Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, of Canada, perform during the pairs free skating program at the figure skating world championships, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

By The Canadian Press

Canada’s Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps earn pairs silver at figure skating Grand Prix

Oct 18, 2025 | 9:48 AM

ANGERS — Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps earned silver in the pairs event at the figure skating Grand Prix de France on Saturday.

The duo finished with a total score of 197.66 after getting 123.40 in the free skate.

Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps, the 2024 world champions, got 73.26 in the short program on Friday.

World champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won gold, scoring 219.15 in total.

Hungary’s Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko took bronze with 192.76.

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Meanwhile, Canadian ice dancers Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac placed sixth in the rhythm dance.

The duo got a score of 73.75 in the event, with the free dance taking place Sunday.

Great Britain’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are the leaders at 84.38 going into the second segment of the ice dance competition.

Lithuania’s Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius are in second (80.98) and France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron (78.00) in third.

Fournier Beaudry, from Montreal, teamed up with Cizeron, a two-time Olympic medallist, in January.

Her previous partner, Nikolaj Sorensen, was handed a six-year suspension for sexual maltreatment in October 2024, but an arbitrator overturned the suspension in June.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2025.

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