Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are silver medallists once again at the world figure skating championships.

The Canadian ice dancers reached the podium’s second step for a third consecutive season Saturday, scoring 125.07 points in their “Wuthering Heights” routine for a total of 211.52.

Gilles and Poirier also won bronze in 2021 and 2023.

“We’re really satisfied. I think we’re so happy that we chose to come to this event. We had some wonderful performances,” Poirier told reporters in Prague. “We really felt so much energy from the crowd and we have so many just great memories of coming to this event, so we’re really pleased with what we’ve been able to accomplish in winning our fifth world medal.”

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Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier capture ice dance silver at worlds for 3rd straight year

Canadian Olympic bronze medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier finish second in the ice dance competition at the ISU figure skating world championships in Prague.

Olympic champions Laurence Fournier Beaudry, a Montreal native now representing France, and Guillaume Cizeron comfortably captured gold with 230.81.

Americans Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik took bronze (209.20) in a field that did not include three-time reigning world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States.

Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha finished ninth, while Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac placed 13th.

Gilles and Poirier brought back their successful “Wuthering Heights” free dance from 2023-24 for the world championships. After winning that segment at the 2024 worlds in Montreal, they placed third in Saturday’s free dance.

“It was definitely a challenge today,” Gilles said. “Some moments we were like, ‘Oh boy, we just got to keep it together.

“But you know what? I think we’re so well trained and that’s the challenge that we wanted to do. And I think for us, it was a wonderful moment.”

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Olympic champions Fournier Beaudry, Cizeron claim ice dance title at figure skating worlds

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France win the ice dance competition at the ISU figure skating world championships in Prague with a total score of230.81.

Gilles and Poirier had skated to Govardo’s cover of “Vincent” throughout the season before worlds, claiming Olympic bronze with a heartfelt performance at last month’s Milan Cortina Winter Games.

“There’s just so much pride when we can wear these medals around our necks, because we just know how much we’ve gotten through to get to these moments,” Gilles said. “When we do accomplish our goals and, I don’t know, fulfil these dreams, I think we just feel so honoured and blessed.”

The world championships marked the end of their 15th season as a duo.

Both 34, Gilles and Poirier have not definitively said whether this season was their last.

“We haven’t looked that far,” Gilles said Saturday, as they get set for show tours with Stars on Ice in Japan and Canada through Victoria Day weekend in May.

Canada finished the world championships with two medals after Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud also won bronze in pairs Friday.

Malinin completes 3-peat

Ilia Malinin is back on the top step of the podium.

Six weeks after a disastrous free skate knocked the Olympic gold-medal favorite off the podium, the “quad god” reeled off one huge jump after another, and a backflip for good measure, to retain his world championship title on Saturday for the third year running.

Malinin shouted and punched the air with relief after finishing a skate that showed he had achieved his desire to “move on” from the Olympics after days tormented by his mistakes.

He praised the crowd’s support, saying: “It was really challenging, really hard but with you guys I was able to make it through.” His aim, he added, had simply been to get through the free skate “in one piece.”

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American Malinin captures his 3rd consecutive figure skating world championship title

After a disappointing Olympics, Ilia Malinin of the US won Saturday’s figure skating world championship men’s title in Prague.

Skating last after leading the short program, just as he did in Milan, Malinin landed five high-scoring quadruple jumps but not his pioneering quad axel, a jump he didn’t attempt at the Olympics.

Malinin said that he came to the worlds with a fresh mindset after all the pressure from the Olympics was over. His goal was to “enjoy every moment on the ice and just have fun out there.”

“Going here I felt like there was almost no pressure at all,” he said. “I just completely blocked out all the expectations, all the pressure that people put on me and was really here to escape for myself and enjoy every moment of these world championships.”

Malinin scored 218.11 in the free skate for a total 329.40, far ahead of silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan on 306.67. Another Japanese skater, Shun Sato, was third on 288.54.

Kagiyama beat his personal-best free skate score but still had to make do with a fourth career world championship silver in a career which includes four Olympic silvers and five total worlds medals, but no gold from either event. He still embraced Malinin after his skate and they jumped together in celebration.

Being second again was not a big deal for Kagiyama.

After a disappointing performance at the free skate at the Olympics, he said “I came here solely focused on finishing the event with a satisfying performance,” adding that “I’m relieved that I was finally able to achieve that goal.”

In a showcase of top-level skating, there was no podium spot for France’s Adam Siao Him Fa, who had been in second after the short program but dropped to fifth overall after a fall. Estonia’s Aleksandr Selevko also fell dropped from third to sixth.

Canada’s Gogolev finishes 4th

Canada’s Stephen Gogolev capped off his debut at the world championships with a personal-best score of 281.04 to secure a fourth-place finish.

Fifth after Thursday’s short program, Gogolev scored a personal-best 186.66 in his free skate to “Piano Concerto No. 2” by Sergei Rachmaninov to move up one spot.

The 21-year-old from Toronto stepped onto the ice with the O2 Arena crowd buzzing after Kagiyama’s mesmerizing free skate, but still managed a clean program, even if he appeared tight on some jumps.

“Skating after Yuma, you could definitely hear how loud the crowd was. I even had to cover my ears before I got on the ice,” Gogolev said. “As I was getting on ice after Yuma, I think I was a bit lost. Yuma was already exiting the ice and (coach Benoit Richaud) had to actually say, ‘Come on, get on the ice,’ because I was kind of lost.”

Gogolev lifted his total to 281.04 — a score that would have landed him on the podium last year.

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Canada’s Gogolev finishes in 4th place at his 1st figure skating world championships

281.04 was a personal best for Stephen Gogolev of Toronto as he finished in fourth place Saturday at the ISU figure skating world championships in Prague.

Malinin had no rematch with Mikhail Shaidorov, the skater from Kazakhstan who won the Olympic gold, because he opted against competing again this season.

That’s relatively common in figure skating for gold medal winners who face a rush of media and commercial opportunities after a grueling four-year Olympic buildup.

Malinin becomes the first skater to win three consecutive men’s world titles since fellow American Nathan Chen, who achieved the feat in 2018, 2019 and 2021 after the 2020 event was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kaori Sakamoto won women’s gold on Friday for a fourth world title before heading into retirement. Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin won pairs for Germany on Thursday.