They finished second at the 2022 Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships, which also served as the Czech national championships for junior-level ice dance. They ended the season by winning the 2022 Egna Dance Trophy.
2022–23 season
Mrázková and Mrázek began their season with back-to-back Junior Grand Prix wins in Ostrava and Egna. In Ostrava, they set a new junior world record in the rhythm dance, and their gold medal was the first for a Czech junior dance team. Mrázek observed that "in 2018, I was here in the same Junior Grand Prix as a single skater, and I finished, like, fifteenth. Today I'm here with my sister, my partner. We achieved something we didn't believe in four years." In Egna, Mrázková and Mrázek improved on their previous junior world record in the rhythm dance by over a point. They won the event by a nearly fifteen-point margin over silver medalists Hannah Lim and Ye Quan of South Korea. Mrázková and Mrázek qualified to the 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final as the top-seeded junior dance team. They are the first Czech team to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final since Lucie Kadlčáková and Hynek Bílek in 2000.
A gold-medal win at the 2022 Ice Challenge preceded Mrázková and Mrázek's appearance at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Turin. They placed fourth in the rhythm dance after falling at the end of their pattern dance segment. They fell again on their rotational lift during the free dance. Despite this, they still placed third in the free dance and finished third overall. Mrázková acknowledged that they had made some mistakes. Assessing the situation afterward, they attributed the initial fall in the rhythm dance to Mrázek tripping on Mrázková's calf-length skirt, a costuming choice they had made at the start of the season. The siblings also said they were nervous to face such strong competitors, many of whom they had never met before.
Shortly after their appearance in Turin, Mrázková and Mrázek competed at the 2023 Four Nationals Championships, where they finished first first, also winning the Czech junior national title. They went on to win gold at the 2023 Egna Dance Trophy in February. At the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, Mrázková and Mrázek placed first in the rhythm dance, a tango and paso doble set to "A evaristo carriego" and "España cañí", while rivals Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont of Canada finished fourth in the segment due to errors on their pattern dance segment. Mrázková also shortened the length of her skirt by about ten centimeters so as to avoid the stumble they had experienced in Turin. They also finished first in the free dance, set to music from The Man in the Iron Mask, and became the first Czech dance team to win a World Junior title. Afterward, they announced that they planned to compete the next season at the senior level.
2023–24 season: Senior international debut
For their senior debut free dance, the duo selected Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which Mrázek called "a big challenge for us," explaining "our goal is for the audience to feel like they are in the National Theatre." Mrázková/Mrázek made their senior debut on the Challenger circuit, coming fifth at both the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy.
In what was a historic moment for the Czech Republic, Mrázková/Mrázek joined fellow Czech sibling team Taschlerová/Taschler on the Grand Prix, the first time two Czech teams competed on the circuit in the same year. They both started at the 2023 Skate America, which Taschlerová called "nice" as "we are great friends all together." Mrázková/Mrázek finished eighth at the event, which he said "wasn't our best, but not our worst performance either. Last season I was always a super-perfectionist and I wanted to give a flawless performance, which led to some mistakes. I think we have improved a little in this sense." At the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, the siblings placed sixth in the rhythm dance, but dropped to seventh place after Mrázková stumbled on the one-foot step sequence.
With Taschlerová/Taschler absent from the 2024 Four Nationals Championships due to the latter's injury, Mrázková/Mrázek won their first senior Czech national title by a wide margin, and finished 24 points ahead of the second-place finishers at the Four Nationals. They went on to make their European Championship debut at the 2024 edition in Kaunas, where they finished ninth in the rhythm dance. They were eleventh in the free dance after a step error by Mrázek, but remained ninth overall. With their fellow sibling team returning to competition at the event and placing seventh, it was the first time since 1980 that two Czech dance teams placed in the top ten.
Mrázková/Mrázek were assigned to make their World Championship debut at the 2024 edition in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They placed thirteenth in the rhythm dance, while Taschlerová/Taschler, who had placed in the top ten the previous year, were eighteenth in the segment after a lift error. Mrázková/Mrázek were eleventh in the free dance with another improved personal best, but remained thirteenth overall, while their fellow Czechs moved up to fifteenth.
