Fournier Beaudry, Soerensen grab ice dance silver for Canada at Grand Prix de France

Canada's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen secured silver in the ice dance event at the Grand Prix de France in Angers on Saturday.

After finishing second to the Italian pair of Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri in Friday's rhythm dance, the Montreal duo did the same a day later in the ice dance free program for a total score of 205.15 across two events.

Fournier Beaudry and Soerensen's score of 124.17 on Saturday closed the gap on Guignard and Fabbri, but it wasn't enough after the Italians surpassed them with 127.92 to take gold with a score of 214.54.

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France's Evgenia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud earned bronze with 190.82 points.

The Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., duo of Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac finished fifth (182.61).

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Later Saturday, Lia Pereira of Milton, Ont., and Trennt Michaud of Brantford, Ont., will take the lead into the pairs free program.

Isabeau Levito's quest for a first Grand Prix victory is over.

The 16-year-old American figure skater won Saturday with a total of 203.22 points for her two programs.

Levito, who had built a big lead of more than five points after Friday's short program, was less impressive in the free skate and had to be content with the third best total.

Skating on her program The White Crow, Levito landed a triple Lutz-triple toe and four other triple jumps but stumbled on her last spin.

Her performance was still good enough to prevail as Anastasiia Gubanova of Georgia and Lee Hae-in of South Korea — who were second and third after the short program — also struggled in their free skate.

Levito beat Nina Pinzarrone of Belgium by a comfortable