Ice dancers Gilles, Poirier make history at home with Skate Canada International victory

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Nov 02, 2025 4:28 PM EST | Last Updated: November 2

Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier made past astatine the Skate Canada International fig skating contention connected Sunday.

They became the archetypal crystal creation brace to triumph six consecutive golds astatine the lawsuit with a full people of 202.89.

Gilles and Poirier narrowly bushed retired Lithuania's Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius, who finished with 200.92. Canada's Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha took bronze with 192.41.

Gilles and Poirier were archetypal aft Saturday's bushed creation with a people of 85.38, portion Reed and Ambrulevicius had 80.89.

WATCH | Gilles, Poirier go 1st crystal creation brace to triumph 6 consecutive golds astatine event:

However, the Lithuanians earned 120.03 successful Sunday's escaped dance, which proved to not beryllium capable to adjacent the spread with Gilles and Poirier getting 117.51.

Earlier successful the day, Roman Sadovsky was the apical Canadian finishing successful seventh aft the men's escaped creation with 236.73 portion chap countryman Stephen Gogolev finished conscionable down him with 236.48. Aleksa Rakic was 12th with 216.90.

Ilia Malinin of the United States won the lawsuit astatine 333.81.

WATCH | Canadian duo bespeak connected historical triumph astatine Skate Canada International:

Malinin extends undefeated streak

Malinin broke the satellite grounds for the escaped skate with ease, keeping his two-year unbeaten streak intact and underscoring his presumption arsenic favourite to triumph Olympic golden astatine the Milano-Cortina Games.

The 20-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia, landed six quads on with a triple axel during a sublime escaped skate, acceptable to euphony from the French supernatural thriller "Les Bal des Folles." That near the two-time and reigning satellite champion 76.6 points wide of second-place Aleksandr Selevko, an absurd borderline successful fig skating's elite events.

WATCH | U.S. prima Malinin breaks satellite grounds for men's escaped skate successful Saskatoon:

Malinin's free-skate people of 228.97 surpassed the erstwhile grounds nether the existent scoring strategy of 224.92, acceptable by Olympic champion Nathan Chen astatine the 2019 Grand Prix Final, erstwhile the American acceptable the wide grounds with 335.30.

Selevko, who is from Estonian, finished 2nd with 257.21 points Sunday. Kao Miura of Japan took bronze with 253.69 points.

Malinin has not mislaid since November 2023, erstwhile helium finished 2nd astatine the Grand Prix de France. The three-time U.S. champion's streak of perfection includes the past 2 satellite titles and championships astatine the past 2 Grand Prix Finals.

Skate Canada is the 3rd of six events successful the Grand Prix series. The NHK Trophy is adjacent play successful Japan, followed by Skate America successful Lake Placid, N.Y. The Finlandia Trophy is the last accidental to suffice for the Grand Prix Final.