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After years of coming close, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are finally Olympic medallists.
Credit: Leah Hennel/COC
The Canadian ice dancers earned bronze on Saturday at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, reaching the podium in their third Olympic appearance together.
Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates claimed silver. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron topped the field to take gold.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are four-time world medallists and two-time Olympians (2018, 2022). They earned consecutive world silver medals in 2024 and 2025 after winning Four Continents titles both years. Grand Prix Final champions in 2022-23, they rebounded from Gilles’ cancer diagnosis to win 2023 world bronze. Teammates since 2011, they debuted internationally in 2012.
For Canada, the bronze adds to a growing medal count in Italy. It marks the country’s fourth podium finish of the Games. Earlier, Megan Oldham won bronze in women’s ski slopestyle, Valérie Maltais claimed bronze in the women’s 3000m speed skating event, and Canada captured silver in the short track mixed relay.
