Ice-dance champs seal triple crown
French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry capped the season by winning the World Championship in Prague on March 28, completing an Olympic–European–World title triple for their season (lemonde.fr). It’s a rare sweep that cements their season-long dominance in ice dance. (lemonde.fr)
They posted a total of 230.81 points in Prague and finished 19.29 points ahead of Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. (NBC Sports). (nbcsports.com) Those 19.29 points represent the largest winning margin recorded at a World Championship in ice dance history, according to contemporary reporting. (Forbes). (forbes.com) The duo only teamed up about a year before this season and, after taking the European title in January, were silver medalists at the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final in Nagoya. (France24; Wikipedia). (france24.com) At the Winter Olympics in Milan earlier in February, Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA) finished second while Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier (CAN) took bronze. (Wikipedia). (en.wikipedia.org) Reports highlighted distinct program choices: their Olympic free dance used the score from The Whale, while their rhythm dance in Prague incorporated Madonna selections that drew strong crowd reaction. (ISU; MSN/AP). (isu-skating.com) Their only major blemish this season was the Grand Prix Final, where three-time Grand Prix Final winners Madison Chock and Evan Bates beat them for gold in Nagoya on Dec. 6, 2025. (ISU; GoldenSkate). (isuresults.com)
