Piper Gilles of Toronto, Ontario and Paul Poirier of Ottawa, Ontario have won the silver medal in ice dancing at the 2025 International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships from Toronto Dominion Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday. For Gilles and Poirier, it was their fourth medal at the World Figure Skating Championships. They previously won ice dance bronze medals in Stockholm, Sweden in 2021 and Saitama, Japan in 2023, and ice dance silver medal in Montreal, Quebec in 2024.
Gilles and Poirier posted a second place score of 216.54 points. Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States won the gold medal with a score of 222.06 points, and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain won the bronze medal with a score of 207.11. Gilles and Poirier reached the podium by 10.08 points over the Italian duo of Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri, who had a fourth place score of 206.46 points.
This was Canada’s only medal at the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships. Gilles and Poirier performed to The Beach Boys music in the rhythm dance, and then to “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Annie Lennox in the original dance. The silver medal for Gilles and Poirier will give them confidence as they prepare for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo.
