Canadian ice dancers Gilles, Poirier claim silver at figure skating worlds for 2nd straight year

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 29, 2025 5:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier volition settee for metallic erstwhile again.

For the 2nd consecutive year, the Canadian crystal dancers finished 2nd down American rivals Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who claimed their 3rd consecutive rubric connected Saturday astatine the fig skating satellite championships successful Boston.

Toronto's Gilles and Poirier, from Unionville, Ont., scored a second-best 130.10 points successful their enthralling escaped creation to Annie Lennox's mentation of "A Whiter Shade of Pale," for a full of 216.45 successful their 12th satellite championships together.

Chock and Bates tallied a winning full of 222.06, a season's best, aft their jazz medley earlier the location assemblage astatine TD Garden successful Boston. The Americans built a 3.74-point cushion successful Friday's bushed dance, a ample borderline by crystal creation standards.

Britain's Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson took bronze with 207.11.

WATCH l Gilles, Poirier skate to metallic astatine satellite championships:

Marjorie Lajoie of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha of Saint-Hubert, Que., fell to seventh (200.41) aft ranking 5th successful the bushed dance. Alicia Fabbri of Terrebonne, Que., and Paul Ayer of Brossard, Que., were 20th (170.88).

The combined placement of 9 from Canada's apical 2 teams helped the state clasp 3 provisional crystal creation spots for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.

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Gilles and Poirier besides finished 2nd down Chock and Bates astatine past year's worlds successful Montreal, contempt winning the escaped dance.

The four-time Canadian champions — who besides won satellite bronze successful 2021 and `23 — edged the Americans astatine past month's Four Continents Championships successful Seoul, mounting up an anticipated showdown astatine worlds this weekend.

Later Saturday, American prima Ilia Malinin was acceptable to vie for his 2nd satellite title successful the men's escaped skate, the last contention of the Boston worlds.

Malinin, the self-proclaimed "Quad God," posted a whopping 110.41 successful Thursday's abbreviated program, 3.32 points up of Japan's Yuma Kagiyama successful the two-man contention for gold.

Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., ranked 15th (80.25). The 25-year-old would request to ascent into the apical 10 to gain Canada a 2nd provisional introduction successful the men's lawsuit astatine adjacent year's Olympics.