Canada's Gilles, Poirer claim ice dance silver, Gogolev wins 1st career Grand Prix medal

Stephen Gogolev jumped his way to his first Grand Prix medal on Saturday, but Roman Sadovsky served notice that the competition for Canada's lone men's figure skating spot at the 2026 Winter Olympics is going to be a fight.

Toronto's Gogolev continued his resurgent season with a third-place finish in the men's competition at the 2025 Finlandia Trophy. Later, ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier gave Canada another medal with a silver in ice dance.

The 20-year-old Gogolev, from Toronto entered the men's free skate in second place after a clean short program on Friday. He was third in the free with a score of 164.26, just .22 points behind European champion and world bronze medallist Adam Siao Him Fa of France.

Sadovsky, who was sixth after the short program, closed the gap on the medallists in the free skate. The 26-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., had the fourth-best free skate to finish fourth overall with 243.29 total points, 10.32 behind Gogolev for the last podium spot.

Canada's Gogolev claims bronze medal at the Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, who was third heading into the free skate, dominated Saturday's skate and finished first with 270.45 total points, ahead of Siao Him Fa (256.98) and Gogolev (253.61).

Gilles from Toronto, and Poirier, of Unionville, Ont., maintained the second position the held after Friday's rhythm dance. Their free dance to "Vincent" by acoustic duo Govardo scored 122.55 points, to give the dup on overall total of 202.11

Canada's Gilles and Poirier finish 2nd at Finlandia Trophy

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France finished first in both dances to total 204.18 points. Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik of the United States were third with 196.02.

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