2024–25 season
Preparing their rhythm dance for the season, Mrázková/Mrázek initially wanted to use the music of Elvis Presley, but coach Matteo Zanni instead selected a medley of 1970s music. Initial assessments of the program from officials were unpromising, and Zanni eventually proposed using The Beatles. Despite the late development, Mrázek would later say that "it turned out really well, we have a lot of fun with it and I think it has great potential."
Mrázková/Mrázek began the season by competing at the 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, where they finished fourth. At their first 2024–25 Grand Prix assignment, they were seventh in the rhythm dance at the 2024 Skate America, before moving up to sixth place in the free dance. Mrázková said afterward that they were "not exactly thrilled" with the rhythm dance result, but were "happy" with the free dance, vowing to analyze the performance issues before their next event. However, due to Mrázek becoming ill, they had very limited training time in the subsequent period. At the 2024 Grand Prix de France, they were again seventh in the rhythm dance, but placed third in the free dance despite receiving a time violation, and came fifth overall. Following the Grand Prix the team returned to the Challenger circuit, winning the bronze medal at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy. They then took silver the national championships.
Following the conclusion of the fall, Mrázková and Mrázek learned that they had to change their free program music, following a dispute over compensation with The Architect composer Kerry Muzzey. They switched to "Rain, In Your Black Eyes" by Ezio Bosso. At the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Mrázková/Mrázek came twelfth in the rhythm dance after Mrázek stumbled in the twizzle sequence. They remained in twelfth place after the free dance segment, where they debuted their new program.
Finishing the season at the 2025 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Mrázková/Mrázek came tenth in the rhythm dance. He said he was "very satisfied" that they had performed comparable to their training, and they received their highest mark of the season in the segment. They dropped to twelfth place after the free dance. Their placement, along with the thirteen-place finish for Taschlerová/Taschler, secured two berths for Czech dance teams at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
2025–26 season
Mrázková and Mrázek began the season by winning silver at the 2025 Lombardia Trophy. They followed that up with two appearances at the 2025–26 Grand Prix series. They finished fifth at the 2025 Skate Canada International, and seventh at the 2025 Skate America after Mrázková suffered a fall during the step sequence that closed their free dance. In December, they won the bronze at the 2025 Golden Spin of Zagreb and gold at the 2026 Four Nationals Championships, which marked their second Czech national championship win. In January, Mrázková and Mrázek withdrew from the 2026 European Championships. In February, they competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan; they finished seventeenth in the rhythm dance, sixteenth in the free dance, and sixteenth overall. They finished the season at the 2026 World Figure Championships in Prague, where they finished eleventh.
2026–27 season Mrázková and Mrázek opened the season by winning the 2026 Lombardia Trophy.
Programs Ice dance with Kateřina Mrázková +Repertoires of Kateřina Mrázková & Daniel Mrázek Season Rhythm dance Free dance Exhibition 2021–2022 Daddy Cool True Disco Inferno Flor de noche Nada puede dormir Poeta en el viento 2022–2023 A Evaristo Carriego España cañí Surrounded Heart of a King Daddy Cool True Disco Inferno 2023–2024 Self-Control Total Eclipse of the Heart Holding Out for a Hero Swan Lake A evaristo carriego España cañí 2024–2025 Love Me Do Help! Yellow Submarine She Loves You Pulling a Thread The Secret History An Invincible Summer The Architect Portrait of a Courtesan Rain, in Your Black Eyes Mamma Mia 2025–2026 One Two (of 90s style Bon Jovi) Thunderstruck Malagueña Trezor
Competitive highlights Ice dance with Kateřina Mrázková
Single skating
Detailed results Ice dance with Kateřina Mrázková
Senior level
Junior level
Single skating Junior level
Notes
References
External links
Daniel Mrazek at Milano Cortina 2026