Isabelle Delobel

Isabelle Delobel
Delobel and Schoenfelder at the 2008 Skate America.
Personal information
Country represented	France
Born	(1978-06-17) 17 June 1978 (age 38)
Residence	Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Partner	Olivier Schoenfelder
Former coach	Muriel Zazoui, Romain Haguenauer, Tatiana Tarasova, Lydie Bontemps
Former choreographer	Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, O. Biollet, Tatiana Tarasova, Nikolai Morozov
Skating club	CSG Lyon
Began skating	1984
Retired	February 2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	212.94 2008 Worlds
Comp. dance	41.25 2008 Europeans
Original dance	67.25 2008 Worlds
Free dance	110.39 2005 Worlds
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Representing  France World Championships 2008 Gothenburg Ice dancing European Championships 2008 Zagreb Ice dancing 2007 Warsaw Ice dancing 2005 Turin Ice dancing Grand Prix Final 2008–2009 Goyang Ice dancing 2007–2008 Turin Ice dancing World Junior Championships 1996 Brisbane Ice dancing

Isabelle Delobel (born 17 June 1978) is a French former competitive ice dancer. With partner Olivier Schoenfelder, she is the 2008 World champion, the 2007 European champion, and the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion.

Delobel and Schoenfelder retired from competitive skating following the 2010 Winter Olympics, having skated together for two decades.

Delobel began skating at age six and began ice dancing after only a year in singles. She skated with her brother, Laurent, for three years. She later moved to train in Lyon.

Delobel and Schoenfelder were paired together in 1990 by coach Lydie Bontemps on the suggestion of Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov. They won a silver medal at 1996 Junior Worlds before turning senior prior to the 1996–97 season. They won their first Grand Prix medal at the 1999 Skate Canada. Early in their career, they were coached by Muriel Boucher-Zazoui in Lyon, France. Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morozov were their choreographers from 1998–2002 and their coaches from 2000–2002 in Newington, Connecticut. While practising a lift at French Nationals in December 2001, Delobel tore an abdominal muscle, keeping her off the ice for six weeks and forcing the team to miss the European Championships. Feeling more comfortable in France, Delobel and Schoenfelder decided to return to Lyon and Boucher-Zazoui after the 2001–2002 season.

They won their first national championship in the 2002–2003 season. Delobel and Schoenfelder worked with choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo for the 2005-2006 season.