Evan Bates and Madison Chock. David Ramos/Getty Pictures
Olympic gold medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock make the right pair on and off the ice.
Chock and Bates, who had been first partnered through the 2011-2012 determine skating season, began courting in 2017.
“We simply actually fell in love on the ice and grew nearer collectively,” Bates exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018, noting that he had a crush on Chock after they had been teenagers. “I like her character. I like her zest for all times.”
Bates and Chock have continued to go for the gold at the Olympic games, which impacts their romance.
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“Once we’re coaching, we form of lead sort of quiet lives,” he instructed Us. “We keep residence lots and we go to mattress early!”
After 5 years collectively, Bates proposed in June 2022 throughout a trip in Thailand. Whereas making ready for his or her 2024 wedding ceremony, they nonetheless take pleasure in skating collectively in competitions.
“We nonetheless love what we do and we benefit from the course of,” Chock gushed to Olympics.com in 2023. “Having to place within the work day in and time out through the years, it’s important to be in love with the method. That’s one thing that we’ve completed and we nonetheless have these emotions.”
Preserve scrolling for Chock and Bates’ cool-as-ice relationship timeline:
2011
The pair had been first partnered through the 2011 season. (Bates beforehand positioned eleventh on the 2010 Olympics with then-partner Emily Samuelson.)
Years later, Chock gushed to NBC Sports that she and Bates “obtained on very well” even earlier than they competed collectively, gushing that they’d “good chemistry proper from the beginning.”
2017
Amid their profession highs, Bates and Chock began courting.
2018
They adopted two toy poodles collectively, Stella and Henry.
“Our canines appear like us! My canine is blonde and has curly hair, her canine is black and has, like, actually distinct eyebrows,” Bates joked to Us that February. “We’ve very nice canines. They’re wonderful!”
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February 2022
Chock and Bates competed collectively on the Olympic Video games in 2014, 2018 and 2022. They had been named co-captains of the 2022 ice skating crew through the match in Beijing.
June 2022
“Left residence with my boyfriend, coming again with my fiancé! 🥰❤️❤️❤️,” she wrote through Instagram, confirming Bates had popped the query.
January 2024
They received their first Grand Prix Closing title in December 2023, one month earlier than formally changing into Olympic gold medalists.
Chock, Bates and the remainder of Crew USA had initially completed in second behind the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) through the crew determine skating occasion. After a prolonged investigation, ROC star athlete Kamila Valieva was disqualified for doping, main Crew USA to take residence the gold as an alternative.
“It’s been very surprising,” Chock mentioned on the Today show throughout an interview with Bates and their teammates. “We simply didn’t have a lot info and folks would at all times ask us. … I didn’t understand how a lot had been weighing on me, and doubtless, weighing on all of us, till we discovered [out] the information. It virtually felt like a weight had been lifted to simply really feel this closure from the Beijing video games.”
June 2024
Bates and Chock wed on June 20 within the bride’s native Hawaii, later telling People in regards to the ceremony’s traditions.
“The leis characterize unity and the approaching collectively of separate parts to make an entire higher than the sum of its elements,” Chock mentioned. “In marriage, you come collectively as people to create a partnership collectively.”
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January 2025
Chock and Bates received their sixth U.S. ice dancing championship on January 24, tying the report for many wins by an American crew with retired skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
March 2025
The couple made historical past by taking residence their third consecutive gold medal on the ISU 2025 World Determine Skating Championships, changing into the primary pair to take action in almost three many years.
“It nonetheless feels a bit surreal, actually. I feel it’s gonna take a bit bit to sink in,” Chock mentioned of their success throughout a joint interview on Today. “However we simply had one of the best time. These had been our two finest performances that we might have presumably completed, and we’re so completely happy to have executed them on the World Championships. There’s no higher place.”
Noting that she and Bates are “actually excited for this upcoming season,” Chock teased that the 2026 Winter Olympics will mark their “remaining” season of skating. “We’ve had such an unimaginable final three years of skating and rising and we’ve discovered a lot about ourselves,” she shared. “And we’re actually trying ahead to taking over this remaining chapter and placing our complete hearts and our complete minds, all of it collectively to perform our targets.”
January 2026
In an exclusive interview with Us, Bates recalled the second one thing shifted of their skilled relationship.
“We skated collectively for 5 years and it was only a friendship, however the friendship was good,” Bates mentioned. “From day one we at all times had a connection. We had been laughing, we loved our time collectively. It made skating so enjoyable. Over the 5 years, we had success, but in addition didn’t have success. We had numerous making an attempt occasions. In these making an attempt occasions, I actually realized how a lot I relied on Maddie and actually felt related to her in a approach that went past simply as a skating associate.”
He continued, “I keep in mind considering, ‘I can’t actually think about in the future strolling out of the rink and going our separate methods, being pals and simply not seeing one another anymore.’ I made the belief, I shared the belief and, fortunately, the belief was reciprocated. That modified every little thing in our relationship and our partnership.”
Chock admitted his revelation “got here out of the blue.”
“I knew we at all times had an unimaginable chemistry,” she mentioned. “We had a lot enjoyable collectively. We had been nice pals. Coaching was at all times enjoyable as a result of we at all times simply obtained alongside. We had the identical work ethic. However when he instructed me how he felt, I used to be so shocked as a result of I didn’t see it coming in any respect.”
Chock continued, “After I actually sat with it and thought of it, I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute. I really feel the identical issues about you. That is unimaginable.’”
